Example sentences of "[vb -s] at [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Easily as such writing can , on occasion , include the narcissistic or the vacuously ludic , it has at least the capacity to be seriously — or wittily — challenging , an enabling enhancement of its readers ' vision and decisiveness . |
| 2 | Such a suggestion has at least the face validity of being consistent with the research done by Labov and others on language variation ( see Hudson 1980 : Chapter 5 for a review ) . |
| 3 | This space , intended both to obtain the invention of new products , leading to enhanced consumption and profit , and to maintain ideological support , in response to apparent liberalism , allows at least the possibility that permitted pluralism can grow into radical dissent . |
| 4 | Yes , there are theories at to what happens at well the temperature 's in fact just about as low as you can get . |
| 5 | The set ends at just the point where she was becoming a fashionable figure and , eventually , a popular one on a wider scale ; by the end of the Forties , she must have been one of the most admired singers of her day . |
| 6 | Despite the widespread ageism which exists at both the individual and structural level , there remains widespread social ignorance and denial of its impact . |
| 7 | The lens forms at precisely the spot where the outgrowth of the eye , in the form of an eyecup , approaches the surface . |
| 8 | It denies at once the sovereignty of the State , and that more subtle doctrine by which the State is at once the master and servant of law by willing to limit itself to certain tested rules of conduct . |
| 9 | Words and names , as we all know from everyday experience , possess magical power : naming and identifying experiences and things imposes some degree of control over them and gives at least the illusion of bringing them within our power . |
| 10 | The ‘ original ’ actually fits Taylor , Walton and Young 's argument rather better than the amended version they quote above which implies at least the possibility of poverty as a cause of ‘ rational ’ crime . |
| 11 | One must , I think , start from the general premise that the protection of the child 's welfare implies at least the protection of the child 's life . |
| 12 | To the inner city local authority it offers at least the promise of retaining some economic activities that would otherwise leave the area ; and to the inner city resident it offers the prospect , as well as often the reality , of countryside recreation and relaxation . |
| 13 | When they finally found me it was too late to get me out , because everything stops at 5.00pm the day before the Parade . |