Example sentences of "at [adv] in [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | All at once in the ante-rooms of the palace were sources of people who had not been seen or allowed anywhere near the place in recent years . |
2 | In this way the flea gets to keep its clothes on — at least in the records , if not the collections . |
3 | Giardia cysts are resistant to chlorine , at least in the amounts usually used for disinfecting water supplies . |
4 | The Government must look to be fairer to London , with equalisation at least in the grants system — perhaps on the basis of incomes , or by taking the regional banding approach . |
5 | The idea that women are more conservative than men is manifestly inadequate to account for all the observed facts , at least in the cultures sociolinguists have studied most intensively , and it is rarely advanced nowadays as an explanation of sex differences . |
6 | It does seem that Ross 's view is ( as he claimed ) very much that of the man in the street ( or at least in the streets with which Ross was familiar ) . |
7 | It is of vital importance that any agreement which is reached between the partners in relation to the taking of decisions is set down in writingpreferably in the partnership agreement itself ( Clause 17.09.1 ) , but if not there then at least in the minutes of the meeting at which it was concluded . |
8 | During our period we see the simultaneous and enormous growth of trade in agricultural produce , a remarkable extension of the area in agricultural use , and — at least in the countries directly affected by world capitalist development — a major ‘ flight from the land ’ . |
9 | In particular three forms are prescribed , which to minimise translation problems are required to be printed either in all four official languages of the Organization of American States ( English , French , Portuguese and Spanish ) or at least in the languages of the states of origin and destination . |
10 | At least in the hills with FAKINTIL the enemy was obvious and you had your freedom . |
11 | And the trouble , at least in the regulators ' view , is the companies ' casual attitude towards fraud . |
12 | This is partly because , at least in the cases of Montenegro and Kosovo , large foreign loans were raised for investments in infrastructure and heavy industry ( much of which turned out to be unprofitable ) . |
13 | A considerable step forward came , in August 1980 , when Michael Heseltine , then Secretary of State for the Environment , announced that things would be done differently , at least in the parks and certain other designated areas . |
14 | But still , the Louts were tedious , at least in the eyes of Erika and her friends , the more so to Erika who had an uneasy , and not unjustified feeling that Paul was always likely to be drawn into their orbit . |
15 | It seems that reasonable cars and the black community , at least in the eyes of the police , do not go together . |
16 | At least in the eyes of relatives . |
17 | While the study of the language is critical to the development of BSL and its acceptance , it is also true to say that there is a more pressing problem in relation to BSL , at least in the eyes of deaf people , and that is how to learn and use it . |
18 | At least in the eyes of the courts , too close a scrutiny of business decisions may , in addition , be dangerous , since it may inhibit legitimate risk taking . |
19 | The fact that the agreement is sustained by threats of market sanctions rather than a binding contract makes it no less explicit , at least in the eyes of antitrust law . |
20 | This broadly non-provocative approach undermined the argument — at least in the eyes of US and Latin American public opinion — that the Cuban revolutionary government threatened US national security . |
21 | Georgina kept quiet about her because she had the wit to see that knowledge of the affair would strengthen her motive for killing her husband , at least in the eyes of the jury . |
22 | You have established , at least in the eyes of others who were n't watching precise times , that at the very moment you were in the church , the Lady Eleanor was still alive . |
23 | In fact , there were electronic publishing systems around long before the Macintosh ever appeared and the first ‘ desktop publishing ’ package , at least in the terms we understand today , was DO-IT by Studio Software which ran on the PC . |
24 | In this particular drawing the forecaster has assumed that the future is going to be almost the same as the present ( at least in the characteristics he is depicting ) . |
25 | For many people , it may be difficult to distinguish candidiasis from food intolerance at the outset , because the two have a great deal in common , at least in the symptoms they cause : compare the table on p 183 with the illustration on — p 13 . |
26 | First , at least in the kinds of knowledge on offer in higher education , it could be said that knowledge ‘ progresses ’ . |
27 | In the twentieth and twenty-first centuries , it will be different , at least in the nations of America , Japan , and Western Europe . |
28 | If the ‘ Free Church Movement ’ was bound up , at least in its leaders ' minds with the cause of union , it was also bound up with politics , at least in the minds of its supporters . |
29 | That Lansbergen 's opponent , the Catholic theologian Libertus Fromondus , spoke disparagingly of the ‘ Calvinistic-Copernican ’ system suggests that a parallel was beginning to take shape between scientific and religious reform — at least in the minds of critics . |
30 | The advent of Channel Four in 1982 was the catalyst which was to change film-making in Britain , at least in the regions . |