Example sentences of "[verb] at [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The drop down from Meall Corranaich and back up to Beinn Ghlas was a great deal more substantial than I would have wished at this point in the walk , keeping in mind that I was hallucinating from the effort of the chase and the subsequent lack of oxygen managing to get anywhere near my lungs via a mouth full of clenched teeth . |
| 2 | Whereas a bottom-up or data-driven system such as HWIM can hypothesize any of the 1,000 or so items in its lexicon at the beginning of the utterance , HARPY can only hypothesize those words permitted at that point by the grammar . |
| 3 | Fortunately , Evan-Thomas in Barham , steaming at maximum speed with his four battleships , had come within firing range . |
| 4 | EIGHTY years ago tomorrow , on the night of 14/15 April 1912 , the ‘ unsinkable ’ passenger liner Titanic , steaming at high speed on her maiden transatlantic voyage , ran headlong into an iceberg off Newfoundland and plunged to the bottom of the ocean , taking more than 1,500 souls with her . |
| 5 | But it was this battle , won at huge cost by both Tyne Tees and Yorkshire , which finally propelled the companies into each others arms . |
| 6 | The only fault which can be levelled at this production is its brevity in comparison with its cinema counterpart Shirley 's Greek idyll is compressed at break-neck speed into a second half which lasts less than 45 minutes . |
| 7 | The entire German Army attacked at first light on 28 August . |
| 8 | My first reaction to the resignations was that they were tantamount to an admission of guilt when , in fact , the Argentinians could have attacked at any time in the previous fifteen years . |
| 9 | Although it was stressed at this meeting by one speaker that the school should make the appraisal a valuable exercise , other teachers expressed concern over whether their reports would actually be read . |
| 10 | It will be fished with 2AAA and 1BB bulk locking shot with three No.6s grouped at half depth with a No.6 and a No.8 spread equally between the bulk and the hook . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Clearly , the mill was largely rebuilt at some point in the 19th century , the brick-built section tying into the much older stone range . |
| 13 | When Dexter focused back on the conversation , Blanche was laughing at some joke of Eddy Russell 's that the sergeant had missed . |
| 14 | His brows rose at this flash of spirit . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It is occurring at especial speed in those countries in which development has been recent and fast . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Place in a cold frame or on a windowsill out of direct sunlight , where they will soon root at this time of year . |
| 19 | Educated at Northern College in Barnsley , he has a diploma in trade union and industrial studies . |
| 20 | He was educated at secondary school in Vienna and at the University of Vienna , where he graduated in medicine in 1927 . |
| 21 | His uncle , sister , and brother can all be described as nationalists and although Ho seems to have been attracted at one point to the China of the 1911 Revolution , he chose instead to make his way to France where , having led an intellectually enriched but materially impoverished existence in Paris , he achieved some fame , or notoriety , among his fellow expatriates by attempting to present a list of Vietnamese grievances to Woodrow Wilson and the European statesmen who had gathered in 1919 at Versailles . |
| 22 | The implications for the children 's hearing system of section 4 of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act , 1974 , appear at first sight to be far-reaching and disastrous . |
| 23 | Other works , for example Beehives , which appear at first sight to be silk screen prints are revealed as watercolours , where bleach has created a subtle monotone effect . |
| 24 | In the embryos of most insects evident rudiments of paired abdominal appendages appear at some stage during development . |
| 25 | They appear at any time from mid-summer onwards . |
| 26 | It represents Padmapani holding a blue lotus , and is located at one side of a cell entrance . |
| 27 | In the SF field , much of the work of Brian Aldiss , with its postmodern subversion of language by fragmentation of form , would be located at this node for these reasons . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Some naturalists believe that tigers will mate at any time of year . |
| 30 | What we see today are mere shadows of their former selves and I shall be discussing later a number of these — Hull Fair which is now purely a funfair , the revived Masham Sheep Fair , the dying horse fairs at Lee Gap and Boroughbridge , and Yarm which is still proclaimed and has its high street occupied at one end by the showmen and the other by the gipsies . |