Example sentences of "at [art] [adj] [noun pl] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A number of that 25-35 age range were brought in as one of two groups who had an opportunity to look at the various stages while the possible designs were still being examined . |
| 2 | This double characterisation was made more hilarious at the first performances when the bossy one was danced by Helpmann , and later the taller MacMillan , with wonderfully extended développés , and the shyer one by Ashton with dainty attempts to be correct at all costs . |
| 3 | Plugged into an amp the EQ takes things from bright , jangling treble to a fat bass which feeds back at the lowest volumes when the relevant slider is pushed way up . |
| 4 | Miranda looked at the imposing exteriors and the bleak interiors of the nursing and residential homes . |
| 5 | Tory turned back for a last look at the rejected blooms as the ponies moved off . |
| 6 | Even on the premier franchises , the marginal operator is likely to compete only at the best times while the franchisee is left to operate the full seven day service . |
| 7 | Before we look at the separate groups and the new pope 's treatment of them , more needs to be said about poverty and preaching . |
| 8 | Blanche looked round her at the wallpapered walls and the flounced pink curtains and said , ‘ How very nice . |
| 9 | Many East Germans say that , though they themselves do not want to leave , there is almost universal resentment at the official lies and the unbending attitudes of the authorities , who , by cancelling visa-free travel to Czechoslovakia this week , made it even more difficult to escape what one person called ‘ our cage ’ . |
| 10 | The second section looks at Paris and Vienna , and largely drawing on Clark and Schorske , respectively , at the visual arts and the social structuring of urban space . |
| 11 | I stopped , glared up at the wheeling gulls and a couple of thrushes , then got some grass and wiped the yellow-white mess off the front guard . |
| 12 | Angry Labour MPs jeered and pointed accusingly at the Liberal Democrats as the Speaker read out the count . |
| 13 | She looked at the old narrow beams that stretched across the ceiling , at the white-painted walls and the brightly coloured furniture , comfortable chairs and the mellow , shining wood of tables and bookcases . |
| 14 | He looked at the eager girls and the officers in their cream uniforms . |
| 15 | She looked out of the big foyer window , which ran from the floor almost to the ceiling , at the empty pathways and the silent buildings outside . |
| 16 | We set the tone at the Tory Conferences and the other parties have followed suit . |
| 17 | Fire fighting over-ride controls should be positioned at the same locations as the appropriate sprinkler control valves ( see 3.6 ‘ Fixed Fire Fighting Equipment ’ ) . |
| 18 | He was absolutely right in that respect and I remember him delivering this homily at The Three Tuns and the people receiving it in a rather stony silence because they were not used to being lectured . |
| 19 | Several hundred Kurds picketed the Home Office in protest at the continuing detentions and the deportations back to Turkey where they are said to face oppression and torture . |
| 20 | To all intents and purposes he was an attache with the Kenyan delegation at the United Nations and the only person outside UNACO who knew the truth was his wife , and even she had only been briefed in the vaguest possible terms . |
| 21 | Officials say it is because the two sides have different versions of what was decided at the previous negotiations that the ceasefire has broken down . |
| 22 | Some opponents of the regime expressed scepticism at the proposed reforms and the adoption of liberalism , apparently at the expense of the long-held official ideology of " Mobutism " under which the President embodied the party and the state . |
| 23 | He stood for a while , looking round about at the quiet dunes and the settling birds . |
| 24 | Presently he was there , he had arrived at the wooden planks and the criss-crossed supports of the bridge . |
| 25 | He got up after a while and paced round the high-ceilinged room , looking at the layered posters and the soft toys , the two old wardrobes , the small ring-tree on the window ledge , hung with little cheap , colourful rings . |
| 26 | Therapist : ‘ Now we have looked at the physical symptoms and the thoughts that accompany them , let's now look at how anxiety effects your behaviour . |
| 27 | As in any jet , thrust controls speed and elevator maintains glide angle on a continuous curving base leg to a four-mile final at a thousand feet or a little below . |