Example sentences of "[noun] at the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is substantially more information both general and related to risks at the risky junctions than at the less risky ones . |
| 2 | One glance at the young men emerging from a vehicle told her that the rafting parties had arrived , and within moments Silas was there to greet them . |
| 3 | A glance at the vested interests of the four debaters , debating whether sports-climbing is threatening the traditional ethos of British climbing , throws up interesting comparisons . |
| 4 | A single glance at the actual contents of Mogridge 's cupboard embarrassed me . |
| 5 | He spared a glance at the ragged specimens of humanity crouched against the wall and wondered how many of them had once been prosperous farmers or innkeepers or tradesmen . |
| 6 | A glance at the Financial Times or Money Management will reveal the large number and variety of offshore funds in existence . |
| 7 | THOSE OF the opinion that rock ‘ n ’ roll is a soft option are advised to cast a cynical glance at the Screaming Trees . |
| 8 | A glance at the assembled guests told him what he already knew — that no one looked quite as good as he did . |
| 9 | The third of Salter and Tapper 's concept , the ‘ means ’ to support change , has not been offered to arts education , whereas funds for the development of more vocationally orientated education have been forthcoming , as a glance at the original categories of ESGs , TVEI and GRIST demonstrates . |
| 10 | They backed the horse between the traces and untied her hobble without a glance at the Horsey townsfolk who watched them from a very great distance . |
| 11 | One glance at the mounted soldiers emerging from the trees was enough . |
| 12 | In a letter to staff he said : ‘ I have to express my disappointment at the proposed changes . |
| 13 | we went to meet mummy at the Jolly Farmers |
| 14 | That year the British Amateur Athletic Board issued some questionnaires at the English Schools Championships asking athletes what they needed in order to help them improve . |
| 15 | Through all the turnings of his thoughts one image dogged him — Colberg 's face , so sharply carved , his eyes a wee bit slanting at the corners , his nostrils cut on a long shallow curve , his forehead not rounded but angled above the glossy black hairs at the outside ends of his eyebrows . |
| 16 | Most Western governments are actually helping Pol Pot by giving diplomatic support to the Khmer Rouge-dominated coalition at the United Nations ( UN Resolution 44/22 passed on 16 November , 1989 ) . |
| 17 | However , as the third week began in Croydon , Bates dispatched a series of home players , including Mark Petchey , Sean Cole ( avenging a previous defeat at the National Championships ) , Andrew Richardson ( who gave a fine performance reflecting future potential ) and Joelson . |
| 18 | Was the shooting at the violent times ? |
| 19 | Cast your mind back to Day 1 and your first attempt at the elementary exercises I asked you to perform . |
| 20 | Black-figure continues in use long for slight work , and for the prize vases at the Panathenaic games it far outlasts red figure , going deep into the Hellenistic age ; but from the generation after the Pioneers all major vase painters work primarily in red-figure . |
| 21 | In 1905 its general manager and Wilson 's arch opponent , Cuthbert Laws , could claim thirty-six operational registry offices at the principal ports of the kingdom , a capacity to move free labour anywhere as required , equipment and stores to maintain 5,000 men , nine-tenths of UK seagoing tonnage in membership and an invested capital of almost £200 mn . |
| 22 | GRAHAM TAYLOR has laid his England future at the uncertain feet of Nigel Clough and John Barnes against the Americans in Boston tonight . |
| 23 | GRAHAM TAYLOR has laid his England future at the uncertain feet of Nigel Clough and John Barnes against the Americans in Boston tonight . |
| 24 | Viola Machin , nevertheless , seemed impervious to it : she stood in bosomy grief , in a becoming coat of umber shade , dabbing her eyes at the pathetic bits of the service ; Desmond , in a heavy black coat , managed only an insurance agent 's decorous grief ; and Hilary looked as if cheerfulness might keep breaking through — which would probably , after all , be what Hilda would have liked most . |
| 25 | Place your forefinger on the body ridge under the eyes at the inner corners and repeat the pressing movements , a little more lightly this time , until you reach the outer corner . |
| 26 | Open Channel D for the Man From Uncle pilot film TO TRAP A SPY , sympathise with Ribsgy 's lodger-stroke-offspring problems in another ancient RISING DAMP , don your spangly cod-piece when Erasure go IN CONCERT or boggle your eyes at the whizzy visuals of schlockfest movie FX — MURDER BY ILLUSION . |
| 27 | is this game all-ticket ? what are the chances for getting tickets and getting a seat at the away fans end ? i do not have a membership-card. i guess i could give it a try ( i have other tickets somewhere else ) |
| 28 | In a separate agreement the heads of member states agreed that Russia should take the seat at the United Nations formerly occupied by the USSR , and a framework of interstate and inter-governmental consultation was established . |
| 29 | He is calling for good conditions for traders at the new pitches in Tarleton Street , Williamson Square and Paradise Street . |
| 30 | Figures in this year 's Military Balance have not been revised to take account of the reductions of 500,000 troops and 10,000 tanks announced by Mikhail Gorbachev at the United Nations last December . |