Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [adv] at [art] " in BNC.

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1 What those figures certainly reveal is that the real gains in investment in British business since 1979 have been sustained , so that even at the depth of this present recession investment is 40 per cent .
2 So the man was happy enough and even at the time , he realized that er it was n't this lad 's ch er mm fault entirely , because the reason he tripped was cos the carpet was loose on top of the stairs .
3 This flux can not change instantaneously and therefore at the instant after switch-on , and substituting this condition into Eqn .
4 He 'd walked round the engine sheds , he said , where he 'd looked long and lovingly at the old locomotives , and where he 'd seen schoolboys and middle-aged men carefully recording numbers and wheel-arrangements in their note-books .
5 These groups represent a minority opinion , she suggests , and it is up to the NVALA and groups like it to defend and reassert ‘ traditional ’ values before humanism takes a grip of society generally , rather than just at the BBC where it is viewed as already having a stranglehold .
6 The solution was found by looking inwards at the character and operations of our own Group rather than outwards at the way other organisations had approached the problem , and then asking two questions .
7 So they have all the advantages of being indoors and outdoors at the same time , making performances at Garsington a unique experience .
8 1 To ensure that the patient arrives comfortably and safely at the theatre at the agreed time .
9 ‘ We need a strong system of local government capable of both planning at the wider geographical level and of acting sensitively and accountably at the most local level , ’ he said .
10 Understanding involves an area more extensive than that of which one can be conscious ; one can not be outside and inside at the same time …
11 He looked outside and there at the bottom of the steps was Aubrey Clark dressed in his motor-cycle gear , his helmet glinting in the moonlight .
12 The man is known to have ordered the taxi from a telephone kiosk between 5am and 6am at the junction of Ryhope Road and Askrigg Avenue in Sunderland on Sunday .
13 Then she and the president can set about hacking away as vigorously at the wasteful government machine as they have at the sheltered private sector .
14 Chapter 3 of the Constitution on the Church , spelling out the doctrine of collegiality , was theologically and dogmatically at the very heart of Vatican II 's debate and contribution to Catholic self-understanding .
15 They looked about them a bit hazily and then at the bleeding half-thing that had been the young boy and scuttled into a corner .
16 When two crabs meet in a rock pool , one of them grasps the other and ‘ raps ’ vigorously and noisily at the other 's shell .
17 It follows that it is possible for a member to have the same problem raised by both bodies more or less at the same time .
18 War was declared and , more or less at the same time , her mother , who wished to distance her from the rough and ready children at the village school , arranged for her to have piano lessons .
19 She remarried more or less at the same time as I did .
20 A lamb remains a lamb until it loses its milk teeth , more or less at the end of the year , and — if it has n't lost its life as well by then — it becomes a hogget .
21 If overt collusion is not permitted , then firms may be able to replicate its effect via tacit collusion ( Tirole , 1989 , ch. 6 ) , which may take the form of ‘ conscious parallelism ’ with firms making identical price changes more or less at the same time .
22 Hermes Trismegistus emerged from Egypt more or less at the time in which Zoroaster and the Magi became respected figures among the Greeks : they will have to be considered together .
23 Well they did n't mind catching them that these here gamekeepers they come on more or less at the finish of the harvest over the field with the guns what was left .
24 He did n't turn his head to look after them and he was so still that even at a short distance they could no longer distinguish him from his surroundings .
25 His immediate superior and his superintendent had departed ten minutes before for a conference at Lewes and he was more than somewhat at a loss .
26 Then there was the reality that yes our three tropical experts had flown through the questionnaire stage and impressed the producer more than sufficiently at the interview stage and they would now be appearing in front of 14 million viewers , battling it out with another team , unknown until the actual day .
27 We worked harder than ever at the Rose .
28 Eachuinn Odhar muttered , scratching itchily and irritably at the newly pink scalp gleaming through his newly white hair , ‘ different is n't aye better ! ’
29 He released her as suddenly as he had come to her support and she grasped quickly and covertly at the back of another chair , not wanting him to know that her numbed leg was tingling painfully now .
30 He turned back to what he was doing , his long fingers working quickly and expertly at the job , and she had the faintest feeling that she was being dismissed .
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