Example sentences of "at [adv] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I finally decided I could n't dawdle over my coffee any longer , a decision arrived at long before by the hard-eyed blonde in charge of the cash register , I climbed back in the heap and headed home . |
| 2 | The collieries used to there used to be a wall from the right to the chapel that was at even now in the same place . |
| 3 | The relatively relaxed stance of most of the leading Bolsheviks , many of whom in any case were themselves not Great Russians , was met at least half-way by the malleable reactions of the Belorussians . |
| 4 | If possible , try to adjust at least partially to the local time of your destination by going to bed one or two hours earlier each night and getting up one or two hours earlier each day . |
| 5 | They would n't mellow into CD middle age , at least not as the original band . |
| 6 | Whereas the West Mainland never goes really up at the end of the sentence or at least not to the same extent . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , if in our experiments the effects of indomethacin were mediated by an increased production of leukotrienes , one would have expected that indomethacin reversed the beneficial effect of the linoleic diet but not that of the eicosapentaenoic acid diet , or at least not to the same extent , since the lipoxygenase products derived from eicosapentaenoic acid are weaker proinflammatory mediators than products derived from arachidonic acid metabolism . |
| 8 | It is quite possible , he wrote , that it will lead nowhere , even when one has begun at the right time in the right spirit , or at least not at the wrong time , in the wrong spirit , with the wrong plans and having made the wrong preparations , with the wrong tools and the wrong principles , on the wrong surface and with the wrong conception . |
| 9 | ‘ Not many of them have , at least not on the Moslem side . |
| 10 | For example , I have not concentrated much on the work of Steven Jones and related experiments that claim to see neutrons at levels near to background ; if real , they are of interest to science but have nothing to offer as such solutions to the world 's energy problems , at least not in the grandiose form claimed on behalf of Fleischmann and Pons . |
| 11 | This does not sound like a very practical proposition , at least not in the immediate future . |
| 12 | It seems reasonable to say that without Law there would have been no NFCC , at least not in the powerful form it reached in the early years of the twentieth century . |
| 13 | This toy , however , is not a plaything , at least not in the tactile sense that its creator seems to be suggesting . |
| 14 | It is not , at least not in the first instance , the formulation of clear , precise , and coherently related propositions backed up by sufficient evidence and argument . |
| 15 | A wide circulation or advertising the sale does not seem appropriate — at least not in the first instance . |
| 16 | Note that we are not here trying to derive models for designing — or at least not in the first instance . |
| 17 | Modern theorists of power have maintained the principle that the bases of political power are not to be found within the economic sphere — at least not in the economic sphere alone . |
| 18 | The following chapters in this book will offer the reader a great deal in the way of possible solutions to very specific issues in the management of schools — this one will not — or at least not in the same focused way . |
| 19 | There seems to be a consensus that the plan did encourage accumulation , at least up to the late sixties . |
| 20 | The ceasefire agreement nevertheless appeared to be holding in the corridors , at least up to the final week of February , and there had still been no reports of any serious breaches of the Rome agreement . |
| 21 | In the mouse egg and at least up to the 16-cell stage all the cells seem equivalent with no fixed fate . |
| 22 | The regime of the workhouse was deliberately deterrent , and at least up to the 1890s married couples would be forced to live apart within it . |
| 23 | Patients were selected from a group of 496 patients with insulin dependent diabetes who attended our clinic regularly , according to the following criteria : they were aged 18–60 , had insulin dependent diabetes mellitus of at least five years ' duration , had a stable body mass index not exceeding 30 kg/m , a glycated haemoglobin concentration of less than 10% , were not hypertensive ( supine blood pressure less than 160/95 mm Hg and no antihypertensive treatment ) , had persistent microalbuminuria — that is , urinary albumin excretion between 30 and 300 mg/24 h at least twice during the previous six months — were not pregnant or wanting to be pregnant , and had no chronic disease other than diabetes . |
| 24 | Most experienced anglers know of fish being caught at least twice on the same day but the tale of Dead Eye Dick , the pike from Sutton Coldfield , takes a lot of beating . |
| 25 | Like Dom Pérignon , Brother Oudart was interested in perfecting the art of winemaking and we know , from a record of a transaction which took place at Pierry on 9 September 1713 , that he was visited at least once by the older cellarmaster from Hautvillers . |
| 26 | Nightlife can be fairly active , but even during the day there is plenty to do and we guarantee you 'll be tempted at least once by the luscious cakes on offer in the resort 's many cafes . |
| 27 | In spite of this Blackwell was threatened with arrest at least once in the 1660s . |
| 28 | According to the report , 42 of the 56 mills investigated ( out of a total of 100 in Britain ) had exceeded their discharge limits at least once in the two years to March 1992 , and the eight worst offenders had done so on at least half the occasions when effluent was tested . |
| 29 | Soviet spokesmen could argue that although the USSR had for decades proselytised the notion of a national liberation or solidarity ‘ front ’ of Third World states , aligned at least politically to the Soviet bloc , it had not created regional groupings or coalitions of states militarily tied to the USSR or the Warsaw Pact and it had supported the opposition of the non-aligned states to military blocs . |
| 30 | Henderson drew a sharp contrast with the years after 1945 when Britain was still a major and respected force in world affairs , the dominant power in the Middle East down to the time of Suez , the second most important power in the Far East at least down to the 1954 Geneva Conference . |