Example sentences of "at [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A major reason why so many people live on low incomes is that national insurance benefits , such as old-age pensions and unemployment pay , are paid at below the income support and housing benefit levels . |
| 2 | Do my right hon. and hon. Friends agree that if we are to have an effective Royal Air Force , it is essential that our pilots are given the best possible training , including training in operating at below the level of enemy radar ? |
| 3 | The video war in Europe began when Philips , the Dutch firm , complained to the EEC that the Japanese were dumping video recorders in Europe at below the cost of manufacture . |
| 4 | At 2pm the fashion show takes to the floor in the ballroom . |
| 5 | They guess at only the tip of the iceberg of what is going on in these firms . |
| 6 | The receiver has gone in at only the parent company , and Sharp yesterday made it clear that seven of its 15 operating subsidiaries were going concerns . |
| 7 | He protested that the Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang , had been present at only the start of the debate . |
| 8 | At exactly the juncture where one has probably completed the historic destiny of most humans — to wit , to have worked and to have raised a family — and one is contemplating , we hope , a constructive future , the door swings tightly shut . |
| 9 | It was from another officious Vadinamian Warden , informing us that the Recovery — which would release the Fraxillian package — would occur at exactly the mid-hour of the following bio-day . |
| 10 | It is not always possible to measure the gamma dose rate at exactly the spot where a sample for dating is found , since the excavation of the sample will have removed much of the material surrounding it . |
| 11 | It was at exactly the time when Odd-Knut feared Brusie was dying , as she became unconscious . |
| 12 | He had been taken to the fourth floor at exactly the time of his appointment . |
| 13 | Moreover , the ‘ transition to democracy ’ has occurred at exactly the time when the international economic crisis was making its presence felt with greatest intensity . |
| 14 | However , there is indirect evidence that the orbit of a binary pair , one member of which is the pulsar PSR 1913+16 , is collapsing at exactly the rate expected due to the loss of energy in gravitational radiation . |
| 15 | The planet Saturn crossed the heavens at exactly the point that Pluto had been discovered . |
| 16 | ( b ) It is difficult to stop the record or start it at exactly the point that the teacher wishes . |
| 17 | A wall-hung basin , which is held in place by secure wall brackets , can be fixed at exactly the height you want , although the supply and waste pipes will be exposed . |
| 18 | Beveridge was aware that , with few private resources to fall back on , most people would become poor unless basic national insurance benefits were paid at above the level that society deemed to be the minimum income level . |
| 19 | It is worked out at broadly the level of a payroll of three employees . |
| 20 | Others feel ill at just the smell of cigarette smoke or even a glass of wine . |
| 21 | Congress works by building coalitions ; to aim at just the ghetto poor — wholly urban and overwhelmingly black — would attract too narrow a coalition . |
| 22 | Caroline held her breath as they stood in the silence , watching as it began its final plunge , and , at just the moment it painted the world crimson , Nicolo put his hands on her shoulders . |
| 23 | Could it be that there was then more racism in the art world , and that Black artists were being squeezed out at just the time when young working-class artists from the British provinces were finding unprecedented and immediate public fortune ? |
| 24 | American and British firms built fat integrated bureaucracies at just the time when Japanese firms were arriving in international competition with their lean , mean communities of interest . |
| 25 | He stresses the complexity of interrelations and points to an increase in the importance of territorial politics ( i.e. based on a local government area ) at just the time when — in the face of severe economic problems — local ( welfare ) expenditure has become an increasingly important element in central ( economic ) planning . |
| 26 | Indeed , the increased concentration of central government on local government spending helped to increase its political profile , locally as well as nationally , at just the time when reorganization had created authorities with major staffing and financial resources , authorities more powerful than the patchwork quilt of councils which they replaced . |
| 27 | In our society , children often reach adolescence at just the time that their mothers are going through the menopause . |
| 28 | ‘ If Armitage did it in conjunction with Latimer , that explains the window , the lurking on the gallery , and the presence of Latimer acting suspiciously in the area at just the time the murder was committed . |
| 29 | At just the time when the Civil War was weakening this commercial connection , the Dutch were trying to conquer the portuguese colony of Brazil . |
| 30 | It was not recorded before the year 1610 , and there have been suggestions that it brightened up abruptly at that time , though personally I am sceptical ; it would be a strange coincidence if the Nebula burst into prominence at just the time when mankind invented the telescope ! |