Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] at an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was clearly significantly dangerous , and so whilst we w had the J C B , J C B down there , we asked the contractor to dig er to remove those electric cables and actually replace them at an appropriate depth . |
| 2 | Insert split rings along each tape , spacing them at an equal distance apart , at a distance to equal twice the depth of the bottom pelmet starting at lath channel . |
| 3 | She was close enough to the dead man to arrange to meet him at an isolated spot without arousing suspicions . |
| 4 | On the Left Bank the Germans began to find themselves at an increasing tactical disadvantage . |
| 5 | My cousins , & his wife , , sailed from Victoria , via Vancouver to spend a day with us in Seattle ( we had already met them at an all-family-reunion wedding in Cheltenham in August . ) . |
| 6 | In some West Indian islands a yacht arriving without one will be confronted with a customs officer producing a rolled-up flag from his pocket and offering to sell it at an inflated price in an atmosphere of thinly disguised pressure . |
| 7 | Film stars , such as Marilyn Monroe , are likely candidates , and the pressure of such a role can create unbearable conflict ; Monroe killed herself at an early age and at the height of her popularity . |
| 8 | A beautiful non-tidal cove where Dublin 's finest flaunted themselves at an indifferent sea while their wives , children and girlfriends sat half a mile away on what was an excuse for a beach amidst the polluted debris of the capital and not a wave to be seen . |
| 9 | The BCP-affiliated Dimitrov Young Communist League dissolved itself at an extraordinary congress on Feb. 24-25 , and an independent Bulgarian Democratic Youth Social Organization was constituted in its place . |
| 10 | But it also happens that in the organization of recorded knowledge for retrieval the profession of librarianship finds itself at an interesting point of crisis . |
| 11 | Say , ‘ You lost him at an early age , did n't you ? ’ and I 'll say , ‘ Lost him ? |
| 12 | We first met him at an elegant hotel in the ‘ uptown ’ district of Manhattan , New York , overlooking Central park , a watering place well known to artists ( Joe Cocker also happened to be in residence at the time ) . |
| 13 | Where a member of a board is not re-elected to the authority which appointed him at an ordinary election , he remains a board member until the first meeting of the authority after the election . |
| 14 | If a teenager decides to earn money doing a paper round , or a Saturday job , there is no reason why their mother should set her alarm in order to wake them at an unearthly hour . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'd hoped for so much from that class since I was taking it at an American university , but — ’ |
| 16 | There have been some centres who felt that the American data has justified using it at an early stage . |
| 17 | Dewey , as is well known , divided knowledge into tens so that he could employ decimal notation ; when a particular subject turned out to have more than nine facets he had to group them together , often at the expense of logic , and if a new facet arrived in-conveniently there was no way of including it at an appropriate place in the hierarchy . |
| 18 | Mr Dorman said : ‘ The way forward is to attract the youngsters but we have to get them at an early age . ’ |
| 19 | The market had expected Thames , Severn Trent and North West to be listed , putting them at an immediate investment advantage to the rest of the sector . |
| 20 | The idea was for Swedish studios to shoot films based on Scandinavian stories and aim them at an international market . |
| 21 | Efforts by the EC to introduce a tax last year were frustrated by the Bush administration 's opposition to the concept which European industrialists claimed would put them at an unfair disadvantage in world markets . |
| 22 | If his remarkable strategic instinct convinced him at an early stage that it would be necessary to negotiate with the FLN , his obvious repugnance at the process caused major problems . |
| 23 | The Government will have to defend itself at an international legal inquiry against allegations that the SAS operated a shoot-to-kill policy . |