Example sentences of "[adv] at [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They teach kids how to cook and mend cars and fuck one another without getting pregnant ; and the kids are , we assume , much better at all of this than we were , but what use is any of that to them if they do n't know about love ? |
| 2 | Children could leave school entirely at thirteen on possession of the ‘ labour certificate ’ , which required either a minimum attendance record or the passing of Standard VII , although it seems that the certificate was rarely if ever refused and 10 per cent of 10–15-year-old girls were fully employed as late as 1911 . |
| 3 | The lecture programme , together with its associated tutorial and laboratory work is based entirely at one of the three participating universities , but for the project work students will join the institution at which the appropriate special facilities or expertise exist . |
| 4 | Despite these apparently uniform trends throughout the movement , the environmental community is not entirely at one with itself . |
| 5 | In his opinion African journalists , who often looked enviously at those in Europe and America , should understand why conditions were different at home . |
| 6 | I hate steep , relentless climbs , especially at two in the morning in low cloud . |
| 7 | 16.15 Poetry needs to be a central part of the reading programmes throughout the secondary sector , and this assumption needs reinforcing especially at 14 to 16 . |
| 8 | They sat down at one of the tables . |
| 9 | Graham asked as they sat down at one of the few vacant tables . |
| 10 | Nooty wandered miserably away from the group and looked down at one of the rails . |
| 11 | One recent week was spent down at one of the two training colleges the union owns Cudham Hall at Seven Oaks in Kent . |
| 12 | Hardly there 's hardly anything There 's hardly anything written down at all about this . |
| 13 | Have Fun and not to tie myself down at eighteen with |
| 14 | The Hang Seng Index closed 315.29 points down at 5,854 after a day of sharp fluctuations but with Hong Kong 's brokers cautiously optimistic of a swift recovery . |
| 15 | The FTSE , which moved ahead almost five points in early dealing , fell sharply soon afterwards to be 7.9 down at 3051.1 after the end of the first hour 's trading . |
| 16 | In the prosperous 1980s many individuals found they were able to consider buying a second home in Europe , perhaps at first for holidays but later with retirement in view . |
| 17 | On a Saturday in late January 1798 , sitting perhaps at one of the tall windows in her favourite parlour , she began the first of her surviving journals : |
| 18 | Had it been a real train the sound would have faded off towards the west — away from the hostel instead , and we could now hear the engine as well ; it came towards the hostel over the non-existent harbour branch and clattered to a stop , perhaps at one of the wharves . |
| 19 | Clearly compensation for people on low incomes is to be aimed only at those on income support , even though many disabled people have extra heating costs associated with their disability , and many others on low incomes , such as pensioners , may narrowly miss out because of small savings or because they do not qualify for means-tested benefits , but still live at income support level . |
| 20 | Clearly it was possible to have great administrative , fiscal and even social progress under a ruler who was not personally at all in sympathy with the Enlightenment . |
| 21 | Along with a Chinese freelance photographer , Cavell had called for her that morning and whisked her round some of Taipei 's famous landmarks , the all-marble Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial , a colourful Buddhist temple , and the Grand Hotel with its magnificent Chinese architecture , pausing only long enough at each for the young man to take the photos that would help introduce Maria to the Taipei public , before escorting her back to the apartment and approving the outfit she planned to wear to the dinner the radio station was hosting for the rest of the local media that night . |
| 22 | Disruption of the spindle can cause chromosomes to segregate abnormally at either of the two meiotic divisions , resulting in aneuploidy . |
| 23 | She 's so strong , so at one with her emotions . ’ |
| 24 | If you could spare an hour or so at any of these events please see the Volunteers page ( page 9 . ) |
| 25 | So at twenty to seven I come out of the Earls Court hotel into the street and look around for him . |
| 26 | That stretched to 13 by the time it rolled in at 11.47 to loudspeaker apologies reporting technical problems at Peterborough . |
| 27 | Sharon had altered it or something cos you all went in at five to five or something |
| 28 | We 've been in at five past eight , we 've been in past eight . |
| 29 | On the trains everything 's okay , there 's a late flight at the airport , flight L O G nine seven three from Guernsey , now coming in at five past two , so if you 're rushing to meet that , there 's no need cos it 's not in for another twenty minutes , flight L O G nine seven three from Guernsey now due in at five past two . |
| 30 | The idea , based on a shared controller architecture , was to come in at two to four times the performance of a conventional X box and reach pricing levels of $700-$800 a seat in two to three years . |