Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then there was the reality that yes our three tropical experts had flown through the questionnaire stage and impressed the producer more than sufficiently at the interview stage and they would now be appearing in front of 14 million viewers , battling it out with another team , unknown until the actual day . |
| 2 | The solution was found by looking inwards at the character and operations of our own Group rather than outwards at the way other organisations had approached the problem , and then asking two questions . |
| 3 | These groups represent a minority opinion , she suggests , and it is up to the NVALA and groups like it to defend and reassert ‘ traditional ’ values before humanism takes a grip of society generally , rather than just at the BBC where it is viewed as already having a stranglehold . |
| 4 | We worked harder than ever at the Rose . |
| 5 | As the 21st century approaches , solicitors are more than ever at the forefront of commercial and community life . |
| 6 | He took to spending more time than before at the Hankses ' cottage and his relationship with Carrie was an uncomplicated , comfortable one . |
| 7 | Lacking nose-wheel steering , directional control is achieved by differential braking , but this was not difficult after a few initial experimental wiggles — although even at the end of the day I still found myself pointlessly pushing the rudder pedals on the corners . |
| 8 | It may be that at the national political level in the late twentieth century it is harder to identify discrete instrumentalist land interests than it is when looking at specific places , although even at the national level it is easy enough in 1988 . |
| 9 | Mr McTear managed to give most of his evidence to the commission , although even at the beginning of the proceedings his poor physical condition was apparent with his breathing laboured and his voice feeble . |
| 10 | The heaving fluid was not cold , as it had looked , but slightly warm , as if somewhere at the centre there might be a heart , and veins , and lungs to breathe with … |
| 11 | Regional performance is influenced , if only at the margins , by regional policy . |
| 12 | The Urban Programme has been one policy instrument through which the government has been able , if only at the margins , to influence the position of black people in the major conurbations . |
| 13 | A cynical nihilist , Andrei expected a sticky end ( if only at the hands of his master and mistress ) and wanted to live well before it came . |
| 14 | Of course , even the most empirical study is informed by a problematic — if only at the level of choice of what is significant , and this study is a good deal less innocent than that , but the story will be told first . |
| 15 | The movement of thought happens not directly through any outside intervention , but through the sub-culture 's inner compulsion to reflect on itself , if only at the level of current findings , theories and views . |
| 16 | The required duetting gelled pleasingly , if perhaps at the expense of individuality , although two items — a gutsy blues improvisation and that old chestnut Sixteen Tons — still brought out some steel . |
| 17 | well there was two parts to the brochure , erm , the , there was the general part within the brochure about eighty percent of the brochure was general for every development , the other twenty percent which would prefer specifically to that development , so there was a corporate field to the brochure , but for each development it would have it 's individual flavour , that would show pictures of the locality for example , hence the golf and the erm lake and the erm specific costs of running that , that responsibility would be the responsibility then of the region putting in , cos obviously at the centre I would n't know whether there was a golf course in that area or not . |
| 18 | Every night throughout the Festival there 's food , drink and good company until late at the Festival Club in the Old Ship Hotel . |
| 19 | Since he was inclined to be dyspeptic at the best of times , no one was greatly surprised , unless perhaps at the severity of this attack . |
| 20 | He decided to kill of the beloved character while still at the height of his popularity . |
| 21 | Meanwhile , a quiz buff at Shildon 's fair to maudlin match on Saturday asked which British club can claim most international caps won by players while still at the club ? |
| 22 | It is little short of tragic that she has been cut off , while still at the peak of her singing power . |
| 23 | Then she and the president can set about hacking away as vigorously at the wasteful government machine as they have at the sheltered private sector . |
| 24 | Yeah well when right at the beginning of the tape is Dave Allen , but that 's adult |
| 25 | OPCS , of course , is a major data repository for medical statistics and their various Monitor Series are of use , though only at the scale of district health authority and above ( see Gatrell and Lovett 1988 for an example ) . |
| 26 | From where she stood it shimmered in silver under a glancing sun , though upstream at the inn , where she had seen it close to , it rolled darkly brown and turgid , and laden with the debris of bushes , for the spring thaw had come late and violently , bringing down an immense weight of snow-water from the mountains of Wales . |
| 27 | Ryan Giggs has achieved nearly as much as Best at the same age . |
| 28 | He knelt as erect as ever at the table . |
| 29 | Election Comment : Albany at Large : Royal and ancient PRINCESS Margaret 's eyes and tongue proved as sharp as ever at the preview of the Sovereign Exhibition at the V & A last week . |
| 30 | The brave Stewart , solid as ever at the back , played the entire second half with a bandaged head after a collision with an opponent . |