Example sentences of "[verb] at [adv] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The principal focus of attention now turned to particular Soviet industries , calling for the analysis of specialised technical journals and monographs , which had never been looked at previously by Western researchers . |
| 2 | The first is that a clause will be implied if it is necessary for the " business efficacy " of the contract , and would have been accepted at once by both parties when making the contract : The Moorcock ( 1889 ) 14 PD 64 at 68 . |
| 3 | Bartlett fell lbw to Batty for 37 and without addition Lathwell was stunningly caught one handed at mid-off by Batty to bring Carrick a wicket . |
| 4 | An audible groan rippled through the new Form Two , quelled at once by one of Miss Hardbroom 's piercing glances which always made each pupil feel that they had been noticed personally . |
| 5 | EDGE OF DARKNESS begins a re-run in a flurry of weird radioactive thriller shag frenzy and John Huston 's THE DEAD is on C4 at 10pm , followed at 11.30pm by two shorts — VIRILE GAMES and ADAM — by totally great Czech mad animator Jan Svankmajer . |
| 6 | A cuckoo flew low over the reed bed , to be mobbed at once by two reed warblers . |
| 7 | He crossed to the library and entered , assailed at once by warm memories of the man who had been to him the nearest thing to a father . |
| 8 | Those who employ linguistics to study literature form some kind of social network with distinct practices and a skeletal institutional framework , defined at least by overt inter-disciplinary norms . |