Example sentences of "[indef pn] [adj] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We investigated , as we are obliged to , but found nothing wrong at the club . ’ |
| 2 | Someone concerned at the suffering might well think it more appropriate to work for reformation rather than abolition . |
| 3 | The time has come for us all to speak out , to make it clear that we are behind her in feeling that we need someone new at the helm . ’ |
| 4 | The baby 's first worldly experience of nonverbal communication , however , is usually the touch of the midwife 's or obstetrician 's hands or sometimes the mother 's hands and everyone present at the delivery is relieved to hear the initial cry , the first verbal communication . |
| 5 | These are not recognised by the elder as a social error ( something possible at the level of practical consciousness ) nor as having hazardous consequences ( which perhaps requires verbal consciousness ) . |
| 6 | One escapes the old analogy only by submitting to another ; the role of logic , even when it is suspected that there is something wrong at the foundations of the argument , is confined to applying and criticizing concepts thrown up by the spontaneous process of analogizing . |
| 7 | When polls are adverse there 's a tendency to say there 's something wrong at the top . |
| 8 | Now , let's get something clear at the beginning . |
| 9 | Something simple at the start . |
| 10 | Does this mean therefore that RMI has to be a massive concentrated effort to bring everything on-stream at the same time ? |
| 11 | It may reflect something disturbing at the heart of western modernity and rationality . |
| 12 | Perhaps there 's something worse at the other end of this creepy corridor . |
| 13 | Mr Deane was not the only one shocked at the treatment of the children . |
| 14 | A good horse trainer teaches a horse good habits so that it does what he wants it to do automatically , without it learning any undesirable behaviour or bad habits in the process ; but a poor trainer often finds that his horses learn something unwanted at the same time . |
| 15 | The shed running foreman had asked Sam if he would take young John as there was no one available at the time . |
| 16 | There was no one available at the Association Headquarters to comment on the refusal . |
| 17 | IT MADE A CHANGE TO SEE THE MOTOR industry doing something original at the NEC show — admitting it never does anything original . |
| 18 | ‘ Now — I 've decided we should do something special at the club . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Raymond 's family could n't quite come to terms with eating something sweet at the start of a meal , ’ said Ilsa , laughing . |
| 20 | He was n't anything much at the time . |
| 21 | Blanche asked whether Nicola 's husband had seen anything suspicious at the party . |
| 22 | Police appealed to anyone who saw anything suspicious at the scene at around 12.45am to contact Middlesbrough CID on 248184 . |
| 23 | To be understood in its own terms , his policy should be seen not as the implementation of a " vision " of some future world order radically different from anything existing at the time , but as a series of practical initiatives to accelerate and to exploit an already occurring transformation . |