Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv prt] at [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 A photographic memory enabled him to avoid the obvious suspicions which Special Branch officers noting the proceedings obviously fell under at such meetings .
2 The technology has evolved from operations already carried out at coastal sites in Scotland in which lengths of oil and gas pipelines are made into bundles which are towed offshore at control depths for installation at oil and gasfields .
3 The single European market means health checks are no longer carried out at British ports .
4 There is no reason anyway to reinvent the wheel , and we need to know initially what is already going on at different levels , in different forums , in different geographical areas , before engaging in a pilot project to network available training and encourage initiatives where there are gaps .
5 I had peripherally helped out at anti-apartheid offices , even gone on CND Easter Marches when I first came over , but it was always on the sidelines .
6 At this stage Vigilant was ten miles away moving in at eleven knots while the three other cutters were twenty miles away converging at twenty knots .
7 They gradually caught on at other establishments , although not on such a substantial scale .
8 Throughout the east Midlands ash trees were planted along the hedges , less often the elm , usually spaced out at wide intervals .
9 In Faye 's first painting , she had turned out so wraithlike and ethereal that she had secretly weighed herself on Faye 's bathroom scales to make sure she still came in at fifty-three kilograms .
10 Even when the weather is too bad for astronomical observing , Alcock still wakes up at two-hourly intervals during the night to make meteorological observations .
11 We complete if five degrees nose-down , still hammering along at 250 knots , but I push harder to increase the speed to 3400 , brace my stomach , and ease back until the g-meter reads a steady four .
12 As good Marxists the Bolshevik leaders tended to believe that following on the eventual restoration and ‘ correct ’ development of favourable economic conditions , ‘ correct ’ social and political attitudes would also come about at all levels .
13 Electricity generation is quite often carried out at coal-mine mouths , but ( as Joskow , 1985 , has documented ) under a variety of contractual relationships .
14 In the early part of the decade the term " pluralism " regularly cropped up at newer institutions such as the University of East Anglia , and , as was noted by a TLS correspondent , this term was " invariably meant to signal virtue " .
15 ‘ We were really young , and were almost burnt out at 21 years old , ’ explained Setzer .
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