Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sentencing Clarke at Oxford Crown Court , Judge Francis Allen said he took into account he had not been driving his van fast or badly at the time . |
| 2 | Blackburn will be there or thereabouts at the end of the season , especially with the chequebook . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I think they will be there or thereabouts at the end of the season . |
| 4 | Well they did n't mind catching them that these here gamekeepers they come on more or less at the finish of the harvest over the field with the guns what was left . |
| 5 | Hermes Trismegistus emerged from Egypt more or less at the time in which Zoroaster and the Magi became respected figures among the Greeks : they will have to be considered together . |
| 6 | A lamb remains a lamb until it loses its milk teeth , more or less at the end of the year , and — if it has n't lost its life as well by then — it becomes a hogget . |
| 7 | The passage has virtually no narrative progression : indeed , it begins more or less at the end of the interview . |
| 8 | Those aged 2½years or less at the onset of hearing loss fared considerably less well than their older counterparts . |
| 9 | In prisons , in the trenches , in the factory canteen or down at the dole office , it helps to cushion the harshness of life . |
| 10 | Are you sure she 's not just in the garden or down at the jetty or somewhere ? ’ |
| 11 | Hoyle suggested that this field 's lines of magnetic force manage to twist themselves up every 11 years because of the Sun 's rapid rotation ( once every 34 days or so at the Sun 's equator ) . |
| 12 | If teachers and the head are in the playground for five minutes or so before the bell and if parents know that they will be welcome in classrooms for ten minutes or so at the end of both morning and afternoon sessions then good routines will be established and easily maintained . |
| 13 | Ockleton described a sweeping circuit of the room , missing all the many obstacles in his path without apparently noticing them , and finished by the window , where he peered out for a full minute or so at the view it commanded of a blank gable-end and half the dome of the Radcliffe Camera . |
| 14 | Heike Ruschmeyer and Jürgen Brodwolf are concerned with people approaching or already at the end of their physical existence , while Gerhard Altenbourg explores the landscape of the psyche . |
| 15 | You might think of it like the clock in your hall being set forwards or backwards at the beginning and end of Summer Time , so that it registers nightfall as coming first later and then earlier … ’ |
| 16 | Indeed in one of the few Scottish studies McDonald ( 1991 ) defines ‘ non-traditional ’ students as all those who are 21 or over at the time of entry to their higher education course . |
| 17 | MacDonald defines non-traditional students as those who are 21 years or over at the commencement of their degree course on the 1st of October . |
| 18 | Examples of such additional directions are for amendment of pleadings , further and better particulars , discovery by a defendant excused from this step under Ord 25 , r8 , more medical or other experts than Ord 25 , r8 allows , trial out of London or not at the trial centre for the District Registry in which the action is proceeding . |
| 19 | Some would take up for ever more space than they were entitled to — like my mother 's wedding dress , shrouded in sheet linen , suspended in time , uncrushed by the other more workaday but less significant garments that crowded together as though they were cold , waiting in a queue , inmates of a zenana to be taken up or not at the Pasha 's pleasure , promiscuously gathered , at the mercy of their owner . |
| 20 | Or not at the beginning . |
| 21 | Between the feet are the remains of a green parrot — whether immolated or not at the death of his mistress is uncertain — but it still retains its plumage ; it is a far less repulsive-looking object than the larger bi-ped . |
| 22 | This introduction to the subject enables pupils to make a more informed choice to continue studying Chemistry or not at the end of S2 . |
| 23 | We also have the latest in up-to-date technology — the TV set in the corner , which has a twin BBC-ITV facility , and , of course , a number of lights that can be turned on or off at the flick of a switch . |
| 24 | Multiple ulcers ( two or more at the time of diagnosis ) ; |
| 25 | The only confrontation in Duke Street , or later at the Diamond , was between police and civil rights marchers or their supporters . |
| 26 | Fades are well within the video repertoire of the average home movie maker , and they can be done either on the camcorder while the shots are being taken or later at the editing stage when they are being copied during assembly . |
| 27 | A year ago , Selina 's two-hour session of candlelit fund-raising would have gained her nothing more than a clout round the ear ( I 'd have done it nice , mind you , not in the restaurant or anything like that but in the Fiasco or back at the sock ) . |
| 28 | ‘ Not unpleasant , perhaps , ’ he said thoughtfully , ‘ but you have n't exactly gone out of your way to make me feel welcome — either here or back at the television studio . ’ |
| 29 | I 'd assumed she was writing in secret , as I was — pursuing a universal dirty habit that demanded solitude and a quiet place — when instead she was watching TV or out at the pub with friends : being social . |
| 30 | Before the endoscopic era , the diagnosis was rarely made before operation or even at the time of operation and recurrent haemorrhage with a fatal outcome was common . |