Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The activities may be spontaneous or at the suggestion of the teacher . |
2 | Yet everything he talked of was clear and at the tip of his tongue . |
3 | At first they were very calm and at the end , at the end there was a big panic that they was , they were all talking over each other , there was no control , you know , it was a bit rushed at the end , but , that was n't because it was bad planning , it was just they were panicked at the end . |
4 | Expectations are always exceedingly high and at the minute club football in Cavan is poor . ’ |
5 | I found his personality irresistibly magnetic and at the end of his speech I joined the rest of the huge crowd in tumultuous cheering . |
6 | The progress of this relationship is n't altogether clear but at the end of the book he describes the Italian male lover as a ‘ sleepy tomcat ’ and Vittoria 's life as subject to frequent phases of ‘ wailing neck biting followed by complacent indifference ’ from such men . |
7 | Finn had at last wrenched Bothwell free but at the cost of tearing apart his controls ; in a spiky halo of torn wire , Bothwell crumpled to the floor . |
8 | Anne seemed to be scarcely listening and at a sound from her mother dashed back to her side , followed by Sarah and Mrs Bennet . |
9 | Being on soft peat land , digging was easy and at a depth of three feet we found a two inch cylindrical piece of metal . |
10 | Professionals feel ignorant and at a disadvantage working with patients they feel they do not understand and who , in turn , do not trust them . |
11 | Usually these breaks are not perpendicular but at an angle , and so long as the end is carefully flame-polished , minor irregularities in the line of the break do not matter . |
12 | But when the defendant appeared at the Bow Street Magistrates ' Court to answer an information that he had committed the offence under section 5(1) ( a ) of the Act of 1988 of driving with excess alcohol in the blood , he pleaded not guilty and at the close of the case for the prosecution a submission was made that he had no case to answer on the ground that the officer 's requirement at Vine Street Police Station that he provide a specimen of blood had not been validly made in accordance with section 7(4) . |
13 | We were all expected to work hard and at the end of each term we had examinations . |
14 | Daalny stood tense and at a loss for one moment , before she flung herself bodily into the open doorway , as though she feared the door might be slammed again before she could prevent , though Cadfael made no move . |
15 | Above Eaux-Bonnes is the ski resort of Gourette , which has been created in the kind of setting ski resorts ought to have , in pasture-land but at the foot of the formidable mass of the Pic de Ger to the south . |
16 | I 've always had to work very hard but at the end of the day I 'm , I 'm self-satisfied because I 'm I 'm doing what I want to do . |
17 | The line is now extinct but at the time we arrived they had lived in the castle for some five hundred years . |
18 | It was very short-lived but at the time it was a bit of a shock . |
19 | We need staffing , people in that area and she 's an internal candidate that 's come through , she 's done a good job right and and now she 's you know it 's not right but at the moment it gets us over a q over a quick fix |
20 | on site time- keeping and sickness is low but at the end of the day when it comes to the middle of May then she ai n't gon na get a sh she ai n't gon na be employed anyway to be quite honest , unless she pulls her finger out . |
21 | The National Committee of the Guild decided to apply for " sympathetic affiliation " to the Young Communist International and at the Norwich conference of May 1934 , the Guild ratified this decision by 18 votes to 12 . |
22 | We were getting on great and at the end they asked if we had drink at home . |
23 | The conditions producing weakness in this respect are highly complex but at a risk of oversimplification one might say that the balance of payments constraint reflects a relative ‘ industrial ossification ’ of the British economy — a failure to restructure and reinvest on a sufficient scale to maintain the position of the national economy on the world market . |
24 | It will be less polluting but at the cost of native energy sources which will be left to rot underground . |
25 | His relations with his family were never happy and at the age of sixteen he left home and abandoned his education . |
26 | At the christening it is the parents who have felt the need for religious involvement in the naming ceremony ; at the burial it is mainly the bereaved who are concerned and at the wedding it is the parties themselves who seek the ministrations of a church . |
27 | The other man was in no particular rush to be anywhere , being newly-divorced and having been thrust back into bedsit-land alone and at the age of forty-two , but out of a range of possibilities the prospect of hanging around on a station platform with Joe Lucas had to rank among the lowest . |
28 | Or a straight down blind but at an angle but er but on runners to hold , yeah . |
29 | Whilst it is accepted that the total provision for the County , erm five hundred and sixteen hectares about twenty five he per cent above the approved plan provision , the County Council considers this is justified on the basis that it provides the most generous level which can be justified on the information which is available and at a time when changes in the distribution of business use are to say at the least unpredictable . |
30 | For the first time , a coherent national framework of vocational qualifications is available and at the end of this year NVQs and SVQs will be available for the vast majority of the working population . |