Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adj] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His hands left her shoulders abruptly , his expression becoming suddenly shocked at the realisation of his actions . |
| 2 | Neatly line all the hollowed out windows with fondant , pressing in and trimming away excess at the edges . |
| 3 | On the whole , they appear as keen at the end of a very long day as at the beginning . |
| 4 | Learner access to video playback outside the classroom is becoming increasingly possible at a time when " self-access " or " individualised learning " is receiving a lot of attention from the teaching profession . |
| 5 | Moreover , he was becoming increasingly annoyed at the Communists ' blatant attempts to maximize their influence wherever it mattered — in , for example , the army and the administration — and to dictate strategy . |
| 6 | ONE OF FIVE children who father , a bookie , died young , Lenny McLean grew up in one of the tougher parts of London 's East End , left school at fifteen and , as a young man , started to make a few quid in the unlicensed boxing matches which were becoming increasingly popular at the time . |
| 7 | He looks very quiet at the moment . |
| 8 | ‘ A moment always comes when we have looked too long at a landscape … |
| 9 | He had looked very grave at the thought of all those rotting star fruit , those superannuated pies and fizzing yoghurts . |
| 10 | He was holding the animal 's head up by its antlers and looking shyly pleased at the camera . |
| 11 | Notice that we can specify only one at a time of the gates controlled by such a field , so we must encode as one group only gates which need never be opened together . |
| 12 | The disadvantage , of course , is that the dissenting minority may feel sufficiently aggrieved at the proposal that they complain to the Panel ( in particular , that General Principle 8 has been contravened which requires that rights of control must be exercised in good faith and that an oppression of the minority is wholly unacceptable ) or , alternatively , commence an action under CA 1985 , s459 complaining of unfairly prejudicial conduct . |
| 13 | Her blouse was scooped so low at the front that it left her shoulders and upper arms bare . |
| 14 | She had felt so confident at the outset in her ability to keep track of time , but now it was beginning to desert her . |
| 15 | It seemed especially desperate at a charter fair in my home town as we watched a local housewife who had set up her fortune-telling tent . |
| 16 | ‘ What seemed so hard at the beginning was the limitation that calling her Down 's and handicapped would have on her new life . |
| 17 | For you as writer , this entails looking so hard at the world you write about that you begin to feel the minute , imperceptible movements within it and learn to give them their most appropriate names . |
| 18 | But it is possible that both views were influenced by hindsight and that matters seemed less clear-cut at the time . |
| 19 | But it is possible that both views were influenced by hindsight and that matters seemed less clear-cut at the time . |
| 20 | There would be enormous difficulties in trying to operate a general rule that had not been made sufficiently specific at a proper point beforehand . |
| 21 | This double characterisation was made more hilarious at the first performances when the bossy one was danced by Helpmann , and later the taller MacMillan , with wonderfully extended développés , and the shyer one by Ashton with dainty attempts to be correct at all costs . |
| 22 | With Quakers looking decidedly shaky at the back , Torquay almost sneaked another when Paul Hall ran clean through but Prudhoe blocked with his knees , then defender Matthew Elliott stole up unmarked to volley just wide from a Loram corner . |
| 23 | A spokeswoman said : ‘ Things are looking really good at the moment with plenty of entries flooding in . |
| 24 | Morris had once done as much at a Labour Party conference in Blackpool . |
| 25 | Furthermore , functionalism as a method of social investigation , which is also traceable to Durkheim , seemed particularly influential at the LSE . |
| 26 | Robbie bristled indignantly , the more so because she had felt strangely bereft at the thought of being without his company . |
| 27 | Both would appear increasingly outmoded at a time when technological innovation was presented as indispensable to the modernization of the economy , ‘ the computerization of society ’ . |
| 28 | Some parents , whether openly or secretly , may feel quite pleased at the prospect of being grandparents . |
| 29 | The observation that there was spontaneous electrical activity at the surface of the cortex seemed relatively insignificant at the time , but it was the discovery of the electro-encephalogram . |
| 30 | All seemed relatively simple at the start , recalls literary agent Alexandra Cann . |