Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The syntactic component could look at all the word-pairs for each tag ending at some vertex in the graph and discard all but the highest scoring , based on the acoustic scores and the pair-wise probabilities , since , given this parsing method , no later information is relevant to the decision . |
| 2 | Luke claims that Caesar Augustus ordered a census to be taken but there is no record of a census happening at that time . |
| 3 | That is , you have to imitate the main carriage knitting at Main Tension plus 4 . |
| 4 | She turned and Cameron saw , under her arm , old Donald 's face , eyes staring fixedly , his mouth drooping at one side , a shine of saliva on his chin . |
| 5 | Minutes before three youths had been seen in a car driving at high speed … as they crossed a junction they collided with another car and spun into Mr James . |
| 6 | A taxi driver told Gloucester Crown Court that he saw two drivers laughing at each other as they roared past him nose-to-tail just before the crash . |
| 7 | She turned away , shutting her eyes to adjust them to the darkness , and then with no further hesitation she was going down the rope hand over hand , her feet and knees checking at each knot . |
| 8 | There were three poor brothers living at that time who owned nothing in the world but one pear tree . |
| 9 | Boulton & Watt 's beam engines employed large cylinders operating at low steam pressures , and McNaught 's expedient consisted of the addition of a small higher-pressure cylinder acting on the other half of the beam about midway along its length , with an appropriately shorter stroke , exhausting its steam into the original low-pressure cylinder . |
| 10 | The whirring sound of a tape rewinding at high speed confirmed her guess . |
| 11 | From then on , anything that loiters in front of the entrance runs a risk of being knocked flying by the owner of the den exiting at high speed . |
| 12 | Aerial work pilots such as crop-sprayers , aerial photographers , power-line inspectors etc. have to give great concentration to their work and have little opportunity to scan the sky for aircraft approaching at high speed . |
| 13 | Dawn 's life was saved because two trained paramedics , travelling in the opposite direction in their private ambulance , noticed the sports car travelling at high speed , then realized it had crashed , and turned round to offer help at the scene . |
| 14 | She was run over by a car travelling at excessive speed and overtaking on the wrong side . |
| 15 | Were £50 000 lent today against repayment of £50 000 in 60 days time this would be the equivalent of the lending institution lending at zero interest . |
| 16 | History work is wider than National Curriculum History , and in many respects learning at primary level is seamless , rather than compartmentalised . |
| 17 | Police Sergeant Dick Howard , here with his second family is typical of the angry ex husbands protesting at new maintenance orders . |
| 18 | There was iron too in the Spencer soul and numerous hospital corridors rang to the sound of the redoubtable Countess and the fiery Lady Sarah Spencer hissing at each other like a pair of angry geese . |
| 19 | Smooth the lining out flat again , then turn in the sides of the lining and pin it to the curtains , leaving a 2.5cm ( 1in ) margin of curtain fabric showing at each side . |
| 20 | There 's that one of the man and the woman in the boat smiling at each other . |
| 21 | The influence of the document on the SSD is noticeable ; there are two working groups looking at developing guidance on residential care and training and sexuality . |
| 22 | That the project 's objectives took the form they did was partly due to the particular interests of those involved and partly to a knowledge of other experimental projects operating at that time . |
| 23 | Thankful to hear the change in his tone , I responded with a less playful punch , and soon we were on our feet slapping at each other with a wild hilarity , a contest in which inevitably I was the loser . |
| 24 | The α c s correspond to 0–0 distances equal to two tungsten lattice spacings at 0.5 monolayer and one tungsten lattice spacing at 1.5 monolayer , providing a direct measure of the 0–0 spacing . |
| 25 | The course is based on eight self-contained case studies representing a realistic negotiation or decision-making meeting at managerial level . |
| 26 | Then , when the predator moves in for the kill , at the very last moment the butterfly fish switch direction and dash rapidly forward , leaving the frustrated would-be killers snapping at empty water . |
| 27 | MICROSFT AND SUNSELECT LOOKING AT LEGAL SHOWDOWN |
| 28 | Besides , the playing time is hardly generous for an issue retailing at full price . |
| 29 | He thought he might as well look over his skiing equipment , instead of listening to his parents snapping at each other . |
| 30 | You know there was there was no other work going at that time . |