Example sentences of "[adv prt] at a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looks up at the grey clouds scudding across the sky , down at a vista of narrow back gardens , some neat and trim with goldfish ponds and brightly painted play equipment , others tatty and neglected , cluttered with broken appliances and discarded furniture . |
| 2 | The Spanish reporter , Alfonso Roja , describes a woman in Baghdad , her eyes smouldering , shouting down at a crowd of Western journalists : ‘ Is this what you call Western civilisation ? ’ |
| 3 | He sat down at a table of one of the outdoor cafés in the square and ordered a glass of wine . |
| 4 | Erm , what happened was the cathedral council one light in at a cost of four hundred and fifty pounds but they could n't afford the second light , so we got some money from erm the residents who contributed some money , we got some money from the school and there was a shortfall of sixty six pounds thirty one pence for the total bill , so the chairman er . |
| 5 | Nazarbayev was sworn in at a session of the republican Supreme Soviet on Dec. 10 , at which the republic dropped the words " soviet socialist " from its title to become the Republic of Kazakhstan . |
| 6 | Alice looked in at a scene of comfort . |
| 7 | Led by Lt Fusata Iida they flew in at a height of 50ft and within a few minutes the airfield was a smoking mess . |
| 8 | It meets the River Lyon and the rivers pour in at a rate of 370 cubic metres a second . |
| 9 | By late afternoon we 'd stopped in at a number of bars along the pier . |
| 10 | Greece , Spain , Portugal and Ireland were won over at a meeting of Environment Ministers by promises that the tax will be levied only on energy use or carbon dioxide emissions above a threshold value linked to the community average . |
| 11 | During April 1856 , after a period when , it seems , no head dresser was overseeing , his son John took over at a rate of about £5 : 4s. : 0d. , which figure was apparently dependent upon the weather . |
| 12 | Testing for 14 year olds has been almost as great a disaster : the first pilot scheme was abandoned halfway through at a cost of £8 million . |
| 13 | ‘ With E-mail it zips through at a fraction of the cost , and such a system also eliminates many of the difficulties associated with operating in different time zones . ’ |
| 14 | And he says , sells his off at a quarter of a million , per cube . |
| 15 | The Allies then presented Germany with a bill for US & dollar 32 billion to be paid off at a rate of & dollar 500 million dollars per year . |
| 16 | At the top of the fire-back the filling is smoothed off at an angle of about 45° . |
| 17 | defendant with handicap of 24 hit ball with toe of his golf club , so that it went off at an angle of 30 degrees . |
| 18 | He was imagining himself sitting in a tiny Kayak in the middle of the Severn looking up at a wall of water , anything from six to nine feet high depending on conditions , bearing down on him at twelve miles an hour and making more noise than a fast approaching train . |
| 19 | The adventurers end up at a confluence of shafts , one of which leads to the Bloodheart itself . |
| 20 | Set up at a cost of half a million pounds contributed by CLD and the consortium , this is seen as a long-term project to introduce CLD staff , clients and other interested parties to open systems . |
| 21 | I came to jammed into the corner of the work room , squatting , fists clenched , staring up at a ribbon of orange light across the ceiling and a stack of timber beside me . |
| 22 | Plans to prevent acid house parties in the South-east were drawn up at a meeting of senior police officers and council leaders . |
| 23 | A number of draft agreements drawn up at a meeting of the ACC Ministerial Council , held in Baghdad on Jan. 16-17 , were ratified including accords covering co-operation in industry , oil and gas , health , air transport and tourism . |
| 24 | Rincewind looked up at a number of impassive , upside down faces . |
| 25 | During this first period ( up to 1750 ) of relatively slow and uneven growth , trusts were set up at a rate of only eight a year and were concentrated largely around London , radiating especially to the north and west and into the Midlands . |
| 26 | He glanced out at a gang of starlings fighting over some breadcrumbs that had been tossed on the lawn . |
| 27 | Moderator that works out at a contribution of seventy five pence per minute towards the actual cost of our operation of forty pounds and twenty three pence per minute . |
| 28 | The profits averaged out at a quarter of a million pounds per partner . |
| 29 | ‘ Pity it stares out at a row of other houses . ’ |
| 30 | Unlike building model aeroplanes or playing computer games , you can consume the finished product , which works out at a cost of 10p a pint . |