Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [verb] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The accused did not have the intention permanently to deprive at the relevant time . |
| 2 | In 1940 , Mannheim concluded : ’ Where unemployment and crime both stand at a high water mark , it can safely be assumed that the latter is largely due to the former . ’ |
| 3 | Wolfenden also hints at the other motives behind the widespread public indignation . |
| 4 | Charities for the homeless report that 5,000 new people a year arrive on the streets and that the total figure now stands at a staggering 300,000 for the whole country . |
| 5 | The economy-minded president even stayed at the four-star Buda Penta Hotel rather than the grander Grand Hotel overlooking the Danube . |
| 6 | The work of Freud , and subsequent psychoanalysts , has indicated that when the pain of unexpressed feelings is not recognized or acknowledged , the subconscious mind ensures that such recognition never re-emerges at a conscious level , but it can nevertheless be a major subconscious influence on the social performance of the individual . |
| 7 | The judge effectively looked at the overall plan and examined the position before and after the plan in order to see where the element of bounty lay . |
| 8 | ‘ If corn etc. continuing at the high price 't is now , 't is to be left in the breast of the churchwardens and overseers to advance what they think proper — if corn etc. falls during the year no deductions to take place … ’ |
| 9 | Lucille absently brushed at the dried blood on Sharpe 's threadbare jacket . |
| 10 | ‘ The only thing I ever have nightmares about , ’ Andy says , his gaze still directed at the unseeable loch , his eyes still wide . |
| 11 | Organic activity is closely related to climatic controls , but vegetation type also varies at a local scale as a result of topographic factors and soil properites . |
| 12 | We have just introduced a new law specifically aimed at the so-called ‘ joy-rider ’ . |
| 13 | During the subsequent weeks the haematocrit usually stabilises at a low level , but only at the expense of a two- to three-fold compensatory expansion of erythropoiesis . |
| 14 | As exemplified by the year two data shown in Table III , fewer patients with ileal and caecal inflammation or ileal inflammation alone grew at a subnormal velocity . |
| 15 | The prevalence of a state is defined as the proportion of a population so categorized at a given point of time regardless of when those affected entered the state . |
| 16 | Muslims may step up action on Rushdie Joanna Coles finds Islamic community still raging at The Satanic Verses . |
| 17 | Many Americans who lived through the war years and remembered quite vividly the virtual hatred and perceived Japanese treachery fuelled during the war probably stiffened at the presented Japanese viewpoint but it remains , for the most part , historically accurate . |
| 18 | The Daurog group now crouched at a cautious and respectful distance from the fire . |
| 19 | We expressed , to the small group now assembled at the innocent French people who had been killed in this tragic disaster , but they all said , very sympathetically — ‘ C'est la guerre ’ . |
| 20 | Quiss was led by the dwarfish scullions , through the banked ranges past gleaming tubs , boiling vats , open fires and grills past rows of massive , wing-nutted pressure cookers guarded by blast screens , under huge n-shaped pipes , bubbling and gurgling and leaking steam , and over the dainty , counter-sunk tracks of a narrow-gauge railway until eventually he saw a wall ahead , and was led up a rickety wooden staircase to a narrow gantry then stopped at a small wooden door set into the wall . |
| 21 | Safety Never look at an exposed , working , U/V tube . |
| 22 | Business therefore expanded at a great rate and labour was not as well organised or well informed as it is today . |
| 23 | Weight loss does lower the metabolism in that every time you lose one pound , you will need to eat about 18 calories a day less to stay at a stable weight . |
| 24 | Designs giving decade or binary steps are popular , the latter enabling an indicating instrument connected to the output always to operate at a substantial fraction of full scale as the input signal changes , with attendant reading accuracy advantage . |
| 25 | I have of course had the advantage of considering this matter er previously , and I have had the chance also to look at the various objections that have been made . |
| 26 | I make no claim to supernatural powers , nor do I believe in guardian angels et cetera , but suddenly a vision of what is about to occur flashes vivid and uninvited , inside my forehead : the screams , the blood-covered sheets , Pa scurrying round the lawn snatching up the pink and white scraps , calling to his God then staring at the bloody morsels of his daughter as though they 're a jigsaw with missing bits . |
| 27 | ‘ A deferred rate mortgage is one where the mortgage is charged all the time at the normal APR , but the consumer only pays at a reduced rate during the early years , ’ Mr Ellis explained . |
| 28 | Victoria , at last , went to sleep and did not see the slow beginnings of London nor wake when the train finally halted at the arched and echoing terminus . |
| 29 | London traffic now moves at an average speed of eleven miles per hour . |
| 30 | The NPV method simply discounts at an agreed discount rate . |