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

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1 In keeping with the rank-and-file strength of the movement , however , pressure was applied most effectively at local level .
2 The engine steams slowly in at one end .
3 Someone must be doing their housekeeping rather better at those hospitals , especially when one thinks of the help the Memorial Hospital gets from the WRVS and the Friends of the Hospital who raise a good deal of money and have done so for many years .
4 If there was a bit of low in the land , he had to let his plough bite in a little deeper at this spot to bring his furrows up level .
5 ‘ They obviously thought I was doing terribly badly at that time and were very pleased at how well they had rigged me out … until I put on the mac .
6 And perhaps only at certain times of the year , especially in agricultural communities .
7 That is especially so at this time , when we are effectively handing from Parliament to Ministers the right to decide , on private Bills , to lay orders .
8 Although you have to put up with the pain for a shorter time , you may not have any real build-up to it — suddenly , strong contractions hit you — so it 's difficult to pace yourself and put into practice the breathing exercises you rehearsed so carefully at antenatal classes .
9 She herself would not have peered so openly at personal photographs .
10 But I was n't recalling the data so clearly at that moment .
11 This suggests that , as in present BV , so also at some point in the development of SBE , velar environments were fronted and raised ahead of other environments and were not accessible to the back-rounding rule .
12 It will take time , I 've detected , as I 'm sure you have too delegates , a feeling of confidence in our debates so far at this conference , a confidence that has n't been there recently .
13 Beckoning Robert to a seat , he continued to talk into the mouthpiece about the school , about its playing-fields , its concert hall and several other items that , so far at any rate , existed only in his imagination .
14 It was comforting to note , however , that , so far at any rate , the little blind boy had shown not much talent for destruction .
15 The encouraging thing was that all the people he had sentenced were , so far at any rate , in good health .
16 At half-term , Ali had offered ten pounds to any of ‘ the proud Muslim people of South-West London ’ who would be prepared to finish off Robert Wilson , but , even though he had raised this sum to twelve pounds fifty , there were , so far at any rate , no takers .
17 The only comforting thing about this was that , although they were well placed to take over my brain , they had , so far at any rate , declined to take up the offer .
18 This will happen more or less simultaneously at several points along the length of the dyke , hence the name fissure eruptions .
19 In England , false alarms , as so often at such times , added to the prevailing tension .
20 He paused dramatically , gazing so intently at each child below him that Sam thought he must be scanning their heads for lice .
21 To understand why it should have attracted Nietzsche so strongly at this time , we must turn to the background of his academic specialization , and his great love for Greece .
22 Perhaps surprisingly at first sight , additional variable capacitance is introduced in parallel with R 2 and additional fixed capacitance in parallel with R 1 .
23 He went at it very hard : punishingly , perhaps even at that stage , dangerously hard .
24 Her mouth did n't move so well at one side now , after that last turn .
25 The players could have played it without a conductor , we knew it so well at that time .
26 The new information on the inefficiency of bleach , alongside the trends indicated by our London data , suggests that household bleach should only be recommended as a last resort in the absence of sterile syringes and only then at full strength ( 5.25% sodium hypochlorite ) .
27 The lower storey has thick walls while the upper one has thinner walls set back to form a terrace all round at first floor level .
28 We sell a great many long haul holidays , often breaking apart the packages then putting them together again at lower cost . ’
29 It felt like the set of a Western , with the initially deserted field in the middle of rolling countryside , and the locals looking up only briefly at these strangers .
30 ( Probably because she had been in and out of Charley 's so freely at this time , working on her portfolio . )
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