Example sentences of "[adv] at the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is usual to make specific provision for service of such notices , eg at the last known home address of a partner , in a way that will afford evidence that it has been duly given ( eg by registered delivery , entry in the firm 's post book etc ) . |
| 2 | He stood at the urinal and peed fiercely at the white ceramic wall , streaked with rusty tear-stains from the corroding pipes . |
| 3 | ‘ All the fashion magazines and the women 's pages of the newspapers do straight fashion stories , ’ he 'd said , tugging thoughtfully at the little gingery beard that sprouted from his angular chin . |
| 4 | But in general , and especially at the highest creative level , words were redundant . |
| 5 | Annually at the Annual General Meeting three members of the Executive Committee shall retire and shall not become eligible for re-election within a period of one year . |
| 6 | He undid the fastener that held her bra closed and slipped it from her arms , then bent and kissed her naked breasts , biting gently at the aroused pink nubs until Caroline arched against him . |
| 7 | He was leaning against the casualty department door leering at the nurse who was dabbing gently at the three parallel scratches on Martin 's face . |
| 8 | She had tried not to stare too obviously at the slim young man who stood before her . |
| 9 | Until 30 years ago there were recognised world champions only at the eight classical fighting weights ( in bold print in the table ) . |
| 10 | The final stage of the claim , that BSL consists purely of visual images in the story-teller and that BSL functions only at the visual concrete level , however , goes beyond the information given . |
| 11 | The important point to note as a summary here , is that the algorithms suggested for solving 30 out of 36 errors , would find the correct ( i.e. intended ) word by looking only at the top ranked candidate string , which neatly solves the problem described earlier of what to choose as a starting point for possible error correction , and avoids the potentially explosive situations . |
| 12 | To achieve this , the astronomers have , for a start , worked only at the shorter infrared wavelengths — 1.2 , 1.6 , 2.2 , 3.8 and 4–8 mm — to which the atmosphere is reasonably transparent . |
| 13 | Not so at the Grand National , where the horses are assembled behind a fibre rope ( call a tape ) some 70 metres long , whose ends are hoisted when the race is signalled to begin . |
| 14 | The government has long made it clear that sterling would enter the Exchange Rate Mechanism during stage one of economic and monetary union which began in July ; it has now done so at the earliest appropriate time . |
| 15 | I worked with Elvis , we did a show together at the Grand Ole Opry in 1957 . |
| 16 | It was , therefore , refreshing to discover a nest of technological progressives , all claiming allegiance to the international Labour movement , gathered together at the General Municipal and Boilermakers ' Union ( GMB ) national training school in Manchester the other week . |
| 17 | Elizabeth and Helen moved into their own basement flat in an inner-city suburb in 1987. they are middle-aged and spent nearly thirty years together at the same mental handicap hospital but lived separately for the two years before the move into the community because Helen was transferred to a smaller institution . |
| 18 | Put them together at the last possible moment and cover with a damp tea towel until you serve them . |
| 19 | Mauer looked distastefully at the half-dozen overflowing bins and wondered where the man got the nerve to talk about hygienic conditions . |
| 20 | The power axe , clenched in his mailed fist , still hewed away at the same small area in front of him , but for the life of him he could n't push himself into the space it liquefied , nor could he shift the weapon to left or to right , so firmly was his arm held by the hydra . |
| 21 | And fortunately I suddenly had inspiration , just at the last possible moment . |
| 22 | Rostov reached for the flat permahide envelope which contained his orders and for a moment he brushed absently at the crisp new admiral 's stripe on his sleeve . |
| 23 | When Sara awoke and looked outside at the deep cloudless blue sky , she guessed that her hostess was also scanning it with equal pleasure . |
| 24 | He stood up abruptly and walked across to the window , staring outside at the same nondescript view that she herself had spent over fifteen minutes staring at earlier on . |
| 25 | Jack Butler stared morosely at the large white television in his modern penthouse fiat in the centre of Leeds . |
| 26 | Publishers ' discounts are lower than the normal 35% off , and copies sold in the shops or to libraries are usually at the suggested published price . |
| 27 | And , gulping the sweet air , I gazed about me gratefully at the clean green land where I worked and made my living . |
| 28 | " Oh boy , " breathed Chuck Sherman , gazing longingly at the impenetrable green wall of tropical foliage slipping past only a few yards from the ship 's rail , " this is going to make the mountains of West Virginia seem a bit tame . |
| 29 | After the shopping Denis would sit in the orderly room , watching his father write in ledgers twice as wide and twenty times as thick as his school exercise-books , or he 'd gaze longingly at the Royal Irish Constabulary uniforms of his father 's colleagues with their shining buttons and belts hanging neatly from pegs on the wall , the caps , the spiked helmets and the little pill-box hats of the cavalry police lined up , as if on parade , on a table along with whistle-chains , handcuff-cases and batons . |
| 30 | The depressing news for the Iron Lady who ruled Britain for 11 years is that nine out of ten can not recall the day she quit , according to research revealed yesterday at the British Psychological Society 's London conference . |