Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] at a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For those who would like a more relaxing evening , what better than to sit at an open air cafe , sipping an ice cold beer , listening to the local brass band in the village square and watching the sun slip down behind the mountains — perfect ! |
| 2 | Rather than establishing at a strategic level housing requirements , so that local plans being formulated can weigh those housing requirements against environmental constraints . |
| 3 | In the records of the first Protectorate Parliament of 1654 Erle appears only on the committee of privileges , presumably because he refused to sign the Recognition , and he was not re-elected in 1656 , although approved at a preliminary gentry meeting . |
| 4 | There is no intrinsic benefit gained from paying farmers not to produce food , or from paying for food to be stored and destroyed rather than sold at a fair market price . |
| 5 | The procedure was exactly as for Experiment 1 except condition C was to point at a target using the non-preferred hand while wearing prisms , rather than pointing at an auditory target . |
| 6 | He appreciates their design features : what a kangaroo gains and loses by moving in leaps , why horses change gait , why it is harder to walk quickly than to jog at an easy pace . |
| 7 | Therefore it is hypothesized that , rather than evolving at a constant speed in calendar time , futures prices evolve at a constant speed in event time . |
| 8 | Such tasks may have been stated so that they are open to interpretation and worded so that they are accessible to most pupils , rather than aimed at a notional difficulty level . |
| 9 | It is important not to miss this diagnosis because the disease is potentially fatal but can be cured if resected at an early stage . |
| 10 | When no time is stipulated and it is for the buyer to collect , the seller must be ready to hand over the goods ( against payment ) to the buyer on demand ( provided made at a reasonable hour , section 29(5) ) at any time after the making of the contract . |
| 11 | ( 7 ) On remitting a case to a licensing board under subsection ( 6 ) above , the sheriff may : ( a ) specify a date by which the rehearing by the board must take place ; modify any procedural steps which otherwise would be required in relation to the matter by or under any enactment ; and any decision of a licensing board on any such case shall be valid as if reached at a quarterly meeting as mentioned in section 4(1) ( a ) of this Act . |
| 12 | If it has been dormant since the end of the previous financial year and it is entitled in respect of its individual accounts to the exceptions conferred on a small company by section 246 ( or would be so entitled but for being a member of an ineligible group ) and it is not required to prepare group accounts for that year , the resolution is effective if passed at a general meeting at which the accounts for that year are to be laid . |
| 13 | The hygienists considered only physical needs as legitimate — and even hunger , if expressed at an unsuitable time , was excluded . |
| 14 | Thus polyisobutylene might be expected to crystallize because the chain is symmetrical , but it will only do so if maintained at an optimum temperature for several months . |
| 15 | Unless detected at an early stage weight loss is an inevitable result of pancreatic insufficiency , but before this becomes apparent the dog 's appetite will have increased , simply because it is not absorbing enough nutrients . |
| 16 | The measures would remain in place for 12 months , unless rescinded at an earlier date . |
| 17 | A young motorist who crashed into another car while reversing at a fast speed escaped a driving ban at Whitby magistrates yesterday . |
| 18 | On Feb. 7 , 1990 , some 300,000 gallons of heavy Alaskan crude oil were spilt off the southern California coast when a tanker , American Trader , leased by the British Petroleum Oil Company , USA , was holed while mooring at an offshore pipeline terminal . |
| 19 | Some , like the Stand-off Land Attack Missile , SLAM , or the Israeli-produced Have Nap , can be ‘ flown ’ by pilots looking through the missile 's television eye , while sitting at a safe remove in aircraft . |
| 20 | The couple — who now run a pet shop in Hull — married while held at a nuclear plant in Basra , Iraq . |
| 21 | There may be letters from the victim 's relations , from Members of Parliament , from the general public ( whether directed at a particular case or at penal policy in general ) , or from the Howard League or the National Association for the Care and Rehabilitation of Offenders . |
| 22 | ‘ In the reign of the Most Gracious Sovereign , George III and under the auspices of the Right Hon. William Fettes , Lord Provost of Edinburgh , the Harbour of Leith , though formed at a remote period and as commerce in the course of ages increased often repaired and extended , yet being still narrow and incommodious , Robert Dundas of Melville , Esq. , in absence of the Right Hon. Charles , Earl of Dalkeith , Grand Master of Scotland , laid the foundation stone of these docks in which the numerous vessels arriving from every quarter of the globe might receive ample and secure accommodation on the 14th day of May in the year of our Lord 1801 and of the Aera of Masonry 5801 , John Rennie being Engineer . |
| 23 | However , when interviewed at a 4-month follow-up , more of the experimental group showed overall improvement in their social problems ( 70 per cent ) than the control group ( 53 per cent ) . |
| 24 | I was reminded of this , fresh as I was from reading some of the slanging that made the Bermondsey bye-election so appealing , when looking at a joint release from six trades unions . |
| 25 | When looking at a narrative design , the possibilities of obtaining different perspectives are especially significant : it is precisely the lack of a wide border which would have made the story of the Dido and Aeneas mosaic , from Low Ham , Som. , so hard to follow . |
| 26 | Refractory pouchitis — We selected 24 cases that were well known to their gastroenterologists and that fit the clinical , endoscopical , and pathological criteria for RP as adopted at an International Workshop on Pouchitis in London in January 1989 , including clinical symptoms ( bloody diarrhoea , malaise , or weight loss , or all three ) ; resistance to treatment with antibiotics and steroids ; and endoscopical features ( serpiginous ulcerations , cobblestone mucosa , or ileitis proximal to the reservoir , or all three ) . |
| 27 | He saw the theory as a way of uniting all sciences but the academic world did not readily accept the theory as presented at a philosophical seminar in Chicago in 1937 ( Holt-Jensen , 1981 ) . |
| 28 | It has serious implications for the freedom of the press , as shown at a European Conference in Luxembourg on 3 July 1991 . |
| 29 | NPVs can be used to choose between two projects by comparing the cash surplus when discounted at an agreed rate . |
| 30 | In the post-war period , more universally than before , old age , and the socially accepted roles associated with it , was accepted as beginning at a fixed chronological age : the state pensionable age of 60/65 . |