Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was angry , but a bit pleased at the same time . |
| 2 | In a referendum held at the same time as the elections , 78 per cent of voters supported a new Constitution which provided for a directly elected President to appoint a Prime Minister who would in turn appoint a Cabinet , with all appointments requiring parliamentary approval . |
| 3 | The ad shows a crook gazing at the busty , mini-skirted girls and asks : ‘ Who 's giving your bag the eye ? ’ |
| 4 | She skirted its edge and at last spotted a possible entry , finding a stick to whack at the jagged branches of an old dogrose . |
| 5 | I would prefer , at the risk of offending the purists , to take a robust attitude , and simply say that it is a decision made at a particular time in response to a particular situation against a particular political background , and is poor material on which to build any general proposition . |
| 6 | The new title ‘ Officer Board ’ , replacing ‘ Consultative and Advisory Council ’ was a decision made at the Special Delegate Meeting in March . |
| 7 | A confidential US Defence Department report had concluded that China 's sale of missiles to Saudi Arabia [ see pp. 36254 ; 36312 ] had been the result of a decision taken at the highest level of government to confront the USA in the Middle East . |
| 8 | The Princess Royal attends a lunch at the Enmore Hotel , Kirn , Dunoon , Argyllshire ; as President , Riding for the Disabled Association , attends a Show given by the Dunoon and Cowal branch of the Association at Dunoon ; attends a sheep show at the European Sheep and Wool Centre , Lochgoilhead , Argyllshire ; and opens the Drimsynie Holiday Village . |
| 9 | The system also manages to incorporate a handrail running at the same speed as the walkway — an advance compared with most single speed systems . |
| 10 | It required but a single coincidence , whereby an apparent answer to a prayer arrived at the appropriate time , to make him believe that his objects of supplication had powers beyond himself , and had brought him relief . |
| 11 | Suppose that a contract to sell at a given price for a specified period is , for whatever reason , advantageous to both buyers and sellers . |
| 12 | A third alternative , proposed by Demsetz ( 1968 ) , is for the rights to supply to be auctioned off to bidders whose bids would be in the form of a contract to supply at a given price ( rather like bids for the construction of a motorway ) . |
| 13 | I am a present looking at the dozen or so cones sitting on the floor and am making up my mind to do something with them , but even with ingenious ideas , how does one find time with all that knitting to do ? |
| 14 | Getting into a shirt comes at a later stage , a sweater later still . |
| 15 | Alternatively , he could sell a futures contract at the current futures price and , at the end of T years , buy the asset in the cash market to deliver it into the futures market to fulfil the contract . |
| 16 | One of the finest of the towers commemorates Gregorio di Gregorio , a third generation patrician of the early thirteenth century — heir to a succession established at the first high point of San Gimignano 's revived prosperity , in the middle of the twelfth century . |
| 17 | I have a streak of economy in me , even when contemplating how to épater les bourgeois , and recipes that make their sauce out of a stock made at an earlier stage tend to appeal most . |
| 18 | Torpedo-shaped glass lifts offered noiseless access to the different levels , on one of which a pianist sat at a grand piano playing classical music while an enormous golden pendulum suspended from the roof swung slowly from one side of the atrium to the other . |
| 19 | The Manchester study is linked with a study based at the Social Science Research Unit in London which considers the social support needs of a group of socially disadvantaged women and children . |
| 20 | The ILP leadership , feeling it had a mandate from the Easter Conference , made preparations for a Special Conference at which it would make : a recommendation for disaffiliation , and for the re-organisation of the ILP as an independent Socialist Party with a programme aiming at a decisive change from Capitalism to Socialism . |
| 21 | Do remember to rub out your dots if a remedy works at a later date and only mark your bottle when the remedy has no effect if you are very certain that it should have worked . |
| 22 | Down a little tunnel at the Mesdag museum , up a flight of stairs , and you are standing atop a dune looking at an enormous 360-degree panorama painted in 1881 . |
| 23 | Ronni was still fizzing with indignation — how dared he make fun of her ? — when , sure enough , a car arrived at the front door , laden with dishes dovered in tin foil . |
| 24 | It is interesting to note that a quiet bedroom is about 35 on the scale , at 55 communication starts to become difficult , a car travelling at a steady 60 k.p.h. at seven metres distance is just over 70 , a heavy diesel lorry at 40 k.p.h. at seven metres is 85 , a pneumatic drill at seven metres is 95 and 120 is the threshold of pain . |
| 25 | Once you have worked out how many hits your first shot has caused you may , if you wish , fire a second shot at the same target , then a third , and so on . |
| 26 | Revised proposals are expected from the Commission later this year , before they are put back for a second reading at the European Parliament . |
| 27 | The church had a narthex set at an oblique angle to one of the outer octagon sides ; it is believed that this was not the original narthex , which would have directly faced the eastern apse ( 195 ) . |
| 28 | A lady arrives at the front counter with something to be looked at . |
| 29 | A hound spoke at the far end of the wood . |
| 30 | Then they were a single out away from going one game up in Dodger Stadium — only for Kirk Gibson to turn the Series on its head with a home run at the last moment . |