Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marx and Engels suggest that priests were the first ideologists who emerged at this stage . |
| 2 | In practice we proceeded at absolute snail 's pace , and every step that we took was hindered by constant misunderstanding , suspicion and argument . |
| 3 | But his philosophy that when your ‘ time 's up your time 's up ’ saw him through and he 's back to tell the tale , though sadly he chose not to include the pictures he took at that time . |
| 4 | Thirty years afterwards Charles still felt deeply the humiliation he suffered at this time ; but unlike some little princes in similar situations , he lived , politically as well as literally , to fight another day . |
| 5 | It is worth noting that of the course proposals which fell at this hurdle most were of a very high standard . |
| 6 | Current local state functions are a microcosm of the repressive and class-biased strategies which apply at central state level ( Cockburn , 1977 ) . |
| 7 | The new channel was dredged to about 10.3 metres below high water ordinary spring tide which means at low water of the same tide approximately 5.5 metres of water was available . |
| 8 | The result is that there are books on many library shelves which have at one time been declared obscene or indecent and may be so categorized again . |
| 9 | Even nobles who had at one time covertly recommended such a union were alarmed by the unseemly haste , and realized that in any case the tide of national opinion was against the match . |
| 10 | It labelled them as personal opinion and suggested that in future the press question everything said at any time by DEC staff , no matter how high ranking , to assure themselves they are getting the company line . |
| 11 | For a second they glared at each other . |
| 12 | Sara would always remember gratefully the help he gave at that time ‘ to render a miserable cottage , an abode of comparative comfort ’ . |
| 13 | precisely Mr Chairman if I could answer that the , the , the once the inspector comes back to the Fire Service and reports again and he is due back in June , we will then look at the matters he raises at that time and he will look at the progress report er what , what has happened since his last inspection and then we will have the opportunity to look at what the Inspector has , has to say after his visits , not very far away er , their Chief Officer will go on with this programme |
| 14 | You only have to look back over what 's er happened over the last few years in terms of for example O S Two , Microsoft Windows , a variety of Unix , and you 'll see that technologies will come along and however sound a decision you make at one point in time the market circumstances and potentially mean that what was right for you then not the right . |
| 15 | He did n't have much money you see at that time . |
| 16 | Now Michael White and John Gribbin have given us Stephen Hawking : a Life in Science , or rather Mr White has given us the life and Mr Gribbin the science ; the latter is awash with black holes , white dwarfs , protons , pulsars , quasars and quarks and is therefore no more comprehensible than Brief History ; also , what is one to make of a writer who speaks at one moment of ‘ tiny black holes ’ and the next of ‘ black holes which could eat solar systems for breakfast ’ ? |
| 17 | Bogie was the kind of hellraiser who lived at one end of the scale . |
| 18 | structures , their possibilities I mean at one stage they would have been at a certain level had n't got a landlord their income but that 's within one particular moral economy , now the idea here is to break that down , you know , just get rid of the circle altogether . |
| 19 | Among the unpublished poems I wrote at that time there is one that tries to express my feelings of loneliness and abandonment by my beautiful god . |
| 20 | Indeed , a major theme which emerged at this time was the lack of attention given by employers to the age structure of their work-forces and the consequent lack of encouragement to older people to see themselves as potentially economically viable . |
| 21 | Sources within the Stock Exchange confirmed yesterday that the sudden pre-bid surge in the traded options market is being examined by an insider dealing investigation team which looks at suspicious activity ahead of the release of price-sensitive information . |
| 22 | Occasionally , we have a picture which survives at some depth , such as this description of the work the smith owed his lord , the Archbishop of Canterbury , on the manor of Tangmere in 1285 : |
| 23 | Only recently has it been discovered that they come to these special places to gather specific minerals such as kaolin which neutralise the poison they have absorbed from the seeds they eat at this season of the year . |
| 24 | For a moment they stared at each other — and , though the anger and hostility in the room were almost visible , the memory of that long-ago day hung in the air between them . |
| 25 | For a moment they stared at each other , while the klaxon remorselessly threw out a yard and a half of raucousness every two seconds . |
| 26 | He turned to look at her again , and for a long moment they stared at each other , irreconcilable strangers either side of a barrier ; and yet Sara had the odd feeling that some part of her longed to understand Matthew Preston , to agree with him , to acquiesce in his decisions . |
| 27 | For a long moment they stared at each other and it was as if the body language they had shared in the pool had ceased to be a game and the strained politeness of the last week had never been . |
| 28 | Sophie looked aghast and for a moment they stared at each other . |
| 29 | Then for another moment they looked at each other . |
| 30 | For a moment they looked at each other square in the eye . |