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

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1 All Winter collection at half-price or less .
2 ‘ I have been a runner-up at United and again since coming to Villa , but it 's always been my dream to win the big one , ’ said McGrath .
3 The miner … lives in communities detached from the society at large and often from the absentee employer as well … .
4 These properties make possible studies of the pulsar at radio wavelengths with unprecedented detail , and indicate that it should be possible to detect both the pulsar and its companion at optical and perhaps shorter wavelengths .
5 When he found it , he tapped along the feed pipe at random and then gave a couple of good , square bangs on the connectors before he tried the starter button .
6 In such a context , " literary criticism " is " viewed with a certain tolerant contempt " , not only within the academic world at large but even within English schools themselves , especially by philologists .
7 To become mother to a child is to step into a universal role , to be type-cast by the world at large and even by one 's own children .
8 Patients with irritable bowel syndrome experience pain induced by inflating a balloon in the colon at different and more numerous sites and at lower distending volumes than normal subjects .
9 When people such as Martin , consult me not in order to seek help in overcoming a particular problem , but to help them to understand themselves , their motivation and their spiritual journey better , I do not see the patient at weekly or fortnightly intervals but leave gaps of anything up to six or eight weeks between visits .
10 Indisputably , however , art and design education occupies an important place both in the life of the country at large and also in further education in particular , and its practitioners are only too well aware of the difficulties which they face .
11 His Court had been notorious not only for its exclusivity and lack of responsiveness to the public at large but also , as experienced by those who frequented it , for its tedium .
12 The Guidelines will be of interest to owners , employers and managers , engineering Institutions , providers of education and training , trade unions , government , media and the public at large as well as to registered engineers and technicians .
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