Example sentences of "at [adj] [conj] [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | At twelve midnight on 1 January 1975 , Mars appeared at such and such a position in the sky . |
2 | Psychologists of vision , for example , have to think in terms of levels of representation that the nervous system computes and not to do so would be to render unintelligible the processes that occur between the transducing of light-rays into electrical impulses at the retina and the cortex recording the object as ( say ) a rigid cylinder rotating at such and such a distance from the viewing point . |
3 | ‘ Games teachers would say , ‘ There 's a meeting at such and such a place on Wednesday afternoon ; would you ask your teacher if you could miss your lessons ? ’ |
4 | And I say to them ‘ Look , do n't start planning this whole thing on your own from the beginning , go round and talk to the various people you know that are interested and say to them ‘ Look , I 'm planning to try and do this work , or we agreed at such and such a meeting that I would do this work , but I do n't just want to do this on my own , I want to take into account other people 's views . |
5 | I 've I would n't I do n't think I would go out if somebody said , Would you come and sing er at such and such a thing . |
6 | There is never any respect for an angler who says he ‘ estimated ’ the fish at such and such a weight , for his catches will always be regarded with suspicion , to say the least . |
7 | You 'd get a message from the R T O the er Railway Transport Office to say supply three hundred and sixty cups of tea at such and such a time and then of course the troops would the train would start , the troops pour out and pour into our place and there we were dashing around . |
8 | Something tied up , something in there as a heading so every member of staff knows that at such and such a time they are working on a heading of environmental awareness I would like us to have a precis of what that 's gon na involve but , I sha n't worry if we have n't got that we 've moved on a step |
9 | Well I was thrown in at the deep end Different persons came in maybe if we had a job in a hurry and they would say , Oh you 're on at such and such a time at this . |
10 | The offering for staff at Evertidy Furniture in Wolverhampton , West Midlands , worked out at less than half a pub measure each . |
11 | Armed with a decade of research results , Sweden and Norway proposed that the weight of sulphur falling in rain or dust on each square metre should be kept at less than half a gram ( 0.5 g/S/m² ; or 5 kg per hectare ) . |
12 | At £699 , the Olivetti PG404 clocks in at less than half the price of the LaserJet 4 , and it ai n't half bad . |
13 | Talbot moved out on the port wing , looked aft , saw that the blazing plane — there was no mistaking the flames now — was due astern , at less than half the height and distance than when he had first seen it , returned to the bridge , told Harrison to steer due north , then turned again to Van Gelder . |
14 | G. W. Hastings , who was present , went much further in his hostility to male printers and thought it would be a positive " advantage if wages were lowered in the printing trade " , referring to the London union ( the London Society of Compositors ) as " one of the most powerful and most structured trade unions in London " , which , unjustifiably in his view , " prevented any printer employing any compositor at less than 33s a week " . |
15 | I did n't like it at first cos all the animation was all too fuzzy and wobbly and everything I can remember cos I did n't think it was as good as the Magic Roundabout but then yeah I love it now . |
16 | At one and six a week . |
17 | We have already noted that she would have started as a reading girl , at 4s or 5s a week , before learning the lay of the type case and eventually starting work setting type . |
18 | She began to get up at two or three every morning , and was in church most of the day , often sobbing ‘ boisterously ’ , and making a great outcry for her sins . |