Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ankles remain together at all times and feet should be over the knees . |
| 2 | Recent analyses have shown positive host-economy effects in terms of their greater adaptability to local conditions , greater use of labour-intensive technology , and greater skills to work profitably at small scale . |
| 3 | Reactions Carried Out at Constant Pressure |
| 4 | Rents on new takings rose hardly at all on Crown lands between the 1550s and the 1590s , whereas on the Seymour estates they increased fivefold and on the Herbert lands by 80 per cent . |
| 5 | Colours and patterns changed hardly at all and the dinky club badge remained firmly in place . |
| 6 | Where a transfer of value is made by associated operations carried out at different times it shall be treated as made at the time of the last of them . |
| 7 | Many of the more glamorous film and photographic opportunities crop up at short notice , so you have to be flexible . |
| 8 | Make the other tentacles in the same way , varying the direction of the curve so that when assembled the tentacles branch out at different angles . |
| 9 | In chartered helicopters they hovered over the empty stretch of road between Fenny Stratford and Buckingham to photograph the bare tarmac and the last few barriers and police cars parked there at first light . |
| 10 | Not only will you burn off up to 300 calories walking briskly at 4 miles an hour for 45 minutes , but up to 180 of these calories will be fat calories . |
| 11 | Fallen branches littered the rides and new growths of whippy little sapling twigs poked down at head-and-shoulder height to a horseman . |
| 12 | In those subjects studied again at four to eight weeks after radiotherapy LTB 4 values fell by 1 ng.ml - 1 ( 0 to -1.6 , p=0.028 ) . |
| 13 | At seven o'clock on a dark and dreary February morning without any warning , several cars arrived simultaneously at six homes in South Ronaldsay , the most southerly of the seventy Orkney islands , and also at a caravan home in Kirkwall . |
| 14 | Neighbours say the animals bark incessantly at all times of the day and night . |
| 15 | All eyes were on the old T'ang , noting his sudden frailty , the way his shoulders hunched forward at this latest calamity . |
| 16 | So while his real eyes glanced round at another vault of blank green rock , his A eyes saw the first of the ghosts sliding out of the stone to say hi . |
| 17 | One of the greatest of all sports car road races ever run , the Mille Miglia was first held in 1927 and , by tradition , cars set off at one-minute intervals from the centre of Brescia , raced down to Rome and returned . |
| 18 | Secretaries hit out at that bad office equipment |
| 19 | He was hatless , and passers-by looked curiously at this young man who seemed to know where he was going , yet strode absently . |
| 20 | The account was then allowed to lie dormant while Yousefi collected the cheque books sent out at regular intervals . |
| 21 | This proved true above all at the time of which I write , or up to that time , because adolescence is as much a mental as a biological experience , and the arts meant much at that epoch , the last before the advent of Pop Culture , which has since taken over the adolescent mind rendering present that ‘ future ’ which Eliot dreaded . |
| 22 | ‘ I must be careful to lock the car , as youths often steal cars to get home at Fair time . ’ |
| 23 | Ulpian 's words do not at all suggest that a remedy available for legacies was extended to cover trusts as well , but the reverse . |
| 24 | Instead of buying them aftershave at Christmas , their eyes lit up at enormous , giftwrapped , tubs of Swarfega . |
| 25 | The girl 's eyes did not at first stray in my direction so I was able in safety to look at her , to examine her , for quite some time . |
| 26 | Half the fun of viewing them is that subjects come up at random . |
| 27 | Harry 's lips tightened angrily at that slur , but he remained silent . |
| 28 | Her eyes sparkled afresh at each new revelation and she hung on his every word , but his lean face remained expressionless , his eyes unchangingly distant . |
| 29 | But Langmuir probes work only at low temperatures , far below that needed for fusion . |
| 30 | The discovery of Eoraptor supports the hypothesis that dinosaurs diverged rapidly at small body size from a common ancestor , with the principal herbivorous and carnivorous lineages present by the middle Carnian . |