Example sentences of "[verb] at [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I myself , not having much knowledge of computer electronics called for the services of a professional Computer Engineer , after explaining the symptoms he gave the PC a thorough check , he then informed me no fault could be found but suggested that as the problem was intermittent and the PC was somewhat old , it could be susceptible to noise not conducted but radiated at some external source , Radio Frequency Interference ( R.F.I. ) . |
| 2 | Jetting across the Atlantic , after two years in America , she had looked forward to seeing her home town from the air , to retracing toy-sized , familiar landmarks , to marvelling at new unfamiliar ones . |
| 3 | This translates as ‘ Why are you marvelling at this exceptional house . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm sure he would be proud of you , ’ Merrill said slowly , still marvelling at this new-found empathy . |
| 5 | Alner won on Ponteus Pilot , Lough Guitane and Seven of Diamonds , who has now won at all three meetings at Badbury Rings this season . |
| 6 | Beginning on June 13 the estimated 200,000 troops and 250,000 militiamen belonging to the three guerrilla factions — of which the Khmers Rouges was the largest — and the Vietnamese-backed Phnom Pehn government were due to begin assembling at 95 UN-controlled regroupment areas . |
| 7 | To aid the overall analysis of the contractor 's programmes it is often appropriate to request at tender detailed programmes for each structure or major work area programmes for shutter , falsework and scaffolding erection and movement resource schedules against work elements , and movement charts for labour and plant . |
| 8 | Erm I did know at that particular time know what it was to have holes in my shoes , and a piece of cardboard put into it to protect your foot from the hole . |
| 9 | Mick , I honestly do n't know at this present time . |
| 10 | ‘ Is it important that you should know at this very moment ? ’ |
| 11 | Her eyes misted at this heroic image , and she poured herself a brandy . |
| 12 | Fewer teachers have difficulties in responding to reminders that children share substantial common ground regardless of whatever special attention they may need at any one time . |
| 13 | ADH subunits are encoded at five different gene loci on chromosome 4 and polymorphisms have been observed in two : ADH2 ( producing three different Β subunits ) and ADH3 ( producing two different γ subunits ) . |
| 14 | Human ALDHs are encoded at four independant loci on four different chromosomes . |
| 15 | In Clwyd , the terminal at Point of Ayr promised at most 132 jobs for the duration of the drilling process , she said . |
| 16 | What that shop needs at this particular moment is a salesman . |
| 17 | He burst out laughing at this strange expression , then said : ‘ The days are hot , but at night stars as big as sovereigns make silver holes in the sky . ’ |
| 18 | Laughing at this last jibe , she swept some papers into her arms and went over to the far side of the nurses ' station , where files were stored , leaving Belinda relieved to be alone . |
| 19 | Constance watched Ludo and Gioella laughing at some private joke , and hated them both . |
| 20 | As Rincewind stared in horror a courting couple , laughing at some private joke , walked straight through the apparition without appearing to notice it . |
| 21 | Modern meteoric precipitations and regional ground waters at equivalent high latitudes have lighter isotope signatures O. Palaeotemperatures calculated from O of the meteoric concretion cements and vein-fills suggest mean annual air temperatures of 10°C . |
| 22 | They behaved towards each other like boys who had been educated at rival private schools . |
| 23 | The playground at Brockweir school has been deserted for over a year , once a 100 children were educated at this small village school , but it was closed last year because of declining numbers . |
| 24 | But we 're looking at it with hindsight , we ca n't just say that because of this this that and the other erm that pragmatism did overrule at this particular point in time . |
| 25 | Daniel Omara Atubu and other elected representatives apparently protested at these mass arrests . |
| 26 | The overall result is to recall the layered effect of those rock formations which eternally hint at massive earthly movement , and yet the sculpture ‘ speaks ’ very much of human scale . |
| 27 | However , in the few weeks remaining to him , will he pursue at all relevant meetings the question of the massacre at Santa Cruz in East Timor . |
| 28 | Thomson-CSF SA says its Syseca unit won a contract worth several million dollars to provide a turnkey system to send messages between 29 European civil aviation agencies : the contract , awarded by Eurocontrol , which oversees air traffic control across Europe , calls for installing the system by end-1993 , and the contract is part of a vast programme to link up Europe 's air traffic control systems — the present fragmentation is one of the key causes of the air travel delays ; the Central Flow Management Unit system will be based on Syseca 's Aermac product , and will collect flight plans from the World Civil Aviation Network , the SITA airline network SITA and from air traffic control centres ; it will be installed at two central sites , at Haren , Belgium and Bretigny-sur-Orge , France , using Stratus Computer Inc fault-tolerant systems connected via an X25 packet-switched network . |
| 29 | By the end of 1988 gamma radiation dose monitors had been installed at 46 meteorological stations as part of phase 1 of the development programme . |
| 30 | May and she she an old boy come in in the week , Carole had Friday afternoon off an old boy was knocking at all these doors and something to do with erm put a tape recorder in your house |