Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In the study ( Levinger & Clark , 1961 ) emotional words were shown to produce higher fluctuations in galvanic skin response ( GSR ) than non-emotional ones , free-associates produced to these words were less likely to be subsequently recalled than associates of non-emotional words produced at the same time . |
| 32 | We understand the meaning of words from their context , and in ordinary life the context includes not only other words used at the same time but the whole human or social situation in which the words are used . |
| 33 | And I 'd like to extend that discussion this week concerning channels to look at the biological properties of channels , that is viewing th their activities in a physio in a physiological role . |
| 34 | It was from this starting-point that the structuralists arrived at the radical view that all meaning in every sphere of human activity consists of closed systems wholly independent of the material world . |
| 35 | Squeeze past the parked cars to look at the wonderful little shops , which specialize in tin toys , dolls ' houses and cinema posters then turn right into Marché aux Fromages to get back to Grand'Place . |
| 36 | whose Swiss guards stand at the Holy See |
| 37 | the stratigraphic units subcropping at the top Carboniferous under a cover of younger sediments , |
| 38 | Her eyes flared at the stinging insult , only too aware that he outstripped her professionally . |
| 39 | Walkers meet at the Old Quay pub car park at 7pm . |
| 40 | The lower — rough gravel and during the winter months flooded at the far end . |
| 41 | After all , when a quail is chased by a man , it must take more steps to run at the same speed . |
| 42 | Two other Iranians arrested at the same time by Greater Manchester police were released without charge yesterday . |
| 43 | Pulses quicken at the mere mention of the name ; grown men develop a glazed look in their eyes . |
| 44 | At the workshop the organisers had managed to unite informed educational opinion throughout Nigeria and to establish a productive working climate in which panels in six areas of the primary school curriculum : cultural and creative art , languages , mathematics , physical and health education , science and social studies met and in the light of the goals set at the 1969 Curriculum Conference expanded and refined objectives in these areas and produced a series of guidelines which have since been used throughout Nigeria at university and state level as a basis for detailed curriculum planning . |
| 45 | Luther Reynolds clenched the sides of the chair , his large fists curling and uncurling , and his fiery dark eyes glaring at the determined face of David Miller , the stepson he had come to resent with such bitterness that he could taste it . |
| 46 | The lads arrive at the local nick to find their Houdini pa has done a bunk and they wander about the country trying to locate him , pitching up in a one horse Long Island seaside town . |
| 47 | Its tasks include finding out how the cladding around the nuclear fuel rods deforms at the high temperatures that might follow a loss of cooling water . |
| 48 | When children add new words to a domain , they typically assume that the words apply at the same level , and so contrast . |
| 49 | Three participating managers are interviewed , and their answers to the questions are illustrated with sequences filmed at the relevant events in Portugal and France . |
| 50 | Paramilitary border police patrolling the area fired tear gas into the crowds and stones were thrown in return ; some stones were thrown at Jews worshipping at the Western — or " Wailing " — Wall situated at the foot of the Temple Mount . |
| 51 | These and other observations have led to the obvious speculation that plumes arise at the core-mantle boundary . |
| 52 | Flinging it wide , she made to thrust the other woman from the house , only to be brought up short by the sight of two gentlemen standing at the other end of the long covered porch . |
| 53 | Ten cooperative candidates ran at the 1918 general election , only one of whom was successful . |
| 54 | Two fierce eyes glared at the terror-stricken sailors . |
| 55 | As the insects met a sticky death on her windscreen and brambles and gorse bushes clawed at the bright sides of her hired Fiat , she wondered if she should have stayed at home and if she would ever , in fact , see ‘ La Felicità ’ . |
| 56 | Rostov 's lips twitched at the new interpretation of his son 's name . |
| 57 | ‘ Dr Neil ? ’ she said , turning and bobbing at him like a proper servant , a manoeuvre which amused him , so that his lips twitched at the unlikely sight — it was so much at odds with her determined personality . |
| 58 | Other northerners knighted at the same time included two Westmorland men , Christopher Moresby of Windermere and Thomas Strikland of Sizergh . |
| 59 | Other northerners knighted at the same time included two Westmorland men , Christopher Moresby of Windermere and Thomas Strikland of Sizergh . |
| 60 | His care for disabled children spans work at the orthopaedic hospital in Oswestry , Alder Hey Hospital , Liverpool , and through Riding for the Disabled . |