Example sentences of "[adj] at [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're being silly , she told herself ; a man as attractive as Luke Denner would be bound to have many women in his life , any number of girlfriends ; had n't she schooled herself into thinking this at least a hundred times — ever since that very first meeting , ever since he had dragged her unceremoniously into that small , chaste bedroom , ever since he had made love to her ? |
| 2 | She submitted there was no other appropriate or fair way for the Secretary of State to deal with the case other than to allow Doherty at least an oral hearing or written representation . |
| 3 | Kretschmer 's end had come in the spring of 1941 at almost the same time as his great rivals Schepke and Prien , when his U.99 was sunk by a destroyer commanded by Captain Donald Macintyre , and he had spent the rest of the war as a prisoner . |
| 4 | You mentioned that schools are quite good at biology , that they have guinea pigs and they have growing plants and so forth , and I think you hinted at the fact that they perhaps are not quite so good at maybe the harder sciences , we might call them , of physics and chemistry . |
| 5 | You mentioned that schools are quite good at biology , that they have guinea pigs and they have growing plants and so forth , and I think you hinted at the fact that they perhaps are not quite so good at maybe the harder sciences , we might call them , of physics and chemistry . |
| 6 | When I offer you champagne you laugh in a way that only you have , like a stream all at once a delighted cascade into this deep swirling pool of warm humour . |
| 7 | And all at once a strange sensation came over him . |
| 8 | All at once a bright fire seemed to burn through her veins , making her skin glow and causing her limbs to tremble . |
| 9 | Her hand moved ahead of her lips , ablaze when she brushed the fine wiry hair between Lucy 's thighs , all at once a mapless explorer in a rich forest . |
| 10 | Naturally both sides got down and our men started swearing at the Germans , when all at once a brave German got on to his parapet and shouted ‘ We are very sorry about that ; we hope no one was hurt . |
| 11 | In the finale , as the whole orchestra was pronouncing the triple supplication ‘ Do-na-no-bis-pa-cem ’ , all at once a wonderful gesture escaped you : you plunged your left fist deep down as if you were setting the torch to the side of a funeral pyre . |
| 12 | All at once a single shaft of moonlight exploded through a high window and struck this disc , causing it to revolve . |
| 13 | Then he slipped into a deep sleep , and all at once the warm feeling of happiness deserted him and his stomach heaved as he recognised the same old nightmare returning : the walk along the jetty , the cruel hands dragging him to the edge , the utter helplessness as they lowered him into the icy water , the wave that broke over his head — and at last , that terrible choking sensation . |
| 14 | Come , Sergeant ! ’ it cried , and all at once the great yellow beast turned and climbed the far bank … and disappeared . |
| 15 | But all at once the light-hearted feel to the conversation had flown . |
| 16 | All at once the long green eyes were glittering at her . |
| 17 | Thus by overtly infringing some maxim , the speaker can force the hearer to do extensive inferencing to some set of propositions , such that if the speaker can be assumed to be conveying these then at least the over-arching cooperative principle would be sustained . |
| 18 | Horizontal cracking is usually evident at about every sixth course of bricks . |
| 19 | By sinking them , the Company made available at least a dozen blocks lying between Second and Fifth Avenues . |
| 20 | Even in England there were occasional signs that the usefulness of having available at least a few men with a knowledge of oriental languages was understood . |
| 21 | The JMU aims to visit firms in categories 2 , 3 and 4 every two years and those in category 1 at least every five years . |
| 22 | She looks first at how the present conceptions and practices of philosophy might admit of different points of view at all . |
| 23 | A few of our competitors have decided to launch similar plans to our own at roughly the same time so this causes considerable interest in these products particularly among family finance journalists . |
| 24 | Someone eating an average diet and drinking unfiltered tap water is likely to ingest at least a hundred different synthetic chemicals every day — see pp 305–10 . |
| 25 | And when in 1937 a questionnaire was distributed to authors about their attitude towards the Spanish Civil War , he sent the reply ( which he said that he never expected to be published ) that , " While I am naturally sympathetic I still feel convinced that it is best that at least a few men of letters remain silent " . |
| 26 | And as a result of the dilettante attitude you describe men have died : three of my colleagues , two at virtually the same place in Act III of Tristan . |
| 27 | Since then blacks have got richer at almost the same rate as whites , but they have not caught up at all . |
| 28 | He was pronounced dead at 4pm the following day . |
| 29 | We had to sail ( or rather motor ) the boat precisely along three straight line courses , changing from one to the next at exactly the right places otherwise we would have a most unpleasant encounter with Bogha nan Ramfhear . |