Example sentences of "it [vb -s] at [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been discovered in the eighteenth century that light does not travel instantaneously from source to observer ; rather , it goes at a certain speed , about 186,000 miles ( 300,000 kilometers ) a second . |
| 2 | Unfortunately it must be said that in binoculars ( or , for that matter , in most telescopes ) it is disappointing , because it lies at a narrow angle to us and the full beauty of the spiral is lost . |
| 3 | There 's only one thing that struck me when I was reading through it but a as I say , we we got to look at this from point of view are we going to date this as it lies at the present moment and add to it pieces that we want , or do we start off by having the pieces o i its its now whe w w |
| 4 | It lies at the extreme edge of the constellation , and I have found that the best way to locate it is to use Beta Comæ , which is of magnitude 4.3 and lies rather off a line joining Cor Caroli to Arcturus ; though dim , Beta Comæ is rather isolated , and not difficult to identify . |
| 5 | Local authorities were anxious to redevelop the area as soon as possible , as it lies at the very heart of the town 's commercial district . |
| 6 | So what do you think about the overall situation as it stands at the present time ? |
| 7 | It looks at the economic environment , end-use market and industries , and competition . |
| 8 | It looks at the ageing process with optimism and hope rather than despair . |
| 9 | It looks at the WORDY licence and sees that the licence does not prevent the transfer of the package to someone else . |
| 10 | For a continuously varying trait ( let us use human size as an example ) , the value of the trait in an individual is probably determined by what genes it has at a large number of genetic loci , together with the effect of the environment . |
| 11 | It starts at the bottom line and scans across to ‘ see ’ what colours have been placed in this row of squares . |
| 12 | is it at the top end of the , it starts at the top end of the slope ? |
| 13 | It arrives at a different time from the rest of the mail . |
| 14 | The migrating cells may be made up of a mixture of all the different cell types in immature form , that go to all the sites and a particular type survives only if it arrives at an appropriate site — a sort of cell selection . |
| 15 | Everything going into the hole dust clouds , light beams , stars , spacecraft , you anything crossing the boundary sphere marking the edge of the hole — it gets crushed out of existence when it arrives at the central point of the hole . ’ |
| 16 | Right the sheets are coming round , when you get yours , your name on it and today 's date on it please , that 's all , I 've already punched holes in it so it 's ready to go in your file Now is there anyone who does not have one of these sheets , it says at the top year seven , module one , survey on belief . |
| 17 | Obtaining office copy entries ( as opposed to furnishing merely a copy of the registered title ) is advisable as it reveals at an early stage whether or not there is a second charge which may not have been disclosed to the husband 's solicitors . |
| 18 | Perhaps it acts at the lysosomal stage of the entry process outlined by Simons . |
| 19 | The difficulty with this anemone is that once established it reproduces at a tremendous rate and literally swamps the aquarium with large numbers of offspring . |
| 20 | That year the Museum began founding bronzes from the unpublished casts , which it keeps at a secret location somewhere in France . |
| 21 | However , the back of the prostate is adjacent to the anterior wall of the rectum , and by gently massaging the gland from inside the rectum , a bead of fluid can be expressed and ‘ milked ’ along the urethra until it appears at the urethral meatus . |
| 22 | A simple way to appreciate what it means is to visualise the Spectra line being passed down a hollow tube ( the ‘ sleeve ’ ) until it appears at the other end . |
| 23 | In May 1947 the Joint Chiefs , while acknowledging that planning had to remain flexible , observed that " it appears at the present time that initial establishment of Allied forces in the Middle East is the most promising course of action " . |
| 24 | It follows that the angle a vertical edge subtends at the left eye divided by the angle it subtends at the right eye is greater than 1 for the left-hand edge of the pattern , but is less than 1 for the right-hand edge . |
| 25 | What remains is released into an elaborate system of drains , penstocks , pumps , flumes , and concrete-sided irrigation ditches , from which it emerges at the Mexican border , severely depleted and laden with salts and pesticides . |
| 26 | Unfortunately , the JMP-1 has no input on the back and so in some ways it falls at the final fence , because I ca n't really see how you can set it up to work in a neat and user-friendly rack ; you 'd have to wire the thing up every time you gigged it . |
| 27 | Walk along this and stay on it till it disappears at the top ridge . |
| 28 | No one has been able to point to any useful purpose that it serves at the present day . |
| 29 | Most surveys show that a basket of food still costs a bit less at a supermarket than it does at an independent grocer 's ; but The Economist did not find that this week . |
| 30 | Lying as it does at the northern limit of the global thermohaline ‘ conveyor belt ’ , changes in this region may ultimately have global consequences . |