Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chairman , er I do n't often disagree with er Mr in front of me there , but I have been consistent in my approach over the years , er , wherever I 've had the had the opportunity to speak at political meetings and ministers have been present . |
| 2 | The main beds of the Silver Knitmaster , Brother and Toyota machines are designed to knit with the knitting hanging at right angles to the machine . |
| 3 | But the play moves at perfect pace and — most importantly — is not too long . |
| 4 | But it is certainly not impossible and the attempt to arrive at agreed standards in all organizations can be helpful and educational to manager and employees alike . |
| 5 | In the Jerusalem Campaign , they supported the attack on Mughar and the brilliant charge of the Bucks , Dorset and Berks Yeomanry kept the Ambulance employed at high pressure . |
| 6 | The research looks at major strikes in selected areas of Great Britain , and the focus throughout is on the police and on what determines their behaviour . |
| 7 | Thus She smiled to hear me talk like that/He shuddered to hear of it are grammatical , *He jumped aside to see the car approaching at high speed/She was silent to be told she was wrong are not . |
| 8 | From then on , anything that loiters in front of the entrance runs a risk of being knocked flying by the owner of the den exiting at high speed . |
| 9 | With the scum playing at high flying Newcastle , a win could possibly move us to within single digit points range of the scum whose fans incidently are becoming more insufferable with every day that passes . |
| 10 | This means that the voltage delivered at low output currents is greater than the rated voltage . |
| 11 | This is over and above the ability to schedule the transfer to run at given times . |
| 12 | The Home Affairs Select Committee report , when the Committee looked at sick leave , for example , found that some progress could be made in improving on the sick absence record of police officers . |
| 13 | Outside facilitators worked with the committee to look at current staff development issues in the University and to take the first steps in producing a new strategy paper on Staff Development Policy for the University . |
| 14 | The Mayo Environmental Group has also used videos to document the havoc wreaked at other mining sites in Ireland . |
| 15 | There was a series of press reports following the implementation of the Act hinting at large increases in referrals for statements . |
| 16 | It is this too which causes me personally to be deeply resentful of the practice so prevalent in the mass of fiscal and planning legislation of relegating provisions of real substance to Schedules which are sometimes cross-referenced between one another , so that construing the statute becomes a sort of verbal jigsaw puzzle that can only be solved by laying out numerous copies of the Act open at different pages or by the judicious use of more fingers than the number with which nature has been pleased to endow us . |
| 17 | The kit looks at basic scientific principles as applied to farming . |
| 18 | The accident happened at Running Waters on the A181 near Durham City . |
| 19 | A number of passes are then made with the saw set at different heights — it is well worth-while doing a dummy run on some scrap material of similar size . |
| 20 | When the person throws the ball , the batter hits it as far as possible and then sets off to run round the obstacle placed at right angles . |
| 21 | Pickering had nurtured Davies since his days as a schoolboy triple jumper , and Davies has frequently credited Pickering with giving him the confidence to compete at top level . |
| 22 | Twenty years ago few tailor shops were without a bottle of gin : the men drank as they liked ; one kept the score , and the publican came at certain times to replenish the gin bottle . |
| 23 | However , Lindstedt cautions that such visual behaviour as peering closely at the work being undertaken by no means offers a complete solution to the problems arising from the need to work at close range . |
| 24 | Pluralist approaches have stressed the need to look at actual decision-making . |
| 25 | Small firms may not find it so easy to make this commitment , particularly if they have either a small , stable workforce , or the need to recruit at short notice when vacancies occur . |
| 26 | The potential for political expression was not restricted to those who had the right to vote at General Elections every two or three years , since people of all classes could let their feelings be known through petitions , demonstrations , and riots . |
| 27 | Denmark also made unilateral declarations on issues such as citizenship and the right to vote at municipal elections . |
| 28 | Outside Cabinet Leon Brittan argued in a speech that the Government must have the right to look at new ideas , although I suspect that both Leon and Geoffrey Howe must have been appalled at the way the issue had been handled . |
| 29 | The change in internal energy AU of a system is thus the heat absorbed by the system when the reaction occurs at constant volume . |
| 30 | The enthalpy change , H , of a system is thus the heat absorbed by the system when the reaction occurs at constant pressure . |