Example sentences of "[prep] [indef pn] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Price : £108,994 0–60mph : 6.5secs 30–70mph : 6.1secs 30–50 in 4th : 2.4secs Top Speed : 143mph Overall MPG : 15.1 Citation : For putting the fight back into Bentley and creating a form of transport that wants for nothing at all |
| 2 | When tonight those Tory MPs have all voted for the Prime Minister 's motion — for different and often conflicting reasons — the Prime Minister will claim that his motion has given him a mandate for Maastricht , when he stands for nothing at all . |
| 3 | And erm I remember I was I was about fifteen now and my young brother was only a little tot about two I think three and I remember my father came in and he did he went straight for my mam for nothing at all . |
| 4 | After that he had worried about nothing at all . |
| 5 | And Dorothea talked so , about nothing at all , spinning her phrases out and forever trying to win attention and applause . |
| 6 | Louise , as beautiful as ever , the lines of her face almost invisible since her most recent facelift , wearing the latest sheath dress from Dior , its narrow shape flattering her slender figure , sat opposite him calmly and charmingly talking about nothing at all . |
| 7 | And there was also the enigmatic poem Farai Un vers de dreyt nien — " I 'll sing a song about nothing at all " — with verses like the following : |
| 8 | The wages quoted are low by today 's standards ; the examples can be dismissed as irrelevant in real life , and seen only as the means by which averages are learned — in which case they are what Cockcroft would describe as ‘ about nothing at all ’ . |
| 9 | And in between there is a complete selection of discos , bars and night clubs , offering something for everyone at all prices . |
| 10 | ‘ She 'll be worth nothing at all if she runs out on us . |
| 11 | Although the latter cases are probably a diminishing minority , especially now that budgetary delegation under LMS has made it essential that heads in their turn delegate a greater proportion of their managerial functions to senior staff , our studies indicate a more general need for primary schools to continue to review the role of deputy headship , to define more exactly the range of tasks it is appropriate for someone at that level of seniority to undertake , and to ensure that all deputy heads have appropriate job specifications . |
| 12 | Never fear , messieurs , we shall have this mystery solved in time of nothing at all . |
| 13 | Her mind was capable of thinking of nothing at all . |
| 14 | They will either complain of nothing at all or perhaps of vulval soreness and a nasty discharge in that area . |
| 15 | Flavia could think of nothing at all to say . |
| 16 | But the cold had numbed her senses and all her ingenuity and she could think of nothing at all to do about that . |
| 17 | She tried to think of nothing at all , but found her mind drifting back to that one subject all the time . |
| 18 | but as for the dead they have conscious of nothing at all |
| 19 | Hobbes found it remarkable that some , but not all , things had conscious awareness and perception : ‘ Of all the phenomena or appearances which are near us , the most admirable is apparition itself … namely , that some natural bodies have in themselves the patterns almost of all things , and others of none at all . ’ |
| 20 | This has led inevitably to situations where everyone has two or three deputies instead of none at all . |
| 21 | She took the torch , using it freely now because speed was of the first importance , and stealth of none at all , and went on down the slippery path towards the thick box hedge , behind which the invisible red roof hung , representing help and companionship . |
| 22 | One subject used a wide range of accident estimates but gave a risk rating of one at all 40 junctions . |
| 23 | I fear however in view of what we 've heard from the two sides of the table , you will have rather more difficulty in coming even to a recommendation as to specific guidance on which sector of Greater York , this new settlement should be located if indeed you are minded to recommend in favour of one at all . |
| 24 | This is Radio Nottingham it 's a quarter past one at these are the clues for Kids ' County what are they on about here ? |
| 25 | Before we even begin to consider how such questions could be productively posed , let alone answered , it is perhaps worth asking what it means to have a model of something at all . |
| 26 | There did n't seem to be any sign of anyone at all , and Howard was n't particularly surprised , since neither the government nor the rebels were particularly interested in the hovels hereabouts . |
| 27 | He was unaware of any high ‘ g ’ or , indeed , of anything at all , until he found himself regaining consciousness in a near vertical climb , about to tail slide . |
| 28 | A computer program can behave in a strategic manner , without being aware of its strategy or , indeed , of anything at all . |
| 29 | We have no access to ‘ things in themselves ’ apart from our experience of them ; a ‘ thing in itself ( Ding an sich ) is in fact utterly inconceivable to us , for any possible conception that we can form of anything at all will necessarily draw upon some real or imagined experience of it . |
| 30 | " There can be no doubt " according to one academic authority " that [ he ] displays a highly sophisticated grasp " of the working of the system " .3 On the contrary : there can be very great doubt whether voters in general , in Ireland or elsewhere , are competent to display " a highly sophisticated grasp " of anything at all . |