Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE ULTIMATE teen movie , a sharp-edged black comedy which mercilessly swipes at adolescent angst , peer pressure , consumerism , and that old favourite , the generation gap . |
| 2 | The wintering population has increased considerably in recent years , but little change at other seasons is apparent . |
| 3 | The winter population has declined in recent years , but little change at other seasons is apparent . |
| 4 | ‘ To my mind , ’ she wrote , ‘ he has all the qualities of a leading man that the British film industry badly needs at this juncture : youth , good looks , a photogenic face , obviously alert intelligence and a trick of getting the maximum effect with the minimum of fuss . ’ |
| 5 | The cordon was eventually lifted at 1900 hours and the section flown home , only to prepare for a very full day 's patrolling on the following day . |
| 6 | For example , Brunsdon notes that ‘ Hollywood , as the world-dominant cinema , exports ideals of White femininity worldwide ’ , yet feminist critics have rarely looked at this aspect of the Hollywood dream-machine in their copious critiques of it . |
| 7 | Essentially , it had a directing and supervisory role , ensuring that the policies laid down by the Politburo were known and vigorously pursued at all levels . |
| 8 | She was not scrapped and remained at Wroughton where on March 16 , 1956 , she was officially transferred to the RAF 's Historical Aircraft Collection , which at that time was widely dispersed at such locations such as Gaydon and Fulbeck . |
| 9 | It would be tedious to list the types and colours of stone , ceramic etc. used at each site in Britain ; if any picture at all emerges it is that mosaicists made good with what was easily obtained , and that the types of stone used for various shades of colour are predictable and limited in number . |
| 10 | And I suddenly realized at this stage that there was going to be something rather unexpected happening . |
| 11 | The Council indicated a few limited examples of such circumstances ( e.g. to the newly baptized in a Mass following their baptism ) , but here again , once admitted , the essential rightness of Communion under both kinds became more and more widely recognized so that communion is now so given at all Masses in many churches and dioceses throughout the world . |
| 12 | He probably tells you that it is all arranged at this end , whereas in point of fact nothing has been laid on except by verbal arrangement with him , and then we have a frightful period such as is now going on . |
| 13 | The room we sat in contained two television sets , two oak sideboards , slightly lower than the ceiling and four clocks all stopped at different times . |
| 14 | The vast majority of the black people follow his wing of the ANC ( not Nkomo who only represents at best 20% ) . |
| 15 | When EF lies in a Landau level ( Figure 4 ) , scattering is possible and the current flow comprises electrons with paths that are constantly modified at each collision . |
| 16 | The problem , however , is turning phrases that are warmly applauded at rotary club or chamber of commerce lunches into serious investment . |
| 17 | It is therefore unlikely that microsporidia were responsible for the symptoms in a relevant proportion of the patients reported here , especially thse at early disease stages and those without detectable secondary infection , as intestinlam microsporidiosis is apparently associated with low CD4 counts in the peripheral blood . |
| 18 | These all fly at similar speeds and have rather light stick forces like a glider . |
| 19 | Er I suppose erm er the , most of the people I 've seen in the last ten years have been people either approaching retirement , planning for retirement or actually at the point of retirement and er we 've obviously looked at this course over a number of years and we try to sort of distil it down to the basics of things that we think are important er and that we think will be useful to you . |
| 20 | So when staff are literally fuming at each other , and wanting to sue , the simple solution is to install an electrostatic air filter . |
| 21 | Cox said that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC ) , which had only looked at direct CFC warming effects , will now investigate the interactions . |
| 22 | Their 7 foot 6 inches-wide body was the widest permitted at that time , and allowed two-by-two seating on upholstered seats in the saloon . |
| 23 | In some areas , however , a different model of teamwork has evolved in which the tasks of assessment and management are shared , and not all patients are necessarily seen at any time by a psychiatrist . |
| 24 | Today 's martial artists are constantly looking at other forms of combat technique in order to broaden and improve their own fighting methods . |
| 25 | One such affront , to the Archduke of Austria , later cost him his freedom and caused him to suffer a long imprisonment from which he was only freed at huge expense — much of which was raised by his neglected kingdom of England . |
| 26 | If sources of income are not all taxed at equal rates , there is obviously an incentive to convert income into the untaxed form . |
| 27 | He 's only looking at that bit . |
| 28 | You were better fed at some firms or others . |
| 29 | Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise Only to wonder at unlawful things , Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits , To practise more than heavenly power permits . |
| 30 | There should be no long pauses — as you are only listening at this stage |