Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [adv] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ankles remain together at all times and feet should be over the knees . |
| 2 | Many of the more glamorous film and photographic opportunities crop up at short notice , so you have to be flexible . |
| 3 | Make the other tentacles in the same way , varying the direction of the curve so that when assembled the tentacles branch out at different angles . |
| 4 | Neighbours say the animals bark incessantly at all times of the day and night . |
| 5 | One of the greatest of all sports car road races ever run , the Mille Miglia was first held in 1927 and , by tradition , cars set off at one-minute intervals from the centre of Brescia , raced down to Rome and returned . |
| 6 | But Langmuir probes work only at low temperatures , far below that needed for fusion . |
| 7 | Flour beetles breed best at 25 C , so you should try to find a warm room or cupboard where you can keep them for 3 or 4 months at least . |
| 8 | Each of several characters is followed through twenty-four hours and their lives touch only at certain points in the narrative . |
| 9 | The moths go in at 50 mph and hit the net at 5 mph so they do n't damage their wings . |
| 10 | The moths go in at 50 mph and hit the net at 5 mph so they do n't damage their wings . |
| 11 | Whether or not this control and its prerequisite knowledge remain as properties of a single ‘ command ’ module , or shift about heterarchically , both views are forms of what I shall later want to call a ‘ light up ’ view of consciousness : as in a pinball machine different areas light up at different times depending on the state of the game . |
| 12 | Many pilots give up at 1000 feet when there is still a fair chance of finding something and getting away safely . |
| 13 | JUN 1992 TOP post boxes and notice boards set up at various locations around the site and in mess rooms to communicate TOP news . |
| 14 | Children these days stay over at each other 's houses far more often than they did 20 years ago . |
| 15 | Few workers have not at some time or another been strongly attracted towards a client . |
| 16 | The Ogres point significantly at any Halflings or Dwarfs among the adventurers . |
| 17 | In this example the following specification is used : trains run regularly at 15-minute intervals throughout the 24-hour period . |
| 18 | Such beachcombing activities go on at numerous places around our ‘ sceptred Isle ’ . |
| 19 | Broadcast schedules have to be planned in advance , programmes go out at regular times and have slots of fixed length . |
| 20 | In the Western world ( though not often in developing countries ) many public library users read recreationally at one time or another , and large numbers of people read in this way almost exclusively . |
| 21 | At an informal level officers and councillors meet frequently at civic functions , receptions and so forth as well as before and after official meetings , and this too , serves to blur the formal relationship between them . |
| 22 | The cottage was a pretty little place , furnished for comfort rather than style , with the living-room dominated by a huge fireplace , two big old armchairs set companionably at either side . |
| 23 | Digital mobiles witter noisily at high frequencies . |
| 24 | The men sleep together at one end of the dwelling , on a raised ledge covered with more clean straw which , of course , must be brought with them . |
| 25 | The bears line up at one end of the room . |
| 26 | When two deuterons fuse together at low energy , the neutron is liberated with an energy of 2.45 MeV . |
| 27 | The children line up at one end of the room with the organizer ( grandmother ) at the other . |
| 28 | Three men huddle uncomfortably at one end of the table . |
| 29 | Outside of London , too , generally over the South , the West and the South-east , a decline in real wages set in at some point in the two decades centred on 1760 , as money wages fell behind rising prices . |
| 30 | * Older pupils do better at given questions than do younger ones . |