Example sentences of "[adv prt] [noun sg] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 After all , he is the first rider from the province to take on opposition at this level , although Gary Cowan was heading that way before his accident at Daytona in 1990 .
2 In turn , these two characteristics permit hierarchy to meet four of any organization 's fundamental needs : to add real value to work as it moves through the organization , to identify and nail down accountability at each stage of the value-adding process , to place people with the necessary competence at each organizational layer , and to build a general consensus and acceptance of the managerial structure that achieves these ends .
3 Then that bloody prat towing down motorway at hundred mile an hour !
4 This paper 's remarkable success in increasing sales between 1965 and 1969 not only showed what could be achieved by a powerful sales campaign ( which also brought in advertising at higher rates ) but also indicated that new purchasers of newspapers were not attracted to the party press , whose sales remained relatively stagnant .
5 This manoeuvre , followed by the resignations of the representatives of Vojvodina and Montenegro , and the dismissal of the Kosovo representative , appeared to be a ploy by which to force the Yugoslav People 's Army ( JNA , with its Serb-dominated officer corps ) to intervene and take over authority at federal level .
6 Hong Kong Land 's low gearing , and chairman Simon Keswick 's suggestion that he could snap up property at depressed prices , triggered hopes the company was interested in Canary Wharf .
7 He gives talks and shows videos to various organisations and sets up stall at open days .
8 Many master volume amps can give a fair simulation of flat out response at reasonable output levels by overloading the preamp .
9 The expedition team , which comprised five Britons and three Colombians , spent nine weeks in the field , carrying out work at two sites on the Serrania de Naquen , a mountainous region in eastern Columbia .
10 Burnt out vehicle at Western end of old mill site .
11 Burnt out vehicle at Western end of old mill site .
12 There were times when we wished that there had been a cash element but it is not sensible for any bank to pay out cash at this time .
13 The bubble policy is efficient because it encourages equalization of the marginal cost of cutting back pollution at different plants within the firm .
14 Boulton and Watt beam engines pumped out water at both ends , and a brick yard was set up to make the bricks near the site — seven million were used .
15 The patient will usually seek out solitude at this time .
16 And he saw , too , narrowing eyes that were used to singling out detail at great distance , the betraying glitter of sunlight upon arms , below him in the copses of the valley .
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