Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We arrived rather exhausted at Peking airport , but were immediately met enthusiastically by a rather formidable delegation of ministry of education officials , people from this or that Revolutionary committee , and members of the Peking Language Institute . |
| 2 | I think McAllister can be incredibly lazy at times . |
| 3 | But he must now know that an Iraqi démarche around January 15th — perhaps a partial withdrawal from Kuwait — would make the use of force bitterly controversial at home . |
| 4 | Gripping if a little confusing at times |
| 5 | The sensitivity of the sweat spot test derived from the receiver operating characteristic curve is rather low at 83% . |
| 6 | Large , long-legged , white-rumped waders , appearing uniformly brown at rest . |
| 7 | He 's just a little immature at present , but I do n't think you 'll see a better Aintree horse . ’ |
| 8 | Well she had some they were like right slim at end and then went like that , and she got the fat bit and went crrrk and it hurts like mad . |
| 9 | However there are concerns that the market is rather high at present , which could see a fall in prices generally in the new year . |
| 10 | Two books are supplied with the disks , one of which can be extremely confusing at times as it applies to earlier versions of the program . |
| 11 | The River Thames got so low at Wallingford archeologists uncovered a submerged bronze age jetty . |
| 12 | SOPHIA Loren is greatly upset at rumours that she has had cosmetic surgery at 58 . |
| 13 | He was so cruel at times , so utterly ruthless . |
| 14 | Oh it was so funny at work today , Greg fell off his chair . |
| 15 | Highly popular at weekends with local suburbanites and visitors from further afield . |
| 16 | But he insisted that the Heathrow trial ‘ will be entirely self-contained at Heathrow and will not be connected to any other computer system . ’ |
| 17 | We wanted to bring Marvin Cox back from Bradford because he 's so popular at Oxford , and he 's over eight you see . |
| 18 | — The supergroup Six of the Best is so popular at Seaham 's Westlea Social Club that they have been booked to appear for three nights as part of the club 's 39th birthday celebrations on June 12 , 13 and 14 . |
| 19 | He returned to racecourse action for his hurdling debut at Kempton a year ago , and progressed to win his next three outings , culminating in a narrow victory from Oh So Risky at Cheltenham , where he became the first novice to win the Champion Hurdle since Doorknocker in 1956 . |
| 20 | The position of the other foundation subjects , however , is less clear at present . |
| 21 | They include Ellen Hancock , Networking Systems , the first woman to get so high at IBM ; James Cannavino , Personal Systems chief ; Robert LaBant , North America chief ; Ned Lautenbach , president of Asia Pacific ; and Bernard Puckett , Application Solutions . |
| 22 | I 'm extremely careful at work and I do n't have indiscriminate sexual relationships . ’ |
| 23 | She symbolized her down-to-earth philosophy in her own busy persona , ceaselessly active , endlessly combative at home and abroad , hardly ever taking a holiday , never relaxing with music , books , or in the world of the arts . |
| 24 | But Downing Street mandarins grew so alarmed at reports of a snub yesterday that the text of private diplomatic traffic , a telex sent by Mr Clinton on Saturday , was made public . |
| 25 | He seems to have been intimate with the king and perhaps prominent at court : writing in 1258 , the poet John Garland [ q.v. ] |
| 26 | ‘ The job I do can be somewhat intrusive at times . |
| 27 | Uphill again to the 17th , a gem of a hole on many courses yet merely ordinary at Augusta , the distinctive feature being Eisenhower 's Pine encroaching into the fairway . |
| 28 | It is especially colourful at showtime . |
| 29 | I get so bored at home ! |
| 30 | Drake is the least brightly plumaged dabbling duck , mainly grey , with contrasting black tail coverts , especially noticeable at rest . |