Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several townspeople were so depressed at the semi-popish ways of Charles I and Archbishop Laud that they took their idealism to the New World , to a new and more perfect Dorchester . |
| 2 | This followed the same successful formula that proved so popular at the 1990 Newbury Rally . |
| 3 | He scanned the empty horizon and frowned , and she quivered , suddenly afraid at the savage look in his eyes . |
| 4 | In Flanders , where the count was loyal to Philip VI and perhaps alarmed at the expansionist tendencies of Hainault , Edward pursued a policy of exploiting the social and political tensions between the Flemish-speaking industrial towns and the nobility of the predominantly French-speaking countryside . |
| 5 | What we can say , though , is that the picture which emerges from these is not of a monolithic bloc but of a constantly mutating organism made up of elements which are symbiotic and mutually contradictory at the same time ( see , for example , Sanjek 1988 ; Hirsch 1969 ; Peterson and Berger 1971 ; Hardy n.d. ; Frith 1978 ; 1983a ; 1988a ) . |
| 6 | Coun. Keith Pudney , chairman of Guisborough Bypass Action Group , said members were highly delighted at the local authority 's decision . |
| 7 | In this way of analysis , the importance of changes in economic and social relations is retained — particularly at the level of the situation , where homologies , in the sense defined earlier , may be thought to operate — while relative autonomy for cultural and ideological elements is especially noticeable at the conjunctural level , for these elements may change at differing speeds , in differing ways . |
| 8 | Memory was mischievously selective at the best of times Trivia stuck limpet-like and the useful filtered away . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's unusual for a girl to be so good at the technical stuff , ’ he went on . |
| 10 | He 's no match for you , and I wo n't have him abused for being so good at the one thing he does well . |
| 11 | Christopher 's very good at doing the flat ones but not so good at the three D ones . |
| 12 | On the other hand , policymaking is relatively less complex at the local level , and in many authorities a committee chairman may have acquired considerable specialist knowledge by holding the chairmanship — or serving on the committee concerned-for many years . |
| 13 | Although the eclipse is only partial at the two highest frequencies , so that the pulses are observed throughout the orbit , strong pulses are seen for only about one-quarter of the time at 606MHz , close to phase 0.75 when the pulsar is nearest to the Earth . |
| 14 | Erm indeed over the last two or three years the borough council 's become extremely concerned at the deteriorating economic situation within the district and particularly around Harrogate itself . |
| 15 | This uncertainty is not so important at the present time , when things are far apart , so that a small uncertainty in position does not make much difference . |
| 16 | The House has been rightly concerned at the creeping extension of Community competence over the last few years . |
| 17 | Everyone is extremely pleased at the scrupulous way in which inspection is being carried out in Iraq to reveal the scale of the investment in nuclear weapons . |
| 18 | The APU surveys confirm these findings with the added perspective that such differences are only apparent at the top attainment levels . |
| 19 | In contrast other bands within this large footprint are only apparent at the longest incubation times ( positions 69-73 ) . |
| 20 | ‘ And a special medical pump is also only available at the Royal so I back my men 's decision , ’ he said . |
| 21 | But the spokesman confirmed that specialist neuro and thoracic care was only available at the Royal site . |
| 22 | If I was lucky , Gav would be so shocked at the very idea I had had carnal knowledge of an aunt — even one of the not-really-an-aunt variety — that he would just pretend it had n't happened . |
| 23 | But the East Germans , apparently furious at the latest development , accused West Germany of a ‘ gross breach of trust ’ . |
| 24 | AS SOME 3,000 East German would-be emigrants poured into West Germany 's embassy in Prague yesterday , the East Germans , apparently furious at the latest development , accused West Germany of ‘ gross breach of trust ’ , claiming that Bonn had promised to stop the flow . |
| 25 | By the current standards of research finance , this is a far-fetched , politically naive scheme , long on committee intricacies so beloved at the committee-bound Academy . |
| 26 | I give this portion of my estate as a thank-offering in the firm conviction that never again shall we have such a chance of giving our country that form of help which is so vital at the present time . |
| 27 | Hofmann returned to Berlin , to the most prestigious chair of chemistry in Germany and thus in the world , in 1865 , somewhat disappointed at the slow development of chemistry in Britain . |
| 28 | Looking at significant lines discovered on the 1:50 000 map sheets , there are 204 of these sheets in all , and thus two chance alignments , apparently significant at the 1 per cent level , can be expected . |
| 29 | Why they were so good and why they were so bad at the same time . ’ |
| 30 | The public had been most incensed at the relative simplicity with which the Royal Mail company had been relieved of their entrusted money . |