Example sentences of "[vb base] at the [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Signs that there had been loss of control appear at the very beginning of James 's reign when commissioners hearing private suits to the King were ordered not to give reversions to places of consequence . |
| 2 | In other words , they appear at the same time at widely separated localities . |
| 3 | These jingle at the slightest touch on the head . |
| 4 | This pump-leak system allows K + ions to recycle across the basolateral membrane , promotes hyperpolarisation of the parietal cell , and thereby contributes to the maintenance of the electrochemical gradient that favours Cl - exit at the apical membrane during acid secretion . |
| 5 | ‘ How many of us , ’ he asked , ‘ really try to buy goods made of recycled materials or at least protest at the extravagant use of costly and unnecessary packaging ? ’ |
| 6 | VISITORS to Belgium often sneer at the scruffy appearance of the country 's towns , farms and people , and pointedly note how much neater everything is as soon as you cross the border into Holland . |
| 7 | The American approach has traditionally been to offer a range of models , like Cessna and Piper 's basic two-seat trainers , the 152 and Tomahawk at the bottom end of the range for training , leading on to the Cessna 172 or PA 28 for the experienced pilot owner . |
| 8 | Stop at the other side of town on the same road , the Dublin road , I think ? ’ |
| 9 | Steam trains stop at the restored station on the West Somerset Railway which runs past the beach from Minehead inland to Bishops Lydeard near Taunton . |
| 10 | MASSIMO AMBUCETTI/AP Vested interest : AC Milan 's Demetrio Albertini tries to slow down English midfielder Paul Gascoigne of Lazio in the Italian Serie A match at the Olympic Stadium in Rome yesterday |
| 11 | Some die at the first hint of frost ; others , for example the damp-living larvae of chironomid midges , can be subjected repeatedly to temperatures of -20°C and below , with up to 90% of their body water frozen , and recover completely on thawing ( Scholander et al , 1953 ) . |
| 12 | Rachel and I wait at the little barrier in the station terminus , and again I think what an ordinary pair of holidaymakers we must look — too tatty to be honeymooners , but the same kind of contentment together . |
| 13 | ‘ Look up above you , look at the bare-faced cheek of the infinite . ’ |
| 14 | When we look at the vast evidence of the relations of cultural production , in so many different societies and historical periods , it is clear that it would be unwise to adopt , as our first theoretical construct , some universal or general explanatory scheme of the necessary relations between ‘ culture ’ and ‘ society ’ . |
| 15 | The profit was down thirty million or so and if we look at the geographic breakdown of profit , er the U S A was up er and yet if er Addison Wesley was about the same Penguin was up ten so where did this thirty million drop in profits at oil services arise , was it in the U K and Singapore as opposed to the U S or , or was there something different about Penguin U S compared with Penguin U K ? |
| 16 | Then look at the five-day exercise on the senses : this has enabled you to start writing with the knowledge you derive from your whole body , rather than merely the abstract , visual knowledge you adduce through your eyes . |
| 17 | I look at the dark house in front of me and the screens of tall shrubs and young trees on either side concealing the two neighbouring villas . |
| 18 | In fact if you look at the average price of a package holiday since nineteen seventy eight , the increase in prices has been absolutely marginal . |
| 19 | Here we look at the current cost of tax welfare . |
| 20 | Some government leaders may have made foolish and irresponsible decisions in wading deeper into debt — there is certainly no shortage of idiocy and corruption in Third World governments , any more than there is in those of the rich world ( look at the current catalogue of woe in Japan 's ruling circles ) . |
| 21 | Now I can not say whether you will have a secondary school , and the reason I can not say that er is because the education authority will , quite properly , and quite reasonably , look at the existing pattern of secondary education er in the area , and will bear in mind that secondary school children , not unreasonably , as they do now , can be expected , erm to travel , er some distance , er to a school facility , that is the real world , you can not expect a local education authority to spend vast amounts of money erm on er a high range of facilities , which are not justified by the size , er , of the community , and all these social , recreation , er an an and education facilities appropriate to the size erm of the community , need to be expressed in a pattern of land use which is well integrated , and well designed , in other words , it 's a good design concept er , and how do you do that ? |
| 22 | Look at the Eastern Terrace without a climber 's eye and the rocks pile up around it . |
| 23 | ‘ Look at the extraordinary cross-section of Fleet Street which has turned up for the launch . ’ |
| 24 | They should be borne in mind as we look at the final symptom of this ‘ strange rise ’ : the dispersal of the libraries , and the libraries themselves caught in this downward spiral . |
| 25 | ’ ‘ Mon and look at the nice show in the League of Nations place , or thae big battleships and bombers painted on the walls over there . |
| 26 | If you look at the net debt in greater detail it is still the difference between erm substantial gross debt and substantial amounts of cash , each of which have gone up somewhat during the year . |
| 27 | And earned them too : look at the Romanian record during the sixties and seventies , from the Sino-Soviet split through the invasion of Czechoslovakia to the Helsinki Conference . |
| 28 | So while I 'm not suggesting that you buy every gauge ( though that would be many a machine knitter 's idea of heaven , I guess ! ) , when working out what machine(s) you want for the yarns you want to knit most , look at the optimum yarn for each gauge . |
| 29 | Professor John Ashworth , vice-chairman of the committee of vice-chancellors and principals ( CVCP ) , also urged Mr MacGregor to use ‘ a heaven-sent opportunity to go back to the drawing board and look at the entire issue of how students are supported — grants , loans and fees . ’ |
| 30 | If you look at the blue line in the middle of the slide then look to your right , each of those erm icons represents a source or service provider a server on the network . |