Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They disappeared for hours to look at some rare book and Lionel insisted on seeing me home . ’ |
| 2 | So , not only does the particular hand of the set of individual amino acids dictate that of the helix they create but , more profoundly , a single hand is necessary for helices to form at all . |
| 3 | Almost any substantial group of buildings with perhaps a shop , or village hall is today called a village and this leads to great confusion , both for researchers looking at earlier arrangements , and for the inhabitants for whom finer definitions are not needed . |
| 4 | For groups to function at this level , opportunity has to be given for full social contact between members , and the emphasis has to be placed not on activity , but on group interaction . |
| 5 | You can spend hours browsing through shops looking at different fabrics , but as well as considering rolls of material do n't forget to sort through remnants . |
| 6 | There may be other local groups who can be contacted through lists kept at public libraries , or Citizen Advice Bureaux . |
| 7 | The figure can be an estimate or a calculation based on the specification of the media unit ; it is used to balance the workload between units operating at different speeds . |
| 8 | It is used by LIFESPAN to balance the workload between units operating at different speeds . |
| 9 | Benefits shown above are for lives assured at normal rates . |
| 10 | EAT pointed out that ‘ a contract of employment can not simply be silent on the place of work ’ and that ‘ the employers were in business as contractors working at different sites ; so the parties must have envisaged a degree of mobility ’ . |
| 11 | The introduction of Teds , a bear-shaped burger-type product , under the specially created ‘ My Favourite ’ trademark is only one of a new range of products targeted at new customers . |
| 12 | A check on the number of tablets returned at each visit showed that all patients took at least 70% of the tablets prescribed , and that the median ( interquartile range ) number of antacid tablets consumed per week was similar in both groups ( cisapride 2.2 ( 0.1–5.7 ) ; placebo 1.9 ( 0.3–3.6 ) : p=0.76 , Mann-Whitney U test ) . |
| 13 | A conventional joystick uses a pair of potentiometers mounted at right angles to each other , the spindles being mechanically linked to a central knob . |
| 14 | This surface is generally satisfactory for modest numbers of cyclists riding at moderate speeds and for use by pedestrians and people with prams and wheelchairs . |
| 15 | This surface is generally satisfactory for modest numbers of cyclists riding at moderate speeds and for use by pedestrians and people with prams and wheelchairs . |
| 16 | Farr calculated the contribution of workers to economic growth by estimating the future net earnings of labourers dying at different ages . |
| 17 | A lot of clubs start at under-thirteens . |
| 18 | The whole action of your book should be in keeping with the action of books written at that particular time . |
| 19 | " Well , Indonesia chickens fly — look ! " he said , accelerating towards a group of hens pecking at some minor accident on the road ahead . |
| 20 | The measurement is derived from the very small difference in the time of arrival of signals received at different telescopes from a distant radio source ( usually a quasar ) . |
| 21 | Canal Bus operate modern 52 seater motor launches on a regular service along the city 's wealth of waterways stopping at various centrally located moorings . |
| 22 | When he announced he would retire from the game at the end of Biarritz 's run in the Championship it was the signal for scores of journalists to gather at each match to report on his ‘ funeral ’ … but we kept postponing it ’ . |
| 23 | The readiness of Scots to migrate at this period has prompted suggestions that there were forces inherent in Scottish society which encouraged high levels of mobility and a propensity to migrate , but this has yet to be shown . |
| 24 | These factors help to explain why the total number of clients covered at any one time by our London 24 hour on-call service more than doubled from 70 in April 1990 to 150 by March 1991 ; and why the provision of service has had to become so much more sophisticated . |
| 25 | In general , it is probably fair to say that the Philadelphia neighbourhood studies provide a better general model for the in-depth study of communities located at various points in the class continuum . |
| 26 | The change in market value of certificates held at 31 December is simply the product of applying accrued interest at that date . |
| 27 | Lydia 's kitchen was littered with left-overs , stacks of plates balanced at crazy angles and glass bowls full of capsizing mousse . |
| 28 | The total number of labelled and unlabelled cells was counted under an optical grid over the full thickness of the mucosa at a number of sites chosen at random on each specimen ( approximately 1000 cells per site ) . |
| 29 | Since there are several such pairs of elements decaying at different speeds , it is possible to make cross-checks . |
| 30 | SS shows the quantity of films supplied at each price received by producers and is also the marginal social cost of producing films . |