Example sentences of "that [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This possibility is avoided in the magnolia , as in many plants , by having eggs and pollen that develop at different times . |
| 2 | The first of France 's war pilots flew in Blériots that cruised at fifty m.p.h. and took an hour and a half to climb to 6,000 feet . |
| 3 | For example Sir Anthony Gray ‘ planchette , trampoline [ Sir Anthony was born in 1917 ] ’ , by which I assume that trampolining at 75 is something of an achievement ; likewise Ivor Ottervein Smith ‘ aerobics [ Mr Smith was born in 1907 ] ’ . |
| 4 | Please let us know about EVERY class that operated at any time in 1988 , whether it was only a couple of weeks in January or a short summer course ( children or adults ) and take the highest number on roll at any time in the year . |
| 5 | Please make sure that EVERY class that operated at any time during 1990 is included ( even if now not running ) and give the maximum number on the roll . |
| 6 | I have no enthusiasm for returning to the sort of legislation that applied at that time . |
| 7 | Sometimes make a contrast — follow a lively travelling movement , perhaps one that goes at random with a smooth sweep of movement performed in unison . |
| 8 | This has been proved in several places : in some arctic localities it is found with trilobites that lived at great depths in the muds of the Ordovician ocean , while in Canada the same species occurs mixed with the inhabitants of the shallow-water seas , where limestones were accumulating . |
| 9 | We do suggest one small change , to allow an employee 's payment method to be changed at the discretion of his employer , if at the time that he entered that employment , he had agreed to accept that change at some future time ( not necessarily specified ) . |
| 10 | My own introduction to the world of stand-up involved performing at benefit gigs in the upstairs room of a pub in Exeter to an audience that shouted at one another until the local anarchist punk band came on . |
| 11 | By the sixth week , Charlie could strip and clean a rifle almost as quickly as Tommy , but it was his friend who turned out to be a crack shot and seemed to be able to hit anything that moved at two hundred yards . |
| 12 | S. H. The worst part of the job is when you had to go round that beat at four o'clock in the morning and it 's teeming with rain . |
| 13 | ‘ The recognizable direction of social development ’ , she concluded , ‘ has made it clear to me that there is no social class in Poland that has at one and the same time both an interest in , and an ability to achieve , the restoration of Poland ’ . |
| 14 | In contrast , macerated stillbirths were underrepresented in the stillbirths that occurred at general practitioner units while deaths due to asphyxia in labour were overrepresented . |
| 15 | The disease is named after a terrible industrial accident that occurred at this chemical factory at Minimata in southern Japan . |
| 16 | A debate that starts at 3.30 in the afternoon and goes on until 2 o'clock in the morning is hardly an advert for open government . |
| 17 | This is at Clarendon College at seven and that 's on Pallam Avenue just off Mansfield Road in Nottingham er contact the college for more information that starts at seven tonight . |
| 18 | There are among honey bees three reported examples that appear at first glance to qualify as cognitive trial-and-error . |
| 19 | It was departing from this grandiose encounter that Rose at last found Auguste , his head still full of exalted plans for the humble whiting . |
| 20 | These include the mosaics from the Blackfriars site and 50-52 , St. Nicholas Street , Leicester ( pls. 1 and 5a , respectively ) ; the mosaic of room 5 , Great Witcombe ; that found at 10-18 , Eastgate Street , Gloucester ; and the fragment from Locke 's Timber Yard , Cirencester ( pI . |
| 21 | This confirmed an earlier decision : as a general principle , we would not try to collect only those trees that seemed at first sight to be superior . |
| 22 | Professor Black 's TGAT report , for all its expensive complexity , has saved us from the test-led teaching that seemed at one time inevitable . |
| 23 | The 63 robins that die at random points in their seventh year of life must therefore live a total of T 6 = 63 × 0.5 = 31.5 robin-years . |
| 24 | Nor is the learning that occurs at that time as immediate and permanent as was previously thought , for much depends on the precise experience itself . |
| 25 | In electronics , filters are used , for example , to suppress an undesirable signal that occurs at some frequency , to extract sinusoidal signals over some particular frequency band from a wider range of sinusoidal signals and to convert a nonsinusoidal signal into a sinusoidal signal of the same period . |
| 26 | Transport of fossil bone after fossilization is probably not uncommon , and the nature of the breakage that occurs at this stage is highly characteristic . |
| 27 | It should be pointed out , however , that the particular approach to streaming that occurs at this school has not only had serious implications for the way in which groupings occurred , but that this by definition creates the sort of situation described above . |
| 28 | Below , the spaceship docks , an enormous shelf that gapes at both ends beneath the domed superstructure , started to attract craft that preferred not to patronize the better-lit and reputable platforms . |
| 29 | When you 'd done with that , went across to another chappie that came at nine o'clock , selling clothes , used to put his lines up on his stall , he had lines across his stall and for that you got tuppence or threepence , depending on his mood and by then it would be ten o'clock so you 'd go to one or two more and collect them jugs up and fetch them tea . |
| 30 | There 's a rift that grows at that stage in your schooling between , not only white people , but the actual teachers as well . |