Example sentences of "[to-vb] at regular [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fog-horn , its sound now muffled by the houses , continued to bleat at regular intervals . |
| 2 | It means that the stressed syllables in an utterance tend to come at regular intervals with a varying number of less stressed syllables in between . |
| 3 | In the store room next to the kitchen were a long table and shelves always covered with all sorts of provisions ; large earthenware jars full of confits of pork and goose , a small barrel where vinegar slowly matured , a bowl where honey oozed out of the comb , jams , preserves of sorrel and of tomatoes , and odd bottles with grapes and cherries marinating in brandy ; next to the table a weighing machine on which I used to stand at regular intervals ; sacks of haricot beans , of potatoes ; eggs , each one carefully dated in pencil . |
| 4 | The mist still limited visibility to less than a hundred yards and the fog-horn continued to blare at regular intervals . |
| 5 | During conventional manometric studies of oesophageal motility , the patient is asked to swallow at regular intervals to record deglutitive responses in the lower oesophageal sphincter and oesophageal body . |
| 6 | In this case it is syllables ( rather than stressed syllables ) that tend to occur at regular intervals , thus giving the language a staccato rhythm . |
| 7 | The theory also claims that while some languages ( e.g. Russian and Arabic ) have stress-timed rhythm similar to that of English , others ( such as French , Telugu and Yoruba ) have a different rhythmical structure called syllable-timed rhythm ; in these languages , all syllables , whether stressed or unstressed , tend to occur at regular time-intervals and the time between stressed syllables will be shorter or longer in proportion to the number of unstressed syllables . |