Example sentences of "at [det] [adj] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they turned off the main road Uncle George had to drive at little more than walking pace , for he could n't see where the lane ended and the ditches at the sides began , for snow cloaked everything . |
| 2 | In consequence the News Corp equity is now valued at little more than half-a-billion : that 's an eighth of the capitalisation of Thomson , whose giveaway sale of its newspaper interests was the booster for Murdoch 's sensational rise in the '80s . |
| 3 | Yet the reality is starkly different , with loss-making occupancy levels and recession-restrained spending by the few business and leisure tourists that can be attracted now , at little more than cost , due to the fierce competition in this thin market . |
| 4 | At little more than walking speed it glides away . |
| 5 | The number out of work in Britain which had stood at little more than half a million in 1969 , had more than doubled by the end of the 1970s ( then almost doubled again in the following two years ) . |
| 6 | Enterprises have sacked workers and are running at much less than their full capacity . |
| 7 | They can take into account a painting 's decline in value if it has actually sold for that price , but because the decline in prices has only occurred at a dealers ' auction , they will not accept that a similar composition by the same artist would automatically be valued at much less than the price paid for it . |
| 8 | That is why commercial organisations are avoided if at all possible since it is quite unrealistic to expect a manufacturer to comment critically on his own product or not to view a rival 's product with a jaundiced eye . |
| 9 | Controversial matters , such as the Investment Services Directive , European Company Statute , the Thirteenth Company Law Directive concerning takeover and other general bids , the Tenth Company Law Directive concerning cross-border mergers between public limited companies , and the Company Taxation Directive concerning arrangements for taking losses into account , have been left until last and it is not at all certain whether all or most of these directives will be adopted by the end of 1992 . |
| 10 | And yet until the Space Age it was not at all certain whether the lunar craters were of impact origin or of volcanic origin . |
| 11 | It is impossible to imagine that there is any purpose to life that makes any sense at all other than that life is to be enjoyed . |
| 12 | The Government had forced itself into a corner for no reason at all other than the Prime Minister 's stubbornness . |
| 13 | The signing was unorthodox , many of the gestures modified and difficult to read ; there was no fingerspelling at all other than of first letters of names . |
| 14 | A joint investigation of this procedure by of Distillers MG Limited , the UK 's leading supplier of carbon dioxide , and general manager in quality assurance for Forte Airport Services , one of the world 's leading in-flight caterers , demonstrated that the dry ice slice technique could not meet the requirements of the new legislation , and in many cases hardly had any effect at all other than freezing the meal at the top of the trolley . |
| 15 | If the donor dies more than seven years after the gift , there 's no duty at all payable If he dies in the seventh year the whole duty is reduced by 60 per cent , if in the sixth by 30 per cent , and in the fifth 15 per cent . ’ |
| 16 | This , however , is not at all uncommon when regressing someone to such an early age , for babies do not have an awareness of time in the same way that adults do . |
| 17 | ( Downward transposition was not at all uncommon when countertenor solos were issued in print : for instance , ‘ I envy not the pride of May , from Purcell 's 1693 birthday ode for Queen Mary , is in E major in the original and also goes to top b ’ B♭♯ , but it was published , in the treble clef , in D major . ) |
| 18 | Unfortunately their ideas have not been tested out a great deal in other areas of London or the rest of the country , so we can not be at all sure whether the findings they claim are appropriate for application to the whole of our society are in fact so . |
| 19 | Some women in early adulthood may feel very unmaternal and not at all sure whether they wish to burden themselves with what they see as the cares and stresses of parenthood . |
| 20 | Now he had managed to install the clip he was not at all sure whether he had done the job correctly . |
| 21 | The woman next to me was quite clearly not at all sure whether this was Pike . |
| 22 | In fact , Dot was n't at all sure if the dogs in London had names . |
| 23 | Madame Gloriana turned away murmuring to herself , ‘ That 's what they all want to know , although I 'm not at all sure if it does them any good . ’ |
| 24 | I was n't at all sure if she really did love me — and , as you know , it turned out she did n't . |
| 25 | With a lame smile , because she was n't at all sure if Terry was being serious or not , Ellie groaned when her tummy chose that moment to give an embarrassing rumble . |
| 26 | B b b because that , that 's the way he sees it , he 's , he is interpreting all of these things as revolutionary , right , I 'm not at all sure if they were . |
| 27 | Americans are better at all that than us . |
| 28 | Since it was the golden-fleeced ram the king really wanted , he was not at all pleased when Marko came before him on the seventh day with a jug of sweet wine and a cluster of grapes in his handkerchief . |
| 29 | She was enraged and not at all pleased when Felipe threw his head back and roared with laughter . |
| 30 | I write that the paradox is apparent because there have been signs of the same phenomenon in England over the past few seasons — and also because it is not at all surprising when you come to think about it . |