Example sentences of "their [noun] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two more of the creatures hovered around the craft , walking over the wings and flashing their teeth at the hysterical passengers . |
| 2 | How the more distinguished men must have gnashed their teeth at the trivial basis upon which great decisions are made — but how delighted they must be today not to be branded with the title of court architect ! |
| 3 | Two days later , the parents told their story at a public meeting in the village hall in St Margaret 's Hope , a little fishing village on the edge of Scapa Flow . |
| 4 | Some police make quite a tidy income ringing up their contacts at the bottom end of Fleet Street whenever they have a customer of public interest . |
| 5 | It was an age in which all classes of society were expanding , in which men from every walk of life who enjoyed adventure and travel could find new opportunities as merchants to invest their talents at a large rate of interest . |
| 6 | Michael Hickey , his cousin Vincent Hickey and James Robinson were jailed in 1979 for the murder of 13-year-old Carl as he disturbed their burglary at a remote farmhouse in Stourbridge , West Midlands in September , 1978 . |
| 7 | Even in the 1930s the anti-Semitism of literary figures like Hilaire Belloc and G. K. Chesterton co-existed uneasily with their revulsion at the racial policies of the new Germany . |
| 8 | A high cost of capital is a signal that investors do not trust banks to earn a reasonable return on their money at a reasonable risk . |
| 9 | The trend towards milder winters is beginning to concern horticulturists. many trees need lengthy cold spells if they are to open their buds at the right time in spring , and research on the Continent confirms that apple trees will be confused by the changing climate . |
| 10 | Representatives of 11 companies operating at Aberdeen Seafood Park are to spend five days promoting their products at a special exhibition in Aberdeen 's twin city of Clermont Ferrand , near Lyons . |
| 11 | In 1851 Hoopers of Eastington were noted for the fine display of their products at the great Exhibition . |
| 12 | Under the proposals , they will be liable to tax on the value of the dividend plus a notional , non-payable tax credit of 20% which will be set off against their liability at the single flat rate of 35%. 28 Income which discretionary trustees use to meet trust management expenses will not be liable to tax at the single flat rate of 35% but at the lower rate of 20% ( if the income is dividends ) or at the basic rate of 25% ( if it is other income ) . |
| 13 | It is a paradox that the more Ministers learn about the complex and uncertain causes and circumstances of crime , the less dogmatic they become in their opinions at the very moment when , as Whitelaw found to his cost , they are most vulnerable to censure by their own supporters . |
| 14 | But that very evening , back in their suite at the Grand , holding her arm roughly , he ordered her to undress . |
| 15 | They outlined their plans at an initial workshop on ‘ Television and Worship ’ which was held in Lage Vuursche , Netherlands , 27 April-2 May . |
| 16 | Furthermore their activities at the rarefied levels of Petrograd and Moscow often had very little impact , either at the time or subsequently , on the masses and on provincial life . |
| 17 | I asked my father about the people in the adjoining houses , they must have lived in perpetual fog , and I remember he told me that perhaps they got their houses at a reduced rent . |
| 18 | They were intended to provide a rapid procedure under which objectors would have no right to state their case at a public inquiry , and the commission was not required to disclose the purpose for which the land was needed . |
| 19 | For years souvenir-hunters had swarmed over it on summer Sundays ( and now also on Lubbock 's bank holidays ) , their hammers at the ready , and the owner , Antrobus , had Supplied an attendant to keep some order . |
| 20 | If the values of UK purchases of dollars and of US purchases of sterling are roughly equal , dealers in the foreign exchange market will be able to balance their books at a forward rate that is equal to the expected future spot rate . |
| 21 | The Russians are believed to have detected this deployment and fired their shells at a high angle over the heads of the Slavs to hit the Austrians ahead . |
| 22 | Tennant and his girlfriend , Mandy Simpson , 21 , are not headed for the discos but to top up their tans at the Electric Beach instant tan centre . |
| 23 | He attacked the couple as they cuddled in their car at a remote beauty spot . |
| 24 | The need for change was felt strongly , so builders cast their eyes at the ready-made style in neighbouring France and based their ideas of Gothic upon French schemes , especially Amiens Cathedral which , at that time , was the exemplar in western European architecture . |
| 25 | The gathering was small but that did not diminish the effect of the occasion as two of only 12 remaining Scottish survivors — out of 500 Scots who fought on the republican side in the Spanish Civil War — gathered with district council representatives to pay their respects at a simple ceremony . |
| 26 | A reception will be held for the runners and their supporters at the English Wine Centre . |
| 27 | It freed scholars to pursue their researches without having to look over their shoulders at the Holy Office . |
| 28 | East Suffolk at university because a lot of erm the more well to do parents would erm would probably turn up their noses at the small amount of |
| 29 | Most of them are tilted in their orbits at an identical angle to Earth 's ( the exception being the inner and outer two planets ) , proving that they have all evolved together . |
| 30 | In customs , the Eladeldi had drawn back their lips at the sedated parrot , but all the processing was in order , and Marco had hustled them through . |