Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labour fingers jabbed at the Liberal Democrats , while Tory order papers were waved in the air . |
| 2 | Mandeville sneered as his strong teeth tore at the coarse rye bread . |
| 3 | In agreement with the strong protection observed at the central guanine residue , DNase I footprinting analysis of the same fragment reveals that digestion at the corresponding phosphodiester bond is severely impaired by the bound protein ( Figure 1C , left panel ) . |
| 4 | The UK experience since 1979 does not provide convincing evidence in support of the thesis that monetary policies determined at the national level and with disregard for policies in the country 's main economic partners can yield significant benefits . |
| 5 | Their primary concern was the possibility that the decline of American influence in Southeast Asia could still precipitate an American-sponsored military pact of ASEAN states directed at the Soviet Union . |
| 6 | The public flogging anticipated at the annual general meeting of the City watchdog , Fimbra , may well fail to materialise . |
| 7 | Among those noting Xu 's habit of using just one board ( ingredients are so fresh and so quickly prepared that food poisoning is not considered a threat ) is Keith Mitchell , team captain of the British chefs competing at the culinary Olympics in Frankfurt next year , and head chef at the Grand Hotel , Eastbourne , East Sussex . |
| 8 | Thus those with good ideas would still keep credit for having them , and researchers would benefit from a source of interesting proposals generated at the front line . |
| 9 | His plan was based on the marine lieutenant landing at the Old Quay slipway in the North Harbour and creating a diversion there , while Jones himself landed , undetected it was hoped , on the south foreshore , put the battery there out of action and then , passing round the town , knocked out the North Battery , before joining up with the other party to burn the shipping in both harbours . |
| 10 | I also found certain sections of the press grossly biased ; and when a representative of the Daily Express called at the New English Weekly office and asked for a copy of the relevant issue , I thought I might be involved in a libel action . |
| 11 | In the special election to complete Heinz 's term , his platform had emphasized the need to switch from social programmes aimed at the poor to programmes offering something to average non-affluent US citizens , especially on health care ; to cut middle class taxes ; to boost unemployment benefits ; and to protect jobs from low-wage Mexico 's competition ( a reference to the North American Free Trade Agreement currently in the final stages of negotiation ) . |
| 12 | Brief Ecstasy ( 1937 ) , for example , is a powerful drama centring on a woman who has married her professor and abandoned work for a life ‘ sitting all day knitting jumpers for my husband ’ , who is then thrown into a whirlpool of desire when her one-time lover arrives at the marital home . |
| 13 | Old Den stood at the opposite side of the grave with Tommy Drennan , each with a cord ready to help lay Celia and Dermot Murphy to rest . |
| 14 | Yoghurt Muesli is a unique product with a crisp bite aimed at the many consumers who eat yoghurt with muesli . |
| 15 | SCOTTISH fencers excelled at the British Age Group Championships , Croydon . |
| 16 | It began with the statement : ‘ Perhaps the favourite accusation thrown at the National Front by its multi-racialist critics is that we are simply a bunch of bigots , that our stance on Race , the very heart and core of our political being , is no more than ignorant prejudice against Coloured people ’ ( Vanguard , April 1987 ) . |
| 17 | Even the fascist is laying claim to membership of this community , as he seeks to rebut ‘ the favourite accusation thrown at the National Front ’ . |
| 18 | The tegulae ( paraptera of some authors ) are a pair of small scale-like sclerites carried at the extreme base of the costa of each fore wing : they are rarely present in connection with the hind wings . |
| 19 | The UK had no direct representation in Tripoli , although two British officials worked at the Italian embassy to represent British interests . |
| 20 | Foreign investors looked at the higher yield of gilts over German government bonds without worrying about exchange risk . |
| 21 | Was silly old Eli sitting at the wrong gate ? |
| 22 | A major exhibition of Tibetan art opened at the Royal Academy on 18 September as reports are coming out of Tibet that the Chinese have recently completed the ‘ restoration ’ of the Dalai Lama 's Potala Palace and the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa . |
| 23 | He saw two German troopers spurring at the second Frenchman . |
| 24 | It is quite a different matter to produce a weekly or daily paper aimed at the widest possible audience , with the aim of informing it about national and local , as well as African and international , news . |
| 25 | There must surely be more acceptable ways to protest at the Turkish occupation of that part of the island . |
| 26 | At a muddy little pond halfway up the hill swallows were dive-bombing its insect life and three brown pigs browsed at the further end of the meadow . |
| 27 | 4 I had a terrible dream — I was being chased round the Tower of London by a gyre frabjous. 5 Seventeen whiffling Jabberwocks burbled at the vorpal dagger brandished under the Tumtum tree by our brave hero . |
| 28 | In a report which it described as " definitive " , the US Justice Department confirmed on Oct. 8 that Josef Mengele , the German doctor based at the Nazi death camp in Auschwitz , had drowned in Brazil in 1979 [ for German announcement see p. 38891 ] . |
| 29 | And I was fortunate that my scientific reputation increased at the same time that my disability got worse . |
| 30 | the interlinked corpus difference : it is more common to have several different documents open at the same time , e.g. a tutorial document that links to a reference document . |