Example sentences of "at [adv] [v-ing] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again he showed enormous potential , at once getting a feel for the audience and realizing people were interested in gimmicks and gadgets rather than dull , but more enlightening , scientific theory with pictures of boffins pottering about in laboratories . |
| 2 | ‘ I think I was dreaming , ’ she mumbled , and , all at once feeling no end foolish , she looked up , wanting to apologise or something , but mainly wanting to get back to her room with some kind of dignity . |
| 3 | ‘ Mi piacciono questi capelli , ’ cried the woman , unabashed at openly admiring the red and gold strands of Meredith 's hair . |
| 4 | On the basis of calculations about what local and national inspectors could manage by way of inspections , Becher et al ( 1979 ) go further and conclude that , ‘ It therefore becomes hard to see inspection becoming a routine form of accountability without at least doubling the number of inspectors ’ . |
| 5 | By February he was at least considering a retirement condition , though still sceptical about its effect on unemployment , and commissioned a paper on the feasibility of enforcing it from the Ministry of Labour 's representative on the Committee , P.Y. Blundun . |
| 6 | So is at least providing the opportunity for that ? |
| 7 | By the unwritten laws of an unadmitted game , Six should never have sent a war-party into Five 's tribal land without at least telling the Co-ordinator . |
| 8 | With four minutes of the match remaining , a scramble in the Didcot goal mouth saw Patterson hold his head in disbelief as his shot went literally inches wide , to stop them at least taking the match into extra time , and give a most relieved Didcot a one nil victory to go into the third round . |
| 9 | The crowd 's response to his resilient 6–4 , 7–5 , 6–4 defeat of a totally overawed Sampras , in his David Cup debut , plus their even greater support as he and Forget beat Ken Flach and the hapless Robert Seguso 6–1 , 6–4 , 4–6 , 6–2 , with flurries of brilliant winners in the doubles , must have gone a long way to at least dimming the memory of the cruel booing he received in 1988 when he struggled against Mats Wilander at Roland Garros in the final of the French Open and then again at Bercy the following November . |
| 10 | More and more teachers in training are at least receiving an introduction to special needs ; are being encouraged to seek out information on special needs policy and practice in the schools in which they are doing their teaching practice , and are being introduced to a variety of approaches to meeting their needs . |
| 11 | The wind got up even more for the back nine , but we looked as though we might go in at least sharing the lead . |
| 12 | It seems to me appropriate and indeed perhaps essential that one should offer a brief biographical sketch of Proust on an occasion like this , but I shall try to avoid the unbalance of which I 've spoken , by at least relating the biography to the circumstances in which the novel was written , and I shall in any case spend the major part of the time that remains on an examination of the novel itself . |
| 13 | In any event , at the higher level Rusk announced that the independence of the Associated States of Indo-China within the framework of the French Union was now assured , even if this did mean squaring the circle or at least begging the question . |
| 14 | Other members of the family are often important in at least stimulating an awareness of the possibilities of sport and , at most , actively encouraging the brother or sister to take up the sport . |
| 15 | All three members of the court took the view that the corporation was bound by its undertaking and could not resile from it without at least giving the association an opportunity to make representations . |
| 16 | In our part of the world we keep up the brave talk for the sake of the image of the region , so that there may be at least some inward investment and so that those industrialists , small business , training centres , local enterprises and cooperatives which are struggling so hard to make a go of it , will not be discouraged from at least having a go , but there is n't much hope and conviction really . |
| 17 | Or at least having the decency and good manners to at least let me know what you 'd done ! |
| 18 | Indeed , a large part of a horse 's psychological wellbeing is dependent on it being part of a herd , or at least having the companionship of one or two others . |
| 19 | Or at least dissolving the marriage ? |