Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] at [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Moreover , if we accept , as it is often proclaimed , that user education is a continuous educational process , desirable for everyone at different stages of their lives , then this goal must surely be sought and certainly co-operation and co-ordination are the agencies by which it can be effected .
2 She felt her feet trailing through the weeds that grew at the side of the track , nettles and thistles tearing her skin as she was dragged through them at high speed .
3 Look out for them at major department stores .
4 During the day , swallows hawk for them at low levels .
5 He will play for defending champions Kelburne tomorrow against DW Clydesdale and will be available to play for them at regular intervals throughout the second half of the season in addition to the finals of the European Club Championship in May .
6 It would control referrals to providers outside the district and it would pay for them at negotiated prices .
7 It would also control patient referrals to providers outside the district and would pay for them at negotiated prices .
8 It would control referrals to providers outside the District and it would pay for them at negotiated prices .
9 This is just the objectivity which is to be claimed in general for the good ; what is good for me now is not necessarily good for you or for me at other times , nor even what I now spontaneously prefer , it is what anyone would spontaneously prefer for me if sufficiently aware from my present viewpoint .
10 He shot after him at high speed .
11 Russell was what you might call a social climber , inasmuch as he specialized in fitting out rock shelters for himself at various altitudes and if possible receiving his friends in them .
12 ‘ I get a lot of laughs from everyone who sees me , especially when I 'm going across long grass and all they can see is an airline captain coming towards them at great speed with exhaust smoke coming from my rear end .
13 You were allowed up to three visitors at a time and had to sit opposite them at individual tables .
14 We will discuss some of them at various points in this book .
15 The third was inhabited by small people , half a dozen of them at various times ; of whom Pat Billon , 2-foot 10-inch ( 85-cm ) tall , became the best known and most publicized .
16 The meeting of the Central Committee lasted two long days , during which eighty-eight delegates spoke , some of them at great length .
17 Two of them at New Drove are downstairs and one is an upstairs .
18 but I 'd never put any of them at Right Back again , Or buy somebody .
19 Any feature where they differ is chosen from one of them at random .
20 CVCP had maintained that ‘ an expansion driven wholly by the recruitment of extra students , many of them at marginal cost , could threaten research ’ , but says that the research funds mean that some universities can ‘ increase their income without recourse to student recruitment alone ’ .
21 No doubt the army has lavish stocks of both ; but no capacity has been retained in Britain to make more of them at short notice .
22 Darling 's mark had been made on his final Test , however , with three catches in England 's first innings , two of them at short leg quite startling .
23 Motorists who drive too close to the car in front of them at high speed are being targeted by Cheshire police .
24 It also makes the point that our sexuality is squeezed arbitrarily into narrow forms , forcing us to suppress many elements of ourselves at great Shobana Jeyasingh is impressive both as a performer .
25 Taxi driver Peter Simpson said that two cars raced past him at high speed .
26 Since then , in the last seven years , we 've built up a market of 50,000 tonnes of it at good prices , under the name ‘ Andricite ’ — from anhydride and JCI . ’
27 They had of course heard of the ‘ Vallar plan ’ , and had joined in discussions of it at various stages .
28 He felt sure he 'd have been told of it at literary do 's if she was really ill .
29 Then he gallops towards it at terrific speed .
30 A new word was recently coined to describe bodies such as English heritage : quangaroos — hopping about in a random fashion , getting in everyone 's way and generally making a nuisance of themselves at good rates of public pay .
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