Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [verb] at [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though the demand from industry and society at large was for better school education , the response came at first not from schools but from Youth Training Schemes for school-leavers , organized by the Manpower Services Commission . |
| 2 | The detective who found the money believed at first the notes must be forgeries . |
| 3 | When the light came they mustered what was left to them , and knew without many words spoken , even when the storm subsided at last into mere mist and drizzle , that they could not advance further . |
| 4 | The demonstration had at first been banned by the Moscow city soviet . |
| 5 | Courses leading to masters ' degrees are normally designed to fulfil one of the following objectives : to follow directly from the study undertaken at first degree level ; to enable graduates of one discipline to acquire knowledge of another related discipline or subject area ; to develop and apply the student 's first degree knowledge in a related specialized area ; or to relate and synthesize a number of disciplines which the student may not have studied at first degree level . |
| 6 | The lawyer murmured at last : ‘ Let's not be hasty . |
| 7 | The poet appears at first to be unable to utter his thoughts clearly ; he circles wildly , stumbling from one half-finished sentence into another , and breaking up the lines awkwardly ( 1 , 2 , 6 , 9 ) . |
| 8 | The telephone rang at last at 9.30 . |
| 9 | Because it applied to all bodies everywhere , the universe had at last become a universe . |
| 10 | So the question had at last been put and answered . |
| 11 | The question appears at first in terms of whether the suppression of pornography by censorship is worth the price in terms of loss of freedom of expression . |
| 12 | Blanche and Dexter knew Mills had recovered from his deep financial difficulties the year before and the accountant had at last discovered how : substantial payments had been paid into Mills ' Swiss bank account in the months leading up to his death . |
| 13 | She looked at Tommaso Talvi in her mind 's eye , she adjusted her image of him to fit with her sister 's , she inventoried his features , beginning with the eyes , and redrafted them in order to see them as ‘ pretty ’ , she scanned his caffelatte pallor and his big hands , grasping the bread she had cut for him , she looked at his mouth , the purplish fullness of his lips and the strong teeth that showed when he grinned , as he had done , often , but without laughter , when the men were disagreeing about the possibilities of change , the chances of the election on returning the Socialists , of bringing about improvements for the labourers now that the franchise had at last been widened to include some people who were n't bosses , like her father , a music teacher with a sense of honour , of justice . |
| 14 | The disappointment is vivid yet of the Christmas day when the postman arrived at last , hours late , and brought me only a long narrow box of crackers . |
| 15 | So the war came at last , at exactly 6.35:24 pm on January 16 , 1991 , when Peter Jennings interrupted a canned piece to announce that explosions and flashes were breaking up the Baghdad night . |
| 16 | Before I left Britain one of the best-kept secrets of the war had at last been revealed — the breaking by the Bletchley Park mathematicians of the ciphers encoded by the German Enigma machine : this priceless intelligence had enabled us to sink all the Bismarck 's supply ships , monitor the movements of Tirpitz so that attacks could be launched on her ( see page 144 ) and destroy many U-boats at the height of the Battle of the Atlantic . |
| 17 | ‘ We 've still got to get the girl , ’ the Leader said at last . |
| 18 | The way the poem is ordered allows us momentarily to read it as if the juxtaposition was just that of eye and Canaletto , for the eye appears at first as an independent entity . |
| 19 | ‘ Unthinkable , ’ the General said at last . |
| 20 | The phone rang at last . |
| 21 | despite the fact that the invasion came at last on Friday morning . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | They were infamous for tormenting and starving the blind king Phineus , until the warrior hero defied them and let the king rest at last . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Otherwise , the repetition on your part will not motivate the dog to react at first , and soon this can become an habitual problem . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . |
| 29 | The central part of the island seemed at first to belong to another and less dramatic world . |
| 30 | 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 . |