Example sentences of "[verb] at [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Disembarking at certain points from a leisurely cruise , your guide , Bernie Dunn , arguably the best guide in Amsterdam will take you through Amsterdam 's most enchanting neighbourhoods by foot . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Members agreed that no smoking be permitted at future meetings of the Society . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In October 1927 , the young missionary was steaming at 15–20 knots towards Rangoon . |
| 6 | Fortunately , Evan-Thomas in Barham , steaming at maximum speed with his four battleships , had come within firing range . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But , although the business generally had to be won at lower margins in the face of stiffer competition , our performance should have been very much better , and would have been had we responded more promptly to market fluctuations . |
| 9 | But it was this battle , won at huge cost by both Tyne Tees and Yorkshire , which finally propelled the companies into each others arms . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The entire German Army attacked at first light on 28 August . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Gambling , football pools , fun-fairs , dog tracks , amusement arcades , dance halls , popular songs , street betting and speed-tracks were all attacked at different times in the interwar years for their demoralising influence , particularly on the young . |
| 14 | planning is more difficult because it must be organised at more levels in the organisation . |
| 15 | Halon production is only required to freeze at 1986 levels by 1992 ; no direct cuts are to be implemented . |
| 16 | The breakthrough , dubbed a ‘ quantum leap into the future ’ is opening at other cinemas throughout the US over the next few weeks . |
| 17 | Numbers of Hurricanes were scrambled at various times during the mid-morning . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Deep , small holes were drilled at appropriate points in the leaf and stem decoration . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He needs at all rimes to be in full possession of his faculties , or that extra , unpredictable poetic thrust would never declare itself — that heart-lifting boost that rockets mere words into the outer spaces of true poetry . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Clearly , the mill was largely rebuilt at some point in the 19th century , the brick-built section tying into the much older stone range . |
| 24 | When Dexter focused back on the conversation , Blanche was laughing at some joke of Eddy Russell 's that the sergeant had missed . |
| 25 | His brows rose at this flash of spirit . |
| 26 | Now , Richard Fairbanks of New York 's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory has uncovered a detailed record which shows how fast global sea level rose at different times during the transformation from the glacial to the post-glacial world . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ago , the Outer Hebrides Thrust was reactivated , and the movements produced more crushing along the thrust plane , with the production of mylonites , which are pale coloured , very fine grained , schist-like bands of crush material occurring at irregular intervals along the line of the thrust . |
| 29 | It is occurring at especial speed in those countries in which development has been recent and fast . |
| 30 | 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 . |