Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [conj] at [noun] " in BNC.

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1 And er and although it nobody could ever say that the union was politically motivated er it it 's strange to relate that at union meeting when the general strike started and we of course we were n't in the T U C we were too small anyway , although I know that there 's been unions with twenty eight members in the T U C now .
2 ‘ It 's heartbreaking when anything like this happens but at Christmas it seems especially cruel . ’
3 This means that at school level there are two worlds of education .
4 It is clearly marked , easy to use and at £59.00 remarkably cheap .
5 This is certainly true of the Hundred Years War , and it is as well to remember that at Crécy , Poitiers , and Agincourt , although the English emerged as victors , on each occasion they were not entering the French kingdom to attempt its conquest , but were actually leaving it , heading for the coast in search of transport to take them back to England , the main aim of the expedition already fulfilled .
6 But we could say that in any marriage it is important for both partners to be able to contain and at times to say ‘ enough is enough ’ .
7 The sheriff said it was ‘ desirable ’ that all remand prisoners be checked at least hourly every night and not just those identified as at risk from suicide , or poor health or those likely to try to escape .
8 Greece also stimulated his interest in Byron , first aroused while at school in Harrow .
9 The first arises because at stage ( 2 ) delivery of the documents may not necessarily be matched by payment of the full price ; the agreement may have provided for payment by instalments and the seller will then retain a lien on the shares as an unpaid seller .
10 It has been classed as an R Coronæ star , but it is certainly atypical , and it is wiser to admit that at present we simply do not know .
11 Any of these devices could obviously offer more attractive price incentives were they mass produced but at present fairly small amounts are being spent on wave energy research , which has , so far , not caught the imagination of large investors whether government or private , in the same way as , for instance , nuclear fusion .
12 These are only a few of the choices before them , but even these are very difficult to prioritize and at times some of them must be sacrificed at the expense of others in this play .
13 However , an inadequate indicator may be preferable to no indicator ; failure to include death rates in the formula would mean that funds were even less related to need than at present .
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