Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [adv] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the dip of the beds is fairly steep towards the sea , there is a tendency for blocks of rock to break off at the joint planes , usually at right angles to the bedding , so that the cliff profile tends to be dominated by the dip of the beds . |
| 2 | Nor could I believe that it was the intention to bring in at a single stroke a charge to tax that would be calculated to interrupt the education and expectations of so many parents and children , for it is surely common knowledge that the provision of free or subsidised education for the children of those teaching in independent schools was part of their usual terms of employment and that the salaries paid would be wholly insufficient to meet a charge to tax based on the full fees of the school . |
| 3 | Sarah Bamfield seized on a loose ball and swung the ball across the D for Lucy Youngs to poke home at the far post . |
| 4 | For the work to flow smoothly at the integrated session the homework of the leader catechist , activity catechist and the helper catechists must be done well . |
| 5 | This course is designed to produce graduates conversant with the techniques of physics and chemistry and armed with the necessary mathematical skill to work effectively at the chemical/physical interface . |
| 6 | Then he turned and went out , leaving Ellie to stare speechlessly at the most money she had ever seen in her life . |
| 7 | This technique retains the constant mean heat input but instead of measuring the temperature difference during a change a servo-system immediately increases the energy input to either sample or reference to maintain both at the same temperature . |
| 8 | This month I 'd like to take the opportunity to look back at the current series of articles featuring the Pentatonic scale , taking stock of our command of the scale all over the fretboard . |
| 9 | Like thoroughbred horses chafing at their bits before an important race , they are liable at any moment to sprint off at a hundred miles an hour in the wrong direction . |
| 10 | Miss Probst points out that the law gives the private sector a strong incentive to clean up at the lowest possible cost . |
| 11 | It may be questioned whether this change achieves very much of a practical nature since ( a ) one still needs to look back at the common law of detinue to determine what constitutes the new form of conversion and ( b ) there still survive two torts of interference with property which have a considerable overlap with conversion , i.e . |
| 12 | Moving back to the bridge , she halted for a moment to stare down at the sluggish water , and the wavering reflection thrown back at her made her feel like weeping forever . |
| 13 | For those who have an eye to practise eventually at the Parliamentary Bar a scientific qualification is a help , and in patent work it is a necessity . |
| 14 | English painters never did the same , clustering at Hastings or Margate or Eastbourne to gaze out at a grumpy , monotonous Channel . |
| 15 | There he lifted a corner of the curtain to peer out at the bright patches of daylight filtering through the trees . |
| 16 | While it might be to your advantage to do so at the earliest opportunity , there is nevertheless no legal urgency for you to make the journey other than at your convenience . |
| 17 | ‘ We leave winter behind us , it seems , ’ Tagan said , turning in the saddle to look back at the still-white hills . |
| 18 | As was usually the way when the magnificent horses were offered for sale , they sold within the hour , leaving Seb to look around at the other animals and sample the pleasures offered to the fair-goers . |
| 19 | My third bus dropped me two streets away from home , which gave me a chance to call in at the local florist 's and buy a twenty-quid bouquet on PKB 's Amex card . |
| 20 | Once she raised her head to glance across at the still figure of Travis . |
| 21 | It worked until the 64th minute , when Saunders at last found some space to cross for Atkinson to head home at the far post . |
| 22 | And tonight , her desperate impatience to go out at a particular hour … |
| 23 | In summary , when cells are activated , the cytoplasm becomes an excitable matrix which allows a calcium signal to initiate periodically at a specific point before spreading throughout the cell as a regenerative calcium wave . |
| 24 | ‘ I am afraid I took pains to look out at the other side so as not to see him , ’ she had said . |
| 25 | Therefore both information availability and the authority to move forward at the front line are musts . |
| 26 | Strachan who played only the first half engineered Leeds ' first goal with a 29th min cross for Noel Whelan to head in at the near post . |
| 27 | If you want information to go out at a specific time , time it very carefully , and just bung it out , as it were , and , and reckon it 's there at that stage . |
| 28 | If each overlay were drawn on transparent paper then a light table could be used to allow the viewer to look simultaneously at the spatial distribution of each attribute and to pick out by eye the areas of interest . |
| 29 | Wright knocked the free kick head high across goal and Wilkinson escaped his marker to nod home at the far post . |
| 30 | Doctors who treat food intolerance have observed the mental symptoms to clear up at the same time as the physical ones during an elimination diet , and to reappear when the patient tests particular foods . |