Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [v-ing] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The influence of the document on the SSD is noticeable ; there are two working groups looking at developing guidance on residential care and training and sexuality . |
| 2 | ‘ Further , as the minister of state , Lord Fraser , said recently , we currently have a major interdepartmental working group looking at all aspects of criminal justice legislation besides some eight other working groups looking at particular aspects of the system . |
| 3 | The female still lay there , watery eyes staring at some remote distance from which she waited to be recalled . |
| 4 | Authors whose surnames begin with Mac , or Mc , were dealt with in different ways under differing editorial policies operating at different times . |
| 5 | Authors whose surnames begin with Mac , or Mc , were dealt with in different ways under differing editorial policies operating at different times . |
| 6 | He needs to be aware of the social reasons pulling at ordinary people , the conditions of work in an industrial society , the nature of a people 's amusements . |
| 7 | Then , when the predator moves in for the kill , at the very last moment the butterfly fish switch direction and dash rapidly forward , leaving the frustrated would-be killers snapping at empty water . |
| 8 | This week a consignment of langoustines , scallop meat and monk fish for Germany was intercepted at Boulogne by French fishermen protesting at cheap imports . |
| 9 | She imagined him in his racing days driving at incredible speed towards some treacherous bend with just that same ice-cold look of control on his face . |
| 10 | However , Ryzhkov on July 12 told the congress that production had been halted for 24 hours at 230 of the country 's 655 coalmines , with shorter stoppages occurring at many others . |
| 11 | It is generally agreed that the primitive mammals existing at that time were shrew-like creatures that lived by eating insects , and that the various groups of mammals that we see today , such as cats , rats , monkeys , whales , and horses , all evolved from this unpromising ancestor . |
| 12 | Although much more work needs to be done in this area , the impression gained by surveying a range of industries is one of foreign incursions occurring at different times with price being a significant element at certain stages . |
| 13 | They are paid fifteen percent more than their British collegues working at nearby laboratiies . |
| 14 | In terms of the flexible lattice model , one can imagine the polymer and liquid lattices expanding at different rates until a temperature is reached at which the highly expanded liquid lattice can no longer be distorted sufficiently to accommodate the less expanded polymer lattice and form a solution , i.e. the loss in entropy during the distortion becomes so large and unfavourable that phase separation ( LCST ) takes place . |
| 15 | Really we know still know very little about what teachers actually do in the classroom , and it 's all very well standing back in university and saying teachers should do this and should do that , but in order to be able to offer guidance I think we really need to do more research in mixed ability classrooms to discover how teachers are at the moment dealing with the situation and where we might offer them more support , and that 's the direction I 'd like to see research go in , rather than more erm of the grandiose large-scale quantitative studies , which collect lots of figures and statistics — I 'd like to see a lot more studies in actual classrooms looking at actual teachers teaching . |
| 16 | Really we still know very little about what teachers actually do in the classroom and it 's all very well standing back in university and saying teachers should do this and should do that , but in order to be able to offer guidance I think we really need to do more research in mixed ability classrooms to discover how teachers at the moment are dealing with the situation and where we might offer them more support , and that 's the direction I 'd like to see research going ; rather than more of the grandiose large-scale quantitative studies , which collect lots of figures and statistics , I 'd like to see a lot more studies in actual classrooms looking at actual teachers teaching , looking at what they do and how we can improve that . |
| 17 | Basically , you control a rocket ship through a series of scrolling levels firing at various objects and enemies . |
| 18 | Nor did the ‘ moderates ’ see much gain from Iranian films winning at international festivals . |
| 19 | He states however that the fuel was computed at that point and it was determined that there should have been 1,300 lbs remaining on arrival over Goose Bay , giving a reserve of twenty-five to twenty-seven minutes holding at 20,000 feet altitude . |
| 20 | The last stretch is down a narrow lane bordered by woods and lined with horse boxes , cars and spectators , the latter all striving to catch first sight of the leading riders coming at full gallop . |
| 21 | The big field was split into three groups starting at Zero , four and seven minutes . |
| 22 | This may be the case , but you will spend much of the two or three minutes moving at sub-maximum speed , so the further you can ride on the back of aerobic respiration , the more lies in reserve for explosive onslaughts . |
| 23 | In effect , large objects moving at hypersonic velocities do not have time to ‘ see ’ the atmosphere before cratering the surface . |
| 24 | The three phosphates resonating at low field in the CRE dodecamer already belong to XS junctions in the B I state . |
| 25 | The consensual politics of the transition was manifested in a number of national compacts involving at different times government , opposition parties ( including the Spanish communist party ) , national unions and employers . |
| 26 | Boulton & Watt 's beam engines employed large cylinders operating at low steam pressures , and McNaught 's expedient consisted of the addition of a small higher-pressure cylinder acting on the other half of the beam about midway along its length , with an appropriately shorter stroke , exhausting its steam into the original low-pressure cylinder . |
| 27 | Each band recording with the label pays £550 up front and in return Expo provide three days recording at Sonic Studios , 350 cassette singles cut to length and stamped and 350 covers in full colour , designed by the band itself . |
| 28 | A similar entry of heifers cleared well , with lightweight heifers peaking at 150 for a 270kg at £405 going to R Leader , Crumlin . |
| 29 | A slightly smaller entry of bullocks sold well to a large attendance of buyers , with lightweight bullocks peaking at 139.33 for a 300kg Charolais at £418 going to J McAnallen , Armagh . |
| 30 | loss , destruction or damage directly occasioned by pressure waves caused by aircraft and other aerial devices travelling at sonic or supersonic speeds ; |