Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her red lipstick was smudged and she had n't bothered to pin up her hair properly at the sides . |
| 2 | In other countries too , inflation will be a worry right at the start of the coming upswing . |
| 3 | So there was that allocation of system design responsibility right at the outset and that determined who would write the specification for what . |
| 4 | Citadel : VII , 8 on the other hand , has excellent protection but is long and sustained with the crux right at the top when abseil retreat is both difficult and uninviting . |
| 5 | Right , so it 's one I want to , I did n't get time to do last week was to tell you where you specify that you want to perform a Chow test , right , and the computer will generate both of both of Chow 's tests with one , the first one is where we 've got enough observations in each sub sample , right , to estimate the regression , right , however , you may , you may detect and figure there is some structural change right at the end of your er sample of observations or alternatively right at the beginning . |
| 6 | What about this bit right at the start ? |
| 7 | Rain halted play prematurely at the Oval , where England Under-19 paceman Dominic Cork grabbed three quick wickets to leave Surrey struggling against Derbyshire . |
| 8 | Wilkinson 's failure to strengthen the defence especially at the centre back position ( and right back through most of last year ) will continue to hinder the team and deny us a claim of genuine championship contenders . |
| 9 | My own feeling is that there is a great similarity and that there is a a base salary normally which is set on a competitive level with a target as in this case perhaps at the mid-point , perhaps at the sixty percent level or whatever it would be and that a significant uplift in compensation can be obtained by a bonus scheme , if the performance of the company as measured in earnings per share , return on capital , return on equity or any m other measure if those objectives are met . |
| 10 | Paul had laughingly explained that they had taken one small pull only at the bamboo rod , purely out of courtesy to the Moi chief , but it had gone straight to Joseph 's head . |
| 11 | and then you also need to have a surplus so that you can erm pay for industrialization , and you ca n't tax , tax the poor too much to fit into your ideology so at the end of the day , you know , well it 's a matter of just balancing all these factors |
| 12 | Other theorists ( e.g. Mackintosh and Reese 1979 ) ( see also Wagner 1981 ) attribute the effect to competition between stimuli at a perceptual level , suggesting that because of some limited capacity mechanism , attention can be paid to one component only at the expense of that paid to the other . |
| 13 | In many cases , this delayed start will not be noticeable , especially if there is no important action right at the beginning ; the only real effect is that the shot is about one second shorter than you intended , and you will soon learn to allow for this by adding a second or so to the time before you press the button to end the shot . |
| 14 | Quite imperceptibly , arrest has moved from a position at the end of the investigative process to a new niche right at the start . |
| 15 | So what I 'm saying is that although there will be an overspend , it should n't be massive cos the overspend would effectively be the hump right at the beginning of the year . |
| 16 | get in , you 'd find your car right at the back . |
| 17 | My memories of Oxford , unlike my memories of Eton , are summer ones : the tranquil beauty of the High Street in the early morning before the traffic ; May morning and the choirboys singing on Magdalen Tower ; reading in a punt on the river beneath overhanging willows ; the water meadows beyond Parsons ' Pleasure , and the sound of corncrakes ; sailing with Robin Campbell on Port Meadow and then tea together at the Trout Inn ; dinner parties in my rooms , with evening light on the College buildings and the scent of wallflowers from the President 's garden . |
| 18 | If such a measure were to be carried ( and a similar one is likely to be introduced in the Senate ) , Mr Bush could use force only at the risk of a domestic , and indeed a constitutional , crisis . |
| 19 | ‘ They could n't sell it after what happened , ’ said Preston as they sat in the car together at the end of the cul-de-sac . |
| 20 | The Catholic miracle of transubstantiation could be performed only by an ordained priest , who then received the body and blood alone at the altar . |
| 21 | I imagine you 'd prefer not to put your head back — er — in the lion 's den just at the moment ! ’ |
| 22 | He reappeared with his shotgun just at the moment Judas was handing over his master . |
| 23 | ‘ He 's got one or two things on his mind just at the moment . ’ |
| 24 | A manager who 's able to get the best use out of the young talent still at the Oval . |
| 25 | As Wycliffe left the house he looked back and saw the gaunt figure still at the window . |
| 26 | There was no trying to disappear , for even though she had taken to parking her car carefully at the back of the premises , she knew the front door was wide open and the painter in the hall would certainly , if asked , say that she was around . |
| 27 | In terms of Weber 's call for adequacy both at the level of meaning and at the causal level , there is argument at both levels , which , of course , much complicates questions of how to relate them to each other . |
| 28 | Did you see much of the goal , or as it was a free kick floated in and Martin Foyle headed it back across the face of goal and erm your partner in crime really at the back put it in . |
| 29 | Martin Orne , a psychiatrist and research psychologist now at the University of Pennsylvania , asked several hypnotised people to re-experience being six years old . |
| 30 | He was conscious that his words creaked and grated like machinery in the wrong hands , and that his smiling glance upwards at the bunch of mistletoe was more of a leer , a leer that stayed , unnaturally fixed by confusion and rage , as he observed Clare 's hesitation . |