Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [to-vb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 3 | It does not take a well-qualified anthropologist to guess at the impact on self-esteem , relationships , and family lifestyles . |
| 4 | It simply would not be tolerated for the old style to continue at the expense of progress . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I picked out a selection , deciding on even numbers only because it seemed like a sensible thing to do at the time . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Mr Whitty told delegates the NEC had given them ‘ adequate time to look at the reviews ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ It was felt it was in the public interest to look at the company which was already insolvent , ’ said a DTI spokeswoman . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The world championship is the ultimate ; any top player to lose at the Crucible can consider it a failure . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It must have been hard for a short , drunken man to do at the dead of night . ’ |
| 16 | There was nothing in his early childhood to hint at the extraordinary life he would lead . |
| 17 | On 20 March he had his first official invitation to dine at the Tuileries , where he was seated next to the Empress . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Vi walked across the echoing emptiness to gaze at the mantel shelf and the reminders it held of Gerry . |
| 20 | The commission is now going to set up a special working group to look at the problem . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 23 | We are establishing an ethical committee to look at the effects of advanced techniques in animal breeding . |
| 24 | This column is genuinely not written with a sense of criticism , but I believe it does demonstrate one of the problems that is at the very heart of British tennis — lack of a sense of vision , a sense of belief and a passionate desire to achieve at the very highest echelons of the world game and not to be content to make a comfortable living in a relatively small pond . |
| 25 | A calculation of the profit and loss account balance brought forward might then be performed and added to the retained profit to arrive at the carried forward balance . |
| 26 | Hailey 's chief preoccupations , then , were to find ways of keeping educated Africans ( of whose mental capacities he took , incidentally , a dim view ) from making a successful bid for power at the centre of the colonial system , and to see that there was no unconsidered rush to reform at the level of the localities . |
| 27 | Innocent III himself by the bull " Vineam Domini " of April 1213 summoned a great council to meet at the Lateran in Rome on 1 November 1215 to be known as the Fourth Lateran Council . |
| 28 | It was nerve-racking to remember Rosie 's shattering scream as the knife sprang from the bag and hit the floor , but the memory of her distress forced Rain to tug at the staples that secured the bag . |
| 29 | In October 1966 the Derry Young Republican Association held an open-air meeting to protest at the eviction of a family from a house in Creggan . |
| 30 | In 1955 she was the first black person to sing at the Metropolitan Opera House , New York . |