Example sentences of "[verb] at the [adj] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Piano music rippled out into the night as the richly costumed guests began to chatter and exclaim at the torch-lit façade and its huge swags of greenery laced with balloons and ribbons . |
| 32 | Caroline did a rapid mental calculation , frowning at the rugged coastline as they skirted the eastern tip of the island . |
| 33 | Usually the word is applied at the immature stage before the eye swells with rising sap , often changing colour a little — which helps to identify it on a leafless stem . |
| 34 | She had a studio in Reigate and exhibited at the Royal Academy and the Royal Society of British Artists . |
| 35 | The the question mark I 've got is tha is that I I certainly accept that , it 's the it 's the question of the work being done at the appropriate level and the erm , the the fact that two sub teams are working without a complaint examiner , and , but I |
| 36 | But this can only be done at the international airport and with the original exchange receipts . |
| 37 | Jules had tactfully made himself scarce on the pretext of work to be done at the new salon and now , two days after his visit to Maythorpe House , Harry was at last able to unburden himself . |
| 38 | He stepped away from her and she could have wept at the cold desolation that closed round her . |
| 39 | Modernity began in earnest with this industrialism — like the starting up of a great steam-driven machine , straining and clanking at the mechanical bit and snorting with impatience to be off . |
| 40 | Give them the power to choose at the General Election and they will decide the future of the N H S. The future of the N H S is safe with the Labour Party , with your lot it 's privatisation , it 's started already and we 're a General Election away from the end of the N H S. |
| 41 | Marriage was introduced by an endearing Charlie Drake-ish master of ceremonies whose slapstick humour little hinted at the Ortonesque parody that followed as , to an adapted version of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies 's An Orkney Wedding With Sunrise , Keith McIntyre assembled a three-dimensional Brechtian black and white tableau . |
| 42 | If such a risk is accepted , sooner or later the cable will break at the wrong moment and an accident will occur . |
| 43 | You 're not looking at the stream , you 're looking at the bloody quality and you ca n't stop yourself doing it . ’ |
| 44 | Each situation under which law is being used either against or by the peace movement will have to be analysed extensively by looking at the specific arena and the specific legal language spoken . |
| 45 | ‘ Well , well , ’ she said reprovingly , looking at the unfinished grate and thinking of all the other duties which McAllister should have performed by now . |
| 46 | However , where a term of a contract is unclear , is capable of having more than one meaning , or is specific to a particular trade or market , there is considerable scope for looking at the factual background or " matrix " known to the parties , in order to clarify how it should be applied . |
| 47 | Right , so we 're looking at the right price as well , O K , and what else are we looking for ? |
| 48 | I take in my opinion the size , scale of settlement that is being pursued by erm North Yorkshire is of sufficient size , erm my experience erm are twelve fifty to fifteen hundred new settlement is sort of of a size that can sustain a reasonable balance of community facilities , I think in looking at the new village and in the context of P P G thirteen its highway implications , we see from table one of er Mr Curtis 's supplementary statement that public transport , I E bus and train , in terms of journeys to work to the Greater York area amounts to about eight percent of all journeys made , now I think if we were to follow Mr Curtis 's view through and put all development on the periphery of York , if we put two hundred to the North , two hundred to the East , two hundred to the South and so on and so forth , the contribution that those , that new housing can make to improving the public transport system , will be very small , if you concentrate your developments in a new settlement , or or maybe two new settlements which is another point , erm you have a better opportunity to provide a public transport system which would not only serve that new village , but also settlements in the surroundings , and I think you will find that the percentage of people in the new village who are reliant on public transport as a means of getting to work is greater that what you find in the Greater York area at the present time . |
| 49 | then you see or somebody you know looking at the long jump and they 're muttering away to themselves . |
| 50 | The modern trend in medicine — like the ancient biblical view — is to see human beings as whole people , recognizing that it is bad practice to treat separate parts of a person without looking at the total man or woman . |
| 51 | Looking at the total expenditure and the economic projections , ministers decided broadly and in a preliminary way what limits had to be set for spending in the next financial year ( then about nine months away ) . |
| 52 | She does n't deserve a life like this , thought Mrs Jones , looking at the pale face and shadowed eyes before her . |
| 53 | She got ready for bed and then stood on the balcony looking at the moonlit night and the mountains . |
| 54 | Without any recourse to molecular interpretation Boltzmann proposed that " the forces which act on the surface of an elementary parallelepiped at the given time but also on the previous extensions , with the promise that the longer the time since they took place the smaller their effect . " |
| 55 | Abnormal development may occur if a protein is not made at the right time or place , or the protein is defective or if too little or too much is made . |
| 56 | We must implement the principle of ‘ subsidiarity ’ , that decisions should be made at the appropriate level whether that is local , regional , national or European . |
| 57 | Such submissions must be made at the pretrial review or preliminary consideration , or on application under Ord 9 , r 14 where more than £1,000 is claimed . |
| 58 | Erm I would imagine Tukuse that the the difference that you put in difference that you would get between the reportage , to use a French expression , of Princess Diana 's abdication from public life was probably quite pronounced between say for example the Sun newspaper and the Independent newspaper I would imagine that the Independent newspaper probably did n't play in any great significance , it was probably on the front page , perhaps not with a picture but erm there was a couple of columns of report erm the Independent is famous as being the newspaper which when Prince Charles and Lady Diana got married many years ago , they reported it with a single paragraph saying Prince Charles and Diana , the whole world went made at the Royal Wedding and the Independent had one paragraph , which many people , including myself , said right on . |
| 59 | Eleanor was right when she had said at the very beginning that he should have gone along with the corporate planning proposals to phase-out the UK Vehicle Division as a manufacturing operation . |
| 60 | I do not say this in a malicious way or to score debating points , but I said that the chairman of Scottish Nuclear had argued at the Nuclear Forum that there might be a case , in the strategic interests of the nation , to subsidise nuclear power . |