Example sentences of "[verb] at [adj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The women 's champion , Paula Newby-Fraser , from Zimbabwe , who set a course record of 9hr 1min 1sec last year , is in good shape , having won at Nice in May . |
| 2 | I accept that whatever good looks I may possess are artful , concocted at large by paint and persona . |
| 3 | The winning entry will be selected at random by computer . |
| 4 | Chloride contamination , which stems from de-icing salts seeping into concrete coverings , was discovered in 144 of 200 bridges selected at random by department inspectors and more than half of the difficulties stemmed from poor workmanship . |
| 5 | " A man who wants to talk at large about smoke may have to pick his words very carefully if he wants to exclude the suggestion that there is also a fire : but it can be done . " |
| 6 | This fascinating video takes a then and now look at various ex USAAF 8th Air Force airfields 50 years later . |
| 7 | Montague has built a company valued at close on £500 million , stacked up a personal fortune of more than £18 million , and left some of the toughest deal-makers in the transport business looking on open-mouthed . |
| 8 | Nothing to look at honest to god . |
| 9 | Kelso field the XV who thrashed Heriot 's last Friday , Graeme Aitchison remaining at stand-off with Neil Heseltine at centre , for their home match with Boroughmuir , who play Alan Nisbet at lock . |
| 10 | But Swedish company International Färg , based at Angered near Gothenburg , has found itself a new role in the reshaped European arm of Courtaulds Coatings . |
| 11 | I unfolded to Martha my design of starting at dead of night for a walk round the north of the island . |
| 12 | One who was there on the day and has watched the film many times now suddenly notices that Snow , at The Oval , 1968 , has his foot on the pitch as he fields at silly mid-on while Australia slide to oblivion against Underwood . |
| 13 | At present special requests have to be submitted and justified if calls are to be made ; they are made in the presence of an officer and they are charged at far in excess of the ‘ normal ’ rate because of the need to ask the operator to ring back with the cost — for which a surcharge is made . |
| 14 | The following examples taken at random from accounts of the first half of the 19th Century show how the mine costs were arrived at and how the men were paid . |
| 15 | To estimate the number of synonyms that occur during creation of a direct file using a one-pass load , let us examine the result of storing n records at random in N addresses , on the assumption that each record has to be stored at once and each address can hold only one record . |
| 16 | This partial strategy had been successfully maintained at Digital in Scotland , but the site had experienced the ‘ foreign body inside the larger organization ’ problem which Lawler also identifies . |
| 17 | Five phone voters will be chosen at random by computer to join the fun and rub shoulders with the stars . |
| 18 | Five phone voters will be chosen at random by computer to join the fun and rub shoulders with the stars . |
| 19 | At that time the orthodox view was that such a system should be selective and tripartite , with children routed at eleven-plus into grammar , technical or secondary modern schools according to their aptitudes and abilities . |
| 20 | Two senior Chilean intelligence officers of the Pinochet regime , Gen. Juan Manuel Contreras of the DINA secret police and Lt. Col. Pedro Espinosa , had also been indicted in the case but remained at large in Chile [ see also pp. 36346 ; 36931 ] . |
| 21 | Recognising a more serious problem in the fact that Pippin II remained at large in Aquitaine , Charles moved across the Loire , this time penetrating much further than before into the south-west , where Pippin 's adherents were evidently still to be found . |