Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [pron] at a [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He had the faculty of meeting everyone on the level , and Father had a story of seeing him at a political meeting , which he was probably chairing , walking arm in arm with the Grand Old Man himself , both talking . |
| 2 | Dewey , as is well known , divided knowledge into tens so that he could employ decimal notation ; when a particular subject turned out to have more than nine facets he had to group them together , often at the expense of logic , and if a new facet arrived in-conveniently there was no way of including it at an appropriate place in the hierarchy . |
| 3 | Both men also received annuities of 1,000 marks , which went some considerable way towards endowing them at a level appropriate to their rank . |
| 4 | He said the scheme could give confidence to youngsters who were in danger of losing it at a crucial time in their lives through adverse family or other circumstances . |
| 5 | This argument tacitly assumes that once the collapse begins there is no hope of stopping it at a later stage . |
| 6 | Of course , if you have a young family and feel water might be a hazard , the feature could become a raised sandpit or planter , which naturally gives you the opportunity of converting it at a later stage . |
| 7 | Finally retrieval is a separate process because of another familiar phenomenon that it is possible to know something , that is it must be in storage , but not actually succeed in retrieving it at a particular time . |
| 8 | informal rejection or acceptance of the planning proposal , without expressing it at a formal level |
| 9 | Although not strictly part of the academic programme , this is considered to be an important part of the project because if you enjoy your last experience of school , then you 're more likely to return to studying something at a later stage in life . |