Example sentences of "[vb past] at [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its view of a more civilized order involved at once the removal of unreasonable restraints and the sensible management of the necessary political and economic framework of life . |
| 2 | And it was to restore order , as much as anything , that a nominally Vietnamese administration provided at least the façade of an ‘ independent ’ Vietnamese government . |
| 3 | What left-wing historians regret in particular is that the emergence of this new ‘ popular culture ’ came at precisely the moment when conditions were favouring the development of a radical working-class political consciousness . |
| 4 | President , delegates , the events of last October , and the coal crisis , dramatically showed at once the strength and the weakness of the trade union movement today . |
| 5 | Immigrants from the New Commonwealth arrived at just the time that Britain lost an empire and with it her position in the world . |
| 6 | They were the citoyens who paid at least the equivalent of three days ' work in direct tax . |
| 7 | Right , here we went at twice the speed , and it finished up half the time . |
| 8 | Looking over his shoulder he saw at once the brass bedstead , and the sewing-machine table on top of which Stanley had said he would find the boxes of glass balls . |
| 9 | Kluck 's was a fateful decision , and Galliéni , studying maps and reports in his Paris headquarters , saw at once the manner in which to deliver a decisive blow . |
| 10 | Commander Fairley saw at once the wisdom of keeping the two children of his first marriage together for the last years of their progress to maturity . |
| 11 | Marc was moving through the gears with a touch like velvet , his control so sure , so sensual that she understood at once the pleasure he gained from driving . |
| 12 | Her children knew at once the sort of things that these would be . |
| 13 | She wondered if Fand had enchanted her , but knew at once the Woman had no such powers . |
| 14 | She had seen her country overrun by both the German and the Russian armies ; she knew at first-hand the madness of war and the fear it transmits to the civilian population . |
| 15 | ‘ Days of deluge ’ he said , ‘ offered at least the consolation of eventual dry clothes ’ in which the walker could boast to his friends of the glories of his rambles round the fireside . |
| 16 | This reduction of demand to a tow level maximized the number of children who could proceed without assistance , and offered at least the illusion of motivation through enjoyment . |
| 17 | Between 1946 and 1985 the volume of world trade grew nine times ; it increased at twice the rate of output and incomes . |
| 18 | What the verdict of ‘ lack of care ’ presupposes is that some other persons had at least the opportunity of rendering care ( in the narrow sense of that word ) which would have prevented the death . |
| 19 | To say that the Crown had the right of appointment is to say only that it had at least the possibility of a voice , not that it necessarily exercised any real right of selection . |
| 20 | The lucky recipient of an Indian cadetship had at least the prospect of returning home as a wealthy senior officer , assuming of course that he survived the very real hazards of life in the East . |
| 21 | The United States had entered the Second World War with a very limited overseas basing system , but by the close of the war had acquired a massive global basing network ‘ derived from a combination of conquests , agreements with allies , and temporary arrangements with neutrals and exile regimes that had at least the potential for post-war renewal and extension ’ . |
| 22 | It was still hot outside , and his house had at once the smell of summer and the smell of death . |
| 23 | I remember two very special expeditions to the top of the Heath — not very far from our house which stood at almost the height of the cross on St Paul 's Cathedral , a fact that was emblazoned on the house above us in the East Heath Road . |