Example sentences of "[adv] at [adj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children could leave school entirely at thirteen on possession of the ‘ labour certificate ’ , which required either a minimum attendance record or the passing of Standard VII , although it seems that the certificate was rarely if ever refused and 10 per cent of 10–15-year-old girls were fully employed as late as 1911 . |
| 2 | In his opinion African journalists , who often looked enviously at those in Europe and America , should understand why conditions were different at home . |
| 3 | In the prosperous 1980s many individuals found they were able to consider buying a second home in Europe , perhaps at first for holidays but later with retirement in view . |
| 4 | Clearly compensation for people on low incomes is to be aimed only at those on income support , even though many disabled people have extra heating costs associated with their disability , and many others on low incomes , such as pensioners , may narrowly miss out because of small savings or because they do not qualify for means-tested benefits , but still live at income support level . |
| 5 | Clearly it was possible to have great administrative , fiscal and even social progress under a ruler who was not personally at all in sympathy with the Enlightenment . |
| 6 | That stretched to 13 by the time it rolled in at 11.47 to loudspeaker apologies reporting technical problems at Peterborough . |
| 7 | Physical decay is setting in at 38 for Duran and 33 for Leonard , yet in the most hazardous of sports they persist , in the fashion of the times , in trying to defy the ageing process . |
| 8 | All alone at dead of night was another matter . |
| 9 | Mary Godwin and Clairmont got out early when they ran away at 16 with Mary 's lover Percy , had themselves rowed to France overnight , and set off towards Switzerland on foot . |
| 10 | Lou Macari is now expected to take over at Celtic on Wednesday as the two parties continue to discuss Macari 's wish to nominate his own assistant . |
| 11 | This idea of the diversified , fully funded scheme ( that is , run to match assets with present and future pension liabilities ) has been applied most widely in America and Britain , where its principles have been written into law ; it has also spread into Japan but scarcely at all into Germany , where company pension reserves frequently remain invested in the firm 's own shares . |
| 12 | Days and nights merge in a common pain , relieved scarcely at all by Schur 's drugs . |
| 13 | These costs vary only indirectly or not at all with changes in the level of traffic . |
| 14 | However , navigation on the canal is only allowed between about 0800 and 1700 daily , and not at all on Sundays when the lock keepers will not operate . |
| 15 | He was twisting his fingers and not at all at ease . |
| 16 | ‘ I certainly did n't want to take part in the play and I am not at all at ease with those — those people . |
| 17 | Not at all as skinhead . |
| 18 | What do you mean not at all of course it does . |
| 19 | This was clear to Leibniz but not at all to Kant , although Leibniz , not surprisingly , found it difficult to provide a satisfactory clarification of the conditions of intelligibility of the idea of existential uniqueness , or explain why should there not be duplicate universes , and was finally reduced to appealing to the idea of a rationally acting God . |
| 20 | This was not at all like school . |
| 21 | Dot sat herself cross-legged on the bed and watched him perched on the chair by the window , blinking and twitching and fidgeting but never looking her way , then seeming to fall asleep and looking quite young , younger than Mr Brown anyhow , and certainly not at all like Sally 's dad who 'd been to Burma and eaten rats . |
| 22 | ‘ Not at all like England . ’ |
| 23 | It was bright and shiny , very fresh and not at all like tomato ketchup . |
| 24 | When I was a schoolgirl some friends took me on to a farm and I used to watch the milking and think what a grand life it was , so healthy , not at all like life in the pits and the factories . |
| 25 | The system , with formal judicial intervention , has worked successfully in the US ; it operates informally but without full judicial approval in England and Wales ; but at the present time it obtains not at all in Scotland . |
| 26 | I 'm ashamed to say my Artists can be found anywhere around the house , not at all in order . |
| 27 | Since the condition often occurs in the secondary-school years , the young person may not only be faced with the trauma of the diagnosis and the confusion of being still able to see clearly in some situations and not at all in others , but there may also have to be a decision to transfer the medium of communication from print to braille , all this taking place in the years leading up to important examinations . |
| 28 | • Use skimmed or semi-skimmed milk rather than full-fat milk ; • Use cream less often on desserts and not at all in cooking ; • Have only three or four eggs a week ; • Buy more yogurt and less hard cheese ; • Eat less red meat and trim off the visible fat ; • Eat fewer fatty meat products such as sausages , meat pies , and burgers ; • Cut down on fatty snacks such as crisps ; • Use less pastry in cooking and buy fewer foods that incorporate pastry ; • Use less fat in cooking ; • If you are having a take-away meal such as fish and chips , leave some of the smaller , fattier chips usually found at the bottom of the bag . |
| 29 | Because Bathsheba was not at all in love with Farmer Boldwood , she was able to consider his proposal of marriage calmly . |
| 30 | They were welfare democrats and public spenders , not at all in tune with Mrs Thatcher 's awkward imperatives . |