Example sentences of "it at an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some West Indian islands a yacht arriving without one will be confronted with a customs officer producing a rolled-up flag from his pocket and offering to sell it at an inflated price in an atmosphere of thinly disguised pressure . |
| 2 | There have been some centres who felt that the American data has justified using it at an early stage . |
| 3 | Is that the case and , if so , what can we do about it at an early stage ? |
| 4 | Is that the case and , if so , what can we do about it at an early stage ? |
| 5 | And it is convenient to consider him as an entrepreneur even with respect to the resource he owns ( in the sense that , in using it for his own production process , rather than selling it at its market price to other producers , he is ‘ buying ’ it at an implicit cost ) . |
| 6 | Dewey , as is well known , divided knowledge into tens so that he could employ decimal notation ; when a particular subject turned out to have more than nine facets he had to group them together , often at the expense of logic , and if a new facet arrived in-conveniently there was no way of including it at an appropriate place in the hierarchy . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd hoped for so much from that class since I was taking it at an American university , but — ’ |
| 8 | It was confirmed on Aug. 14 that the small right-wing National Smallholders ' Party led by Imre Boross had reached agreement with the Independent Smallholders ' Party — from which it had split in December 1989 [ see p. 37739 ] — and would reunite with it at an unspecified date in the future . |
| 9 | Somebody thought of it at an editorial conference , and Muggins here had to ring round all these celebrities to get comments . |