Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem is in fact that 's exa in fact I did that right at the start , right ? |
| 2 | Has my right hon. Friend seen the view of the chief constable of west Yorkshire , Mr. Peter Nobes , that the upsurge in the taking of motor vehicles has probably occurred since the change in the Criminal Justice Act 1988 , which reduced the unauthorised taking of a motor vehicle to a summary offence triable only at a magistrates court ? |
| 3 | She said : ‘ Oh , I think so — he was upset enough at the idea of Matt building houses next to his pottery , was n't he ? ’ |
| 4 | Parish council chairman Gillian Woodcraft said : ‘ We discussed this right at the beginning , and the parish council decided to retain it . |
| 5 | Yakovlev may have exaggerated this shift , given the abstract Marxist tenets on class struggle that he came equipped with from Moscow , but there was already some objective evidence of this right at the start of NEP . |
| 6 | The £1 million summer signing from Marseille refused to set a come-back date but conceded : ‘ It 's very disappointing and frustrating to receive a setback like this right at the start of my Wednesday career . |
| 7 | The way was now open for peace negotiations with France , and these negotiations inevitably looked rather like the negotiations which had ended the wars against Louis XIV in 1713 — sensible enough at a time of high expenditure but not fair to allies nor likely to allow the British negotiators to gain the largest possible amount at the bargaining table . |
| 8 | What culture tries to make out of them seems attainable only at the cost of a sensible loss of pleasure ; the persistence of the impulses that are not enrolled in adult sexual activity makes itself felt in an absence of satisfaction . |
| 9 | This especially at a time when they were earning significant incomes from Blackwomen writers such as Alice Walker and Maya Angelou . |
| 10 | Sometimes , of course , bags are searched , but the removal of company property from the premises of licensed dealers is rarely punished by anything more than instant dismissal , acceptable enough at the time to the culprits , as it coincides with their own plans . |
| 11 | ‘ You were willing enough at the time . |
| 12 | Yet in the afternoon the council put its weight behind a scheme that would selectively subsidise and increase the earning capacity of a small group who are by no means the worst paid members of society , and this largely at the expense of the previously agreed underfunded NHS and the taxpayer . |
| 13 | This idea is not very palatable : why should the Sun be anomalous just at the time that we start to search for neutrinos ? |
| 14 | Obviously he was not going to speak and Jenna was embarrassed at being caught here , more embarrassed still at the idea of walking haughtily to her room without a word . |
| 15 | That is what Weber bids us do , when declaring that the final account must be adequate both at the level of meaning and at the causal level . |
| 16 | On the other hand , he wrote , if you do n't see this clearly at the start you only produce more crap and there 's enough in the world already . |
| 17 | Twins have never pulled off a double like this before at the school . |
| 18 | Knottingley were 17–4 ahead at the interval with tries by Chris Carlyle and Dennis Stead . |
| 19 | Knottingley were 17–4 ahead at the interval with tries by Chris Carlyle and Dennis Stead . |
| 20 | The sounds and scents of the morning were keen and exciting yet at the centre of those sensations she was filled with a curious sort of quiet . |
| 21 | As the stories are presented , the timeless Paradise is always placed at the beginning and the time-bound here-and-now at the end , though in some versions , as in Christianity , there is also a vision of an eschatological future when mankind , redeemed , will once again get back to the Paradisal beginning . |
| 22 | Yeah I know I did n't want to do that just at the moment Yep hand on hang on er I 'm just I 'm looking up again close the phone failure what that one there all right oh I was leaving that one open in case somebody rang through do n't if they ring through ca n't they come straight on if I leave it open ? |
| 23 | JOHN MCGRATH — THURSDAY , SEPTEMBER 26 7PM AT THE MIDLANDS ARTS CENTRE — IS IN CONVERSATION WITH MARY CUTLER |
| 24 | Sometimes a feature of the Constitution is discerned as such only at the time when it has just ceased to have much relevance . |
| 25 | It seemed simple enough at the outset … vegetarian author Rebecca Hall offered to pay ten thousand pounds to any farmer willing to live like a battery chicken for a week . |
| 26 | Bragad was affable enough at the end — said that all things came to pass in good time if they were meant to . |
| 27 | Overseas securities grew markedly after the removal of exchange controls in 1979 largely at the expense of UK company securities , but as with overseas investments by investment trust ( see next section ) have fallen away slightly in recent years . |
| 28 | He 'll give hundreds away at the drop of a hat . |
| 29 | Moira had two sisters , Marjory and Jeanette , who were 14 and 7 respectively at the time of the disappearance . |
| 30 | A firm must require the customer to provide any margin which is payable both at the outset ( initial margin ) and subsequently ( variation margin ) and take reasonable care to satisfy itself that the customer is aware of the consequence of not paying it . |