Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He goes on at some length referring to the machinery used for scribbling , spinning , fulling etc , all of these processes carried out under one roof . |
| 3 | It goes on at some length to persuade people not to climb up this waterfall and muck about in it . |
| 4 | ‘ You do not know what goes on at this school , ’ said Rafiq . |
| 5 | ‘ The action goes along at break-neck velocity to reach its conclusion and so there is no problem with the audience fidgeting . ’ |
| 6 | Right it is a hundred miles from King 's Lynn to London , the train takes two hours to do the journey the train does not go at a constant speed , it speeds up sometimes and slows down at other times it also stops at stations on the way and on once of course as it , as it 's stopping it 's going more and more slowly and as it 's er moving off again it starts slowly and starts to go quickly but because it takes two hours in all the train goes a hundred miles in two hours we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 7 | Yes , one that kicks in at six month 's half salary , the other one that kicks in at twelve month 's on half salary . |
| 8 | Yes , one that kicks in at six month 's half salary , the other one that kicks in at twelve month 's on half salary . |
| 9 | It starts off at zero voltage at |
| 10 | It starts off at some value here and it goes down until eventually when it 's done a certain number of miles the car 's worth nothing . |
| 11 | There were n't that many rehearsal places around at that time which we could afford . |
| 12 | The long sentences in Swift 's ironic essay in support of cannibalism are explicable as a stylistic expression of the persona he adopts in order to intensify the impact of his outrageous proposal : in Corbett 's words , we seem to be " listening to a man who is so filled with his subject , so careful about qualifying his statements and computations , so infatuated with the sound of his own words , that he rambles on at inordinate length " The greater the range and size of the corpus which acts as a relative norm , the more valid the statement of relative frequency . |
| 13 | Even when the weather is too bad for astronomical observing , Alcock still wakes up at two-hourly intervals during the night to make meteorological observations . |
| 14 | The boat is rowed slowly round the lough whilst an angler sitting in the stern casts out at right angles . |
| 15 | The magic rubs off at many removes . |
| 16 | He arrives spot on time , is introduced in 15 words and goes off at high speed . |
| 17 | The fun kicks off at 12 noon tomorrow on St Mary 's playing fields , Little Crosby . |
| 18 | Another character turns up at this stage in the obese and blustering form of Judge Sir John Popham . |
| 19 | The market did indeed peak at 150.6 points up at one point . ) |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Leonard Forde , who has n't played since the quarter-final win over Down , returns to the left corner of the defence , and Paul O'Callaghan takes over at left half forward . |
| 22 | She curls up at one end , leaving plenty of room . |
| 23 | This averages out at one councillor for every 2,200 members of the population although as Widdicombe ( 1986 , paras 213–16 ) notes there are major disparities . |
| 24 | That way , your 30 days terms will mean 30 days instead of meaning anything from 30 to 60 days ( which averages out at 45 days or 50 per cent more days than 30 days ) . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | A veteran of Vietnam and Korea , it weighs in at fifteen tons and guzzles a hundred and fifty gallons of fuel an hour . |
| 27 | The shortest song , the funky and inviting ‘ I Want You ’ , weighs in at four minutes , seconds . |
| 28 | HE 'S the tallest player in League football at 6ft 7in , he weighs in at 16 ½st and wears size 13 boots . |
| 29 | Brady was ordered to shed half a stone but still weighs in at 12 stone 8lb . |
| 30 | He weighs in at 13-and-a-half stone and is 6ft 4in tall . |