Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 This is especially the case where we have an instruction set defined for a compatible range of computers , since it will be difficult to implement economically at the lower ( and cheaper ) end of the range the complex facilities required at the upper end ( though microprogramming may be an answer ) .
2 Even by 1926 party contacts between the capital and Smolensk were to remain mostly at the written rather than at the human level .
3 Yes , I c I was fortunate to be able to carry on at the same place .
4 If they are to be more than mere training , then a process of informed reflection has to go on at the same time .
5 Eddie was staring at her with eyes as hard as granite but all she said was , ‘ You 'll have to go in at the front door .
6 No need for us all to go in at the deep end . ’
7 ‘ The ambition is certainly not to go along at the existing size , growing by 5 per cent a year .
8 Three times through the winter , Cascade had been within days of being fully formed , only to fall down at the last minute .
9 This course is designed to produce graduates conversant with the techniques of physics and chemistry and armed with the necessary mathematical skill to work effectively at the chemical/physical interface .
10 He said , ‘ I 'm going to pull in at the next layby .
11 ‘ They 're going to come in at the far end . ’
12 He was intended to come down at the wrong moment , disappear , do the same again , then go shooting through the roof when the mechanics of the wire go wrong .
13 It is possible to jump in at the deep end , buy a farm , and teach yourself , learning by your mistakes .
14 If it is too drastic to jump in at the deep end with such a sweeping change , why not try it out in experimental matches , festival or night matches ?
15 And as Cram prepared to jump in at the deep end with a clash against Olympic 10,000m champion Khalid Skah in the BUPA International Festival of Running , race organiser Brendan Foster tipped his pal to rekindle memories of his glory days in his new event .
16 Not wanting to jump in at the deep end , I hired the school the day before and went with Karen , a friend who wanted to give her experienced but spooky horse an indoor schooling session .
17 Carefully , slowly , Grace and her father tried to get the boat near the rock , but three times they had to pull away at the last minute .
18 Across the oceans , Sotheby 's continues to plug away at the Japanese market with its Print sale in Tokyo , now bolstered by a few nihonga ( Japanese-style ) paintings .
19 Like thoroughbred horses chafing at their bits before an important race , they are liable at any moment to sprint off at a hundred miles an hour in the wrong direction .
20 Inside , I was barely able to stand upright at the highest point , for I was head and shoulders taller than my sinister host ; and it did not escape my notice that the roof at its highest point was infested with cobwebs , in the corners of which sat large square spiders .
21 It hit it hit Ian Stringfellow last week and caused Nicky Platten now to pull out at the last minute last night .
22 It is very distressing to find out at a later date that you have made a mistake which can cost you dearly .
23 The counsellor made it clear that if they wanted to come back at a later stage , they would be welcome .
24 Well we went into the Rifle Brigade Barracks at Winchester and used to work out at a big house outside of Winchester so we had to march out there and then at the time of Dunkirk , they were looking for places to put all the soldiers that they 'd brought and er , we were cleared out of Barnet , er out of Winchester Barracks and posted up to Nottingham and we worked in the factory , which was taken over by the Army then and erm , and then whilst there , I suppose that was about nineteen what , about nineteen fo coming up to nineteen forty two , they decided to have a recheck or rethink on medicals , so we were all subject to another medical and they put me back to A one and says , right we 're getting rid of all A one personnel out of the Pay Corp , you have a choice Royal Army Ordnance Corp or the Royal Artillery .
25 It is possible to work hard at a complete system and get very little from it because of interference by other predators .
26 I was confident I could wear her down eventually , but I certainly never expected her to come across at the first time of asking .
27 But the new financing structure collapsed under them and , as the cultural energy build up during the 1939–45 period became depleted , these filmmakers were only occasionally to work again at the same level of intensity .
28 Now the deal looks likely to go through at a whopping $7.5 billion , about $110 a share .
29 Indeed in cases where such companies had a vital stake , as with the British South Africa Union Minière in Zaire they were seen to behave badly at the very point at which their host countries became independent .
30 After all , he had managed to dismantle the magical aspects of my eidesis and now he began to chew away at the very grist of what he termed my ‘ delusionary apparatus ’ .
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