Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adv] at [art] " in BNC.

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1 It is possible to jump in at the deep end , buy a farm , and teach yourself , learning by your mistakes .
2 It is possible to work hard at a complete system and get very little from it because of interference by other predators .
3 That 's where all the official entertaining goes on at the regatta — just to give you an idea of the scale of it , they 'll be putting away 50,000 pints of Pimm 's , 6,000 bottles of champagne and 3,000 pounds of strawbnerries .
4 For light to work by at the period concerned , a miner had only a small coffee-pot shaped metal oil lamp with a wick protruding from the spout .
5 A new style of official entertaining came in at the Palace and still survives .
6 As they left the turn the French paddled off at a tangent and tried to run the Romanians into the landing pontoon in front of all the VIPs .
7 In acute diseases it is generally adequate to look only at the symptoms of the acute disease itself .
8 ‘ The letters are the firms , the numbers are the prices in pence of a typical Alpha stock and the volumes they are prepared to deal in at a particular time .
9 Costs do rise , as you are careful to point out at the start of the feature , but there can be no excuse for the blatant abuse of the costings given .
10 I funny staring back at the car park , the car park , and the
11 The first one is to have your eyelashed tinted professionally at a beauty salon — this costs between £6.00-–9.00 at Glemby , takes just 15 minutes and will last up to six weeks .
12 They are clearly determined not to be beguiled and are prepared to trade quickly at the first sign that sterling 's recent advantage is beginning to dissipate — although they are also finding that the money market is an ants ' nest where one man 's guess is as good as another .
13 It would be ironic to pick away at the mortar for a few decades only to break through into the next-door cell .
14 I was fortunate to grow up at a time when imperial measurements were generally used , but science was special in being both imperial and metric .
15 STAFF AT Lincoln turbine Service Limited turned up at the Moat House Hotel , Aberdeen on 5 December for their five-course Christmas Dinner [ well , who would n't ] .
16 The total investment need is there from the beginning but it is split into two phases and in our thinking it is only too easy to look only at the first phase because this almost returns the organisation to profitability , and to ignore the second phase which may be essential .
17 He was on good terms with Marcus , content to know both that they would talk again , and that it was impossible to do so at the moment .
18 Sabine stared up at the lettering cut into the ancient stonework .
19 It seemed to be impossible to straighten both at the same time ) and thrust out his chest .
20 We were relieved to stop off at the Hotel de la Cachette in Arc 1600 for a delicious buffet lunch .
21 They proceeded slowly in the afternoon sun , Victoria content to gaze up at the massed conifers as they passed and listen to the rhythmic grating of the eight small horse-shoes on the roadway .
22 The last EF1-11s based at Saudi arrived back at the Oxfordshire base at the weekend .
23 Now the deal looks likely to go through at a whopping $7.5 billion , about $110 a share .
24 Is the , is the projected grant likely to go up at the same rate as in , as in nine ninety four , ninety five ?
25 If the unholy alliance in favour of the National Curriculum is likely to come apart at the seams over the issue of resource , so also , given the very different aspirations of those who support its introduction , there is likely to be a parting of the ways over principles .
26 But remember that any increase in death cover is likely to come out at the expense of a lower retirement benefit .
27 Allow an ‘ activity space ’ around each piece , which can overlap with the next if you are not likely to use both at the same time .
28 We do have a choice as to whether to make the connection or not , but , as I have said , unless one is aware of it forming at the time , the bond is likely to build up at the instinctive level .
29 Even on the premier franchises , the marginal operator is likely to compete only at the best times while the franchisee is left to operate the full seven day service .
30 Unix System Labs and Open Software Foundation presidents Roel Pieper and David Tory are supposed to turn up at the roll-out in New York with signed technology exchange agreements in their hands .
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