Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [v-ing] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is that ambition functioning at a high level or is it just a sense of obligation or is it idealism ? |
| 2 | The reason that you use hot air is to keep that combustion going at a good temperature . |
| 3 | His plan was based on the marine lieutenant landing at the Old Quay slipway in the North Harbour and creating a diversion there , while Jones himself landed , undetected it was hoped , on the south foreshore , put the battery there out of action and then , passing round the town , knocked out the North Battery , before joining up with the other party to burn the shipping in both harbours . |
| 4 | Chest x ray showed evidence of previous tuberculosis and some pleural thickening at the left base , which was thought likely to be long standing ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 5 | Was silly old Eli sitting at the wrong gate ? |
| 6 | This tin of Day and Martins metal polish gave me some trepidation looking at the vast areas of iron ferrous . |
| 7 | I laughed silently as I sat against a hard cushion in the palm-frond house looking at the brown eyes around me . |
| 8 | She cackled , delighted with the queasy mixture on the plate , hot brown coffee lapping at the pale wedge of sugared pastry . |
| 9 | Benchmarking represented a period of enforced introspection beginning at the strategic level and percolating through the organization as the change process progressed . |
| 10 | So all in all an excellent result for Washroom which now looks to be a good stable portfolio increasing at a respectable rate . |
| 11 | Nice , quiet bed , with a cool , cotton pillow for my throbbing brow and a playful breeze puffing at the open window , lifting its frilly skirt like a peeping Tom . |
| 12 | When cleaning carpets and tiles always keep the multi-purpose nozzle moving at a steady pace . |
| 13 | A former executive officer with the civil service working at the National Engineering Laboratory , East Kilbride , she was now physically and mentally handicapped . |
| 14 | The so-called " excretory system " is very primitive , consisting of a canal within each lateral cord joining at the excretory pore in the oesophageal region . |
| 15 | They quote the comprehensive review by Haggard and Hughes , which states that glue ear probably causes considerable disability only if it results in persistent impaired hearing starting at an early age . |
| 16 | I 'm usually too absorbed in my work to spend much time looking at the other students . ’ |
| 17 | Easily Accessible : The village of Raskelf is a rural community lying at the northern end of the Vale of York , a few miles from the Hambleton Hills which form the southern edge of the North York Moors . |
| 18 | If we now look at what happens to total product between O and O L 1 units of labour and we can see total product rising at an increasing rate , right , which implies our marginal product positive but increases over that range O to L L 1 right , between the the range O L 1 and O L 3 , right , the total product is rising but at a decreasing rate a decreasing rate that implies that the marginal product is still positive , right , but falling . |
| 19 | They should be assembled " out of the way " at the top of memory ( each routine starting at a known address ) and then PROC_saved . |
| 20 | This protectiveness has been especially strong in Sian , as before we got here there was an ‘ incident ’ in which an Australian girl teaching at the Foreign Language Institute was attacked and injured ( a fractured scull ) by a son of one of the workers who worked in the Institute . |
| 21 | I closed my eyes and thought about the trapped , compressed spring and the little slug sitting at the shiny bottom of the rifled tube . |
| 22 | Did you see that one advertising triple glazing at the same time as his double would you believe ? |
| 23 | It is best , perhaps , not to speculate whether the hostelry still exists in which he discovered ‘ … a low-spirited little man sitting at an empty ‘ bar ’ and hiding himself , as it were , from all mortal inspection behind the full sheet of a dirty provincial newspaper . |
| 24 | She wore a great deal of make-up at all times , but that day , perhaps just as primitive man might have painted his face as a protection , she was garnished with particularly bright eye colours and lipstick , so that it was a little garish mask staring at the two policemen . |
| 25 | And that leads to the third , less obvious , reason : the market-place itself , to work efficiently , needs consumers who know how prices compare , and who act on that knowledge buying at the right price , not buying if the price is too high for this to have an influence on prices , through traders who set attractive prices competing successfully against traders who set inflated prices , it is by no means necessary for all consumers to be actively price-conscious . |
| 26 | without any tangible benefit starting at the same day that is your , that is your problem . |
| 27 | Parents and staff at school , and local residents who use the crossing , are united in this petition for a pelican crossing to replace the current zebra crossing at the earliest opportunity . |
| 28 | In the city he is just another casual labourer working at the lowest level of urban employment . |
| 29 | These examples are relevant in the present context as the equitable no conflict rule is formulated in terms of a " reasonable man looking at the relevant facts and circumstances of the particular case " thinking that " there was a real sensible possibility of conflict " . |
| 30 | Looking around for a possible light , we noticed an elderly couple smoking at a nearby tables . |