Example sentences of "[adv] at [adj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 During one period 84 X 9 cwt. cartloads were brought down at 1/8 the ton … 37 tons 16 cwt. came to £3 : 3s .
2 All the known laws of science would break down at such a point .
3 Trees are being cut down at such a rate that the total forest cover of the Earth is decreasing rather than increasing .
4 It looks great there , standing in the middle of the square , looking down at all the people and cars and that .
5 Mother took one tiny look down at all the people looking up — made a long , low moaning noise and fled from the box never to return .
6 So that that 's the so at first the claim is suspended .
7 So at first the people of Weatherbury had no idea where she had gone .
8 His resolution to punish his wife for letting a stranger in at such a time would have to wait .
9 Annie came in at seven-thirty every weekday morning , bathed and fed the child and , weather permitting , took her for an outing in the large black perambulator .
10 Travelling along at such a pace was an experience she would have enjoyed no end on a happier occasion , and even now she savoured the luxury of sweeping by those on foot as if she were royalty .
11 And before Sally-Anne could do anything about it the tall young man was tucking her arm in his , and walking her briskly along at such a pace that she was horrified to discover that Rose and her companion were gone , lost behind them as fresh crowds emerged from yet more emptying theatres and dance halls .
12 They can dance together at all the weddings . ’
13 She had never been out alone at such an hour .
14 Theodora got in exactly at nine every day and punctiliously greeted whoever of the clergy were in at that hour .
15 It was a confession of weakness which she had n't expected to make , not to him and not at such a moment .
16 Order , or or or order , order , the honourable lady would not expect me to comment on something that has been on television , er in something that I I have no er I I did n't even see last night , it 's up to the minister whether he wishes to come and make a statement it is really not at all a point of order for me .
17 We get a glimpse of how history might seem to the most virtuous , and most pagan , of virtuous pagans — an odd effect in , but not at all a contradiction to ‘ a fundamentally religious and Catholic work ’ .
18 Gould is not at all a hard-sell .
19 Mr Andrew De Rosa , the theatre 's general manager , said : ‘ It was actually a very simple thing that went wrong : not at all a piece of technical wizardry .
20 Its message was iconoclastic , even radical and certainly not at all the type of thing that one would expect to see emanating from a government department , with the seal of approval provided by a preface over the minister 's signature .
21 The Italianate villa in Washington , DC , which developed many Lincoln associations , was neat , warm , and human in scale , not at all the station of a great capital .
22 After the '70s the helicopter served the wealthy , but it was noisy , not at all the vehicle for mass travel .
23 That , of course , is not at all the circumstances now .
24 You feel as though you must have become very bad , because the destructive thoughts that keep coming to you are most uncharacteristic and not at all the sod of thing you usually feel .
25 It was not at all the response she wanted , but Mrs Browning was again in full flow .
26 The choice to concentrate on this period should not be taken as implying that coin designs are unimportant in the study of other cultures , for this is not at all the case .
27 This is not at all the case and if Tam ( who is usually very accurate in his writing ) read the material coming from the European Parliament he would know that this is not the case .
28 Duhm found the parallelism here " rather feeble " which is indeed the case if the ideal is synonymity , but not at all the case if other relationships between the lines of a couplet can exist .
29 As we shall now see , this is not at all the case .
30 The enclosed area is roughly triangular , not at all the square you might imagine , and is surprisingly big , about 1km ( over half a mile ) across its longest axis .
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