Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] at a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The old Eagle Warehouse had the appearance of a curve at the west end of Bothwell Street , though in fact it was made up of four straight sections each placed at a shallow angle . |
| 2 | A practical circus consists of a series of tasks each placed at a different position in the room . |
| 3 | Mr Horn , of Hurworth Moor , resigned from his £34,000-a-year job as education officer in charge of forward planning before he was due to appear at a disciplinary hearing at the council 's headquarters in Matlock last week . |
| 4 | Figure 2.3 looks at a similar period for Europe . |
| 5 | This enabled them once again to draw up a profile of those high-risk subjects who developed schizophrenia , which turned out to be similar to that reported at an earlier stage of the research . |
| 6 | This occurred at an end-of-season game where a large crowd was gathered to celebrate the team 's promotion to the second division . |
| 7 | Television is at least one escape and just like all the other trivial pastimes , should allow the unemployed to participate at a reduced rate . |
| 8 | This proceeded at a faster pace in services than in industry . |
| 9 | That looking at a bald head , a stupid girl , and something else . |
| 10 | Scientists working in a team , each looking at a separate facet of a problem , may well throw light on details , but they are no more likely to make fundamental discoveries than monkeys with typewriters . |
| 11 | But that Triple Crown and Championship of ‘ 85 came at a terrible price . |
| 12 | After observing the industrious building of castles in the air in the past few days , I thought it would be appropriate to look at an odd phenomenon that has puzzled meteorologists for the past ten years : the series of giant mushroom-shaped cloud formations round the periphery of the Siberian land-mass . |
| 13 | Apart from pure nostalgia , perhaps this is because in the ‘ old days ’ it was fairly easy to look at a faulty circuit , identify components used for specific functions , replace them and get the set going again whether it was commercially or home-made . |
| 14 | Once all work on the system has been completed , then the ground must be tidied up and left in such a state that it is easy to assess at a later date what rabbits have been left behind . |
| 15 | Implementation of this part of the Criminal Justice Act is not only a challenge to joint working at a local level , it also straddles two central government departments . |
| 16 | A couple of his men , apparently under orders from Epitot , were content to follow at a respectful distance as she and Karelius went for a stroll in the city . |
| 17 | It is odd — one of the anomalies of science — that it is possible to look at a single entity as if it were either one thing or another , apparently quite different thing . |
| 18 | Other competitors include Audi 's new 80 2.8E V6 and the forthcoming new Volkswagen Passat VR6 , likely to sell at a similar price . |
| 19 | ( Care must be taken in interpreting these probit equations : note that positive because the higher the price the more likely it is that all will be sold ; is positive because as the horizon approaches one gets less fussy , and so one is more likely to sell at a lower price ; the other signs follow from similar arguments . ) |
| 20 | OPTIONS : Any regiments of Dwarfs may be equipped with either spears at an additional cost of +1 point per model , or crossbows , at an additional cost of +3 points per model . |
| 21 | Granted better luck he should get his head back in front and is likely to start at a reasonable price in this company . |
| 22 | Since the matter is important , I wonder if you would take the trouble to write to me again , indicating particularly whether such other arrangements as you will be making are likely to commence at an earlier date than one might otherwise suppose . |
| 23 | It is clearly imperative to arrive at a correct diagnosis of the origins of involuntary unemployment . |
| 24 | When you telephone someone you are more likely to intrude at an inconvenient time and not realize it . |
| 25 | Some of those arguing for mixed-ability teaching did so on the narrowest professional grounds that it would improve teaching and learning , obliging teachers to treat pupils as individuals each proceeding at a different pace and in a different manner . |
| 26 | ‘ You mean , if you cut that picture up into four — which would be a distinctly pro-life act if you want my opinion and gave it to four different restorers , they 'd each stop at a different point ? ’ |
| 27 | We all met at a pre-luncheon reception and then adjourned to the dining hall to sample the culinary delights which were to space our classes for the next five days ; four classes with dancing after dinner was the order of the day , all meticulously time-tabled . |
| 28 | If digit 4 develops at a high concentration , digit 3 at an intermediate concentration , and digit 2 at the lowest concentration , then one can visualize how both the normal and mirror-image patterns arise . |
| 29 | And he wanted to make similar remarks about our initial belief that though we use the same language and agree on the words with which to describe the colours of the objects around us , still we might for all we know see the objects completely differently ; an object that causes in me what I call a sensation of red may cause in you what I would call a sensation of blue , though we can never know this since we will continue to agree on what to say and on how to act in our differently coloured environments ( we will all stop at a red traffic light , for instance ) . |
| 30 | Moreover it inevitably ran into difficulties and criticism in the early 1980s when the American economy was in serious trouble — with a steep rise in oil prices and no agreement on how to conserve energy , and with inflation , unemployment and interest rates all running at a high level . |