Example sentences of "[verb] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Disembarking at certain points from a leisurely cruise , your guide , Bernie Dunn , arguably the best guide in Amsterdam will take you through Amsterdam 's most enchanting neighbourhoods by foot . |
| 2 | Under harder acceleration it intrudes , finishing up as a deep , rough-edged sounding beat at full throttle . |
| 3 | The disturbance of setts will only be permitted at certain locations and for specific reasons . |
| 4 | Members agreed that no smoking be permitted at future meetings of the Society . |
| 5 | Fortunately , Evan-Thomas in Barham , steaming at maximum speed with his four battleships , had come within firing range . |
| 6 | EIGHTY years ago tomorrow , on the night of 14/15 April 1912 , the ‘ unsinkable ’ passenger liner Titanic , steaming at high speed on her maiden transatlantic voyage , ran headlong into an iceberg off Newfoundland and plunged to the bottom of the ocean , taking more than 1,500 souls with her . |
| 7 | Some of the many ways in which dolphins make signal gestures to humans are leaping at significant moments , deliberately splashing people on boats after first making close eye contact , vocalising or whistling through the blowhole after people have made communicative calls or whistles , defaecation and touching . |
| 8 | I am afraid this is all very complicated and difficult to untangle at short notice , but I hope , nonetheless , that it is of some help . |
| 9 | They 're the only sweetpea growers in the country asked to show at Chelsea ; the high standard of their flowers reflected in the 3 gold medals they 've won at past shows . |
| 10 | Do n't forget I 've won at Old Trafford before and at Anfield three times . |
| 11 | But it was this battle , won at huge cost by both Tyne Tees and Yorkshire , which finally propelled the companies into each others arms . |
| 12 | Their study shows that every $10 of interest payments per year and per person means 142 days less of life on average , had life expectancy continued to increase at pre-debt crisis rates . |
| 13 | The only fault which can be levelled at this production is its brevity in comparison with its cinema counterpart Shirley 's Greek idyll is compressed at break-neck speed into a second half which lasts less than 45 minutes . |
| 14 | Gambling , football pools , fun-fairs , dog tracks , amusement arcades , dance halls , popular songs , street betting and speed-tracks were all attacked at different times in the interwar years for their demoralising influence , particularly on the young . |
| 15 | The new money will still leave gearing at 60 per cent , but Mr Scott says the company will be happy with that level of debt , given that gearing at other transport groups can be as high as 90 per cent . |
| 16 | In November he was able to lecture at Central Hall , Westminster , on " The Three Voices of Poetry " — in the recording of that address , his clipped and precise speech , almost professorial in character , can be heard — but it was to be his last major engagement for many months . |
| 17 | The principle of Speedlink is that train sections are exchanged at specified groups of sidings on the network , rather than individual wagons sorted at full-scale marshalling yards . |
| 18 | These all fly at similar speeds and have rather light stick forces like a glider . |
| 19 | Every quarterly club meeting turns into a very pleasant ‘ social event ’ with wine and nibbles and subsidised trips are organised at frequent intervals ( but not always to do with knitting ) for added interest . |
| 20 | When a march is organised at short notice , as much notice as practicable must be given . |
| 21 | These could test and modify units designed at international workshops ( or by other centres ) or initiate work of their own and present it for international criticism , modification and subsequent diffusion to other countries . |
| 22 | He argued that two bodies of the same material but different weights would fall at different speeds . |
| 23 | The breakthrough , dubbed a ‘ quantum leap into the future ’ is opening at other cinemas throughout the US over the next few weeks . |
| 24 | Numbers of Hurricanes were scrambled at various times during the mid-morning . |
| 25 | Deep , small holes were drilled at appropriate points in the leaf and stem decoration . |
| 26 | VHS hi-fi stereo sound , unlike VHS mono , is encoded at high speed along with the picture signals in the same way as Video 8 hi-fi , and hence has the same high standard of audio quality . |
| 27 | We were wined and dined at great expense and the next time I met Tommy he thanked me profusely for assisting him on that evening . |
| 28 | What I found amazing , to the extent of keeping me occupied combating fluoridation during the past 20 years on a more-than full-time basis , was that the sales promotion experts employed to build the fluoridation bandwagon have been able for so long to lull most scientists and politicians into accepting this method of diluting and dumping waste fluorides at public expense . |
| 29 | Fuming at faulty goods ? |
| 30 | This included an amount sufficient to buy food adequate for energy needs at various ages . |