Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [verb] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the fact that I succumbed to a mild form of food-poisoning through eating at the cheapest restaurants — a meal could he obtained for ten ( old ) francs or less , but less meant the more chance of prostration — I have never known Paris so surpassingly beautiful as that year . |
| 2 | ( i mean the way he have sticked with specially dino shows us that — dino himself who expressed wishes for playing at the international level himself when he joined leeds — i guess he is a farther away now : the likes of Shearer , Wright ( a flop in the internationals ) , Cole ( hey there is one that puts them in the net ) and Ferdinand will have no problems keeping him out … ) |
| 3 | Nos. 41 and 57 which must have had some defects , were sold to T. W. Ward for scrapping at the same time . |
| 4 | And what we 've done now , and with colleagues from Germany , is to take cores off north west Africa , say about twenty metres down into the sediment , we sample them in the lab here and took the small amounts of sediment and examined them for these long chain compounds and we were extremely excited to see that as we went down this core , back through the last few hundred thousand years , we could see our signal on sea surface temperature oscillating about roughly in the same way that er has been found with other methods of getting at the past history of the climate . |
| 5 | Following her sister 's death in early infancy , her parents ' divorce when she was three years old , and her mother 's remarriage , Marguerite was brought up at the Earls Court residence of her mother and her mother 's third husband , Albert Visetti , a professor of singing at the Royal College of Music in London . |
| 6 | Optimism over trading at the interim stage had proved unfounded , the group said yesterday . |
| 7 | On page five , those of you who were at the last council meeting will know that the City Centre Management Working Party were charged with the responsibility of looking at the whole issue of street trading . |
| 8 | By long history the Bishop of Durham had the privilege of standing at the right hand of the sovereign throughout the coronation as her chief supporter . |
| 9 | One of the first results could be a speeding-up of drilling at the huge oilfield it recently discovered west of Shetland , according to John Browne , chief executive for worldwide exploration operations . |
| 10 | The direct costs incurred in connection with the issue of capital instruments should be deducted from the proceeds of the issue in arriving at the net amount . |
| 11 | Let's continue this look at the marine aquarium scene by looking at the latest thinking regarding the nutritional requirements of marine fish . |
| 12 | To use a single but important example , it is the difference between looking at the Great War as an event which centred around the policies and machinations of politicians and generals , or one which impinged upon the lives of ordinary people . |
| 13 | The exercise described in the preceding paragraphs provides a basis for arriving at the funded establishment of nurses for each unit which will enable the recruitment and employment of the labour force . |
| 14 | I am writing to confirm our booking for filming at the Old Royal Observatory on Wednesday 7 June from 9.00 to 11.00 am . |
| 15 | In nature , so to say , chicks soon learn — within the first three days after hatching at the latest — who their mother is , and follow her thereafter . |
| 16 | Are you still sort of staying at the same or |
| 17 | Yes , well obviously we erm we hope that we 've put the team together that 's going to do the job , but having said that , there 's some handy looking teams around , I think the League is going to be pretty evened out erm at the end of the day , I do n't think erm you 're going to see too many people sort of struggling at the bottom end . |
| 18 | You usually look at that person , and when you coming to the end of your your your speel , you sort of look at the one person . |
| 19 | Erm ah , now that erm I think I was reasonably happy most of the time , erm I know if I can sort of look at the other side of the coin erm , I became a bit apprehensive as the war went on and er , obviously it was n't going to last much longer . |
| 20 | You want to sort of look at the whole picture together . |
| 21 | They contrast with the ‘ reluctant commuters ’ of more limited means , forced to live in villages for the sake of buying at the cheaper end of the housing market . |
| 22 | In conclusion , Jones notes the potential value of explicit instruction on the nature of writing at the preschool level for subsequent success in school . |
| 23 | It is rather more difficult to categorise the nature of processing at the tactical and strategical levels , even within the relatively simple dichotomy between controlled and automatic processes . |
| 24 | AT ABOUT this time of the year and for every year since 1973 , the Laing Construction Company has set about the long and complex business of arriving at the six illustrations that will ultimately grace its calendar . |
| 25 | In 1894 he became teacher of singing at the Royal Academy of Music , and many famous singers were his pupils . |
| 26 | Write to the Director of Planning at the following address : . |
| 27 | He drew back immediately , only to stifle another low sound of longing at the wondering expression in her eyes . |
| 28 | He walked down the hill without looking at the dead men , slowly and with difficulty and pain . |
| 29 | You can tell whether a text you have is a critical or a popular edition by looking at the following features : — Does it have a note on the text , explaining spelling conventions used , etc. ? — Does it have an introduction by an editor ? — Does it have footnotes or endnotes ? — Is it a numbered part of a multi-volume edition ? |
| 30 | You always know you 'll get nothing short of 110 per cent and he 's still got a great appetite for playing at the top level . |