Example sentences of "[noun sg] at the [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The end result is an animal that looks very much like some kinds of oyster , although a glance at the internal feeding structures shows at once that they are brachiopods , unrelated to the bivalves they superficially resemble . |
| 2 | A GLANCE at the present political map of the South West shows almost all of the region under Conservative control . |
| 3 | Do they want to become MPs for the money ( some , it seems hard to credit , apparently are dim enough to think so ) , for the glamour ( one glance at the crumpled dandruff-laden figure putting the question should disabuse them of that idea ) , for the influence ? |
| 4 | Close-up of the molecular association at the crystallographic 2-fold axis . |
| 5 | Individual small bids ( up to £100,000 ) may be submitted on a non-competitive basis and the bidder receives stock at the mean accepted price . |
| 6 | Ruth jumped out of the jeep at the heavy wrought-iron gates . |
| 7 | And if there was any one reason which , more than any other , ensured his defeat at the ensuing general election , then surely it was the inability of the trade union movement to assume during what had therefore become the winter of discontent , the responsibility required of them as a justification of the power and influence they claimed . |
| 8 | Charles found his mother 's body in a bedroom at the luxurious thatched house . |
| 9 | A NORTH Belfast student has come home from her first attempt at the British Long Distance Swimming Championships with a medal . |
| 10 | And the president already has a seat at the future high table , the European Council . |
| 11 | In return Mafart and Prieur had their sentences commuted to three years which were to be served in exile at the French military base on the Pacific island of Hao . |
| 12 | A few minutes later he 's explaining that he recently left his agent at the powerful Creative Artists Agency so that , unlike almost everyone else in Hollywood , he would n't have to hand over ten per cent of everything he earned . |
| 13 | Some four years after a belated introduction to the first-class fold at the ripe old age of 27 , the quick from St Kitts did precisely that against Kent in a remarkable match at Guildford , then improved the bowling mark with 6 for 30 against Durham a fortnight later . |
| 14 | Only the rather crude , top-heavy , diagonal girder-work , supporting the new roof at the upper mezzanine level , spoils the effect — turquoise blue paint only serves to accentuate its impropriety . |
| 15 | In addition , the Non-Oral department at the Royal Residential Schools in Manchester was requisitioned as a military hospital for the duration of the war , and there was overcrowding in the Main School as a result . |
| 16 | In 1991 , Fujitsu loaned at no cost a prototype massively parallel computer , the AP1000 , to the Centre for Information Science Research at the Australian National University ( ANU ) . |
| 17 | There is general disgust at the short non-custodial sentences that are being passed because of the absence of space in prisons of various sorts . |
| 18 | ‘ He is a barman at the Great Eastern Hotel . |
| 19 | At our interview at the Royal Overseas League she was about to leave for a pit-stop author 's tour , with an immensely heavy bag containing a laptop computer on which she fires off requests and thank-you letters : to American Secretary of State James Baker for his introduction to President Mobutu , to the King of Spain for agreeing to host a fundraising dinner for a chimp sanctuary in Spain . |
| 20 | The secretary was directed to write to the Master of the Horse , asking leave to nominate him as president of the College at the forthcoming general meeting . |
| 21 | The statement was widely interpreted as applying specifically to his ambitious brother-in-law and former Superintendent at the Korean Military Academy , Kim Bok Dong . |
| 22 | And after what seemed like an eternity the door opened — and she stared in surprise and disbelief at the tall black-haired man with the blue , blue eyes . |
| 23 | According to the press , the vote at the Scottish Conservative party conference in 1988 at Perth was about 600 to 12 , the 12 being in favour of devolution , one of whom , I happen to know , voted that way simply because he was sorry for the minority . |
| 24 | And , thirdly , he presented the notion that this increasing state intervention and action at the local urban level inevitably ‘ politicizes ’ the provision of collective consumption and leads to the development of political activity expressed as ‘ urban social movements ’ . |
| 25 | The comedy of errors continued in this particular opening clash when Faldo , going for the green with a 3-wood across a strong wind at the shortened 10th hole , followed Strange into high trees . |
| 26 | Three men were later charged with attempted theft at the historic Old Customs House in Hartlepool , Cleveland . |
| 27 | ‘ That ! ’ said Orrie succinctly , and pointed a large brown forefinger at the top right corner of the window , where his periodic cleaning had not bothered to extend its sweep . |
| 28 | Last week , the ARC turned out in force at the National Agricultural Centre near Coventry to show farmers its work , and to persuade them to ‘ get more out of muck ; ’ . |
| 29 | Graham Tregidon became WRU president at the annual general meeting in June and one of the first things he did was go into print in the next issue of the union 's newsletter to plead unity . |
| 30 | The revised proposal was debated at the Extraordinary General Meeting on May 20th , 1983 , with a separate discussion on the question of the Committee constitution also taking place ; this new proposal was a virtual mirror image of the 1982 amendment which had been disregarded by the President at the Extraordinary General Meeting of that year ! |