Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And putting coals on at the far end . |
| 2 | England 's far-sighted youth development policy is now being matched by the selectors ' willingness to throw teenagers in at the deep end . |
| 3 | If you want to stop at seventy three point six million erm pounds we 're quite happy to erm and I suggest Chairman if if we do n't get the the main er growth savings through at the next few minutes of voting that perhaps a rather longer lunch erm maybe there would be some . |
| 4 | Note this man 's words carefully at the Conservative Party conference . |
| 5 | Under Khrushchev , however , there was a reassessment , and Soviet policy from this time onwards began to seek links of all kinds with the developing nations both at the political level and through trade , investment , arms sales , the training of students and so forth . |
| 6 | The bad news is revealed partly by the results for the first half year and partly by the company 's prediction that its borrowings will only be down to half shareholders ' funds even at the end-of-year low point after the Christmas rush . |
| 7 | Variations across London often reflected the differential performance of the parties there at the last general election , and may well portend trends for the next . |
| 8 | An unpaid tax bill instilled fears into the companies who dealt with Red Rhino and everyone slapped their bills in at the same time . |
| 9 | The final stage of the claim , that BSL consists purely of visual images in the story-teller and that BSL functions only at the visual concrete level , however , goes beyond the information given . |
| 10 | So they finally ended their lives together at the isolated Cheddar Gorge beauty spot in the Mendip Hills , in Somerset . |
| 11 | Also , for most communities infant mortality was reported to be lowest not at the second but at the third — in some communities even at the fourth — order . |
| 12 | A PICK-UP in consumer spending has been detected by the brewer , JA Devenish , the chairman , Michael Cannon , told shareholders yesterday at the annual meeting . |
| 13 | Elizabeth and Helen moved into their own basement flat in an inner-city suburb in 1987. they are middle-aged and spent nearly thirty years together at the same mental handicap hospital but lived separately for the two years before the move into the community because Helen was transferred to a smaller institution . |
| 14 | ‘ I think it may have more to do with my age — but I do feel I have got four or five years more at the top level in the game and I would love to perform at the top level of the Premier League . |
| 15 | Ben and Mrs Robinson arrange an assignation a few days later at the swanky Taft Hotel , where , after initial naivety and clumsiness almost make the occasion a farcical disaster , they end up satisfactorily in bed with one another . |
| 16 | To illustrate , consider an investor who purchases a 91-day bill 10 days after issue at a rate of discount of 10 per cent and sells it 7 days later at the same rate of discount . |
| 17 | The couple , who were introduced to each other by one of Mr Jefferson 's relatives in 1940 , were married two years later at the Holy Trinity Church in Darlington . |
| 18 | A partial parasite , mistletoe relies on birds such as thrushes eating its oily berries and dropping the seeds out at the other end on to the branches of trees where they perch . |
| 19 | The United Kingdom 's reserves are likely to be empty in forty years even at the current rate of consumption . |
| 20 | With regard to octave combinations , flute or oboe double the violas well at the higher octave , and bassoon at the lower octave , but opportunities of using these are rather rare , as the violas are of course chiefly used to supply inner parts either in the nature of harmonic filling up , or countermelodies in which octave doubling would upset the harmonic scheme . |
| 21 | Only six weeks ago at the Tory Party conference he promised categorically that his spending total would not be ‘ breached ’ . |
| 22 | He is the young London painter , in his twenties , whose first one person show two years ago at the prestigious Waddington Gallery caused somewhat of a stir . |
| 23 | I was pleased to renew friendships made over two years ago at the First Congress of Black Catholics , and it was a joy to be again in a crowd of African , Afro-Caribbean and Asian Catholics where for once I was not the only black face in a sea of white ones . |
| 24 | Wendy Vaughan began cooking professionally six years ago at the Old Rectory in Llansanfraid , North Wales — the family home she converted to a small hotel with her husband Michael when he sold his motor parts company . |
| 25 | Arrangements for the ceremony at St Columbus Church of Scotland and celebrations afterwards at The Grand Hotel were made easier because Paul 's brother , William , lives on the island . |
| 26 | Newly elected Welsh Secretary John Redwood MP addressed CIOB members and guests recently at the 14th Duke of Edinburgh Lecture . |
| 27 | A number of proposals both at the unofficial and the official level were made to overcome the shortage of finance . |
| 28 | She had n't been privy to the goings on at the opposite end of the table , but she had a distinct , almost tactile memory of the girl fleeing , the usual calm repose of her features fractured . |
| 29 | Well no , because they reckon they 'd be , invested two hundred pounds right at the very beginning , you 'd most probably make the , the f , fall short over the rest of the year , in the investment . |
| 30 | I mute them so that I can switch two wirelesses on at the same time , because if you have two on together they screech . |