Example sentences of "[verb] at [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Oil demand will , however continue to increase at between 1% and 2% per year . |
| 2 | Cell sap normally starts to freeze at about -3°C , and ice forming within the cells causes fatal damage to plant tissues . |
| 3 | With ‘ Laura Ashley ’ shops opening at about the rate of ten a year and Peter Revers ' avowed aim to have one in every state , the new factory was crucial . |
| 4 | and they rated at with the high , when the house boom was on |
| 5 | Unlike most doctors , he saw it , not as the final enemy , but as a fascinating enigma , each cadaver , which he would gaze at with the same intent look as he must once have fixed on his living patients , a new piece of evidence which might , if rightly interpreted , bring him closer to its central mystery . |
| 6 | Oligodendrocytes appear at about the time of birth and the astrocyte a week later . |
| 7 | Because these appear at about the same level in adjacent fibrils they give to the whole fibre its characteristic cross-striated appearance . |
| 8 | The people the people who are living in Kuwait , they got all the basic erm services such as electricity and water , which is , you know , water is processed a mechanically processed system , we do n't have rivers and we do n't have portable water wells erm we process our own water through erm desalination plants located at on the gulf . |
| 9 | And all kinds of reasons are conventionally winked at by our good-natured policemen and traffic wardens . |
| 10 | As you hint at in your letter , the musical ‘ anoraks ’ are often of the ‘ would n't know it if they heard it ’ variety anyway , and hate the thought of anyone having an intuition , or a touch or a sense of hearing which they themselves could never muster . |
| 11 | If you collect plates or similar items , which are best displayed vertically , a grooved shelf installed at about picture rail height provides an answer . |
| 12 | The remaining population of the " white ghost " dolphin , as it is known locally , now stands at between 150 and 350 , and is believed to be falling fast under pressure from pollution resulting largely from intensive construction work on the massive new offshore Chek Lap Kok island airport . |
| 13 | The eighteenth-century oil of Wicken Fen by an artist whose indecipherable signature , peered at through a microscope , had provided so many shared moments of happy conjecture . |
| 14 | Further fuel to the drive for competitiveness was added at about the same time by inter-provincial rivalry . |
| 15 | More surprisingly , sometimes a trough develops at about the same position , 15 degrees upstream of the mountains : and this pattern also persists for many days or weeks . |
| 16 | Meeting Steve the stamp man from Surbiton or Billy from the back of beyond or travelling around attending street parties and generally being gawped at by the Press and the populace is not my idea of whooping it up . |
| 17 | The Nimbus was undamaged but the K8 had one wing severed at about half-span as well as other serious damage . |
| 18 | German radar at St Marc or lookouts at about this time reported 17 ships , so the coastal batteries were closed up for action against ships . |
| 19 | According to those calculations , Paribas should be trading at around Fr650 while it has only this week started to trade over Fr600 . |
| 20 | Amidst worrying indicators that the US recovery may have stalled again — there was a disconcerting fall in capital goods orders in the first quarter , IBM Corp shares are on the slide again , and they were trading at around the $47 mark yesterday ; the 52-week low was $46.375 on January 21 , the lowest since 1975 . |
| 21 | ( On June 4 OPEC oil was trading at around US$18 per barrel . ) |
| 22 | Otherwise it was like a wrinkled prune , lying beside its mother , who loathed having her breasts pulled and sucked at for milk , which however came . |
| 23 | The rate of growth for 1990 was forecast at between 4.8 per cent and 5.2 per cent compared with 5.6 per cent in 1989 . |
| 24 | In case of any doubt , locate it by a line from Mizar in the Great Bear through Polaris , and prolonged ; Cassiopeia lies at about an equal distance beyond Polaris , so that when the Bear is low down Cassiopeia is high up , and vice versa . |
| 25 | The horizon on this Earth-sized world lies at about the same distance as on the Earth . |
| 26 | Individual ministries would face an average 5 per cent cut in administrative spending , and public-sector pay rises were to be contained at between 4.5 and 5.5 per cent . |
| 27 | Full student maintenance grants are now frozen at between £1,795 and £2,845 , but , only about a quarter of students actually receive the full award . |
| 28 | The erstwhile bandido wore a bloody nose which he was dabbing at with an oversized tartan handkerchief . |
| 29 | The budgetary deficit , which in January 1990 had been estimated to stand at around Rs55,800 million , widened in June to Rs64,400 million [ see p. 37530 ] largely because of increased defence spending projected in 1990/91 at Rs63,300 million , or approximately 37 per cent of total expenditure [ see p. 37530 ] . |
| 30 | In November 1990 the country 's foreign exchange reserves dropped perilously low , although reviving marginally in December to stand at around US$200 million . |