Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A roe deer came down into reeds opposite to munch at green stuff . |
| 32 | He compares the position with that of a pentathlon athlete , who is good enough to compete at top level in each event separately — along with quite a lot of other people . |
| 33 | ‘ The Darkfall strike generates what we can only call at this stage a chemical reaction . |
| 34 | However , there is scope , in future years , should the Committee wish to develop the site , but I recognise the limited resources of the Civic Trust and I would only wish at this stage that the Trust continues to visit the site and also encourages and supports educational visits . |
| 35 | Whichever option you choose , you can be sure that the monthly fee is fixed and messages from anywhere in the UK are only charged at local call rate — no hidden extras . |
| 36 | The first meeting was held on March 2nd and it was stated that a bridge was much wanted at some point between Rochester and Aylesford . |
| 37 | Two or three months prior to the Dams Raid , when the new squadron was being formed in the spring of 1943 , ground crew personnel from all over Bomber Command were selected and sent to Scampton , the best men at their respective jobs , for what they only knew at that time was going to be one special operation . |
| 38 | There is indeed much disquiet at any delay in immediate fulfilment . |
| 39 | As indicated at the beginning of this article sales must not only be paid for by the buyer but the funds must be received quickly by the exporter and the banks are very much involved at this stage through : — |
| 40 | The two witches suddenly looked at each other in horror . |
| 41 | Salisbury was much struck at this meeting by Irwin 's confidence in the future . |
| 42 | Attached to the wall of the castle were forty of the creatures , hanging upside down and gently hissing at each other . |
| 43 | I only comment at this stage that the latter exclusion would render the remedy of little practical use . |
| 44 | Little is known of his early life except for his recollection that at the age of nine or ten he ‘ did so offend the Lord that He did scare and terrify me with dreadful visions ’ , and that he was greatly afflicted at that time with thoughts of the Day of Judgement . |
| 45 | The two of them walk together and gently paw at each other rather sweetly . |
| 46 | but not accurate enough to say at this stage . |
| 47 | At later stages the marsh cover becomes denser and deposition is encouraged , until finally the marsh is built up to such an extent that it is only covered at high spring tides . |
| 48 | A Supervisor of Broadcasting ( Mr John Grist , who has long experience at senior level in broadcasting and television ) has been appointed to work directly on behalf of the Committee and to give directions on its behalf when urgent action is required . |
| 49 | Because such a scenario is plausible the sort of nightmare we 've all contemplated at some time or another this movie makes for far more frightening entertainment than the most graphic of shock horrors . |
| 50 | Because such a scenario is plausible the sort of nightmare we 've all contemplated at some time or another this movie makes for far more frightening entertainment than the most graphic of shock horrors . |
| 51 | Forms which are not attached to the coast or only attached at one end seem to orientate themselves , some at right angles to the resultant like attached forms and some parallel to the resultant for reasons which remain uncertain . |
| 52 | BRENDA LEE was only 15 when Sweet Nothings charted number four in 1960 , but the little girl from Lithonia , Georgia , sensibly stayed at high school for another three years before taking up show business full-time . |
| 53 | So it does n't mean to say that you only behave at one end or the other . |
| 54 | In the former camp , organisations such as the Council for the Protection of Rural England vigorously protest at any threat to the Green Belt and argue that derelict , or ‘ brown ’ sites within it should be restored rather than handed over to developers . |
| 55 | He said that the post would be advertised , which was duly done at some cost to the public purse . |
| 56 | Compared with the measurement of alkalinisation and salinisation , whose samples of soil can be easily gathered at one point in time and the electrical conductivity of saturation extracts gauged , the measurement of soil loss is more demanding . |
| 57 | Clearly , the mill was largely rebuilt at some point in the 19th century , the brick-built section tying into the much older stone range . |
| 58 | The likelihood is that had the matter come before the courts in the nineteenth century , they would have held that the mistake had to be reasonable , for it was generally considered at that time that mistake was a defence which would excuse a defendant from liability only where it was based on reasonable grounds . |
| 59 | Place in a cold frame or on a windowsill out of direct sunlight , where they will soon root at this time of year . |
| 60 | The Romans were certainly prime movers , but not that quick , and without introducing a pettifogging intimacy with dates , names , and trifling matters of fact , might it be mentioned that the legions were desperately occupied at that time around the Medway and not Melrose ? |