Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [to-vb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Racing : Prix de L'Arc de Triomphe : Britain 's faith in Class value : Europe 's richest race brings another opportunity for Britain 's most fearless trainer to tilt at a top prize . |
| 2 | Although the two never met , they both forged a figurative style out of the Abstract Expressionism raging all about them — not the most popular move to make at the time . |
| 3 | ‘ If it 's so easy for Rain Morgan of the Daily Post to get at the truth , it 's a secret which ca n't be kept . ’ |
| 4 | It does not take a well-qualified anthropologist to guess at the impact on self-esteem , relationships , and family lifestyles . |
| 5 | Sometimes , in His slow journey across the shores of Infinity , He moves His country-sized head to snap at a passing comet . |
| 6 | Once again we return to the old advice to practise at a safe height . |
| 7 | It simply would not be tolerated for the old style to continue at the expense of progress . ’ |
| 8 | He had always been a socialist and a pacifist , a brave position for a man in public life to adopt at the time , and he and his colleagues paid a heavy price for his principles when in 1940 the BBC banned the Glasgow Orpheus Choir from the air waves . |
| 9 | A ‘ birder 's bird ’ , it is one of the most difficult species on the British List to identify at a distance . |
| 10 | I picked out a selection , deciding on even numbers only because it seemed like a sensible thing to do at the time . |
| 11 | It was the taste of Spring at climax , of an afternoon in which , at the touch of the rising breeze , cherry-blossom floated from the boughs in a frail pink torrent of petals that drifted through the shimmering heat-haze to cling at the sweat on one 's skin . |
| 12 | Moreover , as Figure 7.2b shows , there is a marked tendency to congregate at a very few ‘ honeypot ’ sites . |
| 13 | A game of darts at the local pub ; just as much a favourite way to relax at the end of the day 50 years ago , as it is now . |
| 14 | I remember Christmas Eve 1930 , when we went as we always did on that day to the High Street to look at the lighted shops , seeing a little girl in a tattered dress and with bare feet , her nose pressed at the toy-shop window . |
| 15 | Mr Whitty told delegates the NEC had given them ‘ adequate time to look at the reviews ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ It was felt it was in the public interest to look at the company which was already insolvent , ’ said a DTI spokeswoman . |
| 17 | Mr Hogg summoned the Iranian charge d'affaires , Gholamreza Ansari , to the Foreign Office to protest at the continuing death sentence or ‘ fatwa ’ against Mr Rushdie . |
| 18 | The world championship is the ultimate ; any top player to lose at the Crucible can consider it a failure . ’ |
| 19 | So as far as you 're concerned , P E Ps have got a tremendous part to play at the moment , and I do recommend that you take advantage of them . |
| 20 | Incidentally , the pineapple is a sign of hospitality , making this a very appropriate dish to serve at a party . |
| 21 | It must have been hard for a short , drunken man to do at the dead of night . ’ |
| 22 | There was nothing in his early childhood to hint at the extraordinary life he would lead . |
| 23 | By mid-century , a standard format had been devised which allowed a long-service civil servant to retire at a minimum age of 60 on a pension equal , at maximum , to two-thirds of his previous salary . |
| 24 | On 20 March he had his first official invitation to dine at the Tuileries , where he was seated next to the Empress . |
| 25 | Tempting as it may be for the harassed mother to jump at the chance of sending her three year old to playschool every morning , imagine the devastating effect this can have when it coincides with the arrival in the home of a brand new baby . |
| 26 | The typical pattern is for the Japanese businessman to eat at a restaurant in the evening and thereafter go to a bar or cabaret . |
| 27 | Vi walked across the echoing emptiness to gaze at the mantel shelf and the reminders it held of Gerry . |
| 28 | The commission is now going to set up a special working group to look at the problem . |
| 29 | Perhaps the most striking point to note at the outset is that the Black Death itself had a comparatively limited effect on wages and the supply of land . |
| 30 | The three-year research project funded by the English National Board to look at the learning experiences in the community found working with students was ‘ time consuming ’ and ‘ slowed down the work of the nurse ’ . |