Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] at a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE owner of an ailing hotel battled it out with planners yesterday at a public inquiry . |
| 2 | Believe me , it is not until you are standing with a bucket of icy water in one hand and a wet sponge in the other , looking twelve feet up at a grubby Beaver , that you start to appreciate just what a big aeroplane it is . |
| 3 | Japan 's annual Unix Fair was held a couple of weeks ago at a new venue in Yokohama , attracting 89 exhibitors and 37,000 visitors . |
| 4 | The enhanced results which can be obtained using a combined therapeutic regime are well illustrated by a study which we had the opportunity of carrying out about three years ago at a residential health establishment in Crieff . |
| 5 | They accused him of giving information to the police about a robbery a few weeks earlier at a local company . |
| 6 | Differentiation ( Fig. 50 ) is readily made between the two on gross examination or with a hand lens , when the cervical alae of T. cati are seen to have an arrow-head form , with the posterior margins almost at a right angle to the body , whereas those of Toxascaris taper gradually into the body . |
| 7 | Findlay and Francis were both indicted ( with others ) with conspiracy to rob and also with substantive counts of robbery , including two robberies five weeks apart at a sub-post office in Hainault . |
| 8 | In the same vein , Winter explains that ‘ [ i ] fconsumers prefer yellow widgets to blue ones or widgets with safety features to plain ones , and if they will pay the true cost of such improvements , the monopolist ignores their tastes only at a financial cost . |
| 9 | This has been done in a similar fashion to Martin 's approach , where the fret ends are chopped off square and then individually rounded , rather than by running a fret file down the sides of the neck and lopping all the ends off at a 45 degree angle . |
| 10 | The train going west to Prague was empty and unheated , and arrived two hours late at a different station ; but the weather in Bohemia was a few days ahead of Olomouc and the capital was clear and bright . |
| 11 | We had to put the babies down at a certain time and leave them — it was horrible . |
| 12 | Apart from the kick of waving your tits around at a caged man . |
| 13 | They force the children forward at a steady pace . |