Example sentences of "[vb past] at [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ductile and brittle deformation occurred at relatively shallow crustal levels ( within 5 to 10km of the surface ) , and was promoted by magmatic heat and expulsion of magmatic fluids from a suite of Miocene synkinematic intrusive rocks . |
| 2 | Support to schools in terms of materials and equipment , extra tuition and advice and assessment , all seemed at least adequate whereas in-service opportunities were limited . |
| 3 | In a private postscript added surreptitiously to one of Wolfgang 's letters home from Paris , Frau Mozart had also expressed her anxieties about her son 's infatuation with the Webers ; as soon as Wolfgang met someone new , he seemed at once ready to dedicate himself to them body and soul , without thinking of his own interests . |
| 4 | He and Allen seemed at once aware that the other was of his own kind . |
| 5 | The invitation to appear on it came at very short notice , and even though she 's no longer modelling except at charity functions , she feels a need to keep in the public eye , so she did n't want to turn it down , but she insisted that Florian and I should keep to our plans . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ The government clearly counts on the pleasure and prestige the jobs afford to keep them filled at fairly low cost , but this wo n't help if the best scholars are constantly tempted to go abroad ’ , says Kauffmann , ‘ and now , new appointments or those who change jobs by moving or by promotion no longer have the same job security ’ . |
| 7 | They arrived at ever decreasing intervals , always the same pale bewildered collection of strangers , always with new and astonishing stories of battle and the day-dream world . |
| 8 | Protection usually began at fairly low rates . |
| 9 | He may end up with as many as sixty youngsters from several different broods which , because they hatched at slightly different times , are of several different sizes . |
| 10 | Bacon described the triple motion as ‘ incommodious ’ and protested at so radiant and exalted a body as the sun having to suffer the indignity of immobility . |
| 11 | Against Worcestershire on August 25 , 1954 play started at 2pm due to rain . |
| 12 | It just went at like slow motion . |
| 13 | But it is from after the change that we have evidence for Councillors like Kleon and the fourth-century Athenian Demosthenes whose year on the Council fell at improbably convenient moments for their political careers ; this makes one suspect corruption , a suspicion strengthened by Aischines ' direct accusation that Demosthenes bribed his way onto the Council in 346 ( iii.62 ) . |
| 14 | He felt at once feverish , at once chilled , but he was in motion , moving quite apart from any decision within himself . |
| 15 | The four large middle-class suburbs grew at especially great rates — Charlottenburg from 20,000 inhabitants in 1871 to 323,000 in 1919 , a growth of 1,667 per cent ; Schöneberg from 4,500 in 1871 to 262,000 in 1919 ; Steglitz from 1,900 in 1871 to 83,400 in 1919 and Wilmersdorf from 1,662 to 139,400 . |
| 16 | One of his assistants had worked slowly and laboriously through the records and come up with half-a-dozen prints which looked at least similar to the ones taken from Paula Wilson . |
| 17 | Eventually , though , she found a number that looked at least hopeful and began dialling . |
| 18 | It turned out that radio astronomy of this kind looked at extremely low temperature regions . |
| 19 | Pink took at very little boy not |
| 20 | Taking over as she did at very short notice when our last Treasurer became ill , she has always managed to administer the Society 's finances in an extremely capable way despite the fact that the last six years has been a period of considerable change and economic difficulty . |
| 21 | This recommended at least perpetual peace between England and Scotland , and even a single monarchy . |
| 22 | In the decade 1420–30 , a sizeable proportion of Charles VII 's army was composed of Scots who fought at both Cravant and Verneuil , a strong contingent of Genoese also taking part in this second battle against the English . |
| 23 | That they had any cohesion at all was impressive and when they also succeeded in driving through the heart of the French forwards an improbable victory became at least possible . |
| 24 | Prior Robert melted and became at once gracious and voluble . |
| 25 | I became at once possessive about it … there was already talk about the war ending and Sadler 's Wells reopening and it seemed to me entirely fitting for the Sadler 's Wells Company to reopen the theatre at Rosebery Avenue after the war with a new opera by a leading young English composer . |
| 26 | Immediate adult royal relatives had been embarrassingly scarce ; but there was usually a queen mother , who had at least personal legal rights as tutrix of her son . |
| 27 | In a large survey of almost 800 respondents in the Cotswolds , 38 per cent of elderly persons were found to have total dependence on public transport and a further 21 per cent had at least partial dependence . |
| 28 | This in turn ensured at least passive acquiescence in if not outright approval for the escalating inhumanity of Nazi anti Jewish policy , and provided the regime with an extensive sphere of autonomy , free from any constraints of popular disapproval , in adopting ever more radical measures towards providing a ‘ final solution ’ to the ‘ Jewish Question ’ . |
| 29 | The earnings from the pilgrims , who travelled at very low fares , amounted to £53,500 in 27 days . |