Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv prt] at [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | That way , your 30 days terms will mean 30 days instead of meaning anything from 30 to 60 days ( which averages out at 45 days or 50 per cent more days than 30 days ) . |
2 | The NTV , with its headquarters in Lagos , had television stations in all nineteen state capitals which link up at certain times — especially for the main evening news bulletin — and have federally appointed management . |
3 | ‘ It was hard at first getting into the routine of doing a set programme , especially the 6am run , which started off at 30 minutes and is now at 50 . |
4 | The branch had previously disclosed that a BA fitter had used the wrong bolts to secure the windscreen panel , which fell off at 17,000 feet , 20 minutes after take-off . |
5 | The rock is also riddled with tunnels , some of which come out at secret entrances in the forest below . |
6 | This road forms the focus for an irregular network of side-streets and lanes which lead off at diverse angles and provide access to land and buildings behind the frontages . |
7 | It is a problem which comes up at various points in considering the relations between biology and human practices , and may be put in the following way : how is a phenotypic character which would present itself in other species as a behavioural tendency represented in a species which has a culture , language and conceptual thought ? |
8 | Are you going in at ten pounds and away . |
9 | ‘ Oh , I do hope that I 've done well , ’ Anne told Diana when she arrived back at Green Gables . |
10 | But when she arrived back at Green Gables , Anne knew at once that something was wrong . |
11 | Whatever desperate or mundane disappointments might lie ahead , as we gazed down at those phantoms from another age I felt that we had become travellers in time . |
12 | Nowadays , when we look back at old photographs and films of the 1950s rock and roll craze , and the Teddy Boys , it is easy to wonder what all the fuss was about . |
13 | Then there 's a steep approach when we nose down at 30 degrees . |
14 | • Tell your friends when you 'll be working and ask them to call round at other times instead . |
15 | So , they kick in at different stages . |
16 | They just energetically throw the pebbles around , and big pebbles and small pebbles respond differently to this treatment so they end up at different levels of the beach . |
17 | Nor do they branch off at acute angles or form perfect oblongs . |
18 | The pilot agreed and together they took off at 1047 hrs . |
19 | They knew quite as much about human nature at the Foreign Office as they did down at any police station . |
20 | A veteran of Vietnam and Korea , it weighs in at fifteen tons and guzzles a hundred and fifty gallons of fuel an hour . |
21 | Where before he went off at obtuse tangents , now he takes the songs where he wants them to go rather than let them control him . |
22 | Paul Johnson 's production is a masterwork of clarity and while it does n't quite haul itself up to the avant-garde peaks of Celtic Frost , it hammers off at enough tangents to cover almost all the bases . |
23 | Paul Johnson 's production is a masterwork of clarity and while it does n't quite haul itself up to the avant-garde peaks of Celtic Frost , it hammers off at enough tangents to cover almost all the bases . |
24 | The chip set continuously digitises the signal as it flows in at 25 frames per second ( or 30 frames per second if it is NTSC ) and passes the data to another chip set ( in reality , a complete microprocessor in itself ) which enables the digitised signal to be manipulated . |
25 | Flashman , who made his fortune touting tickets , insisted yesterday that he was acting only in self defence when he struck out at three photographers , including TODAY 'S Chris Turvey . |
26 | A timer can be fitted to an immersion heater so that it comes on at specified times of the day . |
27 | They were first developed on seaplanes to encourage them to take off at lower speeds and are now a common feature on speedboats . |
28 | But of course there had been no communication between her aunt and Silas for three years , therefore she was unlikely to be aware of what went on at this back-blocks property . |