Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | There may be other local groups who can be contacted through lists kept at public libraries , or Citizen Advice Bureaux . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It is used by LIFESPAN to balance the workload between units operating at different speeds . |
| 5 | Benefits shown above are for lives assured at normal rates . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A conventional joystick uses a pair of potentiometers mounted at right angles to each other , the spindles being mechanically linked to a central knob . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Farr calculated the contribution of workers to economic growth by estimating the future net earnings of labourers dying at different ages . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Lydia 's kitchen was littered with left-overs , stacks of plates balanced at crazy angles and glass bowls full of capsizing mousse . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | Since there are several such pairs of elements decaying at different speeds , it is possible to make cross-checks . |
| 18 | Just the sort of behaviour , in fact , that , had it been the work of the lads from the local council estate , would have resulted in a platoon of plods descending at great speed , batons ready in the best of LAPD fashion . |
| 19 | Techniques exist for the ‘ stitching ’ of such fractures and they include a method in which groups of holes spaced at pre-defined centres are drilled across , and at right angles to each crack . |
| 20 | Thom worked throughout World War II at the Royal Aircraft Establishment , Farnborough , where he commissioned and ran the high-speed tunnel , enabling the study of problems encountered at high subsonic aircraft speeds causing locally supersonic flow . |
| 21 | From July 1972 a Committee of Officers met at regular intervals . |
| 22 | Plumb ( 1983 : 289–315 ) and Forty ( 1986 : 63–91 ) document the rise of goods aimed at specific consumer groups such as children , later developed as youth groups demanding particular age-based products . |
| 23 | Set to Tcherepnin 's Bagatelles , it was an adult equivalent of items seen at dancing-school shows . |
| 24 | I walked along , trembling with anger and misery , not through the London of beautiful houses and clean streets that I 'd dreamed of , where people wore only elegant , expensive clothes , nor between buildings that soared into the clouds , but in the darkness past trees planted at infrequent intervals and council houses with their unlit windows , all alike ; I passed people asleep , protected from the cold in cardboard boxes , and rubbish in untidy heaps or neatly tied up in black plastic bags and empty milk bottles with traces of sour milk lingering in them , and I marvelled once again that the dairies were trusting enough to leave them lying about . |
| 25 | I also considered the number of claims made for visits by deputies before and after the 1990 contract and the ages of patients visited at different times of night . |
| 26 | Resembles a rather small dark long-billed short-legged winter Dunlin , with distinctive snipe-like markings on mantle and two white lines down each side ; coppery edges of secondaries show at close quarters . |
| 27 | a statement of special educational needs may specify some modification in the ranges of levels appropriate at different key stages for the individual child . |
| 28 | All barriers to trade in community-originated goods were to be eliminated by January 1994 , but there remained problems with implementation in individual member states of decisions made at regional level . |
| 29 | This is largely due to the lack of recognition from governing authorities who appear to ignore the fact that our organisation represents a competent and knowledgeable body of professionals aiming at high ethical standards in the world of art dealing . |
| 30 | After all , the argument that a list of numbers drawn at random by a programmed computer had no human author was rejected , as we have seen , in the Express Newspaper case . |