Example sentences of "[vb pp] at [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The picture in her mind changed , and the glaring , venomous eyes looked out of the wasted features … to be succeeded at once by the smug face of another old woman . |
| 2 | The costs and benefits of the scheme are being looked at closely by the regional flood defence committee and the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food . |
| 3 | She was being carried at considerably over the legal speed-limit towards an unknown destination — and quite possibly what a Victorian heroine would have regarded as a ‘ fate worse than death ’ , since she could hardly imagine that Luke had gone to the trouble of virtually kidnapping her in order to spend a quiet weekend playing Scrabble . |
| 4 | To flush some out it is occasionally necessary to put a copy of the authority in a sealed envelope and insist it be conveyed at once to the chief executive . |
| 5 | What is more , information on the product included in the packaging ‘ must be precise and comprehensible , ( and ) must be provided at least in the official language(s) of the Member States of destination . ’ |
| 6 | The result , declared at 2am by the chief executive of the local council , Mr Brian Bird , was hailed by whistles , cheers and chants of ‘ Kinnock , Kinnock ! ’ |
| 7 | Firstly , the offensive must be spread at once to the Left Bank ; not , now , because this might represent the best way to Verdun , but ‘ rather on the tactical necessity of relieving our main attack ’ . |
| 8 | In a session lasting until one in the morning they had discussed Crime in Society with that lucidity which is only achieved at somewhere above the 100 mg per cent level of blood alcohol and with the comforting knowledge that one does n't have to drive home . |
| 9 | The lectures will all be held at 7pm in the Great Room of the Royal Society of Arts , 8 John Adam Street , London . |
| 10 | Meetings , held at 7.30pm on the first Monday of the month , now take place in a private room at the New Inn , Winsick , Nr . |
| 11 | Consequently , they are best advised at least for the first two years of recovery to concentrate primarily on just the one relevant Anonymous Fellowship . |