Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Using committees internally to overcome restrictions on information and thereby arrive at a decision . |
| 2 | The eggs were clear and had a diameter of between 0.6 and 0.9mm and mostly floated at the water surface . |
| 3 | The digits move along one step at a time and eventually arrive at the end of the chain whereupon they are fed along the line . |
| 4 | We get out of the car , stomp round to the wheel , look at it , kick it , swear , look at our watch , feel guilty about not having left enough time to cope with the unexpected , open the boot , bang our head on it , swear again , wonder whether it would n't be better to walk to the phone , decide to change the wheel ourselves , lose one of the nuts and eventually arrive at the meeting half an hour late in a filthy temper , and take up the next five minutes explaining that it must have been a sharp chipping off one of those construction lorries and they overload them to save money and they ought to do something about it … |
| 5 | The Commander-in-Chief in Scotland was Lieutenant-General Sir John Cope , later the subject of a derisory song ‘ Hey , Johnny Cope ’ , and unkindly described at the time as ‘ a little , dressy , finical [ i.e. fussy ] man ’ . |
| 6 | This early ‘ satiating effect ’ was dose dependent and most marked at a dose of 40 µg per animal ; about equimolar to procolipase secretion during maximal stimulation with secretin and cholecystokinin ( CCK ) . |
| 7 | ( Oct 24-Nov 22 ) With the Sun and Mars blocked away in the most sensitive and private area of your solar chart , you , in turn , are bound to be feeling restricted and rather frustrated at the moment . |
| 8 | The heavy chainmail was gone ; he wore a long dark blue tunic , embroidered with silver thread and loosely belted at the waist . |
| 9 | It would seem that she intended to pull him down — in itself a tall order — and so grabbed at the reins . |
| 10 | On his way down to take part in an official inspection , Wycliffe had monitored reports on his car radio and so arrived at the scene of crime before his headquarters had got a team together . |
| 11 | Therefore , they were left with the option of investing millions of pounds or closing them , and perhaps looking at the building of a new reactor . |
| 12 | It was an old thing with spikes and flaps which you could lift up and down to get at the mechanics . |
| 13 | The USSR won decisively against all their serious rivals , Yugoslavia , the US and England , in the first five rounds and only slackened at the end when the gold medals were assured . |
| 14 | It was certainly a spectacular display of what dancers could do with their legs whilst merely marching but the ports de bras were very limited and merely swung at the sides or sprang to attention . |
| 15 | There was one vehicle there , a car with two figures sitting in the front seats and apparently looking at the road ahead of them . |
| 16 | The null geodesic , v = constant , starts in region I , passes through the gravitational wave and apparently ends at the singularity . |
| 17 | Charles complained of ‘ astigmatism ’ , and exaggeratedly squinted at the matrices , removing and putting back his glasses continually . |
| 18 | The existing standard number , determined under section 15 of the Education Act 1980 and generally set at the intake of pupils to the school in 1979–80 ( a peak year ) , will be the new standard number — unless in 1989–90 , the year before the law changed , admissions exceeded the 1980 Act standard number . |
| 19 | The first programme consists of his first commissioned ballet , Danses Concertantes , the early whimsical Solitaire , and the powerful Las Hermanas made originally for the Stuttgart Ballet in 1963 , remounted for SWRB in 1976 and not seen at the Wells since 1984 . |
| 20 | The Russian Embassy tells me that this is the first time their head of state has visited London and not stayed at the embassy . |
| 21 | The paper path is easily accessible , as it 's just below the top lid of the printer , and not buried at the bottom of the machine . |
| 22 | Confronted by a section in a Quaternary deposit there are physical geographers who would devote all their time to the analysis of the sediment characteristics and not look at the space relationships of the feature in which the deposit occurs , and there are others who would deliberate about morphological evolution without closely investigating the sediment . |
| 23 | Not surprisingly , as successful communication involves the transfer of information , and that transfer presupposes a successful evaluation of what is known and not known at the outset , a number of general suggestions have been made by theorists and methodologists advocating a communicative approach . |
| 24 | The solution is always to tap New line and not Enter at the end of each line within the table . |
| 25 | Belfast proved worthy opponents , attacking tenaciously and not giving at the back . |
| 26 | He brought with him a bottle of his own herbal remedy for fevers and scarcely looked at the baby before worrying about his fee . |
| 27 | Head down , they race to departments , charge at the shelves and scarcely look at the price before stampeding to the cash tills . |
| 28 | He explained that what makes the document confidential is the fact that the creator of the document has used his brain and thus arrived at a result which can only be produced by somebody who goes through the same process . |
| 29 | We do this by assuming that it is in fact cooperative , and then asking ourselves what possible connection there could be between the location of Bill and the location of a yellow VW , and thus arrive at the suggestion ( which B effectively conveys ) that , if Bill has a yellow VW , he may be in Sue 's house . |
| 30 | Hateley , of course , spent three seasons in France with Monaco However , earlier this month , and just smiles at the mention of the Frenchman 's name . |