Example sentences of "at [adv] in [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ It is not the least good pretending any longer that the film is a thing one does not go to , ’ admitted Macpherson , the editor of a journal which in 1928 recommended fourteen Russian and European films but at least in a second category included two films by Cecil B. de Mille . |
| 3 | There is just about enough annalistic evidence to suggest that Charles operated this system at least in the second half of his reign . |
| 4 | Yet at least in the first two decades of this major shift in political life , faction was based on commitments other than the purely personal . |
| 5 | A limited contract for a few sessions , at least in the first instance , is always preferable . |
| 6 | So , art history only begins after the death of the work , but as long as the work lives , or at least in the first fifty years of its life , it communicates with people living in the same period who have accepted it or rejected it and who have talked about it . |
| 7 | At least in the first stage of transition , there is no alternative other than a combination of the market and state regulation . |
| 8 | That is to say , there was , at least in the first quarter of this century , no well-developed rationalist alternative to theology or a simplistic materialism to explain mental life . |
| 9 | If at all possible , answer these questions in the first sentence of the release or at least in the first paragraph . |
| 10 | They write of the purpose behind the Nottinghamshire teams as involving the explicit premise that casework and service coordination at the level of individual clients should logically take second place to the creation of more adequate service infrastructure — at least in the first instance ( Wistow and Wray , p 16 ) Developmental teams of the Notts kind , then , might be expected to place priority on establishing a range of new services , " accommodation services , adult placement schemes , family support services , play schemes , parent groups and Further Education courses " ( Wray and Wistow , op cit ) . |
| 11 | Soviet forces were not , at least in the first instance , to be withdrawn unconditionally . |
| 12 | Given that , at least in the first year of the new council tax , there will still be two-tier authorities in the shires , I hope that the Bill will be as tight as a drum to ensure that the tiered authorities that are not up for election do not use that freedom from the ballot box — as happened in Nottinghamshire with the poll tax — to wreck the council tax in the way that they wrecked the poll tax in its first year . |
| 13 | But is n't there a sense in which people in other countries really have to help themselves , at least in the first instance ? |
| 14 | At least by the eleventh century every king expected to recruit a part of his army by paying mercenaries , or from knights who received a fee not in land , but in cash ; though he did his best to make his great nobles provide contingents for which he did not have to pay , or ( at least in the twelfth century ) pay him in cash if they did not serve him in person . |
| 15 | As a literal Earth-mother , she may have been the prototype of the Rhea of the later myths , but we also know that at least in the fourteenth century BC the Minoans knew her as Eleuthia . |
| 16 | We have also remarked how , at least in the fourteenth century , campaign leaders , often inadequately equipped as they were , commonly avoided attacking well-fortified towns and castles . |
| 17 | Many of the tangible rewards of diplomatic life changed little , at least in the seventeenth century . |
| 18 | The Merovingian civil wars , at least in the sixth century , were centripetal , rather than centrifugal . |
| 19 | This was a territory which at least in the fourth and third centuries B.C. extended from Spain to the Black Sea , included northern Italy and large patches of the Banubian regions , and after 279 B.C. had reached the heart of Asia Minor — the new Galatia . |
| 20 | There are few indications in the documents as to when and why each of the settlements was affected , but at least in the sixteenth century we know that there was a shortage of land to provide food to feed everyone . |
| 21 | Above all , it must be recalled that , at least in the fifteenth century , military objectives could best be achieved through siege warfare , which gave the cavalry less opportunity than it had enjoyed before . |