Example sentences of "at [adj] [subord] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At each till the supervisor used a key on a chain to unlock the drawer . |
| 2 | Initially the Germans were more proficient at this than the Allies , for they kept their snipers in the same sector for long periods so they became familiar with the enemy 's trench systems there , while the Allies rotated their snipers with the units to which they belonged . |
| 3 | And certainly that other main arm of executive control — the army — seems little better at this than the police , for the number of participant accounts of their deep structures remains negligible , supporting McCabe 's ( 1980 ) contention that we should be asking of all of these costly institutions , ‘ who is to be controlled by whom and for what reasons ? ’ |
| 4 | Endill was sad at this because the Bookman was very clever and probably knew more than all the teachers put together . |
| 5 | Next Day at Six before the Gate appears , |
| 6 | This may well be a socially beneficial outcome , but it sets the criminal law dangerously at large unless the exercise of the powers thereby conferred is the subject of careful scrutiny by the courts . |
| 7 | As princely chanceries evolved across West Francia , their output was welcomed by the population at large because the set formulae they employed offered some assurance of authenticity . |
| 8 | By Easter heavy frosts had ended hopes of a good harvest that year , and in the summer and autumn food riots broke out in the country at large as the price of a quartern loaf — where one could be had at all — rose from 3d. to over 1s . |
| 9 | A number of estate agents property particulars were produced in evidence , none having any great relevance to the matter at issue and seemingly collected at random when the claim related to a five or six bedroomed bungalow . |
| 10 | If the adventurers stick together , the Harpies will attempt to grab a pack animal ( if the adventurers have one ) , or will swoop round attacking at random until an adventurer is wounded . |
| 11 | Mr and Mrs T questioned whether family counselling might have been a better way of dealing with a very complicated situation , or at worst whether an interdict could be placed on the older boys in the W family . |
| 12 | Cochrane argues that it is difficult to see whether the direction of change can be described as " post-Fordist " at all since the changes incorporate contradictory tendencies . |
| 13 | You may not even think there is a problem at all since the words " greatest " and " largest " are synonymous in the English language . |
| 14 | One will be no trouble at all while the other drives them insane with constant problems . |
| 15 | There is no doubt at all whether the reading says " up " or " down " . |
| 16 | I I 'm grateful I I I 'm winding up that we on this side we do believe that these additional six seats are very important because we believe that the European parliament elections are going to be very important and fighting them on these new boundaries with the minimum of delay in spite of the delay that had been caused by the government' incompetence , we regard as very important , we regard this debate tonight as very important to approve these orders because we can not so far work out whether the government will be fighting the er the whole campaign on the basis of back to basics while the E P P will be doing it on the basis of some other manifesto , vorsprung durch technik or whatever it might be , and they 'll be trying to merge those into two slogans of o of er vorsprung durch basics or or whatever it might be and this we do not know at all whether the government want to be part of Europe and whether their back benchers are gon na be willing to cooperate with the European peoples party or they take the money from the European peoples party but they do n't want to participate with them in the manifesto . |
| 17 | Firstly , many innovations are school-wide in their application and can not be implemented at all unless a number of teachers , perhaps even the entire staff of a school , both agree to , and become committed to , their implementation . |
| 18 | But to contend , as does Mr. Wall , that the consideration of their interests can not be taken into account at all unless the criterion to be found in paragraph ( b ) of article 13 is satisfied is , in my judgment , unwarranted by anything in the language of the Convention and unwarranted in principle . |
| 19 | You should not smoke at all unless the interviewer positively invites you to do so . |
| 20 | The presumption probably only operates where the conveyancing history of the land is unknown , and may not operate at all where the land in question is part of a building estate ( Giles v County Building Constructors ( Hertford ) Ltd ( 1971 ) 22 P & CR 978 ) . |
| 21 | The effect of s7(2) and ( 3 ) is that the other implied terms can not be excluded or restricted at all where the buyer deals as a consumer ; they can be excluded outside of consumer supply transactions so long as the supplier can show that such an exclusion is fair and reasonable . |
| 22 | None of this matters at all provided the ferrets work efficiently . |
| 23 | And we do n't need to outside this at all cos the ones they 're asking us are inside . |
| 24 | You may then decide that either you do not need to interview anyone at all because no job exists or that you need to interview someone for a quite different role , perhaps involving taking on various responsibilities of other employees which together form a more rational and cohesive whole . |
| 25 | But we need to get our moral thinking clear on this matter all the more because in the first stages of unbridled conflict both sides seem to be suggesting that there really was no moral problem at all because the principle that they were obsessed with was the only one that mattered . |
| 26 | People taking certain medicines should not take alcohol at the same time , or maybe not take it at all because the alcohol will have a more pronounced effect under/or the effect of the medicine will be altered . |
| 27 | It is fighters which save them therefore the message is that they 're not really rescued at all because the world is in the same situation as the island . |
| 28 | Not only has British school librarianship no very long tradition of multimedia interest ( Shrewsbury School in 1578 notwithstanding ) , there is not even a very secure tradition of school librarianship at all until the post- I 945 era , despite the admirable work of many grammar school teachers in the 19305 . |
| 29 | Is there any compensation at all if a landowner were to make a gesture like this ? |
| 30 | In Britain , you are not allowed to dive at all if a ship is a war grave . ’ |