Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only she did n't need to think about it , not really , not about the lovemaking itself at any rate — it was indelibly printed on her mind in glorious Technicolor . |
| 2 | Better than the knobbly knees one at any rate . |
| 3 | Large numbers of villages , however , have very complex plans which at first sight defy description and explanation , both on the ground and on the maps . |
| 4 | He played the accompaniments himself at this stage . |
| 5 | As he grew older he adopted more radical views which at one point cost him a job . |
| 6 | Dauntless felt a little chagrined she was n't more impressed and grateful , but then he supposed he looked little other than a lunatic scrap himself at that moment . |
| 7 | Against an orthodoxy which at that tune was inclined to reduce faith to the mere acceptance of ‘ the truths ’ in the Bible or in the teaching of the church — an acceptance which could leave one 's inmost self unaffected , and could even involve the toleration in blind obedience of contradictions and incoherences in the official system of belief — the voice pressing the claims of reason and the inner self needed to be heard . |
| 8 | The England striker 's 20 goals have brightened his club 's otherwise moderate campaign which at one stage threatened to end in relegation to the Second Division . |
| 9 | And he went on just across the road to Road Co-op and he bought a small loaf of bread which at that time would be about tuppence , and gave the old lady this small loaf about ten days afterwards he called again , he said , he said I 've come to see you again , now are you alright and so on , he said I 've done a foolish thing this morning , he said I 'm responsible for the flowers , altar flowers , he said and I 've left my wallet at my lodgings , and my landlady has gone down to for the day . |
| 10 | Women were even more mobile , reflecting perhaps the large proportion who at some time of their life entered service and married extra-parochial partners . |
| 11 | In 1940 , for example , there were widespread rumours that Julius Streicher , the detestable Jew-baiter of Nuremberg who at that time had to come before Göring — of all people — to face charges of corruption , had fled across the border with 30 million Reichmarks . |
| 12 | As we said in the Introduction , this is a little artificial , but you may well have to do this kind of work yourself at some time . |
| 13 | Among the most detailed derive , not entirely unexpectedly , from people like John Elliott and Helen Simons who at some time have worked with Lawrence Stenhouse . |
| 14 | A different , and more primitive , form of reindeer culture existed among the Samoed people of the Taimyr Peninsula who were known to the Russians in the seventeenth century as Tavgi ( today 's Nganasan ) , and the Yukagirs who at that time occupied a very large area of arctic Siberia east of the river Lena . |
| 15 | By 1971 , the tension was so great that Kapwepwe broke with Kaunda and formed the United People 's Party ( UPP ) which depended on a flimsy alliance between the Bemba and other tribal groups who at that time felt they were out in the political cold . |
| 16 | He could be looking at a device which at any moment could be activated by a radio-operated switch . |
| 17 | Sarah , in her turn , must have experienced something of the warmth of feeling which can link one human being to another , but now , all that was left was a fierce possessiveness , veined with jealousy which at any moment could flare into hatred . |
| 18 | Pagina , a move which at that time necessitated his resignation from Canterbury . |
| 19 | He was standing against one of the walls of the bedroom , one elbow resting on a long teak shelf which at one time must have contained books , but was now bare , resting his head against the palm of his raised hand in an attitude of relaxation . |
| 20 | Although visiting grandparents was the basis of many significant memories and relationships , it is surprising that in the first set of interviews there are even more significant mentions of grandparents who at some point lived in the same house as their children . |
| 21 | The Commission 's cited source for this information was Dr P F Chester of the CEGB , while those thanked for ‘ helpful suggestions during drafting ’ included Dr R A Skeffington , a researcher with the CEGB who at this time was also showing pictures of perfectly healthy trees from the Black Forest to British conferences . |
| 22 | A disappointing album from a band who at one time seemed to show a lot of promise . |
| 23 | Perhaps as a final word , I might be per better to echo the chief planning inspector Stephen who at this year 's T C P summer school , said , Neither statute or policy rule out the practical application of common sense in unusual or exceptional circumstances . |
| 24 | FRACTAL geometry is one of those concepts which at first sight invites disbelief but on second thought becomes so natural that one wonders why it has only recently been developed . |
| 25 | With a little ingenuity , passages which at first sight would appear to require much use of the pedals can often be made playable with very little chromatic alteration , or perhaps none at all , by using enharmonic equivalents of certain notes . |
| 26 | However , by careful reading of the footnote , a manuscript was found in the Harleian Collection of the British Library which dated from 1599 and gave details of the armorial panels which at that date existed . |
| 27 | The popular Scot might not relish the thought of another 10 months on the road , but at least he departs his home in the West of Scotland secure in the knowledge that he has overcome the chronic putting problems which at one time threatened to end his career . |
| 28 | This suggests GPs were attempting to deal , both medically and compulsorily , and only in the case of women , with problems which at subsequent assessment were considered to be primarily about social relationships . |
| 29 | We were glad to reach Rangoon which at that time of the year , early March , was very hot , and so Pop sent us up to Taungin-in the Shan States where we stayed with a delightful elderly American missionary , Miss Hughes . |
| 30 | When the Dada brochure , Cabaret Voltaire , was published in June 1916 it was ‘ a catch-all for the most diverse directions in art which at that time seemed to us to constitute ‘ Dada ’ . ’ |