Example sentences of "at [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | When the story ran on 3 November , it was picked up at once by the Western media , touching off an international scandal of such embarrassing proportions that president Reagan was forced to act . |
| 32 | The picture in her mind changed , and the glaring , venomous eyes looked out of the wasted features … to be succeeded at once by the smug face of another old woman . |
| 33 | It comes under the hammer at 2.15pm on the 20th , at the Barnstaple Motel . |
| 34 | A goalkeeper does not ‘ perform ’ his function in its theatrical sense , only in the sociological usage of ‘ perform ’ which we shall be looking at further in the next chapter . |
| 35 | At 8pm in the Central Library the Foyle Yarnspinners will be joined by their friends from Belfast for a night of gripping stories . |
| 36 | Bill Wade , Liberal Democrat hopeful for the Bishop Auckland seat , will be formally adopted by members of his party at a meeting at 8pm in the Old Manor House Hotel , West Auckland at 8pm tomorrow . |
| 37 | If that sounds too energetic there 's a 2km run starting at 10am on the same day . |
| 38 | The result , declared at 2am by the chief executive of the local council , Mr Brian Bird , was hailed by whistles , cheers and chants of ‘ Kinnock , Kinnock ! ’ |
| 39 | THE first meeting of Focus , the new name for the re-formed Chester Lesbian , Gay and bisexual Group , takes place this evening , beginning at 7.30pm at the Quaker Meeting House , Frodsham Street , Chester . |
| 40 | Meetings of the circle are held at 8.15pm , preceded by Mass at 7.30pm on the first Wednesday of the month , at Loreto Convent Grammar School , Dunham Road , Altrincham . |
| 41 | Meetings , held at 7.30pm on the first Monday of the month , now take place in a private room at the New Inn , Winsick , Nr . |
| 42 | The concert takes place on Sunday at 7.30pm in the Georgian Theatre Royal , Richmond . |
| 43 | The older children 's bodies were found after their mother Maeve went to wake them at 8.30am on the overnight Swansea-Cork ferry Celtic Pride . |
| 44 | I mean he started at roughly about the same time as me . |
| 45 | And , it promises to tell ‘ a much wider tale than just XPG4 ’ at around about the same time . |
| 46 | This can be attributed to a number of factors : the increased availability of street heroin in Wirral during the early 1980s ; the periodic droughts of pot and speed at around about the same time ( some of the users suggested a direct relation between these phenomena ) ; the existence of large numbers of users initiated in the 1978–81 period who acted both as models to emulate and who were also probably the first dealers the new initiates came into contact with . |
| 47 | Twelve of the big entry of 40 cue off at 11am in the preliminary round as follows : Steve Blundell ( Hindley ) v David Pye ( Prescot ) ; John Hughes ( Widnes ) v Peter Sheehan ( Widnes ) ; Paul Mather ( Wigan ) v 15 year old Phil Johnson ( Widnes ) , Arthur Johnson ( Widnes ) v Will Jerram ( Southport ) ; Nigel Warren ( Liverpool ) v Denis Marr ( Liverpool ) and Brendan Carroll Birkenhead ) v Trevor Gent ( Widnes ) . |
| 48 | Day Four : A leisurely departure at 10.00am for the long voyage to Trier where you should be safely moored by 3.30pm . |
| 49 | and erm I went to school at then at the later part of my life I went to Hemel Hempstead and then I left only for four months and went to er work for an ironmonger at ten shillings a week . |
| 50 | Moreover , at least since the nineteenth century there has been a spillover into the State schools of the ethos of the independent boarding schools , the purpose of which was understood to be as much moral as academic , with character-training high on the agenda . |
| 51 | In the UK , theories openly based on natural law have exerted little influence , at least since the nineteenth century . |
| 52 | A completely contrasting interpretation of history is represented by MacFarlane 's ( 1978 ) work on the origins of English individualism , where he argues that the structure of kinship which prioritizes the nuclear family and de-emphasizes other kin has been characteristic of England at least since the thirteenth century . |
| 53 | At least since the early 1960s , the British countryside , from the Isle of Wight to the Scottish Highlands , has been host to what we Forteans call ABCs ( Alien Big Cats ) . |
| 54 | At least since the early 1970s successive governments have expressed concern about the decline of our inner cities , but no government has been prepared to devote the massive resources which are now required to overcome decades of neglect . |
| 55 | Massalia had been in direct contact with the Celts at least since the fifth century B.C. The Jews lived in a region where Greek mercenaries were often stationed and Greek merchants often called . |
| 56 | The actual flow of funds from government to the industry represented by loans , grants and tax allowances has been minimal , at least since the late 1950s . |
| 57 | Given the previous level of set-net effort , however , the population was probably originally much larger , and had been on the decrease for many years , at least since the rapid expansion of set-net use in the mid 1970s . |
| 58 | The fact that shareholders are no longer also running the firms they own has been chewed over at least since the 1930s . |
| 59 | In Britain the other terms referred to by Miller , ‘ society ’ and ‘ culture ’ , have been familiar at least since the 1950s , which saw the early work of Hoggart and Williams and the cultural climate of the New Left , which in turn drew on Scrutiny and the Victorian debates on the Condition of England . |
| 60 | The attempt to minimise industrial conflict has been a goal of public policy in Britain at least since the last century when the Conciliation Act of 1896 was passed . |