Example sentences of "[adv] at [art] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The treaty of Brest-Litovsk , which the military superiority of Germany forced upon the young Soviet State at the end of the year , revealed the limits of its power : ‘ The past keeps fast hold of us , ’ Lenin observed gloomily at the 8th Party Congress , ‘ grasps us with a thousand tentacles , and does not allow us to take a single forward step , or compels us to take these steps badly . ’ |
| 2 | The political pilgrim should not stumble through backstreets and alleys with only glimpses of his goal , then suddenly at the last moment find all revealed ; rather he should approach it in awe , aware of its enormous size from a great distance . |
| 3 | When calculating the mutual inductance we assumed that the magnetic field due to I1 appears instantaneously at the second ring . |
| 4 | You will make a report to me daily at the first hour of night . |
| 5 | To do this properly you need to hold the strings down at the first fret and measure from the top of the pickup polepiece to the underside of the strings . |
| 6 | I asked Danny ( Knight ) to put down at the first chance after crossing back over the Channel , and he did ’ . |
| 7 | I felt a lump in my throat as I looked down at the first grave , the Balmoral on the cross was torn at the front as if a piece of shrapnel had smashed its way through the badge and into the soldier 's head . |
| 8 | ‘ We managed to shepherd five down at the second attempt but one straggler broke free . |
| 9 | Mr Clark , 64 , who stood down at the last election , had assured him that he had not advised companies to conceal military use when preparing export licence applications . |
| 10 | Or walk out and let you down at the last minute . ’ |
| 11 | Three times through the winter , Cascade had been within days of being fully formed , only to fall down at the last minute . |
| 12 | And he blames AC Scotland for the sabotaging of his plans to raise a second round of finance by stockbrokers in Europe who let him down at the last minute . |
| 13 | Disadvantages : She may not have had much experience looking after young children ; she may let you down at the last minute if something else crops up — like a boyfriend . |
| 14 | Chris , Marius and the Swiss who had come from Lille were here ; Alex had been turned down at the last moment on a medical detail . |
| 15 | He was never remotely stumped when an item went down at the last moment and the presenter was left with a minute to fill . |
| 16 | Perhaps at the last moment an angel will appear . |
| 17 | Later on , perhaps at the next election , there might be an opportunity for me to get into Parliament . |
| 18 | Peter Dutton , Corporate Recruitment Manager at Procter & Gamble 's UK head office in Newcastle , wrote : ‘ We do not use Headhunters at all , because we have a policy of recruiting only at the first level of management ( usually graduates direct from university ) and filling all more senior management positions by promotion from within . ’ |
| 19 | The strong relationship between syntactic category and coverage exists only at the first level of information . |
| 20 | The repeating shape of the accompaniment in quavers is designed to recur only at the first beat of the seventh bar . |
| 21 | The total investment need is there from the beginning but it is split into two phases and in our thinking it is only too easy to look only at the first phase because this almost returns the organisation to profitability , and to ignore the second phase which may be essential . |
| 22 | Kiro Gligorov of the Macedonian LC was elected President of the republic only at the second attempt on Jan. 27 after VMRO-DPMNE deputies had failed to back him ( he was sole candidate ) in a first ballot on Jan. 19 , thereby depriving him of the necessary two-thirds majority . |
| 23 | Certain ‘ representatives of the Afghan people ’ would be admitted only at the second stage of the conference and they would need to accept the decisions of the conference . |
| 24 | The simple end-product arrives only at the fifth attempt . |
| 25 | Only at the last minute , by forced marches , would it suddenly make for the Channel coast . |
| 26 | A second date was set for last Monday , when Mr Connelly was again told of the cancellation only at the last minute . |
| 27 | Only at the last minute , at the station , did she seem sad again . |
| 28 | He had been on the point of hiding in the kiosk : only at the last moment had he dived beneath it . |
| 29 | It was only at the last moment that the real or unreal nature of an escape project was finally determined . |
| 30 | There were many cases where Bloomsbury House was involved not at all , or only at the last moment when it was generally too late to offer any constructive help . |