Example sentences of "[verb] at a [adj] [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was educated at a private school and later at the Bellevue Academy , Greenwich . |
| 2 | The operator told us that rubbish is smouldering at a considerable depth and it would take a lot of work to put it out . |
| 3 | On her way , out of shame that she would mess up the arrangements , she stopped at a small shop and got some fresh rolls and ham , some butter and some tins of Smithwicks bitter . |
| 4 | One of the changes introduced since the consultation period on the SAS 's exposure draft , published in May 1992 , is a distinction between an inherent uncertainty which may be expected to be resolved at a future date and one which exists because evidence does or did exist but is not available to the auditors and so arises because of a limitation in the auditors ' work . |
| 5 | The incumbent 's output starts at a high level and gradually declines , whilst the entrants ' output starts low and gradually increases the more it discovers about the market . |
| 6 | Babies do not , as doctors have always believed , grow at a steady rate but in stops and starts — even shooting up by half an inch in 24 hours . |
| 7 | I feel stupid if I cry at an emotional film or book |
| 8 | If an employee is required to work at a new location and the distance between the old and new places of work is short enough to make commuting possible , organisations may not require employees to move their homes . |
| 9 | Any movements of base level set the sea to work at a different level and the processes of subaerial erosion to grade to the new level . |
| 10 | When the change in angle is made smoothly , the glider will be climbing at a safe angle and will be able to recover if there is a launch failure at any point . |
| 11 | Witnesses in the car said Williams had not been driving at an excessive speed and had not been distracted in the moments before the car went out of control , said Mr Hardy . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , the farmers had to sell at a controlled price and vast sums were retained by Britain , exporting cocoa for dollars . |
| 13 | By subjecting the specimen to a tensile force applied at a uniform rate and measuring the resulting deformation , a curve of the type shown in figure 13.6 can be constructed . |
| 14 | They walk at a leisurely pace and if prodded , often ‘ play dead ’ . |
| 15 | If the target word was the only word selected at a particular position and was below the threshold score then it was replaced by ‘ ? ? ? ’ — the recogniser 's indication that it is unable to recognise any word . |
| 16 | Mr. Cooper replied by letter on 9 May 1983 , in which he pointed out the absolute necessity that tenants of the dock company should not be disturbed at a later date and seeking clarification that the council would not seek in the terms of their letter of 31 March to draw a distinction between ‘ extremely detrimental ’ and detrimental . |
| 17 | Every actual utterance is spatiotemporally unique , being spoken or written at a particular place and at a particular time ; and provided that there is some standard system for identifying points in space and time , we can , in principle , specify the actual spatiotemporal situation of any utterance act . |
| 18 | The light is then collected at a single detector and classified electrically . |
| 19 | The light is then collected at a single detector and classified electrically . |
| 20 | They allow desktop objects to be collected at a single point and emulate a paper notebook , displaying pages on the screen . |
| 21 | Business therefore expanded at a great rate and labour was not as well organised or well informed as it is today . |
| 22 | So we get involved quite a lot in looking at teaching in various parts of the university where people want us to , very often involving the students as well as the other teachers in looking at a particular course and seeing if there are ways in which perhaps it might be taught differently or in a way that worked better . |
| 23 | And one of one of the things that I 've got on a regular basis is the many of the things Harlow Council put on like pop concerts country and western have actually been used by people who who perhaps live outside of Harlow so the Council are now looking at a charging policy but also we should also gon na introduce into the theatre is the leisure card which actually includes that the people actually live in the town local and the reproductional sort of show if they can do so they should buy . |
| 24 | I was trying to hint at that this morning that we 're looking at a whole child and sometimes they 're not gon na succeed in a subject they 've put it cos there 's sod all else for them to put and we need to be aware of that . |
| 25 | ‘ We 're looking at a one-fight scenario or a two-fight scenario , ’ said Bowe 's manager , Rock Newman , referring to Bowe fighting Lewis first or after he has already had one defence . |
| 26 | The houses were to be built at a pre-arranged cost and the architectural detail of each was to be carefully considered . |
| 27 | Clayton 's development as a photographer had accelerated at a rapid pace and within 12 months he won 12 awards , including : |
| 28 | OK so the occasional ( ! ) taunt may be made at a footy game but it IS a football match after all and not a place for the fainthearted . |
| 29 | A + mistake may be made at a single point or a length of DNA may become temporarily dislocated and be reinserted in the wrong place . |
| 30 | Such policies can not work , because cuts have to be made at a difficult time and even more jobs are lost . |