Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [verb] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Employers constantly gnawed at the high level of wages which had been built up during the First World War . |
| 2 | His elbows were on the table edge , his heavily ringed fingers idly scratching at a thick black beard as though it aided his concentration . |
| 3 | These different roles played by the designs normally existed at a subconscious level , and different societies have attached more weight to one or the other . |
| 4 | B. T. Some of the inspectors always appeared at the wrong time . |
| 5 | It may not be necessary for all cars always to stop at a red light at a crossroads , but to have any other rule , such as ‘ stop when reasonable to do so ’ , or ‘ stop unless the road is clear ’ , invites chaos . |
| 6 | The hippos , she thought , with a sure hunter 's instinct , the hippos always mate at the full moon , to whelp during the monsoon , as they had since Tertiary times . |
| 7 | But for larger numbers of mutational steps , even in the case of the biomorphs with their nine little genes , the mathematical space of all possible trajectories is so vast that the chance of two trajectories ever arriving at the same point becomes vanishingly small . |
| 8 | It would thus be only for those films with generally low levels of subjective risk or few moving objects that subjects actually looked at the fixed information even in the recognition phase and were thus able to be biased by it . |
| 9 | In his assessment of the problem Hauge also points to the fate of some 118 nuclear vessels currently stationed at the Russian port of Murmansk . |
| 10 | With rents normally frozen at an obsolete level , entry fines were either certain , or , if technically arbitrary at the will of the lord , required by custom to be reasonable , which amounted to much the same thing . |
| 11 | ‘ The Robin ’ was originally created in 1862 , and is one of 367 rare colour plates now held at The Natural History Museum , London . |
| 12 | The same argument can explain why different functions often decline at a similar age : synchronous collapse does not imply a single mechanism of senescence ( J. Maynard Smith , personal communication ) . |
| 13 | One of the criticisms sometimes levelled at the whole group drama approach is that it always seems to involve lots of meetings and discussions , and that this disadvantages those children whose grasp of language is uncertain ; that this " type " of drama can rapidly become nothing more than a heated discussion involving only the teacher and the more articulate members of the class . |
| 14 | The talks , aimed at tackling practical regional matters such as water-sharing , economic development and the environment , brought together the broadest gathering of Arab states ever to sit at the same table with Israel . |
| 15 | As the blades only meet at a single point when cutting , they retain their sharpness for a lifetime of use . |
| 16 | Last year , nearly £300 had been collected for the Spanish Fund , and within the space of a month , including Xmas no less than three large indoor meetings had been held , of which one was the Town Hall meeting at which one of the largest collections ever received at a Labour meeting in Leeds was taken up . |
| 17 | This will considerably help cash Mow problems for new haulage firms and hauliers still operating at a modest turnover . |
| 18 | The reported comments among Leipzig workers also hinted at a possible prolongation of the war through the entry of America into the conflict , and it was seen as vital that the Führer bring about ‘ a lightning quick destruction of England — with gas if necessary ’ . |
| 19 | It can be very frustrating to leave home in perfect conditions only to arrive at the chosen beach with rain and an unfavourable wind . |
| 20 | These are not things much taught at the 14th-century Sorbonne . |
| 21 | Revenue figures necessarily start at a modest level and even 100 per cent growth leaves us with a level only slightly less modest . |
| 22 | JOKES NOT TO TELL AT THE FRONT DOOR |
| 23 | Because the Australian aborigines still exist at the hunter-gatherer level of culture they have no need for a weaning trauma in early childhood as is found among all primitive agriculturalists , and consequently children , although experiencing a period of oral dependency as they do in the West , linger in that stage , do not have to give it up and , in a sense , remain unweaned until adulthood — or , certainly until initiation , which is essentially the same thing . |
| 24 | The writer discovered or was introduced to Robinson Crusoe too early , so that it appeared to be a tedious book ; Mervyn Peake 's Gormenghast trilogy appeared a little too late , so that he accepted it with a little less excitement than it deserved ; and Proust 's Remembrance of things past came at the right moment when he had the tenacity for the task . |
| 25 | Without ever approaching that with the metropolis in magnitude , coastal trade between provincial ports probably increased at a faster rate . |
| 26 | Moreover , at the beginning of such crises the production of consumer goods either remained at a high level or actually continued to increase . |
| 27 | Some things never change at a Labour conference . |
| 28 | The Deputation also received a copy of Resolutions recently passed at a Special Meeting of Visitors . |
| 29 | A similar paradox can arise with other norms supposedly based at a biological level , but there are cases that avoid it . |
| 30 | The ends of any roofing felt overlap into the gutter , and the gutters generally run at a slight slope to the downpipe which carries the water away . |