Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [vb pp] at a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sam had a mental vision of a handful of ants thrown at a charging bull , but upbraided himself for cowardice . |
| 2 | The first definition , as in the studies described by Brehmer ( 1987 ) , is simply the total number of accidents recorded at a particular junction , the advantage of this measure is that it is a relatively easy number to obtain and easy for subjects to understand . |
| 3 | In the October heat haze we sat in stately convoy among huge 5-litre cars — all floating like ships becalmed at a docile 54mph . |
| 4 | The biggest increases in growth rate between the two periods , however , occurred largely in counties situated at a greater distance from London , namely ( in rank order ) Northamptonshire , Isle of Wight , Lincolnshire , Dyfed , Gloucestershire , Devon , Dorset and Hereford & Worcester . |
| 5 | Thus nearly four fifths of the perinatal deaths that occurred among women booked at a general practitioner unit did so in a consultant unit . |
| 6 | Industrialized villages were naturally most numerous in the North and parts of the Midlands , but even in the South some nineteenth-century rural communities were sustained to a large extent by wages earned at a particular craft . |