Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [to-vb] [adv] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Garry Whannel traced four main themes in the analysis of football hooliganism in the popular press in the 1970s : fans were ‘ mindless/senseless ’ ; they were ‘ maniacs/lunatics ’ ; ‘ foul/subhuman ’ ( which led some fans to chant back at the police and the respectable public ‘ We hate humans ’ ) ; finally that they were ‘ so-called supporters ’ and in a small minority , i.e. they made up only a very small percentage of the crowd and they had little interest in the game itself . |
| 2 | Years of irresponsible budgets have obliged America 's fiscal policy to work perversely at a particularly awkward moment . |
| 3 | On the way to my next appointment with Denis King , a piano and some Joyce Grenfell songs , I stopped at a nearby theatre to smile winsomely at the box office boys in the hope that they 'd recognize me , in spite of my Titian disguise , and sell me some tickets for their sell-out play . |
| 4 | When we reached the jetty we paused for a few moments to look across at the islet . |
| 5 | Seen now , these early British films still have a feeling of freshness and spontaneity that derives from the natural performances of non-actors , and a loose approach to framing which allows interesting material to get in at the edge of the picture . |
| 6 | Mercer used his pace in the second half to get in at the corner after Harmon 's effort and Forster scored after a quick-witted kick by Turner , who also kicked five goals . |
| 7 | ‘ Let's have a picnic , ’ she said , telling herself that next week she would make a real effort to work again at the practice of virtue . |
| 8 | ‘ It is the right moment to look critically at the structure . |
| 9 | Miss Probst points out that the law gives the private sector a strong incentive to clean up at the lowest possible cost . |
| 10 | In time , however , she rose and moved off to sample the hedgerow , stretching her long , white neck to nibble delicately at the tips of the hawthorn . |
| 11 | A disadvantage of budget schemes is that if your fuel consumption is underestimated , you may have a large sum to pay out at the end of the year . |
| 12 | It may be questioned whether this change achieves very much of a practical nature since ( a ) one still needs to look back at the common law of detinue to determine what constitutes the new form of conversion and ( b ) there still survive two torts of interference with property which have a considerable overlap with conversion , i.e . |
| 13 | Doctors who treat food intolerance have observed the mental symptoms to clear up at the same time as the physical ones during an elimination diet , and to reappear when the patient tests particular foods . |
| 14 | They assumed that pupils , mostly boys , of course , who were failing on the school reading scheme simply needed more and more opportunity to slog away at the phonics and sight vocabulary while under tight supervision . |
| 15 | The sediment at the bottom of the sea permits nuclear waste to leak out at the rate of 1 metre per 10000 years not 10 years as appeared in last week 's article ( Technology , 17 February , p 442 ) . |
| 16 | We require a new trainee Honorary Treasurer to take over at the A.G.M. in April . |
| 17 | And in fact in the early stages I got one man working for me and er I went back into teaching again for a short time to help out at a school where the the the teacher was ill , and I was teaching in the morning and then doing two-man jobs in the afternoon , and he was doing one man jobs in the morning . |
| 18 | Have you got a spare T'shirt to put on at the end if it gets cold ? |
| 19 | Regression enables the former child to look back at the situation through the eyes of the adult he or she has now become and to see the reality of it all . |
| 20 | And tonight , her desperate impatience to go out at a particular hour … |
| 21 | It 's known as the Vadinamian Valve , and it 's big enough for only one ship to pass through at a time . |
| 22 | I picture richly rewarding learning environments : I walk , unnoticed , into a creative activities period in Jos ( Nigeria ) where the children remain too absorbed in their various tasks to look up at a stranger , however unfamiliar . |
| 23 | Not as much as I would like to be , however , as the night class I joined in September 1991 did not have enough support to run again at the beginning of this year . |
| 24 | This course is designed to produce graduates conversant with the techniques of physics and chemistry and armed with the necessary mathematical skill to work effectively at the chemical/physical interface . |
| 25 | Like thoroughbred horses chafing at their bits before an important race , they are liable at any moment to sprint off at a hundred miles an hour in the wrong direction . |
| 26 | Vitor strolled over to the open door to look out at the house with its quaint latticed windows , its white-painted shutters , the walls awash with waterfalls of crimson bougainvillaea . |
| 27 | Instead he put her feet to the ground , then took a clean handkerchief to dab gently at the broken skin , saying as he did so , ‘ There 's a first-aid kit in the minibus . |
| 28 | It has all necessary powers to look again at the problem it has created and decide whether it is in the overall interest of the locality to have a commercial port . |
| 29 | You get a nice space to sit down at the table |
| 30 | This objection can easily be overcome by allowing two students to work together at the terminal — a method which appears to facilitate learning . |