Example sentences of "[adv prt] at an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between the many breaks in the cloud the rays of a thin evening sun shafted down at an acute angle to spotlight the pastoral scene . |
| 2 | Our UK customers first began to look shaky and soon afterwards began to shut down at an alarming rate . |
| 3 | But with the industry in recession , and record sales dropping , the hitherto dependable cashflow was trickling down at an alarming rate . |
| 4 | This time , after I 'd hung up , I laid the phone down at an angle to the receiver tits so he 'd get an engaged tone if he tried again . |
| 5 | For about fifteen minutes he did nothing but sit there contentedly , sipping his coffee and watching their restless , flickering scene around him through half-open eyes : the tall , bearded man with a cigar and a fatuous grin who walked up and down at an unvarying even pace like a clockwork soldier , never looking at anybody ; the plump ageing layabout in a Gestapo officers leather coat and dark glasses holding court outside the door of the cafe , trading secrets and scandal with his men friends , assessing the passers-by as thought they were for sale , calling after women and making hour-glass gestures with his hairy gold-ringed hands ; a frail old man bent like an S , with a crazy harmless expression and a transistor radio pressed to his ear walking with the exaggerated urgency of those who have nowhere to go ; slim Africans with leatherwork belts and bangles laid out on a piece of cloth ; a Gypsy child sitting n the cold stone playing the same four note again and again on a cheap concertina ; two foreigners with guitars an a small crowd around them ; a beggar with his shirt pulled down over one shoulder to reveal the stump of an amputated arm ; a pudgy shapeless women with an open suitcase full of cigarette lighters and bootleg cassettes ; the two Nordic girls at the next table , basking half-naked in the weak March sun as though this might be the last time it appeared this year . |
| 6 | Plainly there are different degrees of misbehaviour and the partners will not readily resort to the extreme sanction of expulsion , but it is in the interests of the firm that a tendency to depart from proper professional standards be investigated and warnings handed down at an early stage before serious harm is done . |
| 7 | The blade came down at an angle on my first finger , but chopped straight through the rest . |
| 8 | The government could have clamped down at an early stage with tough deflationary policies . |
| 9 | A few lengths were produced and these amateurish efforts were seen by a director of Coles who was passing through Braintree and happened to look in at an art exhibition in the Institute . |
| 10 | Towards the end of 1989 film and TV scripts were flooding in at an unprecedented rate , spurred on by her successful debut live tour , the incredible success , even by her standards , of her second album ‘ Enjoy Yourself ’ which entered the British LP charts at number one on its first day of release in October that year and the much-anticipated release of The Delinquents . |
| 11 | Essex were , for a time , in some trouble after Munton had claimed two wickets in as many balls but Gooch , still snuffling after his touch of ‘ flu and coming in at an unaccustomed No 5 position , thwarted the hat-trick ball . |
| 12 | The management contractor , by being brought in at an early stage , will become involved in the design process in co-operation with the client 's designer . |
| 13 | Cut the studs so that they are a snug push-fit between head and sole plate , then secure them by skew-nailing ( driving nails in at an angle ) |
| 14 | A level-top , apart from its looking well , was emphasized for a good economic reason : if the ploughland was level , the drill coulters would bite in at an uniform depth , and sow the seed in the same way ; the ears of corn would then mature at approximately the same time and all the seeds of corn would be approximately the same size . |
| 15 | ‘ Thing is , Barbs barged in at an inconvenient moment when my brothers were moving some stuff into my place , and they came over all paranoid and looked at her very old-fashioned , and while I know they would n't do anything to her , now she 's gone missing I ca n't help wondering . |
| 16 | You will probably find it easiest to slide the mast in at an angle like this until the collar fits neatly underneath the mast gate . |
| 17 | If it wo n't go in stick it in at an angle . |
| 18 | But in the past five years the economy has been pulled along at an even faster pace than that merited by its industrial over-achievers . |
| 19 | Bent over at an ungainly angle , trying to wrench the thing free , Bernice was acutely conscious of the picture that she must be making . |
| 20 | Prince Philip had stipulated a maximum of ten years for his period in office , and had extended it by a year to enable Prince Charles , who was serving in the Royal Navy , to take over at an appropriate moment . |
| 21 | If the air-flow at a valve is downwards , it will open to admit it ; if upwards , it will close to entrap it and if it is horizontal from any direction the flap will tilt to allow it through at an angle , gaining aerofoil-type lift from it . |
| 22 | A window at one end gave onto a coal hole ; a little daylight filtered through at an angle from an iron grating in the pavement above . |
| 23 | Well this , this is what I 'm saying , if it had been picked up and followed through at an earlier stage he would have been ensconced |
| 24 | West Indies soon lost Haynes , but Richards , on his home ground , and Greenidge set off at an explosive pace with 45 off the first seven overs . |
| 25 | Removal of water through artesian wells is held to be the reason why the tower began going off at an angle soon after building work began in 1174 . |
| 26 | At the top of the fire-back the filling is smoothed off at an angle of about 45° . |
| 27 | On the way home we stopped off at an alcohol centre and had a pint . |
| 28 | A SET of race ace Nigel Mansell 's tyres are to be sold off at an auction next month for Great Ormond Street Children 's Hospital in London . |
| 29 | If the spacing between the strands is uneven , or if they curve or go off at an angle , the knotting is irregular , and denotes a poor quality rug . |
| 30 | It meant that she started off at an advantage , for as soon as they imagined they had caused her misery they found that they were only confirming her grim and ribald idea of the way things would always be . |