Example sentences of "[adv] at a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Owen was swinging back to order the rest of the party to dismount in their turn when he heard a voice raised suddenly at a little distance in a long , challenging hail . |
| 2 | Over a thousand butterflies which died suddenly at a special reserve in Fraddam , Cornwall , are believed to have been the victims of wind-borne pesticide drift … |
| 3 | Eventually , then , I decided the best strategy would be simply to stride out of the room very suddenly at a furious pace . |
| 4 | Patients at increased risk include those with family members who died suddenly at an early age and those who have experienced syncope . |
| 5 | Although you should make a specific time when candidates can ask their own questions you should also allow time for questions which arise naturally at an earlier stage of the interview . |
| 6 | Thus , although the geodesic with approaches the ‘ fold singularity ’ apparently at a finite distance from the curvature singularity in region IV , an arbitrarily close geodesic that is initially parallel to it in region II diverges from it and crosses into region IV before it reaches the hypersurface . |
| 7 | In terms of engineering , the BRMs were behind their time ; the cars gave endless trouble ; Jackie 's dissatisfactions grew ; accidents intervened , especially at a rain-soaked Spa where Jackie went off the track at high speed and lay trapped in his car , his shoulder broken , his ribs cracked and petrol from his ruptured tanks soaking through his overalls , burning his skin . |
| 8 | staff , especially at a senior level , who had a positive commitment to the aims of the project ; |
| 9 | Among humans , even when we do not understand the words , the manner of expression still tells us a great deal of what is being communicated , especially at a basic level of feeling , emotion and facts of physical life . |
| 10 | ‘ Theft of property is one big area of concern , although there are a large number of thefts of and from motor vehicles — especially at an open site like Risley — and a number of road accidents , ’ he added . |
| 11 | The large fractured area containing the lateral cell membranes of surface mucous cells was observed and photographed randoly at a direct magnification of ×15000 . |
| 12 | I have not described a tenacious battle to secure compensation for a number of distinguished urologists who contracted hepatitis , believedly at a medical banquet , and for whom at the end of the day a moderate degree of compensation was — against considerable odds — secured . |
| 13 | Yeah well that 's not so bad as long as you can get her down at a reasonable hour and get to sleep . |
| 14 | We had to put the babies down at a certain time and leave them — it was horrible . |
| 15 | The problem was soon overcome by always having the camera a couple of inches or so above the fish , thus pointing the camera down at a small angle to the aquarium glass , while the adjustable flash head was directed straight ahead . |
| 16 | So he turned into Gambrinus 's and sat himself down at a small ironwork and marble table , and asked for some water . |
| 17 | On the relief the girl Athena , without aegis or shield ( she is shown now even without helmet , or with it in her hand ) leans on her spear , hand on hip , looking down at a small stele . |
| 18 | The bridal couple got down at a tiny village of low mud houses . |
| 19 | As a patient bandaged from head to foot , Crawford had to deliver only one line , but he forgot it , lifted the bed sheet to look down at a prompt card and uttered the immortal words , ‘ Have you seen this , nurse ? ’ |
| 20 | As the hammer came down at a then-record $53.9 million , Mr Payson whooped ‘ I think he 'd be happy with that ’ , referring to Van Gogh , who killed himself a year after completing Irises , aged 37 . |
| 21 | They sat down at a low table in the corner , under a poster for the Campus Crèche and facing posters for the Pregnancy Advisory Service — ‘ A woman has a right to decide about her own body . |
| 22 | The deflation of aggregate demand and the rise in unemployment did appear to reduce the rate of inflation , but once unemployment had settled down at a higher level , the rate of inflation ceased to fall . |
| 23 | It will bob up and down at a higher rate . |
| 24 | In the shopping centre , I was gratified to see my name up on the Day 's Attractions board , and I sat down at a prepared place by the side of the stage . |
| 25 | Dazed , I looked down at a little girl with wide , solemn eyes . |
| 26 | Once in her suite of rooms she sat down at a little Louis Quinze escritoire , its pale grey panels painted with carnations and pinks , and wrote a short letter to her faithless lover , asking him to call on her urgently at the embassy at eleven the next morning . |
| 27 | Holly stood beside a poorly dug hole and he looked down at a T-shaped junction of pipes and saw that the screw-fastened aperture that gave access to the pipe join and its subsidiary were swathed in doth and knotted around in plastic sheeting . |
| 28 | Remember that , as with tools for any kind of job , there are good tools and not-so-good tools and if you buy poor quality tools , they may let you down at a vital time . |
| 29 | They had sat opposite each other in a compartment crowded with Able Seamen , he watching the darkening fields flying outside the window and Bunny staring down at a single sheet of notepaper , pale blue in colour , which he held on his jigging knee and from whose fold poked a sprig of crab apple in bloom . |
| 30 | I arrived just after dinner at night , so we were taken into the kitchen and sat down at a huge table on which were chicken legs , lamb chops , steak , dishes of three or four veg and told to help ourselves and did we ! |