Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] at the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Howard almost laughs aloud at the young man 's distaste for the prospect . |
| 2 | If one looks only at the outer signs , one may see a cantankerous , dotty old person , but in the soul something very different may be perceived . |
| 3 | Great torque , good mid-range power , but needs more at the top end . |
| 4 | If the baby looks more at the new patterns , it indicates that he/she can discriminate them from the original . |
| 5 | One of the richest and most ancient human civilisations lies today at the cultural roots of the world 's most economically vibrant region . |
| 6 | Katina MacDonald , widow of one of their descendants lives there at the present time . |
| 7 | The simple end-product arrives only at the fifth attempt . |
| 8 | My throat hurts again at the very thought ! |
| 9 | The strong relationship between syntactic category and coverage exists only at the first level of information . |
| 10 | Last year we had the fine Scottish Opera production in Newcastle , now it is the turn of Darlington with this production , which ends tonight at the Civic Theatre . |
| 11 | As the term increases rapidly at the higher interest rates , you need to insert extra values of the interest rate to produce a smooth curve . |
| 12 | There is no problem with amplifying a speaker 's voice because in a room of any size you do not hear the individual 's voice as such and the electronic sound reaches everywhere at the same time . |
| 13 | He smiles slightly at the vague feeling of hope he now feels . |
| 14 | Carreras will sing arias from Verdi 's La Traviata and Donizetti 's L'Elisir d'amore , and a duet from Lehar 's The Merry Widow with Yvonne Kenny , who opens tomorrow at the Royal Opera House in the title role of Handel 's Alcina . |
| 15 | The exhibition which opens today at the Imperial War Museum features their letters and memories of the time , along with those of their fellow Atlantic evacuees . |
| 16 | When calculating the mutual inductance we assumed that the magnetic field due to I1 appears instantaneously at the second ring . |
| 17 | Ma appears briefly at the French window , then disappears upstairs , running , holding her mouth with one hand . |
| 18 | Is it not true — as my hon. Friend the Member for Bradford , South ( Mr. Cryer ) pointed out — that as much public money goes to one CTC , to which parents who have not gone through the normal process will have access , as to all the other schools in the area , and that it goes there at the same rate ? |
| 19 | Langford and Williams ' work with renowned listed pubs since 1987 puts the company in a favourable light with conservation societies such as The Victorian Society , SPAB , and the Georgian Group ; we have even been known to win a few CAMRA awards yet at the same time the firm has also brazenly converted redundant pubs to café-bar concepts . |
| 20 | As Westergaard and Resler say ( 1975 , p. 101 ) , ‘ sex inequality in pay reinforces class inequality : it strikes hardest at the lowest levels of the occupational hierarchy ’ . |
| 21 | It does well at the lower temperature , and will take some time to adapt to the temperatures above 70°F . |
| 22 | Alex Lightbody , the reigning Irish champion , will also do his cause a power of good if he does well at the British Isles Championship in Worthing . |
| 23 | The patient ( Uma Thurman ) seems to have undergone a severe childhood trauma ; the sister ( Kim Basinger ) is married to a handsome Greek gangster ( Eric Roberts ) and runs amok at the least taste of alcohol . |
| 24 | Our second tour begins nearly at the opposite pole , with Jan Mayen , a small , ice-gripped island in the Arctic Ocean , roughly half-way between Greenland and Arctic Norway . |
| 25 | Yet the aim is for individuals on both sides to come together and explore , ex tempore , mutual areas of interest in the conference venue , the Glasgow Hilton , ( ’ I expect a lot of the business to be done in the corridors ’ , said Howell ) or at the Computer Solutions Show which runs simultaneously at the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre . |
| 26 | And erm each one begins here at the Archaeological Resource Centre and takes you through alleyways and back passages explains , where to go er with drawings text and explains it all . |
| 27 | It 's all the same stuff you know , we ca n't move forward unless it comes forward at the other end |