Example sentences of "[noun] at [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | It seems to me when deciding that case , the court of appeal were as Mr suggests taking a long-term view , I of course bear in mind the well known aphorism of Lord about er what happens in the long term , but er , my own view is , that in fact , a house should not actually be built as an investment at all it is something to live in , to make a home in , it is not something to make money out of , I very much regret the fact that er over recent years that view seems to have become somewhat old fashioned . |
2 | Yes it will be launched , a bit late next Wednesday the ninth February at the section , not a big splash at all it 's just a photo call for the press to come in and take such pictures and what have you . |
3 | In fact , in some respects at first they did so better than Copernicus 's calculations . |
4 | Similarly , if we take two speakers at random we will almost certainly find that one speaker typically speaks with lower pitch than the other ; the difference between the two speakers is not linguistically significant because their habitual pitch level is determined by their physical structure . |
5 | Next Friday at eleven I will go over it all again in the lecture . |
6 | It may , if it 's any effect at all it 's very short lived I think . |
7 | I 've never been into virtual reality but as I guess I 'm on the younger side of your readership at 18 I bet it will feature strongly by the time I enter the working world . |
8 | I know but in here there 's no window at all it 's er you 've got to have the light on all the time . |
9 | What drew me south at last I can not say . |
10 | ‘ Is there any help at all you can give me , Mr Treadwell , on either Amy or Hereward ? ’ she 'd asked . |
11 | He had a good laugh at that He thought it was a terminally good idea , terminally funny , He said there was no way Michael would do it ‘ Duty before nookie , ’ he said . |
12 | I do n't know that posh town at all me . . |
13 | there are two , there are two ways you could look at it , either , either you could say , you could say yes or , in , in one sentence if you have any barrs on membership at all you are preventing competition , but that would be er a highly unreal statement to make , erm , and what you 're , what you 're saying is that if you look at it that way , the prevention restriction or distortion of competition must be some er malign or bad prevention restriction or distortion and er there 's nothing bad about having objective criteria which would indeed erm prevent erm these people from competing cos they ca n't get into this , into the sugar market , er it will prevent them from competing in the sugar market , but that 's not the sort of prevention article eighty five is talking about . |
14 | Well he do n't seem to be a bad swimmer at all he really do n't |
15 | I do n't know Mr at all I 'm not in any of his classes . |
16 | of walling at 1/6 he had £20 9s. 8d for slating their roofs , 127 yds. 8 ft. sq . |
17 | In day-to-day contact with clients and with the community at larger he or she becomes to some degree locked into the support of individuals and groups that may be antipathetic to the employing agency . |
18 | Given the environmental , economic and social constraints experienced by these young people in the community at large it is easy to understand why . |
19 | To understand chemistry at all you 've got to have some idea of optics , for example , because you 're actually looking at the reactions happening and you 've got to appreciate what you see . |
20 | And now she concentrated the whole of her mind and her brain and her will up into her eyes and once again but much more quickly than before she felt the electricity gathering and the power was beginning to surge and the hotness was coming into the eyeballs , and then the millions of tiny invisible arms with hands on them were shooting out towards the glass , and without making any sound at all she kept on shouting inside her head for the glass to go over . |
21 | I mean some schools have not gone off site at all you know they 've actually stayed inside |
22 | It was the thought of her that had drawn me back to the Lodge with my dream , and if this odd enterprise had any meaning at all it must lie , I believed , somewhere between the three of us . |
23 | and when I looked they did n't have it threaded up right at the top at all I had to re-thread the machine . |
24 | that and it probably was n't oak at all it was probably just |
25 | I ca n't remember his name at all I can I ca n't think of it now . |
26 | No I 'm not I 'm not saying that , hav have n't you found yourself a couple of times , not really so much on the motorway at all you just |
27 | Before Mussolini was able to take his chance , Italy was drawn into World War I. At first she remained neutral , but in 1915 threw in her lot with the allies and declared war on Austria . |
28 | If you had a conscience at all you should have thought about it sooner . ’ |
29 | It was Geoffrey Howe , I am told , who knocked on one door while canvassing at a by-election in Epping , to be greeted by a tiny , wrinkled old lady rushing at him with arms outstretched : ‘ Oh Geoffrey at last I 've met you , my fluffy , cuddly little teddy bear ! ’ |
30 | You do n't really look like a Bewick at all you know . |