Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] [verb] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And the Angus men , I can tell you , were too busy to do more than yell insults at the other Angus men . |
| 2 | Thus , if changes appear at an early stage it may be necessary to carry out more frequent testing ; alternatively , the reverse situation may apply . |
| 3 | This would make it easy to disconnect them in case there was a need to make changes , or if problems arose at a later date . |
| 4 | One fifth of England will have been lost to urban sprawl by 2050 if development continues at the present rate , according to the Council for the Protection of Rural England . |
| 5 | As the 1987 Vienna OPEC conference approached , there was further talk of a price increase , although the mainstream preference was for waiting until demand stood at a level capable of sustaining one . |
| 6 | The chances of achieving great things with your puppy increases if training begins at an early age . |
| 7 | If information arrived at a constant rate in calendar time , the approaches using calendar time and event time would be identical . |
| 8 | Cell numbers are easily counted up until compaction occurs at the 8-cell stage when cell outlines become obscure . |
| 9 | Because incense burns at an even rate and without flame , it is well suited for measuring the division of the religious day and for other purposes . |
| 10 | Words with an early age of acquisition tend to be highly concrete ( imageable ) while words acquired at a later age tend to be abstract . |
| 11 | But whereas firms borrow at the gross of tax interest rate to finance investment projects , households must pay income tax on interest earnings as a result of saving and lending . |
| 12 | Thus there are often traffic jams for several minutes on Wainfleet 's main through road , while motorists wait at the level crossing . |
| 13 | A. This argues that , since information arrives at an uneven rate , the observed distribution of futures price changes ( or returns ) will be a mixture of a number of normal distributions , and this observed distribution will be leptokurtic . |
| 14 | While Des raps at a flaky green door , a train rumbles overhead , going south , and I wonder if they heard him knocking inside . |
| 15 | This distinction is crucial in the present context , because it appears that material resulting from endopeptidase cleavage is rather commonly encountered whereas material generated at the later stages ( Gly-extended and amidated products ) is less common . |
| 16 | The world No 1 's five-shot overnight lead was ripped apart by Australia 's Great White Shark , who fumbled a 3ft putt on the last green before Faldo won at the first extra hole . |
| 17 | In order to apply the requirements of the [ draft ] FRS it is necessary to determine whether instruments issued at the same time should be accounted for individually or not . |
| 18 | And when Cardiff looked at the upside-down dead eyes of that head as they reflected in the torchlight , when he saw the teeth set in a clenched and hideous grin … he recognised the face immediately . |
| 19 | He smiled without humour when Frankie sucked at the soap-filled cloth in order to sluice the taste of rancid beck-water from his mouth . |
| 20 | Others saw the action in a more defensive light : as Brezhnev explained at the 26th Party Congress in 1981 , the situation in Afghanistan posed a ‘ direct threat to the security of [ the Soviet ] southern frontier ’ , and it was certainly true that an unstable , possibly militant Islamic government in a state immediately adjoining the USSR 's southern borders might have quite serious implications for public order in the traditionally Muslim republics of Central Asia . |
| 21 | Mum was the word in Bournemouth as work proceeded at a feverish pitch on a stunning new exhibition at the ExpoCentre . |
| 22 | It slipped for Tyra Banks , centre , who wept as models gathered at the Black Girls Coalition to attack racism in the fashion industry . |
| 23 | Buchanan stood up , putting on his coat as Warden stood at the same time . |
| 24 | When work ceased at an industrial estate near Liverpool ( within daily travelling distance of Leyland ) , Mr Stevenson was offered work at a number of other sites : Northumberland , Anglesey and Manchester . |
| 25 | HE was the butt of jokes as England flopped at the European Championship . |
| 26 | Christina arranged dinner with Celia , then picked some mimosa and bright-lavender periwinkle flowers for the dining-table , which she was arranging when Stephen appeared at the french windows of the dining-room , looming out of the lengthening shadows as dusk turned quickly into night . |
| 27 | As delegates arrived at the Grand Kremlin Palace , hundreds of pro and anti-Yeltsin demonstrators rallied on Red Square . |
| 28 | When officers arrived at the High Row , a large group of anti-fascist campaigners had arrived and were chanting slogans at the BNP . |
| 29 | In a second , as Suzanne looked at the seated pair , Franca realised something . |
| 30 | Just as Jos glanced at the incessant downpour and said . |