Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] at [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | Though the demand from industry and society at large was for better school education , the response came at first not from schools but from Youth Training Schemes for school-leavers , organized by the Manpower Services Commission . |
2 | The detective who found the money believed at first the notes must be forgeries . |
3 | Yet in all save one of the cases decided at first instance , the court has held that the surety covenant does not touch and concern the land … |
4 | The conifers have at last eliminated water as a transport medium for their sexual processes . |
5 | When the light came they mustered what was left to them , and knew without many words spoken , even when the storm subsided at last into mere mist and drizzle , that they could not advance further . |
6 | The demonstration had at first been banned by the Moscow city soviet . |
7 | The pyjamas fastened at last , Ashley rose shakily to her feet . |
8 | Courses leading to masters ' degrees are normally designed to fulfil one of the following objectives : to follow directly from the study undertaken at first degree level ; to enable graduates of one discipline to acquire knowledge of another related discipline or subject area ; to develop and apply the student 's first degree knowledge in a related specialized area ; or to relate and synthesize a number of disciplines which the student may not have studied at first degree level . |
9 | The branch is still reeling from the losses suffered at last year 's polls . |
10 | The lawyer murmured at last : ‘ Let's not be hasty . |
11 | The poet appears at first to be unable to utter his thoughts clearly ; he circles wildly , stumbling from one half-finished sentence into another , and breaking up the lines awkwardly ( 1 , 2 , 6 , 9 ) . |
12 | ‘ The boy and girl are with you , ’ the Trapper repeated like a man slow of thought , to whom the words had at last revealed their significance . |
13 | The telephone rang at last at 9.30 . |
14 | ‘ I do n't think that 's a bad idea , ’ the DDI said at last . |
15 | Although we accept the Government 's recent concessions go some way to meeting the concerns expressed at second reading , we believe an additional amendment is crucial . |
16 | Because it applied to all bodies everywhere , the universe had at last become a universe . |
17 | So the question had at last been put and answered . |
18 | The question appears at first in terms of whether the suppression of pornography by censorship is worth the price in terms of loss of freedom of expression . |
19 | ‘ Secondly , I believe you will begin to see during the night the cracks opening at last in the moulds that have held British politics in sterile opposition between two major parties for so long . |
20 | Police stated that although the troubles appeared at first to be spontaneous , both left- and right-wing extremists , Islamic fundamentalists and drug dealers had soon moved in . |
21 | Blanche and Dexter knew Mills had recovered from his deep financial difficulties the year before and the accountant had at last discovered how : substantial payments had been paid into Mills ' Swiss bank account in the months leading up to his death . |
22 | She looked at Tommaso Talvi in her mind 's eye , she adjusted her image of him to fit with her sister 's , she inventoried his features , beginning with the eyes , and redrafted them in order to see them as ‘ pretty ’ , she scanned his caffelatte pallor and his big hands , grasping the bread she had cut for him , she looked at his mouth , the purplish fullness of his lips and the strong teeth that showed when he grinned , as he had done , often , but without laughter , when the men were disagreeing about the possibilities of change , the chances of the election on returning the Socialists , of bringing about improvements for the labourers now that the franchise had at last been widened to include some people who were n't bosses , like her father , a music teacher with a sense of honour , of justice . |
23 | The disappointment is vivid yet of the Christmas day when the postman arrived at last , hours late , and brought me only a long narrow box of crackers . |
24 | So the war came at last , at exactly 6.35:24 pm on January 16 , 1991 , when Peter Jennings interrupted a canned piece to announce that explosions and flashes were breaking up the Baghdad night . |
25 | Before I left Britain one of the best-kept secrets of the war had at last been revealed — the breaking by the Bletchley Park mathematicians of the ciphers encoded by the German Enigma machine : this priceless intelligence had enabled us to sink all the Bismarck 's supply ships , monitor the movements of Tirpitz so that attacks could be launched on her ( see page 144 ) and destroy many U-boats at the height of the Battle of the Atlantic . |
26 | The Magyars behaved at first as Asiatic nomads are supposed to , by ravaging across Germany . |
27 | ‘ We 've still got to get the girl , ’ the Leader said at last . |
28 | The way the poem is ordered allows us momentarily to read it as if the juxtaposition was just that of eye and Canaletto , for the eye appears at first as an independent entity . |
29 | ‘ Unthinkable , ’ the General said at last . |
30 | The phone rang at last . |