Example sentences of "at [det] [conj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think what 's very striking about the report which the students ' union have recently published and are circulating around the university , is the extent to which they have tended to define sexual harassment as being as much or at least as much a problem between students , a problem of behaviour between students and a problem of the sort of atmosphere in the colleges in terms of how that affects how peoples lives feel and and how they are how their behaviour what sort of behaviour is acceptable . |
| 2 | This awareness was a growing one , not a sudden flash of illumination , not a conversion at all but rather a slow , painful , at times embarrassing progress towards competence in communicating with deaf people . |
| 3 | In some cases this may even mean not using a page makeup package at all but rather a high-powered word processor like Lotus Manuscript , Word or WordPerfect 5.0 . |
| 4 | Indeed , we suspect that a rule which was never broken would not be a rule in our sense at all but rather an inevitability with the logical status of a law . |
| 5 | Inch loss from others varied according to their size but those with a 34–36 inch bust measurement either lost nothing at all or only an inch or an inch and a half . |
| 6 | How far is it possible to speak of a partnership at all if only a restricted set of activities is undertaken ? |
| 7 | Often it is not possible to provide any separate accommodation at all and even the bedroom may have to be shared . |
| 8 | Ligulf of Bamburgh , the Earl 's brother-in-law , whom no one crossed at all and even the Earl did n't swear at . |
| 9 | The islands were not visible at all and only the lower slopes of Vesuvius could be seen . |
| 10 | Ideally speaking , one of the electrodes should be at a site where no activity occurs at all and then the amplified signal would represent the total activity at the area of interest ; in practice this state of affairs is difficult to achieve since no site is entirely free from underlying neural activity . |
| 11 | would n't knock he would n't come down at all and then the everywhere else were knock some off if the market 's not very good at the moment . |
| 12 | As to Alain Lemarchand , she owed him no duty at all and certainly no favours . |
| 13 | The existence of economies of scale in family life ( bulk buying , spreading fixed costs , etc. ) means that , although two can not live as cheaply as one ( it seems to us at least ) , cohabitation means that a given per capita standard can be maintained for two at less than double the expenditure for one . |
| 14 | DRIVING at more than double the speed limit cost a young Newton Valence woman her driving licence . |
| 15 | Indeed , the threatened coal strike of 1925 , which occurred at more or less the same time , seemed to confirm this impression . |
| 16 | Miss Kenton and my father had arrived at the house at more or less the same time — that is to say , the spring of 1922 — as a consequence of my losing at one stroke the previous housekeeper and under-butler . |
| 17 | ( Johnston 1976 , p. 217 ) At more or less the same time , Laura Mulvey took the discussion of women 's desire and fantasy out of the realm of the ideological/symbolic . |
| 18 | When both partners retire at more or less the same time , the adjustment is often easiest to organise . |
| 19 | At more or less the same time , a heroin injector from Liverpool , who had also been dealing to finance his own habit , moved house to one of Wirral 's more affluent townships and began dealing in heroin on a large scale-in ounces and half-ounces . |
| 20 | Is there any reason why the same debate , or a debate on the same question , should not be conducted at more or less the same time in a great number of different places ? |
| 21 | It is no coincidence that expressions of the ‘ pro-Palestinian ’ and ‘ pro-Zionist ’ factions have occurred in rival publications at more or less the same time . |
| 22 | At more or less the middle of the night , every night , for a week , I 'd been woken first by one child crying , then by two , then by three . |
| 23 | The principal objective of the budget was to hold the public deficit for 1990 at more or less the same level in absolute terms as for 1989 , thereby reducing it from 11 per cent to 10.4 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) . |
| 24 | Amaranth fell into a gentle sleep at more or less the same time as did the bulk of Sir Teddy Taylor 's conference audience . |
| 25 | Partly this was a matter of timing : both approaches penetrated the mainstream of macroeconomics at more or less the same time . |