Example sentences of "[verb] at [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Members agreed that no smoking be permitted at future meetings of the Society . |
| 2 | Her beauty had been something which had filled even herself with wonder ; sometimes in the privacy of her own room she would gaze at some part of herself , at a hand , say , or a breast , and the perfection of its shape would fill her with joy , as if it were not a part of herself but some natural object of beauty . |
| 3 | When Dexter focused back on the conversation , Blanche was laughing at some joke of Eddy Russell 's that the sergeant had missed . |
| 4 | His brows rose at this flash of spirit . |
| 5 | As Mukařovský wrote ( Garvin 1964 : 22 ) : The task of the structuralist analyst is therefore to identify deviations from existing linguistic and literary practice ( ‘ norms ’ ) occurring at one level of the text ( say its syntax ) , and then relate the structure of this level to that of the other levels ( rhythm , syllable-structure , aspects of subject matter , etc. ) , in order to define the structure of the text as a whole . |
| 6 | A mechanism which was proposed in Chapter 2 for explaining the inverted-U relationship was that of attention focusing occurring at higher levels of arousal in line with Easterbrook 's hypothesis . |
| 7 | Symptoms are changes from the normal state of a person occurring at any level of his being and would range from changes of mood or behaviour to physical things like pains , temperature reactions , colour changes , sweats etc . |
| 8 | The three areas can be described as ones of political — religious mediation occurring at different levels of social process . |
| 9 | Place in a cold frame or on a windowsill out of direct sunlight , where they will soon root at this time of year . |
| 10 | But he has brought with him the Furies who appear at key moments of the action — the spectral creatures whose gaze he can not endure but whose presence he understands , since he believes he has murdered his wife . |
| 11 | It represents Padmapani holding a blue lotus , and is located at one side of a cell entrance . |
| 12 | He always seemed to know exactly where Sergeant Charles Trumper of the Royal Fusiliers could be located at any time of the day or night . |
| 13 | Some naturalists believe that tigers will mate at any time of year . |
| 14 | The information was also required to ascertain what assessment materials could be included at different levels of a graduated test scheme so that pupils taking each level could achieve a high degree of success . |
| 15 | A very low-fat start to the day is tomatoes or mushrooms on a slice of wholemeal toast ; and the baked bean must not be forgotten at this time of day . |
| 16 | Everyone stands at one end of the pool , and when it is time to start I swim to the end of the pool and come back . |
| 17 | Ben Nevis stands at one end of the greatest mountain range in the Highlands , buttressing a grand array of ten Munros with altitudes above or near 4000 feet and forming an unbroken high skyline for several miles . |
| 18 | The box stands at one end of a parcel of land upon which there is a complete turnout and associated signals . |
| 19 | Everyone stands at one end of the room with their eggs in front of them on the floor . |
| 20 | Each team stands at one end of the room , in a line , one behind the other , facing the opposite end . |
| 21 | The church is built close to the edge of the bluff , which falls an overgrown eighty or ninety feet down into the wide bed of the gave or river ; and the view up or downstream is dignified further by the curtain wall of the medieval Tour Monréal , that stands at one corner of the small square in front of the church . |
| 22 | In some ways the social worker stands at special risk of prosecution . |
| 23 | America 's household and ( non-financial ) corporate debt stands at some 130% of GNP . |
| 24 | The notion of rhythm involves some noticeable event happening at regular intervals of time ; one can detect the rhythm of a heart-beat , of a flashing light or of a piece of music . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , it is Adler rather than Freud who sums up for me what was happening at this stage of the disease . |
| 26 | Many people are struggling to get their hunters fit at this time of the year . |
| 27 | There were no aircraft available for air drops at that stage of the war in the desert , which was a pity when one bears in mind that only two years later SAS parties operated in France for anything up to two months behind enemy lines , totally reliant on parachuted stores . |
| 28 | Enthusiasts aged 11 and over can be introduced to Superghosts , in which letters can be added at either end of the word . |
| 29 | George and the twins dared not venture near it except in the broadest of daylight and even then they usually fled at first sight of it . |
| 30 | Bells were rung at either end of a conversation to signal the beginning and end of the call . |