Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] at a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It makes your heart beat at an invigorating pace . |
| 2 | In the United States government support for organised labour came at a later date than in Europe ( only in the mid-1930s ) , and even then it still remained open to employers to try to persuade their own workers ( short of using overt coercion ) not to vote for union bargaining rights ( i.e. they still maintained ‘ an ethical mandate to continue with their belligerent behaviour towards unions ’ ( Adams , 1981 , p. 287 ) ) . |
| 3 | Behind them , the Monument leant at a crazy angle , its foundations undermined by the yawning pit beside it . |
| 4 | Billions were needed to improve the urban infrastructure , a black mayor said at a Clinton-Brown debate , $6 billion , for a start , for a project in New Jersey . |
| 5 | Torpedo-shaped glass lifts offered noiseless access to the different levels , on one of which a pianist sat at a grand piano playing classical music while an enormous golden pendulum suspended from the roof swung slowly from one side of the atrium to the other . |
| 6 | But he got a pattern made and had the base of the machine made at a local foundry and he made all the leverage parts and got the , he got the blades made in Sheffield or somewhere and er he made one for himself . |
| 7 | Based on the shape of this receptive field , they then search for the stimulus that gives the best response from it , and in Figure 7 you see that one particular cell responded best to movement of a bar oriented at a particular angle , and also that it only responded when this bar moved in one direction . |
| 8 | When work ceased at an industrial estate near Liverpool ( within daily travelling distance of Leyland ) , Mr Stevenson was offered work at a number of other sites : Northumberland , Anglesey and Manchester . |
| 9 | The same groups of women are at risk : those of a promiscuous nature , and particularly those whose first sexual intercourse occurred at an early age . |
| 10 | The first skirmish over the national security issue came at a closed hearing on Jan. 11 when it was reported that the prosecution had accused the lawyer of one of Noriega 's co-defendants of improperly disclosing classified information when making an earlier request for access to National Security Council records . |
| 11 | THE YORKSHIRE COUNTY CRICKET CLUB YEARBOOK 1992 — McDermott 's withdrawal came at a bad time : an anticipatory profile of the Queensland firebreather leads the 92nd edition , followed by a réumé of others born outside the county line . |
| 12 | The crash happened at a notorious accident blackspot . |
| 13 | Mum was the word in Bournemouth as work proceeded at a feverish pitch on a stunning new exhibition at the ExpoCentre . |
| 14 | Migration continued at an undiminished rate through the seventies . |
| 15 | Between April and June 1971 speculation against the dollar ran at an annual rate of $14 billion . |
| 16 | In the 1960s a man with an American accent arrived at a coastal resort in South Wales and announced that he represented an American corporation which wished to purchase a leisure and amusement arcade in the town . |
| 17 | Revised figures show that Britain 's GDP rose at an annual rate of 1.4% in the first quarter , up from the original estimate of 1.1% . |
| 18 | Membership grew at an astonishing pace , reaching close to 30,000 in the late 1970s . |
| 19 | While the country 's heritage vanished at an ever-faster rate , our town centres would sprout cosmeticized precincts and flower boxes and hold congratulatory receptions . |
| 20 | Behind the glass an official from the Political Branch scowled at a worried-looking black . |
| 21 | were in effect suggesting that the inner psychological motivations for racism existed at a deeper level of social reality than the socially shared norms of tolerance . |
| 22 | Now , a tale of mysterious goings-on in the Bronze Age.New evidence uncovered at an archaeological dig suggests it may have been the site of ritual human sacrifices . |
| 23 | A tomcat sprang at a mounted knight , |
| 24 | The output of goods and services declined sharply in the fourth quarter ; preliminary estimates suggested that gross national product ( GNP ) in the quarter fell at an annual rate of 2.1 per cent ( after adjustments for inflation and seasonal factors ) , the sharpest fall since the third quarter of 1982 when GNP fell at an annual rate of 3.2 per cent . |
| 25 | One officer came up to inquire of our purpose , while the other kept at a respectable distance hand on his holstered gun ! |
| 26 | On 30 minutes , Farnham 's defence was all over the place at a free-kick and the ball fell at a perfect height to an unmarked Lamboll who struck an unstoppable volley past Cann . |
| 27 | ‘ Nikos ! ’ she called , gesturing excitedly , waving the cloth as a head appeared at an upper window . |
| 28 | However , the head had at a previous meeting made the point that the self-appraisal reports were confidential and could not be read by other departments . |
| 29 | Own label development continued at a rapid rate . |
| 30 | The banker sat at an enormous desk surrounded by acres of carpet , in a room hung with what looked like Dutch Old Masters , though I suppose they may have been reproductions . |