Example sentences of "[verb] at [adj] [noun pl] " 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 | The disturbance of setts will only be permitted at certain locations and for specific reasons . |
| 3 | Members agreed that no smoking be permitted at future meetings of the Society . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | These all fly at similar speeds and have rather light stick forces like a glider . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He argued that two bodies of the same material but different weights would fall at different speeds . |
| 11 | The breakthrough , dubbed a ‘ quantum leap into the future ’ is opening at other cinemas throughout the US over the next few weeks . |
| 12 | Numbers of Hurricanes were scrambled at various times during the mid-morning . |
| 13 | Deep , small holes were drilled at appropriate points in the leaf and stem decoration . |
| 14 | Fuming at faulty goods ? |
| 15 | This included an amount sufficient to buy food adequate for energy needs at various ages . |
| 16 | Suddenly the section of the audience that was laughing at Italian children flinging spaghetti realised that everyone else had fallen silent . |
| 17 | Fair enough , I plead guilty to telling & laughing at sick jokes too . |
| 18 | It is also clear that the prices of different commodities rose at varying rates and at different times . |
| 19 | Now , Richard Fairbanks of New York 's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory has uncovered a detailed record which shows how fast global sea level rose at different times during the transformation from the glacial to the post-glacial world . |
| 20 | The second is that it unites psychology and biology since , in the early formulations , ‘ responses ’ were contractions of muscle groups , stimuli were physical events occurring at sensory receptors , and ‘ learning ’ was a real event occurring in the brain . |
| 21 | ago , the Outer Hebrides Thrust was reactivated , and the movements produced more crushing along the thrust plane , with the production of mylonites , which are pale coloured , very fine grained , schist-like bands of crush material occurring at irregular intervals along the line of the thrust . |
| 22 | Studies of experimentally induced influenza B in volunteers at the Medical Research Council Common Cold Unit showed that infection increased reaction times to stimuli occurring at varying intervals but that hand-eye coordination was unimpaired . |
| 23 | Brehmer had subjects attempt to estimate the number of road accidents occurring at various junctions and compared these estimates with the actual figures . |
| 24 | Nine families of mainly long-legged , long-necked and ( except for the plovers , pp. 121–5 ) long-billed , gregarious marsh or waterside birds , breeding in marshy tundra , taiga , moorland , or grassland , and wintering on estuaries and muddy or sandy seashores , occurring at freshwater margins chiefly on migration . |
| 25 | The use of naturally occurring sugars in milk , honey and fruit resulted in cavities occurring at different positions to those in modern teeth ( Moore and Corbett 1971 ) . |
| 26 | It is also possible to make more subtle combinations of the oscillations in the x and y directions in which the components are " out of phase " , their crests occurring at different instants . |
| 27 | Although much more work needs to be done in this area , the impression gained by surveying a range of industries is one of foreign incursions occurring at different times with price being a significant element at certain stages . |
| 28 | Thus , it is to sectoral differences that we now turn , to illustrate how change has been occurring at different rates and with different implications for governments . |
| 29 | The three areas can be described as ones of political — religious mediation occurring at different levels of social process . |
| 30 | The latter was served by the pursuit of health through drinking or bathing in natural mineral waters at inland spas . |