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 Behind them , the Monument leant at a crazy angle , its foundations undermined by the yawning pit beside it .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 The crash happened at a notorious accident blackspot .
12 Mum was the word in Bournemouth as work proceeded at a feverish pitch on a stunning new exhibition at the ExpoCentre .
13 Migration continued at an undiminished rate through the seventies .
14 Between April and June 1971 speculation against the dollar ran at an annual rate of $14 billion .
15 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 .
16 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% .
17 Membership grew at an astonishing pace , reaching close to 30,000 in the late 1970s .
18 Behind the glass an official from the Political Branch scowled at a worried-looking black .
19 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 .
20 A tomcat sprang at a mounted knight ,
21 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 .
22 One officer came up to inquire of our purpose , while the other kept at a respectable distance hand on his holstered gun !
23 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 .
24 ‘ Nikos ! ’ she called , gesturing excitedly , waving the cloth as a head appeared at an upper window .
25 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 .
26 Own label development continued at a rapid rate .
27 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 .
28 The BDA at the end of " the decade stood at a critical juncture at home , but its place within the international deaf community was firmly established through membership of the World Federation of the Deaf ( WFD ) .
29 Nothing in the metal 's fundamentals has changed since a month ago , when the price languished at a seven-year low of $126 an ounce .
30 Dr Robat Williams , who has devised the joint charter , said the launch came at a difficult time because of the General Election campaign .
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