Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arran was giving an impression of strength and direction wholly at odds with his personality . |
| 2 | Yours is the skin most at risk from sunburn , premature ageing and skin cancer , and you need the strongest protection . |
| 3 | After today 's discussion I should be a bit better at understanding what you 're driving at ! |
| 4 | I think I 'm getting a bit better at polo . |
| 5 | It 's embarrassing and they take advantage especially at parties where some girls have had a lot to drink . ’ |
| 6 | If control and data signals are propagated through the circuits of a computer only at time instants controlled by a master " clock " or pulse generator , then we have a synchronous computer . |
| 7 | In particular , providing the police force with risk tables would enable them to identify those first-time victims of crime most at risk of having the experience repeated . |
| 8 | Best distinction from Ringed Plover is no wing-bar in flight , also white line above black forehead , bill yellow only at base of lower mandible , pink to yellowish-green legs and yellow orbital ring . |
| 9 | Of course he had got to know him a good deal better at Ecalpemos … |
| 10 | Routine contractual visits are made by appointment to ensure that lifts are taken out of service for routine maintenance only at times convenient to the hotel |
| 11 | I wanted to lash out at them : Vern did n't help me , I do n't need anyone to help me — he took me to this boat alone at night and we … |
| 12 | You know , boy , when you 're on the marsh alone at night , you imagine all kinds of things , voices calling , guns firing , soldiers marching ! |
| 13 | Here in May 1942 — before the raid on Dieppe that August — plans were being made for the landings in North Africa that would put an American Task Force ashore on the Atlantic coast near Casablanca , a second force ashore at Oran in the Mediterranean , and a third further east at Algiers . |
| 14 | Magic thus represents a view of causation utterly at variance with the concepts of the Christian scientific West , which are now as much a part of the African 's world as is ancient tradition . ’ |
| 15 | Her face was dirty and her gown stained , and like Jehana she had cut the skirt away at thigh level . |
| 16 | The PGL were expected to coast home at Pickie against the Bowling League of Ireland . |
| 17 | Oh and she got , swallowed a tooth yesterday at school |
| 18 | The only place peaceful enough in the midst of an economic crisis , it seemed , was his early Victorian former vicarage home at Stoney Stanton , in his constituency , two-and-a-half hours ' drive away . |
| 19 | Now although in evolutionary terms , given the amounts of genetic variability usually at hand , it is likely that such behaviour has been arbitrary in the required sense ( witness Apis mellifera v. |
| 20 | In the continuing controversy over election results in a small number of parliamentary seats [ see pp. 36983-84 for October 1989 general election ] , the regional High Court in Murcia on March 2 awarded the one seat still at issue there back to the ruling Spanish Socialist Workers ' Party ( PSOE ) . |
| 21 | Considerable research was undertaken into the original Superspec home at Colchester . |
| 22 | In 1907 , however , the Bondholders had a great deal more at risk than in the 1960 's and the 2:1 arrangement gave them some protection and rights over their own investments and the Club 's destiny . |
| 23 | ‘ Indeed , I would feel a deal more at ease , were that worthy gentleman by my side now . ’ |
| 24 | During their visit to Scotland , the nine senior staff from Khmelnitski Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukraine had a fully study programme both at Hunterston and during their day visits to Torness and Peel Park . |
| 25 | He may have come to this decision in 1531 or 1532 and then proceeded cautiously because of the fear of opposition both at home and abroad . |
| 26 | This is why we are asking your church to link with ACET in a Christian response to AIDS both at home and overseas . |
| 27 | There 's a light switch near at hand inside that tank and , as you are wearing ear plugs , you find yourself floating in a soundless , dark and warm environment . |
| 28 | 9.5 Effect of waiver Each of the Tenant 's covenants shall remain in full force both at law and in equity notwithstanding that the Landlord shall have waived or released temporarily any such covenant or waived or released temporarily or permanently revocably or irrevocably a similar covenant or similar covenants affecting any other part of the Centre or the Adjoining Property This provision is an attempt to circumvent the rather harsh law of waiver , by which a landlord will lose its right to forfeit the lease where a non-continuing breach has occurred if the landlord does some act to suggest that the landlord is nevertheless satisfied to continue the tenancy , eg by accepting rent from the tenant . |
| 29 | Even Robert Bakker , a paleontologist now at Colorado University and one of the most original and interesting of dinosaur academics , has not , I suggest , given the subject of dinosaur size as much attention as it deserves , and consequently many of his arguments concerning metabolism , which we will examine in the next chapter , remain fatally flawed . |
| 30 | Markets and fairs remained perquisites of the manor even at Lewes , the capital of East Sussex , where otherwise a rudimentary form of self-government was well established . |