Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The process involves no more than threading a strip beneath another one that runs across it more or less at right angles , and keeping on doing so at intervals with dogged persistence , pulling the strip tight after each threading . |
| 2 | The death rates in those who weighed 18 pounds ( 8165 g ) or less at 1 year were almost three times greater than in those who weighed 27 pounds ( 12247 g ) or more . |
| 3 | Since she had been working more or less at full stretch before she 'd been given the extra work to do , there was only one way she could fit more work into her day , and that was by working late at the office , then going home with a bulging briefcase . |
| 4 | Any frost of -4°C or less at 0.3 metres above the ground will affect the vine . |
| 5 | Words or phrases may be replaced either throughout the length of a document in one step , or optionally at each occurrence . |
| 6 | They spent only a minute or so at each tree , cleaning off dried latex , adjusting the collecting supports and making new incisions through which the day 's latex could escape . |
| 7 | ‘ I only overhang the couch by a foot or so at each end ; why do n't I attempt to curl up there when you and Janice are in residence , if not flagrante , in the bedroom ? ’ |
| 8 | The polytechnic staff were now on a work to rule , though only at local level — a vote or so at national level having gone against them in spite of a good deal of cooking of the agenda — and she was , as she said , too busy getting a strike fund to so much as think of earning , let alone working ; let alone getting to bed before Bernard had long since fallen asleep . |
| 9 | There are numbers of rooms that an individual can not enter at all , or only at certain times , for reasons of status , sex , or even age . |
| 10 | ( 6 ) The members of a licensing board for a district or licensing division of a district shall be elected at the first meeting of the district council held after the ordinary election of that council in 1977 and , in the case of subsequent elections , of those members : ( a ) except in so far as paragraph ( b ) below otherwise provides , at the first meeting of the council held after each Subsequent ordinary election of the council ; and ( b ) where a determination under subsection ( 3 ) above is made ( whether or not at such meeting of the council as is mentioned in paragraph ( a ) above ) , either : ( i ) at the meeting at which the determination is made ; or ( ii ) at the first meeting of the council held after such meeting as is mentioned in sub-paragraph ( i ) above . |
| 11 | ( 7 ) The members of a licensing board for an islands area or licensing division of an islands area shall be elected at a meeting of the council of the islands area to be held on a date between May 16 , 1977 and June 30 , 1977 to be determined by the council , and , in the case of subsequent elections of those members : ( a ) except in so far as paragraph ( b ) below otherwise provides , at the first meeting of the council held after each subsequent ordinary election of the council ; and ( b ) where a determination under subsection ( 3 ) above is made ( whether or not at such meeting of the council as is mentioned in paragraph ( a ) above ) , either : ( i ) at the meeting at which the determination is made ; or ( ii ) at the first meeting of the council held after such meeting as is mentioned in sub-paragraph ( i ) above . |
| 12 | And that seems to be to demonstrate difference between what is happening whether we like it or not at central government level and input of somebody who is perpetual of opposing propositions and that is the to two particular items within this alternative budget . |
| 13 | A letter says authorities ‘ should in particular consider expanding the role of local GPs in family planning by supplying them with condoms for free distribution to any patient whether or not at high risk if this is thought desirable as a means of preventing HIV [ the Aids virus ] ’ . |
| 14 | We are concerned if we perform badly or dangerously at some times and the effects of poor performance will also be of interest to managers and the general public . |
| 15 | Under s5 of the Administration of Justice Act 1982 ( Appendix B ) , the saving to a plaintiff of his being maintained wholly or partly at public expense can be offset against his claim for future loss of earnings . |
| 16 | In an action under the law of England and Wales or the law of Northern Ireland for damages for personal injuries ( including any such action arising out of a contract ) any saving to the injured person which is attributable to his maintenance wholly or partly at public expense in a hospital , nursing home or other institution shall be set off against any income lost by him as a result of his injuries . |
| 17 | Our breathing work is based on selected Yoga positions , chosen for their particular relevance to the Medau system , and although this relationship is important , the positions are taught differently , the aim being to influence the breath in an indirect way , undisturbed by directions to breathe in or out at certain moments . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's not just at executive level , or even at just management level , it ’ also the way staff work with colleagues , ’ said . |
| 19 | ‘ Nicola had met him once or twice at various parties . |
| 20 | Whether they claimed to be left-wing , right-wing , or neither at that time . |
| 21 | This community occurs in pastures on better-drained and base-poor soils in north-west Britain and mostly at low altitudes . |
| 22 | They would go on and on at great speed . |
| 23 | As more energy is put in at each dilution stage , the water polymer chains become longer and longer , and presumably at some stage break , forming a number of shorter lengths of water polymer . |
| 24 | The Earth does n't take a circular path around the sun so it passes it quickly sometimes and slowly at other times . |
| 25 | Lucy said , looking up at her , and right at that moment Josie would have sworn that some kind of a facade had dropped and that she was returning the gaze of a six year-old . |
| 26 | She felt as if he was closing a door behind them and right at this moment she would have liked to keep it open , if only just a crack , because Felipe de Santis walked round the plane and stood watching them as they came towards him . |
| 27 | Proceed through Tetford village , keeping left by church and right at next fork , then turn right by grassy triangle . |
| 28 | And so at that point , nothing very much was published . |
| 29 | But typewriters we had problems with because , if they went in for repair , you never got them back from the Ordinance Core , and so at one place in Tunbridge Wells we handed a typewriter in and because the army were allowed to buy greaseproof paper , we bought a lot of greaseproof paper which came in the package of a new typewriter . |
| 30 | In an alternative , widely used , mode , a feedback circuit maintains the wire at a constant resistance and so at constant temperature ; the current needed to do this is a measure of the fluid velocity . |