Example sentences of "[adv] at any [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Far better at any rate , than in the diaphanous sweet-pea tinted frills in which her mother and Miss Ernestine Baker seemed intent on smothering her . |
| 2 | If it sits at the bottom of your belly , glowering like a smouldering fire , threatening to explode suddenly at any time and paralyse you ? |
| 3 | These are automatically silenced at night and may be silenced manually at any time by operating levers which are neatly and unobtrusively located on the hand-crafted dial . |
| 4 | So obsessive was his craving for goals he could put us one up or one down at any minute ! |
| 5 | Patrick squirmed uncomfortably in the jumper and the trousers , which were at least two sizes too large for him — he felt as if they were going to fall down at any moment . |
| 6 | It was cold in the stadium and a leaden sky threatened to weep down at any moment on the small crowd assembled below . |
| 7 | I was given the option to have him put down at any time , but of course as time went on his recovery was more and more likely and my hopes got higher . |
| 8 | Now 31 , Foster is fortunate to be playing cricket at all after several knee operations , the most recent of which forced him to miss a slice of last season and the start of The possibility of his breaking down at any time can not be ignored and neither can his undistinguished international record at Lord 's . |
| 9 | They knew quite as much about human nature at the Foreign Office as they did down at any police station . |
| 10 | Held , ( 1 ) that section 18(1) and ( 2 ) authorised an order for payment by the board of that part of the costs of the proceedings determined in the defendant 's favour incurred by him personally at any time when he was not receiving legal aid and was thus an unassisted person ; that , accordingly , the House had jurisdiction under the section to order payment by the board of the defendant 's costs incurred before the issue of his legal aid certificate ; and that the appropriate course was to adjourn the defendant 's application under regulation 143 of the Regulations of 1989 for him to pursue his claim in accordance with regulation 147 ( post , pp. 199G , 201A–B , E , H — 202A , 203B–D ) . |
| 11 | But I see no difficulty in reading the language of subsections ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) of section 18 as authorising an order for payment by the board ( subject , of course , to the criteria prescribed by subsection ( 4 ) ) of such part of the costs of the proceedings which are eventually determined in the defendant 's favour as were incurred by the defendant personally at any time when he was not receiving legal aid and accordingly fell within the definition of an unassisted party . |
| 12 | ‘ We must hope before you go to Oxford mother will have relented enough at any rate to make writing to you possible . ’ |
| 13 | Floribundas If there was one criticism of the H.T. it was that , although the blooms were undoubtedly beautiful , there were not many of them — not enough at any rate to satisfy many gardeners who simply wanted more on each plant . |
| 14 | The Sackvilles were considerable landowners and so quite an inheritance was at stake — enough at any rate to turn Richard into the classic professional litigant before both lay and ecclesiastical courts . |
| 15 | The exchange 's acquiescence in a practice which it could reasonably be expected to have been aware of could amount to a waiver or estoppel ; enough at any rate to deter the exchange from taking disciplinary action against members who have followed the particular practice . |
| 16 | The district was sinister enough at any time ; now , with the feeling that any and every form of menace , from a cut-throat to a coal-hole , might be within inches for all I could tell , my small remaining resource of courage were exhausted within minutes . |
| 17 | KPMG and Client reserve the right to terminate KPMG 's engagement hereunder at any time and without liability or continuing obligation to each other save that termination of this agreement shall be without prejudice to rights accrued and obligations incurred by either KPMG or Client prior to such date and shall not affect the indemnification in section 4 , or Client 's obligation under sections 2 and 3 . |
| 18 | Does the Prime Minister agree that although there is scope for compromise on many matters at Maastricht , the one issue on which it is impossible to compromise is the difference between those who believe that Britain could and should join in a single currency and those who believe that we should not do so at any price and that we should never even have joined the exchange rate mechanism ? |
| 19 | At least I think so at any rate . |
| 20 | So at any rate out . |
| 21 | So at any rate then please yourself . |
| 22 | A It can do so at any time . |
| 23 | I 'm equally confident that the higher direction of MI5 and those operating today do not have anything to do with this , nor have they done so at any time . |
| 24 | If Sabine had wanted to break away and work on her own she could have done so at any time . |
| 25 | If he had ever wanted to see her socially he could have done so at any time , but there had been only chance meetings since his marriage . |
| 26 | It 's a dark room , so at any time of the day that light would be switched on by anyone wanting to read . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I hate to bring the real world into this , but is your room-mate going to pop in at any second ? ’ |
| 28 | She pulled them on hastily , half expecting Luke to come bursting in at any minute . |
| 29 | For full details ring 0273 775454 or call in at any branch . |
| 30 | Donations to the ‘ Around the Isles ’ charity fund for multiple sclerosis may be paid in at any branch of the Halifax Building Society and Bank of Scotland . |