Example sentences of "[verb] at its [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dale is dominated at its lower end by two scars , Great Coum and Combe Scar , both carved out by the passing glaciers , while the sweeping fells of Barbondale mark the point at which the Dent fault has thrust the older Silurian gritstones thousands of feet above their original bed . |
| 2 | In Britain , one has already been struck off and three others are facing disciplinary hearings for improper sexual conduct with patients , the British Psychological Society disclosed at its annual conference in Scarborough yesterday . |
| 3 | Federman has explained this characteristic as ‘ imagination mocking what it pretends to be doing … imagination laughing at its own pretensions ’ ( Federman 1976a : 576 ) . |
| 4 | That very first event started the train of countless numbers of such events and each of these , occurring at its own relevant time , provided a corresponding addition to what millenniums later , man is able to interpret as countless millions of ‘ units ’ of ‘ goodness ’ . |
| 5 | Okay , so his grant will be pegged at its 1990 level ; but he ca n't see himself borrowing from the loan scheme introduced by the Government through the major banks . |
| 6 | This disposition of rooms made it possible to treat the residual high-level space as a single living/dining/cooking area , with the kitchen located at its northern end , divided from the generous living-dining-room only by a head-height folding screen . |
| 7 | This indicates that the region of RAP74 responsible for the interaction with RAP30 in vivo is located at its N-terminal domain . |
| 8 | Morse had insisted on travelling by what he called the ‘ scenic ’ route — via Cirencester but , alas , the countryside was not appearing at its best : the golden days were gone , and the close-cropped fields where the sheep ever nibbled looked dank and uninviting under a sky-cover of grey cloud . |
| 9 | The company believes the strength of its Rosemary brand , plus the ‘ state-of-the-art ’ technology installed at its new Bedworth plant , will enable it to achieve this aim . |
| 10 | The investment property is included at its open market value . |
| 11 | The investment property is included at its open market value . |
| 12 | She dotted her forefinger into a thick yellow pool on the table-top , licked it , winced at its fiery and concentrated taste . |
| 13 | The butterfly needed short grass , wild thyme and Myrmica sabuleti , a particular ant species , all of which it has at its new , secret Devon location . |
| 14 | She peered at its various buttons and dials and wondered if it were possible to wreck it by unintentional mis-setting . |
| 15 | He took the cheroot from his mouth and peered at its slobbered-on green end , as if it were a reptilian rump about to grow a new tail . |
| 16 | The cottage was acquired by the museum and , under the combined direction of Mr John Severn , a Nottingham Architect , the County Architects Department and Professor Maurice Barley , the cottage was moved , stick by stick , and re-assembled at its new site . |
| 17 | Significantly , following lobbying by Feminists Against Censorship amongst others , Liberty narrowly voted at its 1990 AGM to reverse the position adopted a year earlier in favour of anti-pornography legislation . |
| 18 | Niyazov had been leader of the republican Communist Party until it was dissolved at its 25th Congress on Dec. 16 , 1991 , and then became leader of the ruling Democratic Party of Turkmenistan . |
| 19 | With the volume of trading at its highest recorded level , the leading FT-SE 100 index of top British companies jumped 150 points at one stage before settling 136.2 points ahead at 2572.6 — almost exactly the level at which the stock market stood when Chancellor Norman Lamont began his Budget address one month ago . |
| 20 | Alfred Dunhill opened shops in Geneva and Madrid , and Hackett has started trading at its new flagship store in Sloane Street , London . |
| 21 | All food needs to be stored and prepared carefully if it is to be enjoyed at its best . |
| 22 | He looks at its age-old mysteries and traditions as well as the modern rituals and victuals that we have come to enjoy today . |
| 23 | looks at its long history , in which the last five years have been arguably the most dramatic , part of a transformation which is by no means over . |
| 24 | It looks at its best if the stems are kept trimmed , which makes it more compact . |
| 25 | " Everything has to be done as quickly as possible ; the only time we spend extra hours in the garden is over the few weeks we are entering competitions , just to make sure it looks at its best , " says Barbara . |
| 26 | Desperate ways to achieve desperate means Alan Murray charts the IRA 's strategy of using civilian carnage to further its message and looks at its possible next moves |
| 27 | Right from its inception NEP carried within itself the germs of its own fatal illness , whether one looks at its fiscal organization or the economic persona ( like these Nepmen ) which it soon evoked , or in many cases re-awakened . |
| 28 | The Pearl Investor Confidence Index rose by 1.2 p.c. last month — its largest rise since August last year — to stand at its highest level since December . |
| 29 | A more likely source is a curious deposit of fine black material in a fault below the waterfall in Mealy Gill ( spanned at its lower end by the railway bridge at the rail head , Coniston ) . |
| 30 | It was as if he feared the car would suffer from some mechanical equivalent of cot death , would suddenly buckle and blister and bend , hideously out of shape , there before his eyes , at berth , peacefully parked at its usual angle . |