Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] at [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the only court of appeal for cases tried by the military court , and looks only at points of law and not at facts and findings , thus providing a restricted appeal . |
| 2 | He shouts especially at Pyjamas , who skulks off for a broom . |
| 3 | Memory clearly plays some role at all levels of the driving task , however , there is relatively little research which looks directly at drivers ’ memories for driving situations . |
| 4 | Studies of this type usually focus on general elections alone , but this one looks also at by-elections and at the change between them . |
| 5 | Secondary porosity occurs mostly at sites of leached-away detrital grains — ‘ moldic porosity ’ , leading to an increase of effective porosity if connected to primary porosity . |
| 6 | The process normally occurs only at temperatures and pressures comparable with those found at the centre of the sun . |
| 7 | TUAN BOLO A class of people one meets only at weddings ; the pleasure of feeling rather pale |
| 8 | At the most recent target for the Antipodian Don Quixote , who tilts not at windmills but at woodturners , and not wishing to turn a non-existent battle into a war of attrition , I can only wonder who Mike Darlow will focus his attentions on next ! |
| 9 | Objects may appear at infrared wavelengths because they are cool , because they are obscured by dust that transmits only longer wavelengths , or because their intrinsic mechanism of radiation cuts off at wavelengths shorter than infrared . |
| 10 | She turns up at plays and concerts with her baggy man 's trousers belted at precisely the wrong curve of her hip , and her hair loose and slightly oily . |
| 11 | Sir Frank , who had earned his knighthood by making house calls only at houses where there might be photographers waiting outside , had once told George he drank too much . |
| 12 | Baby sleeps soundly at nights and you get the rest you need to restore your energy . |
| 13 | This plea for methodological anarchy seems rather at odds with current competition between generalising approaches and those that assert the unique cultural specificity of cultural practices . |
| 14 | Visual clues to the new model include body colour bumpers , small side skirts and a rear spoiler that rises automatically at speeds of more than 50mph ; at low speed or when stationary it retracts , leaving the handsome sweep of the car 's tail clean . |
| 15 | ‘ I remember the days , ’ he recalls with an air of maturity which seems strangely at odds with his T-shirt and shorts , ‘ I remember the days at Virgin when we had to see three people in the morning and three people in the afternoon , straight off the street . |
| 16 | Although only an updated version of a traditional discipline , evolutionary morphology became one of the great success stories of the late nineteenth century , providing a framework for visualizing evolution that seems quite at odds with our modern approach to Darwinism . |
| 17 | glares up at kites and hang-gliders . |
| 18 | These he sends ahead at intervals , having instructed the slaves what to say when Esau comes across them . |
| 19 | One such theory is the ‘ Now Print ! ’ mechanism ( Brown & Kulik , 1977 ; Livingston , 1967a , 1967b ) which has been proposed as a special memory mechanism which operates only at times of great arousal to encode specific details of the situation , this will be briefly considered when evidence about flashbulb and vivid memories is discussed below . |
| 20 | The catch is that it operates only at temperatures just above absolute zero . |
| 21 | Claire paddles away at buttons on telephone , scours desk for material to take to meeting ( 3.00 p.m. , the worst ) gets hung up fielding call from incandescent client wanting to know why contract has been mis-drafted for third time in succession … |
| 22 | Body weight fluctuates rapidly at times . |
| 23 | The antarctic shallow-water marine fish Rigophila dearborni , accustomed to living at -1.5°C , dies quickly at temperatures only 0.5°C lower or 4–5°C higher ( DeVries , 1978 ) . |
| 24 | Charity hits back at critics |
| 25 | Gary Mcallister hits back at Dons in the great Elland Road row |
| 26 | Chancellor hits out at newspapers |