Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The net wickets at Queen 's Park were considered too dangerous and , indeed , the five specialist seamers were allowed to bowl only at unguarded stumps . |
| 2 | Like warts and bristles , structures protruded from the main mass : long strands of metal gridwork , a heap of vitreous bubble-forms , metal boxes welded together at haphazard angles . |
| 3 | Months ago they were passing strangers , chucked together at check-in times . |
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| 5 | An accompanying booklet gives advice on timber selection , and how timber can be harvested locally at minimal cost . |
| 6 | Then it stays in the burrow alone , visited only at feeding times , for nearly two months . |
| 7 | Responding to SCOTVEC 's suggestions , however , the Prison Service has now created a support structure across institutions which ensures parity of standards and allows Instructors to come together at regular intervals for staff development sessions . |
| 8 | Mills were often built on an estuary where the water could be trapped upstream at high tide by sluice gates . |
| 9 | Each of several characters is followed through twenty-four hours and their lives touch only at certain points in the narrative . |
| 10 | Say aloud at normal speed : ‘ Me th ylated sp ri ts are not o ft en e ff erve sc ent , are th ey ? ’ |
| 11 | Not only is there a failure to work together at local level , but central government also fails to provide the framework of legislation and subsidy that would enable housing and social services departments to address jointly the aspirations of disabled people . |
| 12 | The va n't Hoff equation is only approximate and holds only at low concentrations . |
| 13 | By early March , oil had come ashore at various points along a strip of Saudi coastline stretching some 130 miles south of the Kuwaiti border . |
| 14 | The largest and most colourful of them showed a woman with a shotgun , blasting away at Red Indians . |
| 15 | He does appear to have looked carefully at various places , and in 1800 he settled in Ambleside . |
| 16 | Recent analyses have shown positive host-economy effects in terms of their greater adaptability to local conditions , greater use of labour-intensive technology , and greater skills to work profitably at small scale . |
| 17 | In return , citizens are entitled to expect high-quality services which are responsive to their needs and provided efficiently at reasonable cost . |
| 18 | The system , which is available now , is targeted mainly at corporate users , wishing to provide their staff with instant access to information , or information suppliers , such as publishing houses . |
| 19 | These bursts of repetitive non-sequential pressure peaks did not show any characteristics that would suggest a common cavity phenomenon ; they were not preceded by a sudden small increase in base line oesophageal pressure occurring simultaneously at different levels of the oesophagus ; and the shape of the individual waves , although occurring simultaneously at different levels of the oesophagus , was often different from one level to the other . |
| 20 | These bursts of repetitive non-sequential pressure peaks did not show any characteristics that would suggest a common cavity phenomenon ; they were not preceded by a sudden small increase in base line oesophageal pressure occurring simultaneously at different levels of the oesophagus ; and the shape of the individual waves , although occurring simultaneously at different levels of the oesophagus , was often different from one level to the other . |
| 21 | It appeared to be targeted particularly at black marketeers and speculators hoarding goods to create artificial shortages . |
| 22 | ‘ I always rated Pally at Ayresome Park , but there is no doubt he has blossomed on a bigger stage . |
| 23 | In order to make a success of your business career you need to be prepared to work hard at oral skills . |
| 24 | He only liked large men around him and must have looked askance at small Welshmen like T. E. Thomas and G. D. Morgan . |
| 25 | We stopped twice at primitive tea-houses , the only buildings we saw in over eighty miles of desert . |
| 26 | During this time you will have developed the personal credibility to communicate persuasively at top management level . |
| 27 | Marksmanship was relatively unaffected when the soldiers were allowed to shoot in their own time at a target , but when shooting was combined with a vigilance task ( with the target appearing briefly at unpredictable times ) , the number of hits was dramatically reduced . |
| 28 | Section 6.2 looks again at conventional applications development , but in the overall context of a database approach , and then we look at alternative ways of developing applications , again in a database environment . |
| 29 | I 've gawped solemnly at fuzzy ultrasound images , and pretended to recognize the head when the doctor pointed to it . |
| 30 | But within this group he looks specifically at solid tumours and they only have a four year survival of twenty percent . |