Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [adv prt] at [adj] [noun] " 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 | Make the other tentacles in the same way , varying the direction of the curve so that when assembled the tentacles branch out at different angles . |
| 3 | One of the greatest of all sports car road races ever run , the Mille Miglia was first held in 1927 and , by tradition , cars set off at one-minute intervals from the centre of Brescia , raced down to Rome and returned . |
| 4 | The moths go in at 50 mph and hit the net at 5 mph so they do n't damage their wings . |
| 5 | The moths go in at 50 mph and hit the net at 5 mph so they do n't damage their wings . |
| 6 | Whether or not this control and its prerequisite knowledge remain as properties of a single ‘ command ’ module , or shift about heterarchically , both views are forms of what I shall later want to call a ‘ light up ’ view of consciousness : as in a pinball machine different areas light up at different times depending on the state of the game . |
| 7 | Many pilots give up at 1000 feet when there is still a fair chance of finding something and getting away safely . |
| 8 | JUN 1992 TOP post boxes and notice boards set up at various locations around the site and in mess rooms to communicate TOP news . |
| 9 | Children these days stay over at each other 's houses far more often than they did 20 years ago . |
| 10 | Such beachcombing activities go on at numerous places around our ‘ sceptred Isle ’ . |
| 11 | Broadcast schedules have to be planned in advance , programmes go out at regular times and have slots of fixed length . |
| 12 | The bears line up at one end of the room . |
| 13 | The children line up at one end of the room with the organizer ( grandmother ) at the other . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Your COSMOS FUNBREAK holiday to EURO DISNEYLAND departs , Central London from the Travellers Check In at 35–36 Woburn Place , London WC1 . |
| 16 | A look back at programmed learning shows how the concept began to arise . |
| 17 | All experienced knitters know that different dyes knit up at different tensions ( I certainly know this from my experiments with the ballet cardigans — there can be as much as half an inch or about five millimetres difference in measuring the forty stitches ) . |
| 18 | An RSPCA official said : ‘ This all seems very pointless because wasps die out at this time of year anyway . ’ |
| 19 | My goggles ice up at regular intervals and I wipe them with my glove , afraid that I will miss the trail a groundless fear as the dogs follow the pack scent . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |