Example sentences of "at [adv] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 At 6.40am the men are woken ; by seven they are up .
2 At 6pm the Marines will beat the retreat with the town mayor Coun Frank Platt taking the salute .
3 In the meantime , the hole in the road is reopened , and at 6pm the men line up by the side of the maypole , the band starts to play and the command to hoist it on to shoulders is given .
4 Gedge has seen at first-hand the reactions of people who have come into contact with the group .
5 At once the teachers began running in Mould 's direction .
6 At once the officers of the Kha-Khan 's guard came through the ranks of the troopers to Artai 's side .
7 Burun shot , and at once the torches flared .
8 At once the lights came up again .
9 At once the footsteps started after her , and she heard a voice calling out .
10 He could stand by the footplate of a steam locomotive knowing at once the names of driver and fireman who , for their part , knew that he had a very good idea of what each did and how he did it .
11 For all that we have said about the role of the country districts round — which applies as much to northern as to Italian cities — and the close relation , however ambivalent , of religious aspirations and the development of towns , it is in the end their place in the accumulation of wealth which marks them out in this age : they are at once the symbols and the centres of mammon ; in them gathered the moneyers who struck coin and the merchants who exchanged and accumulated it .
12 aporias — because they seem to be at once the results of a communal enterprise while at the same time bearing witness to the fact that this enterprise never existed except as the inhuman reverse side of two opposed actions in which each aims to destroy the other .
13 These brief examples should show at once the possibilities and the limits of formational analysis .
14 Up to the darkroom to begin at once the pictures she had taken this afternoon .
15 In their nervousness they offered at once the gifts they had brought : tea , fruit , duty-free whiskey — ‘ It 'll be useful to have in the house even if nobody drinks it and we might need a glass ’ — a printed silk headscarf , thick fur gloves .
16 And I understood at once the implications of what he 'd been saying .
17 At 6.30 pm the tropical darkness descends — like a train going into a tunnel — and all at once the crickets begin their chorus .
18 They saw Ruth 's crumpling face , and at once the lips curved upward , laughing , and sang louder .
19 At 8.20am the police were informed that Ulster Television 's London office had received a coded warning of a bomb at a station .
20 At 6.00pm the cliffs of Dunnose were sighted about two miles off , bearing north by east .
21 Smaller people pogo faster , at precisely the increments a physicist would predict from the known properties of springs — although keeping them bouncing long enough to prove this was another challenge for Taylor .
22 How fortunate that it should be liquid , at precisely the kinds of temperatures at which complex organic molecules , such as proteins and DNA , are able to persist and yet be chemically active !
23 Candidates must be members of the RSC , hold at least a masters or PhD degree in chemistry or a related subject and already be actively engaged in research .
24 To keep this species without this type of hassle you need at least a 42″ tank .
25 LADIES ' soccer : Kate Esden 's goal four minutes from the end brought two points Colchester United Falcons way against Luton Town reserves in a match disrupted by a blizzard.The 1–0 win ensures them of at least a runners-up spot in their first season in Division Two of the Women 's FA Eastern League.The League 's plate competition takes centre stage this Sunday as the Falcons travel to Stalham Seahawks , Norfolk , and the Eagles entertain Hemel Town at Alderman Blaxill School , Shrub End ( ko 2pm ) .
26 Both grow to about 10″ or more and a single specimen will require at least a 30″ — preferably a larger — tank .
27 The prisoners welfare group Nacro , says every prisoner leaving jail should be given at least the basics to make a fresh start .
28 At least the accountants were happy , as for the first time in England match receipts passed the £l million mark .
29 ‘ Well , at least the newspapers ca n't get it now . ’
30 They try to make the weather absorbing , or at least the programmes , by turning the presenters into characters , with jokes and fancy dress .
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