Example sentences of "was at [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was at exactly the time when Odd-Knut feared Brusie was dying , as she became unconscious . |
| 2 | th the bit that I found most interesting was at least the Board are trying to look after our interests in that respect . |
| 3 | Perhaps none of it was very good , but it was at least the beginning of something true in the lives of people who had been educated to falsity . |
| 4 | When the Popular Front , including the French Communist Party , came to power in France in June 1936 there was at least the hope that , by their actions , significant improvements , political as well as economic and social , might be achieved in Vietnam . |
| 5 | Last year there was at least the argument that high interest rates were about getting inflation down ( a view I disputed at the time ) . |
| 6 | She was at least the image of an injured Stealer , blackened and fused by fire , one which had lost some appendages , perhaps lasered off , perhaps in an explosion ; a Stealer which still remained very much alive and able to use its deadly main claws . |
| 7 | When Hitler invaded Russia in June 1941 and the war , for communists , abruptly changed its character , there was at least the prospect — in principle at least — of enhanced support for the revolutionary and patriotic cause in Vietnam ; but until Russia had withstood the German onslaught this in practical terms meant nothing . |