Example sentences of "at [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I referred his valet to Miss Kenton , but this did not prevent M. Dupont snapping his fingers at me every few hours to say : ‘ Butler !
2 As he dismounted he looked at me over the saddle and there Was that tell-nothing expression , looking at me no different than the Way he had looked at Lamarr Dean the moment before he broke a Whisky glass against his mouth .
3 I caught Cam looking at me the other day .
4 He made another pass at me the other day . "
5 ‘ That baby there kicked out at me the other day .
6 As he opens the door the lid snaps up and as he looks at me the social dimension locks me in its perspective .
7 The broken sails of the old windmill stood out in silhouette against the sky like a scarecrow 's arms , and as she looked at them a sudden wonderful idea flashed into Cheryl 's mind .
8 was looking at them the other day and they 're really brilliant .
9 Wid ye jist take a keek oot o' that windae and lukk at whit the silly bitch is daein' noo !
10 On one occasion Minton , too , was invited to a dinner at which a famous pianist was present .
11 Expert determination is also used for the adjustment of the rate at which a convertible redeemable preference share is to be converted into , typically , an ordinary share , following a capital reorganisation or rights issue of the ordinary shares in the company .
12 He gave parties at which a great deal of champagne was consumed ; he attended other parties ; he entertained young women to luncheon-parties in his rooms — women whose fashionable faces Mr Bullins recognised from society magazines such as the Tatler , which formed his own favourite bedtime reading .
13 The first mineral to crystallize is usually olivine , which carries on crystallizing as the magma cools until a temperature is reached at which a second mineral , pyroxene , begins to appear , and then , as the temperature drops still further , these two continue to crystallize together .
14 The TAC secretary attends all meetings at which a TAC response is to be discussed .
15 The rate at which a black hole loses energy by Hawking radiation is where σ is the Stefan-Boltzmann constant .
16 In order to understand why it is that homoclinic orbits are such important features of the Lorenz equations , we will examine the change of behaviour of the system as r passes through a value at which a homoclinic orbit like that shown in Fig. 6.1a occurs .
17 This is the moment at which a major diversion is necessary .
18 During the 1630s , for example , there is a high correlation between the amounts of each mint mark represented in hoards and the quantities of silver coinage available at each ‘ trial of the pyx ’ , at which a fixed proportion of output was submitted for testing every year .
19 They follow an all night drink and drugs party at which a brilliant student died .
20 A revised version of the paper was produced for a November meeting , at which a new committee with the same name as the 1968 committee was set up .
21 The new initiative was launched at a meeting between President Clinton and the chief executives of the three largest US car manufacturers : General Motors , Ford and Chrysler , at which a new 10-year target was established to create a practical and affordable model running at a level of fuel efficiency three times higher than at present .
22 The selected affixes and function words are represented within the planning frame in phonological form , and , as we have already noted , the phonological forms of the content words have been retrieved from the lexicon : when all these phonological representations are put together under the control of the planning frame , we have the positional-level representation for the sentence , a level at which a specific sentence is represented in phonological form .
23 The point at which a useful and necessary practice is accorded the status of a constitutional convention is not clear .
24 On 24 June Edward won the first notable victory of the war in the naval battle fought off Sluys ( Fr L'Ecluse ) at the mouth of the river Zwyn , at which a larger French fleet was decimated by superior English tactics and the better use of prevailing conditions .
25 One further operation was done in October 1991 , at which a perineal sinus was explored and reopened .
26 Cash accounting , accruals accounting and commitment accounting are distinguished from each other by the point in time when expenses and revenues are recognized in the accounts , i.e. the point at which a given transaction generates a bookkeeping entry .
27 References in three separate contexts in Ali suggest that the lowest kadiliks of which the hierarchy normally took cognizance were those at the 25 -akce level ; and these would thus seem to be equivalent to the 20-akce medreses in being the level at which a fully-trained medrese student would expect to receive his first appointment .
28 Even for trajectories as low as varying C L over the range 10 -3 –1 changes the altitude at which a Tunguska-sized stony asteroid airbursts by only 1% .
29 Much stress was laid on the demand for a World Conference at which a British sacrifice of imperial advantages would create the space for appeasing the grievances of the ‘ have-not ’ powers — Germany , Italy , Japan — through a general scheme of ‘ territorial , economic and monetary readjustments … . ’
30 In the Spring Term there is an Annual Lecture at which a national celebrity talks about an issue of current interest .
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