Example sentences of "[verb] at [adv] [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is , furthermore , at least some limited evidence to suggest that most commercials do not need to be as long as they are in order to communicate at least the more fundamental elements of their message . |
| 2 | On the other hand numerous studies have shown that clay from one locality , if not always of a single composition , has at least a reasonably uniform and limited compositional range , whereas clays from different locations ( towns , countries , continents ) have different chemical compositions because they reflect differences in the underlying geology . |
| 3 | She attempted to restore some order to her tousled hair with her fingers , then stroked on a little blusher to counteract at least a little of her pallor ; but there was little she could do to repair the ravages of the night , and finally she turned away with a heavy sigh . |
| 4 | As well as planning and buying the schedule , it is the job of the media people to check that everything has appeared as it should , to negotiate redress where the media are in error , and to assess , retrospectively , what has been achieved — this is , of course , essential for TV , where the medium is bought , as it were , sight unseen , and it is the media department 's job to guess the ratings of the slots they buy into : if they guess right , they will achieve better ratings , and a better cost per thousand , than originally planned , and assuming the advertising does the job it is meant to , the clients ' sales should achieve at least a very small extra boost . |
| 5 | Ironically she rarely used much make-up herself , but right now she could have done with a cover-up stick to hide the dark shadows beneath her eyes and some blusher to conceal at least a little of her pallor . |
| 6 | However , virtually all patients can benefit from rehabilitation and learn to do at least a little for themselves , which alleviates some of the burden on the carer . |
| 7 | But should it be that anyone ever wished to posit that I have attained at least a little of that crucial quality of ‘ dignity ’ in the course of my career , such a person may wish to be directed towards that conference of March 1923 as representing the moment when I first demonstrated I might have a capacity for such a quality . |
| 8 | Today the company has moved on , trying to cohabit with such bedfellows as hundreds of small software firms , or investing in specialist ‘ business partners ’ IBM has learned to cooperate at least a little , and even sold off a few businesses — but the company continues to have an exceptionally coherent set of beliefs and behaviour patterns . |
| 9 | Rudder also paints a picturesque scene in 1777 : ‘ On the curious travellers first approach it presents at once a very striking and respectable appearance , consisting of a number of well built houses , equal to a little town , lying very contiguous , but not joined together ’ . |
| 10 | It was necessary to learn at least a little of the process by which a plant grows . |
| 11 | She knew they 'd been on the verge of drawing at least a little closer to each other , yet she had been the one to ruin the opportunity . |
| 12 | Yet it remains true that unless the typologies are elaborated beyond a mere classificatory and descriptive labelling of different situations — that is , by attempting to specify the conditions under which each type develops — they remain at only a very preliminary stage of theorising . |
| 13 | All the other girls had at least a best dress , and some of them were burningly anxious to display clothes bought by extravagant parents especially for the occasion . |
| 14 | Given the distribution of scores among their controls , we estimate that people above the upper quartile had at least a twofold higher risk of being admitted to hospital for acute myocardial infarction than did people with a score of zero . |
| 15 | Certainly Eliot 's studies in Sanskrit and Pali at Harvard under Lanman and Woods had given him a thorough knowledge of Indian thought , but it is probable that Kipling 's version of metempsychosis had at least an equally important effect . |