Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] at an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , the main cloud base lies at an altitude of about 48 km , which by Earth standards is a very high cloud base . |
| 2 | Each programme looks at an area of the Church 's teaching , through the stories of individual Catholics , while wider issues raised are discussed by Catholic Theologians and commentators . |
| 3 | One pale light shone at an upstairs window . |
| 4 | Using this relation ( µ M /µ E = cos α/2; where µ M is the electrophoretic mobility of the DNA-protein complex with the protein bound at the middle of the DNA fragment , µ E is the mobility of the complex with protein bound at an end ) we determined bending angles of 47°±5° for the ICP4 motif and 44°±5° for the Ad2 motif from several experiments using 4% gels . |
| 5 | This sensor consists of an ordinary mercury tilt switch mounted at an angle so that the small mercury bead encapsulated in the switch easily rolls on and off the contacts as the switch encounters movement . |
| 6 | While the clock is chiming , there is also a 50% chance per character per round of being attacked by another object in the room : the rocking-horse bites , a chair leg strikes at a shin , a table drawer flies out and strikes a vicious blow in the stomach , a toy soldier stabs at an ankle , and so on . |
| 7 | Environmental groups criticized a decision made at an ITTC meeting in Yokohama , Japan , in November 1990 to approve the continued logging of important forests in Malaysia and the Amazon basin [ for November 1989 meeting see p. 37054 ] . |
| 8 | IN most respects a purchase made at an auction constitutes an ordinary contract for the sale of goods . |
| 9 | In the illustration a man sat by a fireplace , reading a newspaper , his face obscured , the scene reflected at an angle in the mirror over the mantelpiece . |
| 10 | Its sponsor hints at an apology for the mayhem by suggesting that it 's a glitch , a temporary snag to be overcome . |
| 11 | Muawad was elected during a Parliament session held at an air base in northern Lebanon . |
| 12 | After the age of around three months , an inability to look at an object without an eye turning in or , rarer , an eye rolling slightly outwards or upwards . |
| 13 | A further IRA bomb exploded at an Army recruiting office in Halifax on Feb. 25 . |
| 14 | Visiting the West End galleries as he did , Minton would also have remarked the interest among certain British artists in tachisme , a French abstract style on which attention focused at an exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art , where tachiste painters were shown alongside the work of the American Abstract Expressionists , Jackson Pollock and Sam Francis . |
| 15 | The failure to arrive at an agreement sufficiently alarmed the District to establish its own sub-committee to examine the District 's future relationships with the Cambridge Board and LEAs in the region . |
| 16 | Since the discourse analyst , like the hearer , has no direct access to a speaker 's intended meaning in producing an utterance , he often has to rely on a process of inference to arrive at an interpretation for utterances or for the connections between utterances . |
| 17 | An eye appeared at an eyehole , which was appropriate enough . |
| 18 | Each tube begins at an opening on the flank of the shell and then branches internally into a fine network that leads ultimately to all the organs and tissues of the body , the tips even entering individual cells and delivering gaseous oxygen to them . |
| 19 | Their expectations of a lecture aimed at an audience similar to themselves will be very different . |
| 20 | She eased her chair back but made no move to stand up , filling the silence with small talk as he crouched down , his head twisted at an angle to peer underneath her desk . |
| 21 | Whitlock looked at his wife sitting at an angle to the doorway , her face in profile . |
| 22 | The cab paused at an intersection to give right of way to a car chase . |
| 23 | She spoke in Spanish , her head held at an angle of listening , and Maggie shot a quick look at their host . |
| 24 | Ruth went first with Adam , manhandling him in ; the roof was a cracked slab wedged at an angle , and there was only room to stand . |
| 25 | It is a small dive on the corner of Deptford High Street and Finch Street — the quiet part by the station , near where the railway bridge cuts at an angle across the street . |
| 26 | In the years between 1982 and 1988 the economy grew at an average of nearly 3 per cent per year . |
| 27 | Mr Hughes believes it is the only such electronic game aimed at an adult market and the only one not designed and manufactured in the Far East . |
| 28 | In Kent , the rate runs at an average of one official engagement a week . |
| 29 | The Tokyo to Kobe train travelled at an average of 12 m.p.h. , because |
| 30 | A NORTH-EAST woman has lodged a complaint after an ambulance took almost an hour to arrive at an accident . |