Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or rather at two from the house that stood to gain ? |
| 2 | On some occasions it may not be of great importance to the patient 's health whether he is treated at that time or perhaps at all . |
| 3 | The process involves no more than threading a strip beneath another one that runs across it more or less at right angles , and keeping on doing so at intervals with dogged persistence , pulling the strip tight after each threading . |
| 4 | The death rates in those who weighed 18 pounds ( 8165 g ) or less at 1 year were almost three times greater than in those who weighed 27 pounds ( 12247 g ) or more . |
| 5 | In the last days , with the Red Army approaching , groups of Budapest Jews had been rounded up , more or less at random , and taken to the embankment of the Danube where they were shot . |
| 6 | Out of the many examples available , here is one chosen more or less at random . |
| 7 | They are , of course , incapable of deliberate volition and move more or less at random ( although there is thought to be some evidence of a directional trend ) . |
| 8 | We 've picked out a few packages from the Windows range , more or less at random , just to whet your appetite . |
| 9 | They also always deliver their package of genes into the host chromosome , integrating more or less at random . |
| 10 | Since she had been working more or less at full stretch before she 'd been given the extra work to do , there was only one way she could fit more work into her day , and that was by working late at the office , then going home with a bulging briefcase . |
| 11 | Any frost of -4°C or less at 0.3 metres above the ground will affect the vine . |
| 12 | Words or phrases may be replaced either throughout the length of a document in one step , or optionally at each occurrence . |
| 13 | They spent only a minute or so at each tree , cleaning off dried latex , adjusting the collecting supports and making new incisions through which the day 's latex could escape . |
| 14 | ‘ I only overhang the couch by a foot or so at each end ; why do n't I attempt to curl up there when you and Janice are in residence , if not flagrante , in the bedroom ? ’ |
| 15 | This is generally of the order of a millisecond or so at most . |
| 16 | If you could spare an hour or so at any of these events please see the Volunteers page ( page 9 . ) |
| 17 | The polytechnic staff were now on a work to rule , though only at local level — a vote or so at national level having gone against them in spite of a good deal of cooking of the agenda — and she was , as she said , too busy getting a strike fund to so much as think of earning , let alone working ; let alone getting to bed before Bernard had long since fallen asleep . |
| 18 | There are numbers of rooms that an individual can not enter at all , or only at certain times , for reasons of status , sex , or even age . |
| 19 | This suggests that hypocrisy can not be sustained indefinitely , or only at great personal cost . |
| 20 | ( 6 ) The members of a licensing board for a district or licensing division of a district shall be elected at the first meeting of the district council held after the ordinary election of that council in 1977 and , in the case of subsequent elections , of those members : ( a ) except in so far as paragraph ( b ) below otherwise provides , at the first meeting of the council held after each Subsequent ordinary election of the council ; and ( b ) where a determination under subsection ( 3 ) above is made ( whether or not at such meeting of the council as is mentioned in paragraph ( a ) above ) , either : ( i ) at the meeting at which the determination is made ; or ( ii ) at the first meeting of the council held after such meeting as is mentioned in sub-paragraph ( i ) above . |
| 21 | ( 7 ) The members of a licensing board for an islands area or licensing division of an islands area shall be elected at a meeting of the council of the islands area to be held on a date between May 16 , 1977 and June 30 , 1977 to be determined by the council , and , in the case of subsequent elections of those members : ( a ) except in so far as paragraph ( b ) below otherwise provides , at the first meeting of the council held after each subsequent ordinary election of the council ; and ( b ) where a determination under subsection ( 3 ) above is made ( whether or not at such meeting of the council as is mentioned in paragraph ( a ) above ) , either : ( i ) at the meeting at which the determination is made ; or ( ii ) at the first meeting of the council held after such meeting as is mentioned in sub-paragraph ( i ) above . |
| 22 | Eliot , it seemed , would have us take Virgil on his terms , or not at all . |
| 23 | If it was wrong , it must be challenged by way of appeal or not at all . |
| 24 | Tonight a growing irritation at Moran 's compulsion to dominate , to have everything on his own terms or not at all , had hardened into a sudden decision to overturn the years and quit the house at once . |
| 25 | The Bradys would have to agree to hold it in their house or not at all . |
| 26 | Will you get a big weight loss this week , or will it come next week , or not at all ? |
| 27 | The reactions shown on the metabolic chart would proceed very slowly , or not at all , in the absence of enzymes . |
| 28 | It works particularly awkwardly for married women at any age , since they may be employed at quite a different level from their husbands , or not at all . |
| 29 | Sometimes , for no obvious reason , an item fails to respond to a particular method or the soil reacts only slowly , or not at all , with a chemical that would appear suitable . |
| 30 | The comparison can be taken further ; as with child abuse in the home , people either believe it happens the whole time or not at all . |