Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [adv] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Waves slap maliciously at the armoured barnacle clusters , attempting to wrench the resident seaweed back to a deeper grave . |
| 2 | Officials laugh ruefully at the miserable performance of collective farming , and suggest it may be phased out . |
| 3 | Traffic lights blink impotently at the odd cyclist who now , as later , ignores them . |
| 4 | This is not to say that complementary therapies act only at the psychological level . |
| 5 | It may well happen , however , that the users of a hierarchy ( in the case of a lexical hierarchy the speakers of the language ) have positive intuitions concerning which items belong together at a given level ; and these intuitions may conflict with the level assignations according to technical criteria . |
| 6 | Seldom , do you see two players play well at the same time . |
| 7 | However , it must be remembered that these groups work best at the initial stages of research when concepts still have to be clarified ; they can never replace a properly constituted sample . |