Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [vb past] at a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | These intermediate times show very clearly that all modes apart from the cycle had periods of fast or slow movement , whereas the bike continued at a consistent pace . |
2 | The court heard one of the burglaries occurred at an old people 's home . |
3 | The stick waggled at a great building nesting among its outhouses at the bottom of the village . |
4 | Behind them , the Monument leant at a crazy angle , its foundations undermined by the yawning pit beside it . |
5 | The President sat at a plain wooden desk to the right of the door through to the front room . |
6 | The LDDC decided at an early stage that this figure should rise to 30 per cent or so , as a result of a house-building programme that was originally set at 13,000 houses within ten to fifteen years . |
7 | He was also a reformer and builder ; his reforms were far-reaching in administration and law while the arts flourished at a high level . |
8 | The girl lingered at a secondhand clothes shop and was looking at grubby petticoats displayed on iron rods by the doorway , when a young man dressed in a shabby tail coat and check trousers came along and paused beside her . |
9 | The crash happened at a notorious accident blackspot . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | Between April and June 1971 speculation against the dollar ran at an annual rate of $14 billion . |
12 | Each of the poems looked at a different sort of love : that of parents and children , of friends , of lovers , of God … . |
13 | The match started at a fast and furious pace with much of the play contained in the middle of the park as both sides fought to gain control of the all-important midfield . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 ) . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | One officer came up to inquire of our purpose , while the other kept at a respectable distance hand on his holstered gun ! |
20 | 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 . |
21 | With a lot at stake for both sides the game began at a frantic pace with a goal arriving at each end in the first ten minutes . |
22 | Dr Robat Williams , who has devised the joint charter , said the launch came at a difficult time because of the General Election campaign . |
23 | In the fourth quarter of 1992 , the economy grew at an annual rate of 4.7% , which gave a roseate glow to Bill Clinton 's first few weeks in office but always looked too good to last . |
24 | PC Keith Upton , an accident investigator , told the inquest , the barrier broke at a welded joint and the car spun into the jagged edge . |
25 | So it was n't the fact that he 'd cut back on government it 's just that the government came , the spending came at a different er point in the , in the political structure . |
26 | The incident came at an awkward time , preceding by a few days a visit by the Chief Rabbi . |
27 | While discussion among the LCY progressed at a slow pace , new parties emerged . |
28 | The FT-SE closed at a new high of 2807.7 , up 18 points . |
29 | It was as if the sight of the man prodded at a dead spot within him , where no response would come . |
30 | With 45 ° of flap and a smidgen of power , the stall occurred at an indicated 35 knots although , as the manual points out , there is some degree of pilot head position error to be taken into account at high angles of attack and low airspeeds . |