Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [verb] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the skeg placed at the very back , there is also less chance of spin out . |
| 2 | I recommend that the funding continue at the present level , with an inflationary consideration — £5,954 . |
| 3 | The front of the hurricane tore at the lower flanks of the mountains , rending great trees from the rain forest and tossing them aside as if they were little more than sticks . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The writer works at the impossible task of creating a poem , a narrative , which tries to narrow the gap between the signal and what is signalled : tries to reverse the separation between the world and what we write about the world . |
| 6 | ‘ The award comes at a good time . |
| 7 | She had rejoiced at her childlessness , and even found the heart to laugh at the lamentable end of her father 's fond dynastic ambitions . |
| 8 | The second government measure increased producers ' bargaining power with financiers by reserving for British films a portion of the money taken at the domestic box office . |
| 9 | The case comes at an embarrassing time for the world 's largest industrial company , which is already deep in the red and under attack for its bureaucratic management style . |
| 10 | As well as being fully adequate at the beginning , the text ends at a suitable and sufficient point ; the possible significance of this can evidently easily be missed . |
| 11 | Two general reviews of the field presented at an introductory level are Bally et al. |
| 12 | This is a specific application of ss34 and 35 of SGA 1979 where the buyer is given the right to examine the goods for the purpose of ascertaining whether they are in conformity with the contract determined at the contractual delivery point . |
| 13 | If there is no stated requirement for a quorum , persuade the Chairman to start at the advertised time even if only you and he are present . |
| 14 | I loved the programme and the people but I made the decision to leave at the right point , before I could grow bored . ’ |
| 15 | As he knows , the decision made at an earlier stage not to complete the slip road was considered to be ludicrous . |
| 16 | An important body of support was secured to the alliance by the decision taken at the Annual Conference of the Co-operative Party by 2,343,000 votes to 1,547,000 to endorse the Reynolds news manifesto . |
| 17 | All of us should know by now of the decision taken at the special church meeting on 13th May to go ahead with the purchase of the Camphill building . |
| 18 | I went behind the music-stool to look at the Greek pottery . |
| 19 | THE BARCELONA BALL was the highspot of the social agenda for the 324 guests who attended the function held at the Old Swan Hotel Harrogate , and organised by the National Westminster Bank Leeds and Harrogate areas . |
| 20 | No Special Relationships exist for the user requested at the present time . |
| 21 | The route begins at the bonny little village of West Burton , climbs on to Penhill and then descends by drove road and field path to the ruined Crusaders ' chapel , returning at last by leafy lanes to the village . |
| 22 | Participants listened to the story read at an even pace of around 120 words per minute and had to write down all the errors they could detect as they heard them or insert the missing word . |
| 23 | ‘ The Queen felt it would not be right for the duchess to stay at the main house , even though there is room , because of the marriage split . |
| 24 | The stick waggled at a great building nesting among its outhouses at the bottom of the village . |
| 25 | THE Court of Appeal has the power to increase Dr Courtney 's seven-year sentence if it feels the term imposed at the Old Bailey is ‘ unduly lenient ’ . |
| 26 | It is interesting to note how even euphemisms , symbolizing but not presenting marked terms , can be the more amusing for the conspiracy between scriptwriter , actors and audience in recognizing the term signified at the same time as superficially recognizing that its use is a taboo not to be broken . |
| 27 | Planning officers had recommended refusal although chief officer Tony Noble warned that they may have to pay costs if the applicant succeeded at a subsequent appeal . |
| 28 | The action proceeds at a leisurely clip , filtered through Richard 's bemused and occasionally befuddled consciousness ( a disabling hangover gets a welcome tick on the checklist ) . |
| 29 | The hammer fell at the lower estimate of DM250,000 ( £625,000 ; $1 million ) for El Lissitzky 's mixed media work from the ‘ Proun ’ series ; it fell at DM110,000 ( £44,000 ; $70,400 ) , exceeding the reserve , for Sandor Bortnyik 's Cubist watercolour of a newspaper reader . |
| 30 | Behind them , the Monument leant at a crazy angle , its foundations undermined by the yawning pit beside it . |