Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That debate is a continuing one , and amongst the principles most importantly at stake is that of artistic freedom , the right of the individual artist to explore the dark side of human experience and to draw unpopular conclusions from his own , perhaps partial , vision . |
| 2 | The sides were not so much planks as squares of wood stuck on apparently at hazard . |
| 3 | In fact , every Stewart king between 1424 and 1542 was able to make his presence felt abroad precisely because he could impose it so effectively at home . |
| 4 | Everything all right at home ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Unless everything is all right at home I am no good in all the other areas of my life . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ They make everything all right at home , and without that I 'm no good in all the other areas of my life . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ They make everything all right at home , and without that I 'm no good in all the other areas of my life . ’ |
| 8 | I turned round and it were all right at back of my jeans ! |
| 9 | Wilcock was doing all right at Pageant , taking home $100 a week , but he quit the job to become the Village Voice 's news editor , at $25 . |
| 10 | Ashenden shrugged , and seemed for the moment somewhat less at ease . |
| 11 | Now , after two or three treatments , his coordination has improved and he is also doing much better at school . |
| 12 | Children whose mums joined the US programme did much better at school , added Anne . |
| 13 | Though since she had taken only one glass of wine , she knew that when everything should have been against her feeling in any way relaxed she must thank Ven , and his charm as a host , for the fact that she was feeling so entirely at ease with him . |
| 14 | When more or less alone at night in the casualty ward , the doctor needs to be able to make up his or her own mind , and exercise judgement about the particular features presented by the accident victim just wheeled in . |
| 15 | We became inseparable , and I was so proud to be seen walking with him , to enter a concert hall with him and let others see us sit down together at café and restaurant tables . |
| 16 | They are good at description , less so at analysis , which might disagree with the boss 's views . |
| 17 | It 's a very good cruiser , too , moving along effortlessly at motorway limit speeds and above . |
| 18 | I think not only just at fire stations , I think in the whole of life , has n't it ? |
| 19 | Mark Hughes slotted in comfortably at centre-back , although he picked up a booking and went close to receiving a red card . |
| 20 | The visitors made an impressive start against a Perth side beaten only once at home in the past five months . |
| 21 | It was so still at night , so peaceful ; the only sound we would occasionally hear would be the cry of the loons across the lake . |
| 22 | They are much more at home with stimulation . |
| 23 | By placing one foot behind the other , as in figure B , the standing position can be very much improved , resulting in our whole structure being much more at ease . |
| 24 | Adam it was who made up the fires of a morning , when his mistress , who slept only fitfully at night , was already awake , Adam who crept noiselessly about the place , unnoticed , who must have seen them together last night outside the ballroom . |
| 25 | It is hypothetically assumed that if a woman marries but remains childless , she would work continuously in a full-time job until switching to part-time employment , set somewhat arbitrarily at age 54 , the age when the majority of her employed contemporaries are in part-time jobs . |
| 26 | I did sit in yesterday at Transport Exec and Planning , but no doubt they will be forthcoming |
| 27 | Besides , straining one 's eyes over these distant shapes can not compete with the fun available so near at hand . |
| 28 | His faith comprised curiously disparate elements — the rough , frightened , humility of the countryman ; the thoughtful worshipper ; the vigorous enquirer ; and even though not a micro-molecule of disrespect ever enters his attitude towards his Deity , his natural radical-ness stood so near at hand one can almost feel its heat . |
| 29 | How are bats able to fly so dexterously at night , in spite of the fact that they have very small , weak eyes ? |
| 30 | Possibly , but the site of Clairvaux suggests an explanation much nearer at hand . |