Example sentences of "at [adj] the [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reveille Boy , at six the same age as Phar Lap but here in receipt of eleven pounds , had won the American Derby in 1930 . |
| 2 | Beyond the sparkling bravado of Paris , in the country at large the inevitable distortions and corruptions that war breeds were readily detectable . |
| 3 | Yes , it is outrageous that we feel grateful for that , but the outrage should be directed at all the other movies that still imply the opposite . |
| 4 | If you look at all the nationalized industries that have been privatized , they 're all making thumping great profits now . |
| 5 | Sonia was one of the first of the black running stars and had run at all the major meetings and been on television . |
| 6 | Robert Norster confirmed ‘ we plan to have people at all the major tournaments and I hope the players will realise they are being watched ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ Look at all the best sides and you find they get goals from a variety of positions , ’ said Peacock . |
| 8 | This is not at all the simple task that it may at first seem : we shall see that considerable care must be taken in interpreting the official statistics on unemployment . |
| 9 | Regulatory agencies in America have been required , as a result , not just to involve others in the decision-making process but to take a ‘ hard look ’ at all the relevant issues and alternatives , including abandoning a project , to give reasons for decisions and to make continuous disclosure of the facts and assumptions which it relies on in promulgating a rule . |
| 10 | The material he donated to the Theatre Collection consists of designs , models , groundplans and technical drawings for productions at all the aforementioned theatres and provides an unusually comprehensive survey of one designer 's work in various spheres . |
| 11 | But I was n't afraid now with my big sister , and while Mary tried on garments I stood gazing in awe at all the sumptuous clothes that hung in the display cases . |
| 12 | The No 1 — called accelerato but in fact the slowest — calls at all the main stops and gives a good , overall impression of Venice . |
| 13 | Yes , there is a future for the concept of the mainframe — the centralised repository upon which the whole enterprise needs — but to say that is not at all the same thing as saying that the centralised repository has to be — or even should be — a $50,000 to $100,000 per MIPS machine that runs MVS — or 1100 OS or MCP or BS2000 or GCOS come to that . |
| 14 | Books that set out to give advice to management never fail to point out that a " no " decision is not at all the same thing as failure to make a decision . |
| 15 | Custom that has been experienced as part of daily life is not at all the same thing as custom that is described in a formal interview . |
| 16 | That is n't at all the same thing as living . ’ |
| 17 | And yet , look at all the old buggers that would sell their souls for a little bit of humanity like this one . |
| 18 | Zero-based budgeting is a method for looking afresh at all the inbuilt excesses that we have comes to take for granted . |
| 19 | She looked round , unseeing , at all the discarded clothes and bath towels looped on the bed and floor . |
| 20 | At first the local farmers provided any bales of straw they had left , but in recent years the bales have had to be bought and transported from Selby . |
| 21 | At first the very quantity and variety of troops can be confusing . |
| 22 | An official inquiry indicates that her body arrived at the Military Hospital at 16:20 the same day and came from the Military School . |
| 23 | Now at last the successful bowel and liver transplant carried out in America has given her the chance of a normal future . |
| 24 | And at last the roistering procession when the castle ladies escorted her to her room . |
| 25 | Then came the terrible sense of disbelief and at last the dawning realization that she would never be held in his embrace , breathe in the scent of his cigars or hear his kindly voice ever again . |
| 26 | From the mid eleventh century at latest the paid knight and the mercenary became common . |