Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [to-vb] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Racing : Prix de L'Arc de Triomphe : Britain 's faith in Class value : Europe 's richest race brings another opportunity for Britain 's most fearless trainer to tilt at a top prize . |
| 2 | This enormous gift that , despite all the trying things that went with it , Phoebe had received ; this capacity to look at a thing and know that , because it must be done , it is the doing of it that brings freedom and salvation . |
| 3 | Sometimes , in His slow journey across the shores of Infinity , He moves His country-sized head to snap at a passing comet . |
| 4 | Once again we return to the old advice to practise at a safe height . |
| 5 | A ‘ birder 's bird ’ , it is one of the most difficult species on the British List to identify at a distance . |
| 6 | It is also made aware , by this ability to feel at a distance , of the movements of other fish swimming alongside it , an important ability for those species that form shoals . |
| 7 | Moreover , as Figure 7.2b shows , there is a marked tendency to congregate at a very few ‘ honeypot ’ sites . |
| 8 | The men from the lorry picked their way through a graveyard of broken stones to pray at a sheikh 's white-domed tomb , while we made our way across a wide flood plain of gravel and cracked mud to the river . |
| 9 | Incidentally , the pineapple is a sign of hospitality , making this a very appropriate dish to serve at a party . |
| 10 | Please make early arrangements to pay at a council office or post office ’ . |
| 11 | By mid-century , a standard format had been devised which allowed a long-service civil servant to retire at a minimum age of 60 on a pension equal , at maximum , to two-thirds of his previous salary . |
| 12 | The typical pattern is for the Japanese businessman to eat at a restaurant in the evening and thereafter go to a bar or cabaret . |
| 13 | Erm , resolution that Synod appoints Jo , John as Synod clerk for a period of up to three years to commence at a date mutually convenient to him and the present Synod clerk . |
| 14 | Nash , a scrupulous and sensitive antiquarian , tells us what happened next : ‘ The body , I believe , is perfect , as it has never been opened : we thought it indelicate and indecent to uncover it ; but observing the left hand to lie at a small distance from the body , we took off the cerecloth , and found the hand and nails perfect , but of a brownish colour : the cerecloth consisted of many folds of coarse linen , dipped in wax , tar , and perhaps some gums : over this was wrapt a sheet of lead fitted exactly close to the body . ’ |
| 15 | In other words , for a human being to stare at a cat is to threaten it . |
| 16 | The intention had been a fairly short , impressive strike which ended on a note of strength and with the obvious ability to resume at a later date should the government drag its feet on terrorism and law and order . |
| 17 | To coach them better , to give them better opportunities , to give them better opportunities to play at a higher level , to be more competitive rather earlier in their lives . |
| 18 | There was a short silence now in which anyone with good enough hearing to detect a pin-drop would have detected the sound of hundreds of little grey cells jostling and barging each other in frantic efforts to arrive at a perfect understanding of the day 's events . |
| 19 | It meant , through IT , that quickly improved drafts could provide alternative ways to arrive at a near-excellent final version of what was being said . |
| 20 | The drama itself also benefits from this approach : writing in role slows the drama down in a very productive fashion , encouraging children to look at a particular situation in much greater depth than they would otherwise . |
| 21 | Prospects for the highest-rated shares to open at a premium of up to 30 per cent continued to look good as the stock market held steady yesterday . |
| 22 | Prospects for the highest-rated shares to open at a premium of up to 30 per cent continued to look good as the stock market held steady yesterday . |
| 23 | The intention was to reduce it to that rate which would constrain aggregate demand to grow at a rate which could be met by increases in real output . |
| 24 | It is therefore safe for a fire-engine driver to proceed at a higher speed than would be possible for other drivers . |
| 25 | The initial attempts to arrive at a theoretical representation of the dimensions of a linear chain , treated the molecule as a number n of chain elements , joined by bonds of length l . |
| 26 | ‘ You must be very rich if your skill is as remarkable as your tongue , ’ she told him in amusement , taking a handkerchief from her lacy sleeve to dab at a tiny droplet of champagne on her dress . |
| 27 | Night fell , but in spite of that , as Southey wrote to a friend , ‘ We talked philosophy like two poets and often paused one while to drink at a clear spring — another while to encourage poor Rover now quite lame — and sometimes to mark the glowworms paley ray . ’ |
| 28 | Nor do we have Betcher 's Gland , which would let a Marine secrete corrosive poison to spit at a foe . |
| 29 | The ANC foreign affairs director , Thabo Mbeki , said that rival groups " must enjoy equal weight in the debate " and that " national consensus … is a critical element in the common effort to arrive at a new reality of justice and peace " . |
| 30 | He was not a lady 's man in the accepted sense , rather he championed and encouraged single women to travel at a time when it was still considered bad form for a respectable young lady to take a shopping trip to London unchaperoned , let alone visit the Continent . |