Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [adv] at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the more glamorous film and photographic opportunities crop up at short notice , so you have to be flexible . |
| 2 | Other members of the group shift awkwardly at this picture of Arcadia in Southall , until an economist announces coldly that ‘ it is axiomatic that anything the state does it does worse than the private sector . ’ |
| 3 | Children these days stay over at each other 's houses far more often than they did 20 years ago . |
| 4 | Few workers have not at some time or another been strongly attracted towards a client . |
| 5 | A particularly fine view of the castle and indeed of most aspects of this shoreline can be obtained from the deck of the lake steamers which in the season call frequently at all lakeside villages between Thun and lnterlaken . |
| 6 | In the Western world ( though not often in developing countries ) many public library users read recreationally at one time or another , and large numbers of people read in this way almost exclusively . |
| 7 | The cottage was a pretty little place , furnished for comfort rather than style , with the living-room dominated by a huge fireplace , two big old armchairs set companionably at either side . |
| 8 | The men sleep together at one end of the dwelling , on a raised ledge covered with more clean straw which , of course , must be brought with them . |
| 9 | The bears line up at one end of the room . |
| 10 | When two deuterons fuse together at low energy , the neutron is liberated with an energy of 2.45 MeV . |
| 11 | The children line up at one end of the room with the organizer ( grandmother ) at the other . |
| 12 | Three men huddle uncomfortably at one end of the table . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | A look back at programmed learning shows how the concept began to arise . |
| 15 | Gradually some progress was made but the personnel of the movie industry in Britain and America have never at any level lost their feelings of inferiority . |
| 16 | Few biologists have not at one time or another marvelled at the exquisite fit that can be found between the characteristics of an organism and the characteristics of its environment . |
| 17 | An RSPCA official said : ‘ This all seems very pointless because wasps die out at this time of year anyway . ’ |
| 18 | She begins by saying , ‘ We all know that Sean and Michael had a bit of a barney today ’ ( Sean and Michael smile sheepishly at each other ) … ‘ and everyone else wanted to see … |
| 19 | Valuable metal , plastic , cardboard , rubber , energy go in at one end ; Trabant cars worth less than the sum of these parts emerge at the other . |
| 20 | Skills such as note-taking come in at this stage , and one way of approaching this is to use the questions originally formulated as a structure for notes taken , so that children are noting down things they need to know , rather than every conceivably useful point . |