Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [pron] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The farm owners were n't working class , so the ways this put them at a disadvantage is irrelevant . |
| 2 | This puts them at an advantage in terms of trading within the EC , and within a Europe whose centre of gravity is shifting steadily eastwards . |
| 3 | Cranston seized the bowl by its two silver handles and half drained it at a gulp . |
| 4 | Mr C Mrs D what does that show ya at a glance ? |
| 5 | A completely brittle material like glass is reasonably safe as long as we are content to operate it at a very low stress level , for instance as a shop window , because the Griffith crack length is then quite long and so the material is safe against minor chips and abrasions . |
| 6 | These days , however , far from being likely to ignore everyone at a party full of naked birds , Doonican has become king of what has become known as the ‘ light entertainment ’ circuit in the north-east of England . |
| 7 | These days , however , far from being likely to ignore everyone at a party full of naked birds , Doonican has become king of what has become known as the ‘ light entertainment ’ circuit in the north-east of England . |
| 8 | Someone , in other words , who is likely to take silk , but likely to take it at a time sufficiently far in the future to give you a chance of stepping into part of his practice as a junior . |
| 9 | A beautiful non-tidal cove where Dublin 's finest flaunted themselves at an indifferent sea while their wives , children and girlfriends sat half a mile away on what was an excuse for a beach amidst the polluted debris of the capital and not a wave to be seen . |
| 10 | And he 'll use that to keep us at a distance . |
| 11 | In the words of a single 19-year-old trainee pilot : ‘ In an ideal world you 'd be able to meet someone at a bus-stop , go for a drink , take them home and bonk their brains out — and then go home to your girlfriend for dinner . ’ |
| 12 | I would very much like CPRW to join , not because it might lead to an international jolly ( some hope ! ) , but because I think it would be a feather in CPRW 's cap , we will benefit from their advice and information , and we will be able to contribute something at a UK level . |
| 13 | I first met them at a trial . |
| 14 | We first met him at an elegant hotel in the ‘ uptown ’ district of Manhattan , New York , overlooking Central park , a watering place well known to artists ( Joe Cocker also happened to be in residence at the time ) . |
| 15 | So impressed was I that I took Hellen to meet her at a later performance the same week . |
| 16 | And the second thing she understood was the reason why she was indeed so desperate to keep him at a distance . |
| 17 | But that put him at a disadvantage according to the flatty rules Daine had strung himself with . |
| 18 | The source of this subversive suggestion is the view , already mentioned in the Introduction , that social theorists who adhere too closely to a single set of explanatory canons are liable to put themselves at a disadvantage . |
| 19 | She made for an armchair , knowing it would be wise to keep him at a distance , but she did n't reach it . |
| 20 | Thirdly , the model suggests one way of accounting for the peculiar nature of mathematics , computing and language , as the disciplines which constitute our stances in and towards the world , and for the way they relate to other disciplines , both servicing them at a mundane level and pervading them at a profound level . |