Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [to-vb] at a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This enormous gift that , despite all the trying things that went with it , Phoebe had received ; this capacity to look at a thing and know that , because it must be done , it is the doing of it that brings freedom and salvation . |
| 2 | A ‘ birder 's bird ’ , it is one of the most difficult species on the British List to identify at a distance . |
| 3 | It is also made aware , by this ability to feel at a distance , of the movements of other fish swimming alongside it , an important ability for those species that form shoals . |
| 4 | The men from the lorry picked their way through a graveyard of broken stones to pray at a sheikh 's white-domed tomb , while we made our way across a wide flood plain of gravel and cracked mud to the river . |
| 5 | Incidentally , the pineapple is a sign of hospitality , making this a very appropriate dish to serve at a party . |
| 6 | Please make early arrangements to pay at a council office or post office ’ . |
| 7 | The typical pattern is for the Japanese businessman to eat at a restaurant in the evening and thereafter go to a bar or cabaret . |
| 8 | Erm , resolution that Synod appoints Jo , John as Synod clerk for a period of up to three years to commence at a date mutually convenient to him and the present Synod clerk . |
| 9 | In other words , for a human being to stare at a cat is to threaten it . |
| 10 | He took 17 hours to hatch at an ostrich farm at Weeton , Lancs — egged on by ranger Philip Bowness , who used an African trick of whistling to encourage him . |
| 11 | Prospects for the highest-rated shares to open at a premium of up to 30 per cent continued to look good as the stock market held steady yesterday . |
| 12 | Prospects for the highest-rated shares to open at a premium of up to 30 per cent continued to look good as the stock market held steady yesterday . |
| 13 | The intention was to reduce it to that rate which would constrain aggregate demand to grow at a rate which could be met by increases in real output . |
| 14 | Nor do we have Betcher 's Gland , which would let a Marine secrete corrosive poison to spit at a foe . |
| 15 | He was not a lady 's man in the accepted sense , rather he championed and encouraged single women to travel at a time when it was still considered bad form for a respectable young lady to take a shopping trip to London unchaperoned , let alone visit the Continent . |
| 16 | This is particularly important since it locates a mode of production as an essential totality , and is thus not dependent upon this or that outstanding feature to arrive at a determination . |
| 17 | Perhaps , in retrospect , rather a dull pair to have at a dinner party . |
| 18 | Richard Rolle 's at times flamboyant attempt to arrive at a form of living which would express his compulsive and impulsive drive towards personal realisation of the love of God , brought the circumstances of his life into prominence . |
| 19 | Luciano Pavarotti took a night off from his sell-out performances of Tosca at Covent Garden last month to appear at a Masterclass for four up and coming young singers . |