Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [adv] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since many people are unable to meet the costs of litigation from their own resources , the availability of representation under the legal aid scheme will often be the crucial factor in deciding whether the case goes on at all . |
| 2 | As I have already noted , some kind of political change goes on at all times , produced by the succession of generations , the rise and fall of dynasties , competition among various social groups , economic and cultural developments , changing external circumstances , and more idiosyncratic factors , which can only be understood fully through detailed historical studies . |
| 3 | The present looks back at some great figure of an earlier century and wonders , Was he on our side ? |
| 4 | ‘ The action goes along at break-neck velocity to reach its conclusion and so there is no problem with the audience fidgeting . ’ |
| 5 | Both birds churred their rattle notes warningly at each other , their mates ( most likely ) on ground-nests below . |
| 6 | Siobhan cringes visibly at those who kiss her cheek . |
| 7 | The County Council has never at any time considered a paper or come to a conclusion erm on the preferred general location for the new settlement . |
| 8 | There were n't that many rehearsal places around at that time which we could afford . |
| 9 | The speeches are short ( perhaps the school prize-giving metaphor breaks down at this point ) and the polished public school tones of the Synod have given way to nasal northern echoes . |
| 10 | At the same time , even when the circuit performs better at some loudspeaker impedances than the traditional Class B circuit , it still has worse performance than that of Class S because of the low , yet varying impedance seen by the main voltage amplifier for all loudspeaker impedances bar one . |
| 11 | Work continues apace at Southern Air on the restoration of the first aircraft , for which the civil registration G-OMIG has been reserved . |
| 12 | Child hits out at all visitors who come to the house . |
| 13 | After more adventures , the story ends up at another of Tom 's aunts , with Jim ( the nigger ) recaptured , Finn mistaken for Tom , and Tom turning up pretending to be his own brother ! |
| 14 | I mean , my husband has even at one point had to come into the bathroom , when I got my mother stuck in the bath er , could n't get her out , it was , it was him or the fire brigade , tha that was the choice , basically ! |
| 15 | See the Breeze ranges now at all Ron Hill stockists and take the sweat out of your running . |
| 16 | Since the most important acts of the Community require the concurrence of the Council , and since the prevailing understanding is that in relation to any matter which any member state considers to affect its own vital national interests , unanimity must prevail , the Community appears as at most a confederation with restricted , albeit important , powers . |
| 17 | " Sorry , Jimmy , " the teacher clucks sympathetically at one unfortunate . |
| 18 | India , for example , when measured in terms of the proportion of students in higher education per 10,000 of the population comes out at 58.4 in 1982 , compared to only 11.4 in China ( Cleverley 1986 : 245 ) . |
| 19 | It said in the E , the Echo I read in the Echo it 's er , Friday 's Echo that the first band comes on at four |
| 20 | ECOVER washing powder cleans effectively at all temperatures without the use of harmful ingredients . |
| 21 | The fun kicks off at 12 noon tomorrow on St Mary 's playing fields , Little Crosby . |
| 22 | Another character turns up at this stage in the obese and blustering form of Judge Sir John Popham . |
| 23 | The metal yields easily at first , hardens somewhat and then breaks off in a brittle fashion . |
| 24 | At birth , the heart races along at 140 beats a minute , but by the time we reach adulthood the rate has dropped to 70 beats a minute . |
| 25 | Despite the expectation that electricity demand grows hardly at all , the CEGB expects to burn more oil in 2000 than it did in 1981 . |
| 26 | The identity , however , is converted into a theory of the determination of the price level by assuming : ( a ) that the money supply is determined by the monetary authorities ; ( b ) that the number of transactions is fixed in the short-run because of the classical presumption that the economy operates automatically at full employment ; and ( c ) that the velocity of circulation is also fixed in the short-run because it depends largely on institutional factors ( such as whether workers are paid weekly or monthly ) which themselves tend to remain constant for long periods of time . |
| 27 | The government has not at this stage , legislated in this area , but I understand in their next White Paper , they probably will take away the ceiling that presently exists , so that a rich offender could pay a lot more for his fine than er a person of average means . |
| 28 | I wake up , it 's half-past midnight , Davina 's gone to bed — the kid wakes up at five every morning , little bastard — and then I fall asleep again . |
| 29 | This road climbs moderately at first to Marbach , a well regarded unsophisticated winter sports resort with cablecar and skilifts to the Marbachegg sun-terrace ( Timetable No 1500 ) . |
| 30 | Their post-punk scaffolding of taut bass and clenched guitar attack meets up at acute and difficult angles with the chafing , jagged white bars of violin and the half-guttersnipe-half-muezzin wail of vocals . |