Example sentences of "[verb] at a [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Judging from remarks between Mr Carnwath , Mr Steele ( QC for Dyfed County Council ) and Mr Burrell , the prevailing view is that the inspector will find against McAlpine , but that the company will seek a Judicial Review in the High Court , where the arguments will recommence at a rarefied legal level . |
| 2 | MPs may be worked up over tonight 's vote , but Merseyside 's comedians in gyms , golf courses and top hotels whiled away the day laughing at a brave new Europe full of German humour , Italian efficiency and French bathing habits . |
| 3 | The deconcentration of administration where an activity is located at a more' local level as with field offices . |
| 4 | Today , the Games ' record in this event stands at a superb 48.63 secs , while Ireland 's record-holder , Willie Johnston ( 52.25s ) , would have given Devitt a three-metre start and beaten him ! |
| 5 | Tony Bowran stands at a full six feet . |
| 6 | ‘ You 've come at a gay bad time . |
| 7 | In the hills above the ruins of Capernaum near the Mount of Beatitudes we stopped at a natural grassy amphitheatre which could easily seat 10,000 . |
| 8 | As a youngster , growing up in the declining Lanarkshire coalfields , he trained at a local Junior ground wearing his father 's pit boots , trying to add strength and shape to his diminutive body . |
| 9 | He starts at a medieval Gothic window , a remnant of the first university in central Europe ( founded 1348 ) ; he pauses at the rebuilt Bethlehem Chapel , the site of where the Mass was first allowed in Czech , and Jan Hus preached before being burnt for heresy in 1413 ; he pays respects to the relics of the Jewish quarter with its ancient and crowded graveyard ; to cross the river he uses the Charles Bridge , lined with Baroque statues ( many between 1700 and 1720 ) , and climbs the hill to the Castle where art and architecture of all periods again further embellish the golden city of central Europe . |
| 10 | As to the much discussed pearwood wall panels , Italo Rota explains : ‘ We were looking for a simple idea that would allow visitors who had already looked at a good many paintings to connect some of them with unfamiliar settings ; the art of memory tells us that it is easier to retain images in one 's head if one can link them to a specific space ’ . |
| 11 | They have looked at a clear historical development , distinct traditions and geographical origins in determining this question , and so far have confirmed that Sikhs , Jews , and Gypsies , but not Rastafarians , are ethnic groups . |
| 12 | An episode which attracted particular concern was a strike that occurred at an obscure photo-processing plant in North London , the Grunwick works . |
| 13 | With 45 ° of flap and a smidgen of power , the stall occurred at an indicated 35 knots although , as the manual points out , there is some degree of pilot head position error to be taken into account at high angles of attack and low airspeeds . |
| 14 | Secondly , if England 's minders were fit to work at a half decent night club , how come their client was left rolling in the gutter early in the game ? |
| 15 | It involves transformation of data so that they are reported at a comparable geographical scale , projection and set of geographical units . |
| 16 | Direct proportionality , if I 'm driving at a steady sixty miles an hour , how far would I go in erm one hour ? |
| 17 | The reports from these committees were presented at a special general meeting on 17 May , as follows : |
| 18 | His formative years were spent living at a small terraced house in , a house which still remains in use today . |
| 19 | In The Favour , The Watch And The Very Big Fish Bob Hoskins plays a Paris photographer of religious themes who has to find a model for Christ on the cross and comes up with Jeff Goldblum , an ex-convict and former lover of an actress ( Natasha Richardson ) , who he meets at a pornographic dubbing studio . |
| 20 | When Hazel and Fiver reached the floor of the hollow they found Blackberry waiting for them , crouching on the peat arid nibbling at a few brown stalks of sedge-grass . |
| 21 | If income above OA is taxed at a constant marginal rate , the individual is then on the schedule BC with a constant slope . |
| 22 | What 's so excitin' about lookin' at a poxy empty yard on a night that 's fair set ter freeze the cobblers orf a brass monkey ? ’ |
| 23 | President Paul Biya , in his address on June 29 at the congress of the sole legal party , the Cameroon People 's Democratic Movement ( Rassemblement démocratique du peuple camerounais — RDPC ) , hinted at a possible future adoption of a multiparty system when he declared that the party " must be prepared to face possible competition " . |
| 24 | Between 1950 and the mid 1970s in the Bolivian Andes , the production of cold and temperate-climate crops , grown by the peasantry , expanded at an average annual rate of 4.4 per cent , particularly high levels being recorded in the 1950s after agrarian reform ( Ortega 1982 ) . |
| 25 | Over this period the stock of such investments has expanded at an average annual compound rate of just under 19% . |
| 26 | Analysts said they expected the group to have no big problems persuading shareholders to approve the restructuring plans at an extraordinary general meeting on December 21 . |
| 27 | Crohn 's disease occurs at an unusual high frequency among patients with Turner 's syndrome , known for its association with autoimmunity . |
| 28 | Cos if you 're looking at a two hundred capacity conference for er |
| 29 | and i if , I mean i if you take 's argument , if you take 's argument , they are all to do with , with provinces in the south and , and the argument is that here we have , we are looking at a commercialized viable economy and both and and for example are all arguing really that landlordism is not the problem the problem is that you , you , you , you you need to go further in terms of commercialization and that that , and that 's the way to go . |
| 30 | She started to brush it off , then realised she was looking at a battered Ten Pound note . |