Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And indeed the little creature merely sighed before lying motionless , the fateful twitching stilled at last . |
| 2 | A recent ad for follow-on milk , quoting from an article in the British Medical Journal , stated that cow 's milk given at six months caused ‘ subclinical but appreciable gastro-intestinal bleeding in about a third of children . ’ |
| 3 | His interest in physics developed at high school in Washington State where his family moved in 1953 . |
| 4 | So gripped did I become with my inability to proceed at one point , that I almost became benighted through ignoring what was literally a keyhole through the rock . |
| 5 | ’ For Lewis it was a sobering experience to lose at major international level , following his Helsinki and Los Angeles exploits . |
| 6 | The breaching of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 opened the doors to a series of revolutions in Central and East European countries which , from November 1989 to January 1990 , saw the toppling of Communist dictatorships , and their gradual replacement by governments relying in most cases on popular support given at free elections . |
| 7 | The need for centralization of the royal court and parliament led at last to the choice and subsequent development of Edinburgh as Scotland 's capital city . |
| 8 | But is the thing is budget led at this stage , I mean is n't that , are we really , is n't the |
| 9 | A two storey building linked by a bridge to the main building , and which incorporated the Library was substantially modified to provide a Modern Languages Suite situated at First Floor Level , with additional Classrooms and Offices , located on the Ground Floor . |
| 10 | All day long she had wondered how he had managed to bamboozle his way into a consultancy , but first the calm , unflappable way he had dealt with Steve and now here , with the devastated relatives , Kathleen had an opportunity to see at first hand the qualities that set him apart as a consultant . |
| 11 | But worse still , just as the Poet and the Mistress connived at each other 's deception in 138 , just as the Poet connived at the Friend 's deception in 93 , so in 112 the Poet is inviting the Friend to complete the circle : ‘ For what care I who calls me well or ill , /So you o'er-green my bad , my good allow ? ’ |
| 12 | Huey laughs at that . |
| 13 | From the first Protestant Archbishop Thomas Cranmer under King Henry VIII , all the Protestant Archbishops were educated at Oxford or Cambridge and a majority taught at one of those universities . |
| 14 | The main beds of the Silver Knitmaster , Brother and Toyota machines are designed to knit with the knitting hanging at right angles to the machine . |
| 15 | The Citation Index looks at current publications to see what previously published articles are being cited by the present authors . |
| 16 | As thoughts turn to booking a place in the holiday sun , Money Guardian looks at both the costs and savings of taking a break . |
| 17 | Digital Equipment Corp has at last announced its OSF/1 Unix-based operating system for Alpha-based AXP systems , giving its Alpha hardware customers an alternative to VMS . |
| 18 | IBM Corp has at last woken up to the fact that to remain competitive in the personal computer business , it is necessary constantly to add new models , and in the US , the company yesterday added new 80486-based PS/1 models based on chips ranging from the 25MHz 80486SX to the 66MHz 80486DX2 ; they come in desktop and minitower configurations and are available now at prices expected to go from $1,200 to $3,000 ; they are upgradable to the Pentium . |
| 19 | On April 21 the IAEA requested further details of stocks of weapons-grade uranium located at two research reactors south of Baghdad . |
| 20 | The second part looks at mixed numeric/character data files . |
| 21 | The public breakdown of discipline in the crime-suppression division has at last destroyed the faith of many Thais in the police . |
| 22 | But it 's only now , 17 years after her death , that the first lady of crime fiction has at last acquired a fan club . |
| 23 | As the driver stopped at this junction the girl managed to jump out of the car . |
| 24 | Dysuria and urethral discharge are the main presenting symptoms , appearing anything from one to six weeks after catching the infection , with the majority occurring at two or three weeks . |
| 25 | Are we to jump to the unlikely conclusion that John 's heart has at last been melted by the love of a good woman ? |
| 26 | Music for entertainment … seems to complement the reduction of people to silence , the dying out of speech as expression , the inability to communicate at all . |
| 27 | Each time a measurement is made the program checks that a strip around the reference strip has at most a small number of ON pixels in it . |
| 28 | Or that on their first-ever real takeoff during base checks at Prestwick , most pilots have as much difficulty keeping at 1,500 feet circuit height as does a low-hour student in a Cessna 152 ? |
| 29 | Whilst your forthcoming weekend will naturally provide you with the ideal opportunity to discover at first hand the delights of owning your own Highland retreat , I can assure you there is absolutely no commitment . |
| 30 | There 's an Ultra Low Cost ( ULC ) Alpha chip in the works at Digital Equipment Corp targeted at X Windows terminals , palmtops and embedded applications , according to the ‘ Terry Shannon on DEC ’ newsletter that arrived on our desk on Christmas Eve . |