Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] at [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jarvis managed to bowl only at half pace in the match against Hampshire at Basingstoke which petered out into a draw yesterday and he is still being troubled by a sore hamstring . |
| 2 | First we should ask whether it is necessary to popular participation that all should be gathered together at one time in one place . |
| 3 | On the one hand , the memorandum of association must qualify the company 's ability to provide surveying services , to the effect that such business must be carried on at all times in accordance with the Rules of Conduct for the time being of the RICS . |
| 4 | ONE allowance which looks almost certain to disappear altogether at some point in the not-too-distant future , judging from its treatment in the Budget , is the married couple 's allowance , or MCA . |
| 5 | Each of several characters is followed through twenty-four hours and their lives touch only at certain points in the narrative . |
| 6 | After taking a series of measurements I put a numbered ring on each bird 's leg so that if one came to grief and was picked up at some time in the future , its identity could be established . |
| 7 | He managed to blurt out at one stage in the proceedings : ‘ I did n't have any dollars , no gold , I do n't smoke and I earn 3,500 lei a month . ’ |
| 8 | In terms of scientific choice , for example , it is possible to establish the value placed upon a country 's contribution to high-energy physics , and to decide whether or not such research should be supported , but it would be difficult to measure the individual contributions made by isolated single researchers from small departments in the UK , when the major part of their work is carried out at international centres in Geneva , or California . |
| 9 | The technology has evolved from operations already carried out at coastal sites in Scotland in which lengths of oil and gas pipelines are made into bundles which are towed offshore at control depths for installation at oil and gasfields . |
| 10 | The talent he has encouraged and given much time and effort to , includes the 1986 Club Champion , 20-year-old Simon Barrington who was twice Junior Champion ; Michael Orris , the Joint Course record holder and County Alliance player ; Guy Phillips , still 17 , the Junior Champion and Captain ( handicap 5 ) and who whilst competing in the Daily Express Ford qualifying round at Royal Mid-Surrey in 1986 played to level par and went on to play in the finals in Spain ) ; Henry Bareham , also handicap 5 , who played for English Schools and Graham Booth , the Thames Valley League Junior Champion . |
| 11 | Like Marshall in the previous Test , Paul Terry came in at Old Trafford in plaster to help a team-mate reach his century . |
| 12 | In an hour they were all ready and stood in the parlour looking humorously at each other in their best shirts of white linen and clean breeches . |
| 13 | We should be looking not at such practice in the past but rather in the future — more of that later . |
| 14 | The encounter can break off at any stage in the process of escalation . |
| 15 | Our balance sheet is strong and we are looking carefully at further acquisitions in both the oil and non-oil sectors . |
| 16 | An erratic Lebanese with a wife and family in Beirut and a Dutch mistress in Nicosia , he wore jeans and cowboy boots and drove around at high speed in a Chevy 4 × 4 with expired Texas licence plates . |
| 17 | By looking hard at any way in which we can raise extra income for this authority . |
| 18 | I still find myself looking occasionally at grey trousers in shops , and then thinking : no , I can wear what I like , in bright colours . |
| 19 | The basic set-up consists of rather basic apparatus out of a school laboratory — battery , heavy water , metal electrodes and meters for heat or neutrons — which is so widely available that the discovery could have been made anywhere at any time in the preceding half century ; but somehow it has been overlooked by two generations of scientists until suddenly in 1989 not one but two groups in the same location simultaneously announce their breakthroughs . |
| 20 | The two men met yesterday at Tory command in another nearby marginal , Lewisham West , and enjoyed a chat . |
| 21 | The iron-clad Monitor and Merrimack hammered away at each other in the American Civil War . |
| 22 | A Sergeant with a crudely reconstructed pink blob of a nose — obviously bitten off at some stage in his professional or previous career — sat at a damascened bronze data-desk stained green with cupreous patina . |
| 23 | Look carefully at any windows in hallways , corridors and on stairs to decide whether you should curtain them , blind them , shutter them or leave them alone . |
| 24 | I know Mother used to help out at Low Fields in an attempt to ease Daddy 's burden a bit . |
| 25 | At seven o'clock on a dark and dreary February morning without any warning , several cars arrived simultaneously at six homes in South Ronaldsay , the most southerly of the seventy Orkney islands , and also at a caravan home in Kirkwall . |
| 26 | Erm , if it 's paid up you can start paying again at some point in the future , but you have to pay an extra one-off charge , to do it , I think . |
| 27 | Thus , although some of the topics are outside the main scope of this book , we look briefly at this matter in this section . |
| 28 | Another character turns up at this stage in the obese and blustering form of Judge Sir John Popham . |
| 29 | The demon coughed nervously ( demons do not breathe ; however , every intelligent being , whether it breathes or not , coughs nervously at some time in its life . |
| 30 | Outside of London , too , generally over the South , the West and the South-east , a decline in real wages set in at some point in the two decades centred on 1760 , as money wages fell behind rising prices . |