Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [vb base] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | May the ‘ sales and recruitment ’ campaign amongst the clubs continue at full throttle — especially amongst the junior age groups , who voted with their TV ‘ on ’ switches that rugby is the game they like best . |
| 2 | Purchaser and provider divisions have been established in both health and social services authorities , but the splits occur at different levels . |
| 3 | De Smith has adumbrated four different tests which the courts have at one time or another used . |
| 4 | Some of the rules change at this stage . |
| 5 | The badges start at 15 metres with safety rope through five stages to the gold badge for a continuous 120 metre abseil . |
| 6 | ( The SPIES die at some length , rather well . |
| 7 | It was very well organized , and I 'm impressed with the way the kids behave at these dos , and I 'd like to see you support it . |
| 8 | To ensure that all the pleats lie at one level when the blind is raised , the top pleat section should be slightly deeper than those below it in order to cover the front of the batten and to allow for the depth of lath and rings which accumulate at the top of the blind when it is raised . |
| 9 | The colours appear at little windows in the side , glimpses into the worlds of heart-rending blueness and greenness , unattainable redness and blackness , that lie hidden inside the smooth nickel barrel . |
| 10 | The sea breeze blows in Enfant-Béate and turns the tropical heat to balm of an evening , it stirs the jade-like waxy foliage above the elephantine trunk and picks up these entreaties made by islanders who come here with their offerings : the tack or nail , made of tin or brass or iron or copper , supplied by the goods store at sharp expense , one of the manufactures that are sent from the mother country in return for sugar . |
| 11 | Owls , like most birds of prey , start incubating their eggs as soon as they are laid with the result that the chicks hatch at different times . |
| 12 | It will be observed that the disparities occur at different levels of overall unemployment , and that all ethnic minorities experienced higher rates of unemployment than the white population in the 1980s . |
| 13 | At small stations , we have to get off and use the regular phones on the ground , like the passengers do at longer stops . ’ |
| 14 | The electrodes intersect at each pixel to produce the required activation voltage . |
| 15 | The girls look at each other , finger on lips . |
| 16 | The aunts look at each other . |
| 17 | The goats lunge at each other with their horns and try to flip each other off the ledge . |
| 18 | The tyres roar at high speed and a faint transmission whine — common on four-wheel drive cars — now joins the 911 cacophony . |