Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The action goes along at break-neck velocity to reach its conclusion and so there is no problem with the audience fidgeting . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The boat is rowed slowly round the lough whilst an angler sitting in the stern casts out at right angles . |
| 6 | He arrives spot on time , is introduced in 15 words and goes off at high speed . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | However , stability demands that the gain falls off at high frequency ( see next section ) . |
| 9 | Grant sweeps around at full speed and heads for land . |
| 10 | It is believed to form in the central Labrador Sea by deep convection and spreads out at intermediate depths throughout most of the area north of 40°N . |
| 11 | As Pottz said , ‘ Anyone who paddles out at big Pipe and says he 's not scared is either lying or crazy . ’ |
| 12 | A timer can be fitted to an immersion heater so that it comes on at specified times of the day . |
| 13 | Transfer-listed Thomas comes in at left back as Dicks starts a three-match match ban following his red card for elbowing Franz Carr at Newcastle last month . |
| 14 | It is a problem which comes up at various points in considering the relations between biology and human practices , and may be put in the following way : how is a phenotypic character which would present itself in other species as a behavioural tendency represented in a species which has a culture , language and conceptual thought ? |
| 15 | comes out , comes out at New Year 's Day , I was at home then and it erm going to come back New Year 's Day |
| 16 | Glenn hits back at new law |
| 17 | USPCA hits out at bogus collectors |
| 18 | A study of rock samples from the right and left of the chasm , has shown that its magnetisation switches round at regular intervals . |