Example sentences of "it [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it goes at different times , it 's a different consignment . |
| 2 | We have , however , been gathering information on task/standing groups as it arose at various Senior Management meetings . |
| 3 | Today , devoid of sundry aid pegs , it stands at hard E2 ; and at that time it was another leap in climbing standards . |
| 4 | It provides a good training for any biologist because it looks at living organisms from many different viewpoints . |
| 5 | It looks at other initiatives similar to the one that we 're planning , and Derek has got a copy of that , if anyone would like details , on any of that . |
| 6 | It looks at joint compensation schemes cases in which civil liability principles do not apply . |
| 7 | The amplified muezzins of the town 's mosques spent much of it chanting at full volume . |
| 8 | ‘ In 1986 , when the International Whaling Commission banned all commercial whaling worldwide , it seemed at long last the whales were saved . |
| 9 | The Customs seal on the container was still in tact when it arrived at basket-ware importers Ronald Kaufmann 's in Norwich . |
| 10 | A UK company has a US parent , which often instructs it to look at possible acquisitions around the world . |
| 11 | So , too , might the mandated curriculum , be it set at national or provincial level , in its fixing of external curriculum objectives and its restriction of teachers ' room for manoeuvre . |
| 12 | Since the kite has a lift component to enable it to accelerate at certain positions around the hemisphere it also has what is known as an ‘ apparent wind ’ and it is this which sustains the motion within the flight envelope . |
| 13 | I had seen it happen at close quarters because I am his caddie . |
| 14 | If free-market conditions had generally prevailed , and if the BEA had got all the investment resources it required at low interest rates , this conclusion would be unassailable . |
| 15 | Pet Plan has a policy called RIDER PLAN ( FREEFONE 0800 282250 ) which would be ideal for you as it aims at regular riders who do not own their own horse or pony . |
| 16 | Two dissident Myanma students hijacked a Myanma aircraft on a domestic flight and forced it to land at U-tapao military air base in Thailand on Oct. 6 , 1989 . |
| 17 | It looked at formal and informal care for elderly people on their own . |
| 18 | The ‘ Community method ’ therefore was pragmatic , but it aimed at great things . |
| 19 | Shortly before the 1927 Cup final , a series of bars with a football tied to them was installed in the St John 's College training ground adjacent to the club , so that players could practise kicking at the bars and trapping the ball as it rebounded at awkward angles . |
| 20 | Mortgage-lending accounts for the bulk of the Halifax 's business , as it does at other building societies ( thrifts ) . |
| 21 | As Mr Cameron puts it , ‘ At the very time when most people want and need mobility — during the morning and evening peak periods — the system actually carries fewer of them than it does at various off-peak times . ’ |
| 22 | Living as it does at high level , it produces fewer lambs than other breeds . |
| 23 | The Justice Department faces a struggle as it seeks at secret meetings to persuade big national operators like Browning-Ferris and Laidlaw Industries to bid for commercial garbage-collection contracts . |
| 24 | It stood at right angles to the road , and rather nearer it than most of the larger houses which stood back in their well-kept gardens . |
| 25 | But , if we make the reward of the item of food erm not predictable , okay , so it comes at variable intervals er then the rat actually works harder pressing the lever , it 's more likely to do the behaviour and it 's less likely to give up doing that behaviour afterwards , okay ? |