Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [verb] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I tell the truth , honest I do ! " one was shouting , and it and a few others tugged at the lower edges of the few furs he still had on and pulling on his under-breeches where they appeared out of the top of his boots . |
| 32 | I can tell him , however , that over the 1980s GDP per head in this country rose at an average rate of nearly 2 per cent . |
| 33 | Two of the reasons for this reputation came at the first two majors of the 1986 season — the US Masters and US Open . |
| 34 | Another agreement concluded at the same conference , namely the 1907 Hague Convention V on Neutrality in Land War , also has relevant provisions , especially Article 1 : ‘ The territory of neutral powers is inviolable ’ . |
| 35 | It is interesting in this context to look at the large ( 2 MW ) windmill built largely by students at a college complex in Tvind , Denmark . |
| 36 | The preceding section has emphasised the day-to-day actions in the money market , but it is also useful at this stage to look at the aggregate position in recent years which is shown in Table 6.2 . |
| 37 | This section looks at the many different forms of retailing , and how different sorts of shops and stores operate . |
| 38 | This section looks at the first two of these applications . |
| 39 | Furthermore , each child learned at a different pace in every subject area and this pace was uneven , reflecting the whole range of influences upon the child external to life in school . |
| 40 | ‘ The Bradys do n't have that much money to scatter at the Royal Hotel . ’ |
| 41 | Such preferences operate at every linguistic level . |
| 42 | Such coalitions exist at the municipal level in West Berlin and Frankfurt . |
| 43 | I 'm usually too absorbed in my work to spend much time looking at the other students . ’ |
| 44 | They should be assembled " out of the way " at the top of memory ( each routine starting at a known address ) and then PROC_saved . |
| 45 | ‘ Master , ’ I touched him on the shoulder , ‘ it is strange that these messengers stop at the same convent where the Lady Francesca was educated . |
| 46 | These companies realized at an early stage that there is no point in trying to compete with the majors in releasing daytime radio or ‘ Top of the Pops ’ material , and that it would be better to find acts who have proved popular on the live circuit but who are considered too left field for the majors . |
| 47 | ‘ These drills run at a tremendous speed , ’ the father said , ‘ so when I switch on the drill the mileage numbers on the speedo spin backwards at a fantastic rate . |
| 48 | These changes strike at the very base of rugby union football as played for the last 100 years in that a player could play when , where and for whom providing that he paid his subscription before departing from his old club . |
| 49 | Those canny souls that know how often these things fall at the last hurdle can stop holding their breath and relax over Tadpole Technology Plc 's deal to do a Power RISC-based notebook for IBM Corp : IBM has paid £325,000 for 500,000 new Tadpole shares at what is now the bargain issue price of 65p , which at last week 's price of 224 pence gives it an instant paper profit of £795,000 ; it also gets warrants for 2.22m more shares at the same price to take it to 12.9% . |
| 50 | But in the same period the Government has increased the rate of national insurance contributions from 6.5 to 9 per cent , and , because these rates start at a lower threshold than taxation , the net effect has been to mitigate the changes in income tax . |
| 51 | When the alternative seemed to be squabbles and point-scoring , many of these people decided at the last minute to give John Major the benefit of the doubt . |
| 52 | Most estates were assessed in numbers of hides ( roughly 70,000 – 80,000 in all ) , units used in the allocation of public burdens which might be military , as in 1008 , when every 300 hides provided a ship and every eight a helmet and byrnie ( mail-coat ) for the navy , or financial , with each hide taxed at a particular rate . |
| 53 | The appeal hearing opened on May 15 , 1990 , with Demjanjuk 's lawyers arguing that he had been the victim of mistaken identity and that evidence presented at the original trial had been forged . |
| 54 | And that leads to the third , less obvious , reason : the market-place itself , to work efficiently , needs consumers who know how prices compare , and who act on that knowledge buying at the right price , not buying if the price is too high for this to have an influence on prices , through traders who set attractive prices competing successfully against traders who set inflated prices , it is by no means necessary for all consumers to be actively price-conscious . |
| 55 | Another interpretation is that metamorphism occurred at the same time , or post-dated thrusting , and that the frictional heating produced during thrusting contributed to the partial melting of the crust and the intrusion of granitic rocks . |
| 56 | In court , address all judges from the High Court upwards ( including both circuit judges and recorders when acting as High Court judges , and including also all judges sitting at the Central Criminal Courts ) as ‘ my Lord/Lady . ’ |
| 57 | Interestingly , not all rhythms develop at the same rate . |
| 58 | Classes help the actor to gain confidence in dealing with many things happening at the same time , and this is an important part of student work . |
| 59 | mass forms of musical practice which are based on the musical activity of many people interacting at the same time and in the same way — forms which structure bodily movements and processes , and which enable bodily experience to become an aesthetically mediated pleasure ( ibid : 228 ) . |
| 60 | These disparities are largely attributed to poor educational attainment — too many people leaving at the statutory school leaving age with few or no qualifications , too few continuing their education and too few entering higher education . |