Example sentences of "[noun] at [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'll change all that when we 're married , ’ Naylor assured her , and her heartbeats raced an erratic rhythm at just the very thought of being married to him . |
| 2 | AS so often in the past , a major sporting event is set to give Northern Ireland a morale boost at just the right time . |
| 3 | However , recent CBI figures show UK investment at below the German level ; I suspect high interest rates are a major deterrent . |
| 4 | I have been able to boost the Scottish roads programme at both the national and local level . |
| 5 | It certainly seems to specialise in hitting nails on heads at just the right moment . |
| 6 | A good many observers even doubted whether wars between States at approximately the same level of civilization could have any decisive result . |
| 7 | The philosophy of pragmatism flourished in the United States at roughly the same period that the social movements of Fabianism and New Liberalism emerged in Britain . |
| 8 | The programme involves research at both the national and local levels of economies in developing countries . |
| 9 | He changed gear at precisely the wrong moment and the car bucked and complained . |
| 10 | When the dye molecules are dissolved in another solid , transparent host material , they do not all absorb light at quite the same frequency . |
| 11 | The boughs grow out from the trunk at nearly the same angle throughout the life of the tree and the sapling can be regarded as a geometrical model of the fully grown tree . |
| 12 | It was here that attitudes and issues began emerging that were later to assume national significance and where parties were being transformed into empty shells , the eventual fate of parties at both the national and state levels . |
| 13 | All three have now given 50 pints of blood each and all three were surprised that they had reached this figure at almost the same time . |
| 14 | Using the Jodrell Bank Radio telescope in Cheshire , they had observed the super dense pulsating radio star ( pulsar ) PSR18219-10 for 18 months and deduced from variations in its radio signature that it was being orbited by a planet every six months at approximately the same distance as that from Venus to the Sun . |
| 15 | Comparable oxygen isotope shifts have been measured in sediments from Swiss and Polish lakes at precisely the same times . |
| 16 | The grenade left his grip at almost the same moment as another beam struck him full across the carapace , cracking it . |
| 17 | It is n't and you do n't have to stab at the keyboard so as to press both keys at exactly the same time . |
| 18 | Every move he made was duplicated by the rest of the shoal at exactly the same speed and with absolute precision . |
| 19 | The others realised the error at precisely the same moment , and the subsequent racing back along the track towards each other could have been useful in Doctor Zhivago if someone had shot it in slow motion . |
| 20 | Every held operation using tractors or horses inevitably causes some compaction and damage to soil structure ; it should therefore be the farmer 's aim to create the desired effect with the minimum of passes at exactly the right time . |
| 21 | Electrical stimulation of the exposed cortex in a small group of patients has been reported to disrupt production of single oral-facial movements at exactly the same electrode sites that produce speech arrest during naming of objects . |
| 22 | I am not even going to attempt to tell you why I was so attired , or guess at why fate should have made Donald and his equally well-equipped companions walk across that particular piece of wilderness at precisely the same time as me . |
| 23 | He had been in and out of love , but never found quite the right girl at quite the right time to make him a wife . |
| 24 | A large group in the opposite corner had erupted into laughter at just the right moment , to mask the sound of her action , however , and even those who had seen and heard were simply hiding slightly shocked and curious smiles behind polite hands and pretending to go on with their talk . |
| 25 | But I was so lucky that with one exception , everything seemed to fall into place at exactly the right time . ’ |
| 26 | ( It is important when dealing with caterpillars to realise that many species rely for their survival entirely on one plant growing in the right place at exactly the right time . ) |
| 27 | This was reinforced by a number of other changes which took place at roughly the same time . |
| 28 | It is interesting to compare Ferguson 's reaction to Vidor 's film with his reaction at much the same time to the newly released It Happened One Night , which Frank Capra had directed for Columbia . |
| 29 | League leaders South scraped the bonus point at where the minimum requirement of 20 overs were bowled in the second innings . |
| 30 | Clients will receive completed accounts , returns and computations at roughly the same time each year so embarrassing delays will not arise . |