Example sentences of "at [adv] [prep] the [adj -er] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | For all the unmanoeuvrability of armour in the inhospitable southern sector , the Iraqi leadership evidently decided to retain the option to bring it into play at some stage , at least during the warmer months . |
3 | It meant an increasing tendency for all men-of-war , at least of the larger types , to be built in government dockyards rather than by private contractors . |
4 | We have already discussed the question of fuel used in cremations which , at least for the larger cremation cemeteries , argues that the cremation itself may be more likely to have occurred at home than at the cemetery . |
5 | Recognise that the federal government 's pension liabilities in the next century will be too big for comfort and start cutting benefits , at least for the better-off . |
6 | Also avoided are comparisons in sound produced between modern piano wire ( which is never mentioned ) , the various carbon steels available for early instruments ( which are listed ) and the carbon-free phosphorus steel originally used , at least on the earlier instruments ( which are never referred to , but the relevant book by Goodway and Odell is in the bibliography ) . |
7 | However , there have been arguments that the lower costs result from reducing the level of care and jeopardising outcomes , at least to the poorer members ( Ware , 1986 ) . |
8 | A lot of older women still smoke a pipe , at least around the lower quarters . |
9 | Given the apparent turbulence of much of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries , with religious Reformations , agricultural riots and the Civil Wars that stability and prosperity may seem elusive to the historian but they were very apparent to many contemporaries , at least among the higher ranks . |
10 | At least in the higher animals , it is more likely that the visual perception of shape and motion have evolved in response to such biologically significant environmental features as the gait or stance of hunter or prey , or the facial grimaces and tail-waving of conspecifics . |
11 | You could say that everyone at the University is involved in education , at least in the broader sense . |
12 | This process of interaction is for Marx and Engels both a source of conceptualization and also of a sort of natural religion , at least in the earlier stages of evolution . |
13 | George Stephen , moreover , agreed with his brother that , at least in the earlier stages of antislavery , exceptional individuals rather than reform associations shaped the movement for change . |
14 | Admittedly the time given to the children will replace time previously taken up by her career , at least in the earlier stages of family life ( later she may resume her occupation with double demands upon her attentions ) . |
15 | Greek tragedy , he impressed on his audience , had been a total art form , a Gesamtkunst ( Wagner 's slogan , although Wagner 's name was not mentioned ) , to suit an age of whole men:a poetic drama that made use of architecture ( the theatre ) , painting ( scenery and costume ) , song , dance and music ; a drama created amid " perfection and harmony " by " artistic man " , who , at least in the earlier part of the fifth century , the time of Aeschylus , was poet , composer , conductor , producer and actor in one ; a drama performed at the communal festival of Dionysus before an audience which brought to the theatre something of the instinctive , rapturous spirit from which , in the Dionysiac celebrations , tragedy had originated in the first place . |
16 | Moreover these inadequate wages were often months in arrears , and were paid , at least in the earlier years of the century , not in cash but in tickets which could be cashed only at the Navy Office in London . |