Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [verb] [pron] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The misinformation concerns only the route Déj ‘ a Vu and has nothing at all to do with Prodigal Sons . |
| 2 | And even if you 're parking it in your driveway or close to your home , lock and secure it at all times . |
| 3 | Policies such as these penalise those who drink sensibly , are detrimental to the drinks industry and do nothing at all to deter those who are determined to abuse alcohol . |
| 4 | But the , you know it 's two o'clock in the morning and police car 's coming through the village and see someone at that time , they 're quite likely to stop and ask them what they 're doing . |
| 5 | It is possible to make a break-through and find what at first appeared to be a problem turns into a sensible and satisfactory arrangement . |
| 6 | The Capitulary of Thionville in 805 , for instance , forbids usury , the kind of usury which involved buying cheap corn in quantity and selling it at excessive profit in times of scarcity . |
| 7 | But as more unwanted probings prodded , she was set to seriously wonder if indeed it was good enough to have called at Vendelin Gajdusek 's home and left it at that . |
| 8 | Clearly something does happen in higher education ; it is not enough to argue that it trains an elite and to leave it at that . |
| 9 | He went up to the Palestinian and shot him at close range , the army said . |
| 10 | It was all she had left now , so she had thanked her sister and left it at that . |
| 11 | As he dumped his case in the pleasant bedroom , lifted the lid and left it at that , he reflected . |
| 12 | The processes that generate patterns during development are almost certainly more complex than Zhabotinsky 's reaction , or the process imagined by Turing , or the generation of a gradient by synthesizing a substance at one point and destroying it at another . |
| 13 | Did he write col basso in the score and leave it at that ? |
| 14 | Interesting facts culled from a meeting with the leading lights of both Aldus and Adobe at last year 's Appleworld show indicate that the main problem with PostScript on the Macintosh is the QuickDraw to PostScript conversion process and has nothing at all to do with the LaserWriter or PostScript . |
| 15 | You can purchase your first FREEDOM TICKET and renew it at any Post Office in Oxford or at The Broadway , Banbury Road or Mill Street offices in Kidlington itself . |
| 16 | Then , using an average stiffness frame and stringing it at two different tensions , 44lbs and 66 lbs respectively , the result was a massive 350cm ( over 11 feet ) difference in the length of the shot . |
| 17 | He is a keen observer of political life and quizzed me at great length about the impending British general election . |
| 18 | Second , the welfare state works as a kind of ‘ savings bank ’ , taking money at some points in each person 's life and returning it at another . |
| 19 | If she 'd been more of a woman , he believed , she would have meekly accepted his word and left it at that . |
| 20 | The increase in local stress , which can be calculated , depends solely upon the shape of the hole and has nothing at all to do with its size . |
| 21 | PostScript sacrificed performance for flexibility and , as a result , is capable of taking the same original information and producing it at any output resolution ; 72 , 300 , 1270 or 2540dpi . |
| 22 | For the product to be viable this line must have a steeper slope than the total cost line and intersect it at some point . |
| 23 | Registry staff must be able to process information without introducing delays , whether it is receiving data from a student and subsequently providing an updated record for that student or taking a request from a lecturer for a list and providing it at short notice or processing an offer made by an admissions tutor so that the candidate hears from PCAS as quickly as possible . |
| 24 | ‘ Many spend two years in the sixth form and get nothing at all , and it is hard for people who get a low grade at A-level to realise they have actually done very well . ’ |
| 25 | So — strictly speaking — it is not correct to say that it ‘ happened ’ in the seventeenth century and to leave it at that . |
| 26 | I sat in the front row of the balcony with tears rolling down my face and feeling nothing at all . |
| 27 | Call me old-fashioned , but I think a lot of American actors just do a sort of swagger and leave it at that . |
| 28 | Sarah would not take a flying run , but with John and Nora running and holding her at each side , just catching the fringes of the grass , she had her stately share , too . |
| 29 | Then take two cuts of the cards off the bottom of the pack and place them at each end before placing the rest in the middle . |