Example sentences of "it [vb -s] at a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It stands at a point where firm ground lies close to the river Derwent , and from olden times has been the site of an important river crossing , first by ferry , later by bridge . |
| 2 | Stukeley 's brief description ( p. 84 , Vol. i ) reads ‘ Brigcasterton … was fenced about with a deep mote on two sides , the river supplying its use on the other two ; for it stands at an angle , and the Romans made a little curve in the road here on purpose to take it in , as it offered itself so conveniently , then rectified the obliquity on the other side of the town ; it consists of one street running through its length upon the road ; the great ditch and banks are called the Dikes . |
| 3 | It looks at a lesson as a sequence of natural units of teaching and learning . |
| 4 | Ambiguous as to whether or not Singer drowned himself , it looks at an era — 1964 to 1979 — during which the spirit of rapacious capitalism he personified was at any rate submerged . |
| 5 | In other words , if we choose coordinates so that the linearised flow near the origin takes the form we can use these equations to work out the point on the side of B where a trajectory emerges from B if it starts at a point on the top face of B. ( We assume that the box B is a cube with faces which are part of the planes . |
| 6 | The importance of the PPR is that it occurs at a time when the numbers of new susceptible hosts are increasing and so ensures the survival and propagation of the worm species . |
| 7 | As the road leaves Clashnessie Bay , the hamlet of the same name is passed and after a further mile a side road turns off to the right and crosses the bare and windswept peninsula , the Ru Stoer , to a lighthouse where it ends at a parking place for cars . |
| 8 | ‘ Vehicular traffic light signal ’ is defined as follows : ‘ Three lights shall be used , one red , one amber and one green … the lamp showing the amber light shall be capable of showing a steady light or a flashing light such that it flashes at a rate of not less than 70 nor more than 90 flashes per minute etc . |
| 9 | They are undoubtedly right that it has now become clear that the Government will not pay for the expansion it desires at a level which will protect high quality . |
| 10 | Like the meeting in London just after the death of Edmund Ironside , it hints at a realisation on Cnut 's part that his rule would to a degree depend on English support . |
| 11 | It rests at an angle , it rests on the er ladders of course because they are ang er the ladders are at an angle like that so part of the weight 's taken by the actual ladders . |
| 12 | It performs at a maximum 1.2GFlops and is powerful enough to handle target recognition and other image analysis in real time . |
| 13 | It will charge interest on the cash amounts it advances at a rate similar to that for an overdraft . |
| 14 | It moves at a waddle from chance to chance , |
| 15 | It operates at a level of myth . |
| 16 | It operates at a rate of 0.45-litre ( 0.8pt ) per stroke , and will fit in to the standard 2in ( 50mm ) BSP neck of 205-litre ( 45gal ) barrels . |
| 17 | It runs at a profit and is one of the most self contained parts of the British Rail Network . |
| 18 | ‘ Oh yes — only I 've got to catch the last bus home and it leaves at a quarter to eleven … ’ |
| 19 | It begins at a beginning and thus promises the whole of a life . " |
| 20 | The profits of a manufacturing company are achieved by selling the goods it makes at a price in excess of its costs . |
| 21 | To this end he set out to give a ‘ factual picture of life as it comes at a boy in the Merchant Service ’ , offering details of the kind of people he would meet and ‘ some of the problems and emotional conflicts he would have to face … ’ |
| 22 | It comes at a time of growing fear that Saatchi & Saatchi may become the subject of a takeover bid as a result of recent business problems . |
| 23 | It comes at a time when the Reagan administration is rolling back the controls established by successive governments in the 1970s . |
| 24 | It is the first occasion that Basquiat 's art will have been studied by an American institution and it comes at a time when David Ross , who replaced Thomas Armstrong as the Whitney 's director in bitter circumstances nearly two years ago , is under considerable pressure to ignite a new and visionary exhibition programme at the museum ( see The Art Newspaper No.6 , March 1991 , p.5 ) . |
| 25 | It comes at a time when the advertising campaign is already in full swing adding another dimension to the promotional mix . |