Example sentences of "[adv] at [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mills were often built on an estuary where the water could be trapped upstream at high tide by sluice gates . |
| 2 | A novice gets in better at this stage of his career than at any other , ’ he said . |
| 3 | However , if one shift performs better ( and ‘ better ’ might refer to the quality or quantity — or both — of product that is made ) is it because it consists of more conscientious workers ; their conditions of working are better , or they have less distraction ; they are supervised more closely and the conveyor belt moves faster ; or their body clock enables them to work better at some times of the day than others ? |
| 4 | The school owed much at this time to the support of William Smyth , Bishop of Lincoln , who was one of the founders of Brasenose College in 1509 . |
| 5 | He trod lightly , picking his feet up swiftly at each step in order to make as little contact as possible with the soft oozing mud . |
| 6 | The high proportion of symptomatic patients without detectable pathogens especially at early stages of HIV infection , and furthermore the poor correlation of infections and symptoms might be explained by an enteropathogenic role of HIV itself . |
| 7 | ‘ Surely she did n't bathe alone at the Cove , especially at that time of the year ? ’ |
| 8 | The fact is that most parents find discipline one of the most difficult parts of their job ; not a few find it an impossible task — especially at particular periods of their children 's lives . |
| 9 | The foundations of personal care in families The picture which emerges from evidence about personal care given to relatives is one of very extensive amounts of support , especially at particular points in the life course . |
| 10 | ‘ She 's been having trouble with her periods , if you must know , ’ she says , imputing a prurient inquisitiveness to Vic , although she is well aware that such gynaecological disclosures are the last thing he wants , especially at this hour of the morning . |
| 11 | As anyone will tell you , it 's easy to go over the limit , especially at this time of year when people are preparing for Christmas and buying presents . |
| 12 | A police spokesman said : ‘ It was a horrific crash , a terrible tragedy especially at this time of year . ’ |
| 13 | Especially at this time of year when all too often the weather is as miserable as a dozen Mancunian pensioners waiting for the 211 to Gorton . |
| 14 | They spend much of their time in the bedroom , especially at this time of year when it 's so cold . |
| 15 | ‘ Especially at this time of year , I know . |
| 16 | For ourselves , we are inclined to avoid long journeys , especially at this time of the year . |
| 17 | Oh that 's it , that 's why they 're coming down , that 's why are quite pleased to see us dear , especially at this time of the year , not many people will buy Christmas time , think oh we 'll wait and go and get Christmas over and the spring and |
| 18 | The region of Conques suffered especially at this time from the breakdown of public authority and the rise of an aristocracy exercising local power from newly built castles . |
| 19 | Elsewhere numbers are quite small , but Goldeneye are noted annually at several places along the coast , and on most important inland waters . |
| 20 | It appears that income tax is payable annually at 35 p.c. with no allowances and there is some sort of capital tax every five or 10 years . |
| 21 | Under the new plan , 15 wolves are to be released annually at three sites for up to five years , in the hope that they will breed to form a sustainable population . |
| 22 | These are automatically silenced at night and may be silenced manually at any time by operating levers which are neatly and unobtrusively located on the hand-crafted dial . |
| 23 | It is perhaps at this stage of our spiritual pilgrimage that we begin to develop an appetite for reading the Bible devotionally — that is , out of love for God . |
| 24 | Er I 'm still trying to digest the er implications of er these various er flows but just to comment perhaps at this stage on the possibility or otherwise of er defining a er a district location . |
| 25 | Perhaps at this point in time , there was a change from sea-floor spreading in the North Atlantic area , to sea-floor contraction . |
| 26 | Out of this , we can arrive perhaps at some principles of practice which can be seen to be both compatible with normalisation ( in our preferred sense ) and supportive of self-advocacy . |
| 27 | Obviously at some time in the past , Farrs had put a new body on the chassis and Dad had seen the possibilities of the old one as an allotment shed . |
| 28 | One suspects that it is his concession to a profound loneliness , a loneliness which he dare breach only at great cost to his true self , his equilibrium as thinker/artist . |
| 29 | It also used to be thought that pillow lavas could form only at great depths below the surface . |
| 30 | A new generation of nobles who were not to taste the sweetness of military success and knew only at second hand of the prestige and profits gained in the 1340s and 1350s led the opposition to the court in the last years of Edward III 's reign and during the reign of Richard II . |