Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [verb] at [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 31 | despite the fact that the invasion came at last on Friday morning . |
| 32 | I edged along the curtain in the upstream direction of the shut door and by hauling my way up the links at the side managed to scramble round the boathouse wall and up out of the water to roll at last onto the grassy bank . |
| 33 | They were infamous for tormenting and starving the blind king Phineus , until the warrior hero defied them and let the king rest at last . |
| 34 | The Brigadier had at last found an appreciative audience , and he and the Marshal bounced along together comfortably in the jeep with the Captain and Bacci following in a car . |
| 35 | The advantage of the telephone is that it is a two-way communication which gives you the chance to assess at first hand ( or ear ) why your account is not being paid . |
| 36 | Otherwise , the repetition on your part will not motivate the dog to react at first , and soon this can become an habitual problem . |
| 37 | The impulse proved at first a happy one , for in the graveyard Miss Fergusson discovered tombstones and crosses whose Celtic air recalled those of her native Ireland ; a smile of approval crossed her dutiful features . |
| 38 | ‘ I 'm very confident that when the Commission learns at first hand that it is not technically possible , they will see the overwhelming good sense of the British government and we will hear no more of the matter , ’ declared Mr Howard . |
| 39 | The central part of the island seemed at first to belong to another and less dramatic world . |
| 40 | But in 1877 , the last text overseen by the novelist , ‘ as if spoken to himself ’ becomes ‘ as if meant for himself ’ , shifting and refining nuance while involving the change of a single word in Russian , and enabling the artist to get at last the effect he had been working towards . |
| 41 | ( It is interesting , however , that the tsar seems at first to have intended to give the college some jurisdiction over aspects of Russia 's internal administration ; and for a considerable time it did in fact handle quasi-internal issues such as relations with the Kalmuck tribes and with the Cossack hetman in the Ukraine . |
| 42 | Neither made a significant provision before 1820 , and their rivalry still persisted in the 1830s when the government began at last to assist them with grants . |
| 43 | The Government refused at first even to meet him , citing the need not to inflame those holding the Beirut hostages , and did precious little more for a long time after the hostages were freed . |
| 44 | The government has at last acknowledged that ‘ disappearances ’ do take place and that it is a problem which needs addressing , and Amnesty International expects to be submitting cases for investigation by the Commission . |
| 45 | The government has at last realised the importance of preserving the eco system as a way to attract a new kind of tourist ( with more culture and money to spend ) who will see Gran Canaria not just as cheap holidays in the sun but as a living island . |
| 46 | When the secretary had at last left them , she lay back in her chair and gave a long sigh of exasperation . |
| 47 | When a frottola is through-composed under textual pressure , and aerated and enlivened by polyphonic passages , it is indistinguishable in musical style from the earlier madrigal , particularly as the madrigal tended at first to cling to the note against-note style with a melodically more important highest part . |
| 48 | From some depth of courage and purpose she who had been silent so long was finding the will to speak at last . |
| 49 | Then the tears came at last , and she could n't say another word . |
| 50 | ‘ Oh , Neil , ’ she wailed , the tears falling at last , great crystal drops . |
| 51 | The third concert , of Brahms 's Third and First symphonies , revealed the new Karajan at his most lovable , for these were natural , emotional , and — let the word escape at last — profound interpretations : voyages of discovery ; loving traversals of familiar , exciting ground with a fresh eye and mind , in the company of someone prepared to linger here , to exclaim there ; summations towards which many of his earlier , less intimate performances of the works had led . |
| 52 | Approval of the treaty had at first been opposed by West Germany 's Social Democratic Party ( SPD ) on the grounds that it offered inadequate protection for East German industry , and that environmental guarantees were insufficient . |
| 53 | This is sometimes described by saying that the church has at last entered a ‘ post-Constantinian era ’ , an era in which the synthesis of Christianity and western culture and society ushered in by Constantine , the first Christian Emperor of Rome , has finally dissolved , and the church once more represents a social minority in an increasingly pluralistic age . |
| 54 | The muffled voice behind the door sank at last into hopeless silence . |
| 55 | I was in bed for a week with concussion and the doctor said at first he thought I 'd got a broken pelvis . |
| 56 | The way of life which Jesus described in the beatitudes appears at first sight to be a contradiction . |
| 57 | High-minded , worthy and earnest , the Independent thrived at first , an impressive achievement in Britain 's crowded newspaper market . |
| 58 | It was on his prompting that ethnic drop-out youths were now accepted onto college courses without formal qualifications ; it was on his urging that examinations were now being set and marked in Urdu and other minority languages , the faculties shamed at last out of their insistence that English was the only language in the world that counted . |
| 59 | When regular radio broadcasting began in 1922 , the press refused at first to publish free the daily programme schedules . |
| 60 | Erm what I would ask the panel to look at first of all is the fact that the erm the proposals for I five and I twelve appear to be largely acceptable over quite a large area of the the county . |