Example sentences of "at [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We are still looking for riders , ’ adds Pavitt who called last night 's match off at 6pm following heavy rain . |
| 2 | Fleming did point out that this was a design feature as the aerodynamic pressures prevent deployment at above flap limiting speed , unless you really have the muscle for it . |
| 3 | In fact , the Council went on at once to put this principle into practice and agree that admission to communion ( that is to say , in common parlance , partial intercommunion ) may be accepted ‘ in order to promote closer union ’ ( Orientalium Ecclesiarum 26 ) . |
| 4 | Essential you increase output at once to fill projected quota by year end . " |
| 5 | He opts for a single fragment of European culture and , by way of compensation , he must at once reaffirm that ideal of personal and cultural wholeness which on various grounds he now sees immediately symbolized in Schopenhauer — and not least because Schopenhauer , for all his scorn of the contemporary world , unquestionably belongs to it . |
| 6 | There O'Sullivan senior , in an agony of grief , prostrated himself on his wife 's body and at once detected some sign of life . |
| 7 | Her objective was to acquire Transylvania , and she now at once invaded that country and quickly occupied the greater part of it . |
| 8 | If we assume that we are not the proprietors but the trustees of this world and that we have a deed of covenant to honour , this at once introduces certain absolutes into economic life and certain limits on the exercise of freedom . |
| 9 | The votes had little constitutional force ( although Iceland , for instance , moved at once to establish diplomatic relations with Lithuania ) . |
| 10 | The adults emerge from the soil in May and June — hence the common name ‘ May Bug ’ when they at once attack open blossoms of many kinds . |
| 11 | Because He does not at once take wicked people out of the world , they seem to forget that He is angry with the wicked every day , and that He has said , ‘ Though hand join in hand , the wicked shall not be unpunished'' ’ |
| 12 | This at once indicates that hydrogen is the dominant constituent of the whole of Jupiter . |
| 13 | He went off at once to fetch another load . |
| 14 | Henry at once launched destructive raids into Scotland in what became wryly known as the ‘ Rough Wooing ’ . |
| 15 | Executive resolved that ‘ should the necessity for forming a Labour Government arise , the Parliamentary Party should at once accept full responsibility for the Government of the country without compromising itself with any form of coalition . ’ |
| 16 | The way forward is , therefore , to introduce into police practices verification procedures aimed at similarly averting cognitive pitfalls . |
| 17 | The Marine Mammals Protection Act does at least go some way in limiting the dolphin kills , but since its introduction the tuna fishing fleet has become dominated by non-US vessels . |
| 18 | Improvements in the overall forestry infrastructure , involving inventory acquisition through to logging , would at least go some way towards achieving better resource use . |
| 19 | In the chapters which follow , I will attempt to offer a more satisfying and , hopefully , iconoclastic alternative ; satisfying because it will place the explanatory emphasis on definite social processes which perpetuate the invidious position of blacks both in and out of sport ; and iconoclastic because it will at least go some way towards smashing the outdated image of the black man as possessing natural physical abilities that are determined , in the last instance , by his race . |
| 20 | Water : If you have nothing else , at least use cold water to rinse out your works . |
| 21 | Originally the scheme allowed for pensions to be calculated on the best twenty years of earnings , which at least went some way towards enabling women , who spend some rime out of the labour market caring for dependants , to maximize their future pension . |
| 22 | The positive or scientific method was ( or would be ) the triumph of the last of the stages through which mankind must pass — in Comte 's terms , the theological , the metaphysical and the scientific ; each with its own institutions , of which Mill and Spencer at least agreed that liberalism ( in the broadest sense ) was the suitable expression . |
| 23 | From this very brief outline of the main characteristics of women 's employment in Scotland and how they related to the Edinburgh context , we can at least form some kind of picture of the 14-year-old Scottish girl 's expectations about her working career during the last half of the nineteenth century . |
| 24 | With the Gulf War over , the German leader 's anxious to dispel doubts that his country can be counted on in a crisis , and there are moves underway to change the German constitution , at least to allow German soldiers to join United Nations military peace-keeping operations . |
| 25 | Increased reliance on Moscow may now hold out much prospect of improvement in growth , productivity or living standards , but intra-bloc trade at least offers assured markets , predictable performance benchmarks , and the kind of long-term trading agreements which are the staple of central planning and of central planners . |
| 26 | Drink at least offers some prospect of things improving . |
| 27 | But the drug does at least offer some respite in the later stages of the disease . |
| 28 | And these people are in fairly er desperate conditions but at least getting some help , but I think the main point is there is a civil war on , and the West is still standing on the sidelines watching it happen . |
| 29 | AIAS [ Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies ] tried to get in touch with Gould and his publishers to ask them to withdraw the book from sale , or at least remove this photo . |
| 30 | Whilst this at least saves National Insurance contributions the incentive must be to take out salary at least to a level of £71,400 so as to get the maximum allowance base for pension contributions . |