Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [verb] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said he said erm he thought people might be less willing to speak at the meeting if they knew it was being recorded , which seems entirely reasonable . |
| 2 | Thank you Chair , er , obviously this comes at the end of er , of er , a series of reports where we 've put back additional or complementary revenues and the last item , number T , talked about a twenty thousand capital contribution , er , the budget will bring all this together , and if I could just add one erm , update on the first page , where paragraph three , and talk about the provision resource allocation to this Committee being a reduction of fifty thousand from the community based budget . |
| 3 | You 're sometimes so busy looking at the wood that you do n't smell the trees are rotten . ’ |
| 4 | I was so busy looking at the coach . |
| 5 | They could go into the chapel , and the Adam library , and the red drawing-room , and with a bit of luck they 'd be so busy looking at the Chippendale and the Hepplewhite they would n't notice the holes in the rugs . ’ |
| 6 | Some theories , especially those pitched at the level of the international system , refuse to enquire what the human actors have in their heads . |
| 7 | You are only obliged to pay at the London venue . |
| 8 | WITH MILLIONS of spotty young upstarts being so alarmingly eager to please at the moment , I guess that the slightly askew likes of Strangelove should be welcomed with open charms . |
| 9 | She was still sufficiently girlish to blush at the formula compliment . |
| 10 | But I was so confident I would feel the solidness of either chub or root my reactions are not prepared to stop at the end of the strike . |
| 11 | Not easy to prise at the rim of the bolt , because this was a purpose-built carriage . |
| 12 | An excellent air conditioning system , independently variable between the driver 's and passenger 's sides and fitted as standard , improves on an already good ventilation system , although its controls and high-tech graphic display are not easy to understand at a glance . |
| 13 | Angelica 's eyes were just visible staring at the wall , unblinking . |
| 14 | There 's not much talk at the moment of what is going to happen to the specially designed and equipped premises at Newcastle Arts Centre which it will leave behind . |
| 15 | The option is clearly to the advantage of the developer , in that : there is low initial capital commitment there is opportunity to resolve problems and obtain planning approval The faces less competition than would be found if the land was sold at auction or tender if the scheme is abandoned the option need not be exercised On the other hand problems can arise where there is a substantial downturn in the market and it is not viable to proceed at the price agreed in the option agreement . |
| 16 | Believe it or not Numerate arrived at the stables of Tania 's father , Peter , yesterday . |
| 17 | This problem is more likely to arise at a time when the patient is unconscious and can not be consulted . |
| 18 | What seems objectionable in Matza 's argument is that he clearly believes there is a ‘ hierarchy ’ of stances in relation to deviance , not just alternatives : the appreciative stance is portrayed as superior to either the romantic or the correctionalist in that it is inherently more likely to get at the truth . |
| 19 | Not only does this mean that you are more likely to get at the truth , but it is also likely to be more fruitful for whatever purpose you have in mind . |
| 20 | Er and erm it 's difficult for people to maintain er not only as I say , but in their lifestyle over a particular period of time , so you could be more likely to get at the truth by this method , than by sending out questionnaires . |
| 21 | There are situations where the reciprocal of a rate would make more sense than the original rate : ergonomists , for example , might find it more natural to look at the time it takes a person to produce a fixed number of items rather than at the output a person produces from a machine in a fixed period of time . |
| 22 | Rather than trace individual papers in detail , it is more useful to look at the development of particular classes of paper . |
| 23 | In the context of nurses and health visitors returning to work it might be more useful to look at the ways in which regrading affects your application and appointment , and to provide you with general advice on what to expect from employers in due course . |
| 24 | However , support mechanisms for information seeking in the online environment , such as shelf browsing and more sophisticated contextual subject access features , could encourage the searcher to use the catalogue and ultimately lead to more effective searching at the shelves . |
| 25 | If we wish to discuss changes in punishment it is perhaps more helpful to look at the percentage of those found guilty receiving different types of sentence . |
| 26 | This makes it all the more important to arrive at the interview well prepared . |
| 27 | And it was Silvia , not Ronni , who was the first to arrive and the more reluctant to leave at the end of each lesson . |
| 28 | Perhaps the scarcity is of trombonists keen to seek the front of the platform — it may be more appealing to lurk at the back , menacing one 's colleagues from behind . |
| 29 | With the end of the season in sight it is always worthwhile looking at the trends in diving accidents that have occurred . |
| 30 | Seldom is anything genuinely new shown at the Earls Court venue , normally used more as a glorified car showroom by the manufacturers than as a showcase for forthcoming cars and innovative ideas . |