Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [verb] [noun] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since ambient temperature and humidity are subject to considerable variation , seasonal and diurnal and geographical , it is greatly preferable to store samples at a controlled constant temperature ( 20°C or 25°C ) rather than ‘ room temperature ’ . |
| 2 | He did not become less willing to relinquish office during those forty-eight hours of crisis ; but he did become less willing to relinquish office at the behest of Arthur Henderson . |
| 3 | It 's so easy to make friends at Cala Mesquida . |
| 4 | ‘ You should stop fighting so hard to keep people at a distance . |
| 5 | It is extremely important to provide education at a point when the user experiences motivation . |
| 6 | Indeed , the team was so anxious to give recognition at last to the importance of the content of any particular drama , that it seems almost to be reinforcing the dualistic assumption that drama is about attitudes or ideas in the children 's heads to be explored and then expressed through the medium . |
| 7 | Gosh , I was so surprised to see skinheads at a Madness gig . |
| 8 | Due to sudden and unexpected problems the last Q.T. day had to have a shortened and condensed programme and it was not possible to provide tea at the end of the day . |
| 9 | It is not possible to obtain data at a sufficiently disaggregated level to confirm this argument , but it is consistent with the data that are available . |
| 10 | It is patently absurd to regard attendance at school or work per se as a punishment . |
| 11 | I think any student going through higher education is getting something from it if they come in as some measure sceptical , in some measure critical , that they 're not prepared to take things at face value . |
| 12 | That they were not prepared to countenance Maxse at his most radical confirms that those ends were indeed Conservative . |
| 13 | The result is that many glider pilots are becoming complacent about parking and on a really windy day it is not unusual to see gliders at risk , just waiting for the first really big gust of wind to blow them over . |
| 14 | ‘ If they are not able to improve services at that level of spending they are not using the money efficiently and to the real benefit of the people in the town , ’ he said . |
| 15 | They were no longer happy to accept worksheets at their face value and we had two whole lessons with them querying and rearranging . |
| 16 | If it is vocationally disadvantageous to study history at school , it must be vocationally suicidal to study the subject at university . |
| 17 | I was not desperate to make money at that time , rather I thought of helping her with the commission she would take . |
| 18 | Two recent studies exclusively involving patients with diarrhoea similarly reported the absence of potential pathogens in most patients with AIDS related complex while in most patients with AIDS a potential cause of diarrhoea was detected ; as the abnormalities detected in AIDS patients were obviously not necessary to produce diarrhoea at earlier stages of the disease , their causative relevance is doubtful . |
| 19 | Those young people who gained places on what were called ‘ employer-led courses ’ , or mode A courses , were the ones most likely to gain employment at the end of their training . |
| 20 | Because the polls , and therefore the program , are likely to shortchange the minor parties , and because the minor parties are most likely to make gains at the Conservatives ' expense , the program is liable to project somewhat too high a level of Tory parliamentary support . |
| 21 | Is it still possible to shock audiences at dance performances ? |
| 22 | In the third year of life 40 per cent of children who are still wet achieve dryness at night . |
| 23 | Some people might argue at a local level rather than a central level , you 're much more likely to get effectiveness at a local level , than of by central dictate . |
| 24 | They should encourage the client to commit him/herself to something specific , i.e. , ‘ I 'd like to stop having panic attacks ’ , or ‘ I 'd like to be able to catch the train up to London ’ , or , ‘ I 'd like to understand and cope more effectively with my anxiety symptoms ’ , or , ‘ I 'd like to be more relaxed giving presentations at work ’ . |
| 25 | In practice it is not usually important to mark pauses at the beginning and end of a passage ; in the rest of the book I put no lines on short examples and only single lines around longer ones ; the boundaries within a passage are much more important . |
| 26 | Of course , consistency in notation builds up a certain level of skill with that notation , but it is vitally important to develop skills at least partially independent of a single notation . |
| 27 | I think there is some indication in the independent sector of the over-provision , in that they are now more ready to take people at those standard prices for respite care . |
| 28 | Andy Currier was eventually able to provide consolation at the other end , but departed for the sin-bin 30 seconds later after a foul on Bob Jackson , accompanied by Paul Hulme , who questioned the referee 's decision too vehemently . |
| 29 | I 'm just about due to cause havoc at a meeting of the passenger Health and Safety Committee anyway . ’ |
| 30 | From the beginning of the fourth year , and especially for as long as pupils were legally free to leave school at the end of that year , very much more definite choices were made : ‘ Newsom ’ courses for those who were to leave , examination courses for most of the rest , with many decisions then to be taken about which subjects to drop , and which to pursue . |