Example sentences of "at [noun] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beta , often known by its old proper name , was ranked of the first magnitude in ancient times , but is at present slightly below the second . |
| 2 | But as he was profoundly unconvincing , and as another place is at present still considering the English position , I would not wish to force the point on the House . |
| 3 | PHIL Carrick spun out Somerset for 167 in 64 overs and forced them to follow on at Middlesbrough yesterday before the rain-hit championship match ended in a draw . |
| 4 | We ran into some bad weather on the way , with heavy rain followed by thick fog , which was frustrating because we were at times up near the permanent snowline , and had occasional glimpses of birds like rough-legged buzzard , with Lapland bunting and red-throated pipits by the roadside . |
| 5 | The greatest advantage of infrared astronomy , however , comes when looking at objects well beyond the Solar System . |
| 6 | Denis Smith says he enjoyed himself at Stoke especially in the early seventies when they had a good team … as a professional he wants Oxford to win but after the game will revert to being a stoke supporter … he says his young son also supports them |
| 7 | An official , four soldiers , four children and two adults were injured as a truck driven by two Goajira Indians drove at speed directly at the presidential motorcade . |
| 8 | No it , I think it actually runs on the sixteenth but it only looks at premiums up to the fifteenth , think that 's built into the , the , the parameters on it . |
| 9 | The Moulds left Myddle shortly after the Civil War and their leisurely progress northwards along what is now the A 495 can be followed in local parish registers until they arrived at Whitchurch early in the nineteenth century . |
| 10 | This lightly raced four-year-old may have been underrated by the handicapper as he has twice been beaten since he made a winning debut at Doncaster late in the 1991 season as a two-year-old . |
| 11 | A threequarter point base rate cut the following day failed to brake the decline , which bottomed at lunch yesterday below the 18,000 mark . |
| 12 | She had stayed at work up to the proper time to get the full benefits and she had felt important enough , leaving to have a baby , for the loneliness to be kept at bay for the time leading up to her last day . |
| 13 | He also says that 386BSD is the basis of BSDI 's BSD/386 which he worked on in 1991 at CSRG initially under the financial sponsorship of UUNet Technologies . |
| 14 | I 'm sure you 'd be far more at home somewhere on the high seas with a scarf around your head and a cutlass at your belt . ’ |
| 15 | We really felt at home here from the first time we came . |
| 16 | In England in 1987 and at home immediately after the 1987 World Cup , Pakistan defeated England in the Test series by a 1–0 margin . |
| 17 | The testimony of a witness in a case tried at Matara early in the nineteenth century illustrates the lack of plausibility of much court testimony : ‘ I saw the two prisoners drive a head of cattle — It was in the high road — It was about two hours before dark — We asked them where are you going with the animal — Is this not the animal of the schoolmaster . |
| 18 | He had been at Cambridge just after the last war , had fought with the International Brigade in Spain and had joined the R.A.F. as an air-gunner in 194O . |
| 19 | It was only their second week and Flavia , a little puzzled , a little awed , at times , was at ease now with the alien friend , the tender and exciting alien she was beginning to love a little . |
| 20 | So and our company tends to look at things more on the short term . |
| 21 | As a founder member of the Surrey Cricket Council , he had been part of the framework whose aim is to ensure that cricket in Surrey , at levels up to the first-class game , will prosper . |
| 22 | The other group holds those who read at levels well below the level expected of them . |
| 23 | So although he has gone to some trouble to leave tracks across his own land at Highgrove specially for the local hunt , the Beaufort , he hardly ever joins them . |
| 24 | Dataquest Japan forecasts that while the office computer market at $4,600m is currently double the size of the workstation market , the market will decline at 7% annually over the next few years to 1996 , while Unix workstation shipments will grow at 29% a year over the period . |
| 25 | However it seems that the slowest time constant represents only a subset of the GC sites since we observe dissociation from some GC sites at rates closer to the faster species . |
| 26 | As Jorge pérez-López points out , ‘ since in 1960 the world market price was around 3 cents per pound , this meant that sales to the Soviet Union would be effected at prices significantly below the prevailing preferential price paid by the United States in that year — 5.3 cents per pound … |
| 27 | He crashed at Imola early in the 1957 season , and insult was literally added to injury when the three leading Italian manufacturers , Gilera , Moto Guzzi and Mondial withdrew from racing . |
| 28 | And arch-Minimalist Robert Irwin takes the discipline once again into his usual arena of installation at Pace downtown until the 24th . |
| 29 | It was the way we looked at life back in the mid-60s . ’ |
| 30 | It is known that Dionysos was worshipped at Pylos shortly after the Minoan period on Crete and it is possible that his orgiastic cult was preceded by a Minoan proto-Dionysian cult . |