Example sentences of "[adv] at any [noun] " in BNC.
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| 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 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ We must hope before you go to Oxford mother will have relented enough at any rate to make writing to you possible . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | At least I think so at any rate . |
| 14 | So at any rate out . |
| 15 | So at any rate then please yourself . |
| 16 | A It can do so at any time . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | If Sabine had wanted to break away and work on her own she could have done so at any time . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It 's a dark room , so at any time of the day that light would be switched on by anyone wanting to read . ’ |
| 21 | They believe that his hostility is caused by frustration ; apparently he will not play very long at any activity and his speech is unclear . |
| 22 | They believe that his hostility is caused by frustration ; apparently he will not play very long at any activity and his speech is unclear . |
| 23 | According to Sotheby 's expert they were of different dates … of different styles , by different hands , the sort of set anyone could put together at any time … |
| 24 | ‘ Not a risk we want to cover alone at any price . |
| 25 | In some houses the fire grate was loose in the wall and looked liable to fall away at any moment … perhaps when full of live coals and with a pan of boiling water . |
| 26 | Another girl , who looked wretchedly unhappy and as if she might be going to fade away at any moment , practically had a miscarriage on stage one night as a result of some pills she 'd been made to take by her awful lout of a lover . |
| 27 | Would I be away at any time , when was ill or needed his mummy ? |
| 28 | Whenever I hear a man being witty or sensible or kindly or civilized I think : the qualities which now seem so much a part of this man could be stripped away at any time , and there would be left just a man who suffered and who fought with his suffering like an animal . |
| 29 | Thus at any temperature , say T 1 , ; the Gibbs free energy of any mixture , composition in the composition range to , is higher than either of the two co-existing phases whose compositions are and and phase separation takes place . |
| 30 | ( 3 ) A licensing board may consider any application made to it under paragraph ( b ) of subsection ( 2 ) above at any meeting of the board held not earlier than 14 days after the making of the application and shall affirm the provisional grant if the board is satisfied that the premises , if completed in accordance with the plan mentioned in that paragraph , will be and convenient for their purpose and that the said plan does not deviate materially from the site plan and description of the premises lodged under the said subsection ( 2 ) . |