Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [verb] at a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His manager , Simon , who was also Cyril 's elder brother , had persuaded him to lower his sights — or rather to aim at a different and better target . |
| 2 | At school leaving age , parents who had previously been able to cope with a child attending or possibly boarding at a special school are faced with the continuing prospect of full time life with their mentally handicapped son or daughter who may be unable to find a place in a training centre or enter full time education . |
| 3 | So a Gettier counter-example is one in which a has a justified but false belief by inference from which he justifiably believes something which happens to be true , and so arrives at a justified true belief which is not knowledge . |
| 4 | Also , the needles on the needlebed ( plus their latches ) must be in good condition with the sinker posts in an upright position and not bent at a drunken angle ! |
| 5 | She 's divorced , but she has n't emigrated or defected — she 's still a Fellow of Somerville , and still living at a solid address in North Oxford . |
| 6 | Is it possible to disconnect each thing from itself and still arrive at a recognisable record ? |
| 7 | He studied at Ealing School of Art , Wimbledon School of Art , Goldsmith 's College and later taught at a comprehensive school in Essex . |
| 8 | Receiving the award on behalf of the company , John Stewart , Managing Director , was delighted with the achievement ‘ It gives additional confidence to a range that was already well prepared and carefully targeted at a specific market ’ , he said . |
| 9 | Telex messages can be typed direct into the teleprinter 's memory and automatically transmitted at a preset time . |
| 10 | Researchers have recently discovered small regions of genetic material in animal cells that can become detached from the chromosomes , enjoy an independent existence for a while , and then re-integrate at a different chromosomal location . |
| 11 | Not surprisingly , therefore , import penetration increased from the mid 1960s onwards and then moved at an alarming rate in the early 1970s . |
| 12 | The corridor they had travelled along had turned an abrupt corner and then ended at a blank , curved wall . |
| 13 | We passed two ruined abbeys , one with a tower and one without , and then stopped at a four-house township . |
| 14 | During his first two weeks in France he read no English newspaper and barely glanced at a French one . |
| 15 | However , the problems that we have considered mean that it is likely that we may miss the target and actually arrive at an unintended situation . |
| 16 | ‘ Ah ! j'adore ça ’ , he said and never looked at a single picture . |
| 17 | It is possible , for example , to read Henry James scholarship exhaustively and never arrive at a nodding mention , much less a satisfactory treatment , of the black woman who lubricates the turn of the plot and becomes the agency of moral choice and meaning in What Maisie Knew . |
| 18 | There were more horses coming now , less hurriedly than the advance party , but still approaching at a brisk speed from the Cross . |
| 19 | During waking life primary process thinking is displaced during the child 's development by secondary process thinking , and in the adult it remains as a neurotic symptom , most clearly during dreaming , but also operating at a subconscious level to influence waking behaviour . |
| 20 | Behind and to her right , impassive but occasionally smiling at a legal point , Richard Ingrams sat on his own . |