Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] at an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Filmer came alone to sit at an untenanted table , ordering eggs and coffee from Oliver without looking at him . |
| 2 | Has more yellow on bill than smaller Bewick 's Swan , reaching below nostril at an acute angle . |
| 3 | See how they grab at objects whether they are edible or not and then spit them out , only to grab at an identical item soon after . |
| 4 | Pattern cutters , fitters , sewing hands and their assistants all worked at an incredible speed . |
| 5 | The Commission would have increased powers , including for the first time the power to propose legislation in the highly-sensitive area of home affairs on such issues as the right of asylum , immigration and residency rights ( hitherto discussed at an intergovernmental level in the " Trevi group " ) . |
| 6 | The investigating procedure is very naturally divided at an early stage into two aspects — the operational or operating circumstances in which the event occurred , and the examination of the aircraft remains . |
| 7 | With rents normally frozen at an obsolete level , entry fines were either certain , or , if technically arbitrary at the will of the lord , required by custom to be reasonable , which amounted to much the same thing . |
| 8 | When I write again in twelve months ’ time I shall be extremely disappointed if , world events permitting , we have not met our targets and are not looking at an improved set of results . |
| 9 | 1.4 Plans and photographs are indispensable in many personal injury cases and are best prepared at an early stage . |
| 10 | If the economy is not growing at an annual rate of 3 per cent by the middle of 1994 as the Chancellor 's Budget arithmetic assumes , revenues will be less buoyant and the spending on welfare will be greater than forecast . |
| 11 | Night fell , and after walking a few more miles down country roads , they finally arrived at an old house standing alone by a river . |
| 12 | Er the County Council can not look at an individual building and say , this is a particular piece of land which is going to be developed and this is going to have this particular impact on the environment . |
| 13 | If agreement for mutual exchange is not reached at an early stage , the defendant will have the advantage of first sight of at least one of the plaintiff 's medical reports . |
| 14 | Although no specific provision is made by the rules it can be anticipated that a practice of serving supplementary or additional witness statements will arise in cases in which the evidence can not be finally settled at an early stage , a paradigm example being personal injury cases in which there may be a permanent or continuing disability or a slow recovery . |
| 15 | More likely , we may suppose that we have not arrived at an exact specification of one or more of the ten . |
| 16 | The Financial Times of Feb. 28 commented that the move was likely to add to inflation , already running at an annual rate in excess of 100 per cent . |
| 17 | NI contributions are normally paid at an initial percentage rate on all earnings up to and including the lower earnings limit , and at a main percentage rate on earnings between the lower and employee 's upper earnings limit . |
| 18 | The first , golden rule is that children do not learn at an even pace . |
| 19 | With regard to other pets , puppies generally learn at an early stage not to pursue a cat sharing the home with them . |
| 20 | Something in me still revolts at an outright demand : it draws me into explanations of the connection between money and work . |
| 21 | The split was formally approved at an extraordinary congress in Prague on Feb. 23 . |
| 22 | The poverty figures are still growing at an alarming rate . ’ |
| 23 | A survey by Hay Management Consultants estimates that boardroom pay in Britain was still rising at an annual rate of 10–14% in the last six months of 1990 , although profits had long been tumbling . |
| 24 | He knew that he was oversensitive to the timbre of the human voice and hers , although not jarring or unpleasant , sounded a little forced as if she were deliberately speaking at an unnatural pitch . |
| 25 | Like finds at an archaeological site , each book listed there is an object that speaks for itself . |
| 26 | If some components have to be physically larger than the space provided or require other " upstream " or " downstream " components to be modified as well , then the consequences of pursuing such a concept must be similarly recognized at an early stage . |
| 27 | Occupation outside the main fort at Ilchester clearly began at an early date and probably included native elements . |
| 28 | Hume gives photograph after photograph of steepsided valleys in limestone and sandstone country in Egypt , which are obviously of watercut form , many of them containing caves , from which springs probably issued at an earlier period . |
| 29 | Because these constructions were both eliminated at an early stage of the transformation to normal form , we have so far not needed any such laws . |
| 30 | Riding to help out usually gives you rides on a better horse than you would probably find at an average riding school and without the expense ! |