Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] at a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While I was shaving , peacefully surveying my baggy eyes , thick lips hinting at a recent cold sore , and ever-deepening wrinkles , I saw in the mirror something monstrous appear around the side of my grey hair . |
| 2 | Rocky , busy waving his charges on board , glanced over his shoulder in time to see a small group of dark shapes disappearing at a fast lope round the bend of the curving driveway . |
| 3 | Clutching the hot loaf to her chest she fled , expecting every minute to hear shouts of : ‘ Thief … thief … ’ as she threaded between the wharves arriving at a narrow lane not far from Marsh Street where the press gangs roamed . |
| 4 | With the basket of stocks trading at a combined price of £12.70 yesterday , the puts , exercisable at a strike price of £14.09 and initially costing 117p apiece , carried a mid-price of 203p . |
| 5 | Nonetheless , there are no grounds for imputing laxity to local officials operating at a safe distance from central supervision . |
| 6 | The institution of national investment planning would certainly require broad and determined popular support , but by nature it would depend on the formation of a socialist government and would give an important role to organisations operating at a national level . |
| 7 | Valuable experience can be gained in small agencies anywhere because you may have to turn your hand to any job that needs doing at a given moment . |
| 8 | Supported by WACC , MAP Internacional is one of the few Protestant organisations working at a regional level on health issues . |
| 9 | Finally , an extraordinary group of figures parading at a masked ball by Giovanni Antonio Guardi is estimated at £180,000–200,000 ( $275,000–306,000 ) . |
| 10 | The plot comprises two linear portions meeting at a critical chain length c . |
| 11 | This programme would be aimed at senior managers operating at a strategic level across national boundaries , either in the UK or overseas . |
| 12 | EXPLOSIVES testing at a military research base was halted after police received complaints from worried Essex residents . |
| 13 | In the twentieth century official statistics showed the number of cattle rising at a slower rate than the number of people . |
| 14 | Known locally as the Kenwood Triangle , Bishop 's Avenue has properties starting at a million pounds and rising to the £25 million asking price of the vast , newly-built Towers . |
| 15 | The Liverpool chief has also recouped £16.4m in sales , leaving his overall dealings standing at a staggering £47.9m . |
| 16 | Rift arms at triple junctions which fail to spread will form aulacogens striking at a high angle into the continental margin ( Fig. 4.16(B) , ( C ) ) . |
| 17 | Even after legislative efforts to remove some of the anomalies , the complexity of the system was apparent in the number of authorities existing at a local level . |
| 18 | The most straightforward argument for direct protein-protein contacts between the activator and RNA polymerase involves the isolation of suppressor mutations mapping at a precise locus in one of the RNA polymerase genes which specifically suppress the defect of positive control mutations in the activator or vice versa [ 1,2 ] . |
| 19 | General ‘ political economy ’ explanations must be correct in locating such developments within complex shifts in the production process , industrial infrastructure , and labour force requirements occurring at a particular stage of advanced industrialization — though much work needs to be done to define these shifts more precisely . |
| 20 | The best known is that , where there is a gift to a class of children living at a particular date , a child en ventre sa mère at that date but later born alive will be treated as having been living at the date and thus included in the class . |
| 21 | Such a surface therefore consists of a large number of tubes emerging at a fine angle so as to present an array of slanting holes . |
| 22 | Three days ago on our way up here we passed a field with two horses standing at a five-bar gate . |