Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] at a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of that small band of men who sat round smoking and drinking their beer or whisky could have had any idea , as they heard Jack vigorously defending the doctrine of hell in nine pages , that the publication of these religious speculations , pieced together at a busy time between giving lectures and examining , was to change his destiny forever . |
| 2 | She recalled that as a young girl she 'd often sucked slowly at a big lollipop to see how long she could make it last . |
| 3 | By ruling in favour of the appellant , a schoolmaster at Malvern College , whose two sons were educated there at a concessionary rate , the Lords have avoided what has been described as an ‘ administrative nightmare ’ . |
| 4 | He was educated privately at a small school run by his father at Hardenhuish rectory , and latterly at Claverton Lodge School , Bath , run by his uncle Francis Kilvert [ q.v . ] . |
| 5 | The agreement at Smiths Industries , Cheltenham , ending a three-week strike at the plant was accepted overwhelmingly at a mass meeting yesterday . |
| 6 | How to crack down on increasing levels of vandalism and the emergence of street gangs in the area will be decided today at a special meeting of the council 's Police Liaison Committee . |
| 7 | In his view , there should be a clear test applied to ensure that the Community only does things which can not be done well at a national level . |
| 8 | And Mr Irving , seen here at a neo-Nazi rally , is sticking to his view that the gas chambers are a myth … |
| 9 | The cholinergic agonist carbachol was infused intra-arterially at a final concentration of 0.1 µmol/l to maintain consistent motor activity . |
| 10 | They had lunched together at a small restaurant full of pseudo-oak beams and bright red table-cloths . |
| 11 | Stocks and shares , on the other hand , are not very liquid since they can not be sold instantly at a guaranteed price . |
| 12 | But their efforts were brushed aside at an angry meeting of Durham County Council , which approved the social services committee 's decision to close the homes . |
| 13 | However , it may be that the norm here is ‘ horse ’ not ‘ filly ’ so that the frolicsomeness would be a characteristic found only at a particular time , viz . |
| 14 | At Larchgrove some expressed the view that the remedial input necessary to develop Tony 's literacy and numeracy could be provided best at a residential school , but there was a stronger view that it would not be to his benefit to remove him from a secure and caring home . |
| 15 | They had arrived independently at a similar view on the character of Prince Hal and the way in which that should be developed through the three plays . |
| 16 | The result was , however , that the most important change in Roman life was observed only at a superficial level . |
| 17 | Large fractured areas of lateral cell membranes of surface mucous cells were observed randomly at a direct magnification of 15000 using electron microscopy . |
| 18 | When the members of a sample are observed once at a single point of time , the study is termed cross-sectional . |
| 19 | The clamped end of the system is then vibrated laterally at a given frequency v and the amplitude of the vibration induced at the free end of the sample is recorded . |
| 20 | Once frozen a body of water remains frozen for the rest of the game — the spell does not remain in play and may be cast again at a different body of water . |
| 21 | Bluestone is not mentioned by Wesley but a Methodist Society was formed there at an early date . |
| 22 | Now children began to be weaned traumatically at an early age and subject to parental authority in childhood . |
| 23 | The magazine is put together at a leisurely pace with the staff spending most of their time at London 's most fashionable nightspots . |
| 24 | The conference adopted the minority report and family allowances were not discussed formally at an annual conference again until 1941 . |
| 25 | Allitt had worked regularly at an old people 's home and been spotted by an auxiliary nurse one night giving an injection to a 73-year-old diabetic , Dorothy Lowe . |
| 26 | All members of HM Forces stationed overseas at a non-BFPO address may receive mail posted in UK at concessionary rates of postage providing it is clearly addressed to a military type address or diplomatic post . |
| 27 | Many Rottweilers have been encouraged forward at an early age by less than proficient trainers , who then find that the dog 's defensive instinct matures , they are powerless to control the fruit of their labour . |
| 28 | Once the material is there , it can be retrieved again at an astonishing speed , so long as the method of input is sufficiently well devised . |
| 29 | Before and after this period , subjects also pointed either at an auditory target or using a non-preferred hand in order to identify the mechanism by which this adaptation occurred . |
| 30 | In a more explicitly theoretical paper , Lavandera ( 1982 ) presents the general argument that syntactic variation can be studied only at a superficial level if the analytic method does not take account of the use which speakers make of variation for stylistic and discourse purposes ; frequently they exploit subtle differences in meaning of the kind which ( for example ) Weiner and Labov deliberately simplify . |