Example sentences of "[noun] at [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time they had received instructions to follow and observe , they had lost it in a swirl of speed at one hundred and forty miles an hour . |
| 2 | They have heavy bodies , and sit and wait for prey to come to them , striking with unerring accuracy and speed at any small mammal as it passes . |
| 3 | However , can employees who have been denied the benefit of the Regulations in the past on the basis of the non-commercial venture exclusion seek any effective remedy at this late stage ? |
| 4 | Without a glance at one another the two adults followed , Jake stepping aside at the sitting-room door to allow Shiona to pass into the hall ahead of him . |
| 5 | For the first time she risked a glance at that dark Renaissance face with its clear-cut features and winged brows , the beautiful , thickly lashed eyes and chiselled mouth , the cleft chin and strong jaw . |
| 6 | She received a suspicious glance at this placid response , but she refused to be drawn . |
| 7 | An enterprising parents ' association at one primary school took on the short term lease of a shop in the local High Street in the pre-Christmas period and made a substantial profit by buying in stock from discount warehouses and retailing in competition with other traders . |
| 8 | As a matter of fact , I 'm preparing a paper on the side effects for the medical association at this very moment . |
| 9 | And there were others less distinguished , perhaps , but whose lively presence made any visit memorable ; for instance , Mr Wilkinson , valet-butler to Mr John Campbell , with his well-known repertoire of impersonations of prominent gentlemen ; Mr Davidson from Easterly House , whose passion in debating a point could at times be as alarming to a stranger as his simple kindness at all other times was endearing ; Mr Herman , valet to Mr John Henry peters , whose extreme views no one could listen to passively , but whose distinctive belly-laugh and Yorkshire charm made him impossible to dislike . |
| 10 | To animate a particular persona linguistically , a speaker must be able to access a stereotype of the persona 's group ; and in doing this , the speaker acts within certain constraints : Le Page 's " four riders " , which limit the speaker 's effectiveness in evoking the desired persona at any one moment . |
| 11 | He neither showed nor expressed any grief at this regrettable development . |
| 12 | An independent Central Bank might provide such a restraint , and so might the constitutional amendment , suggested in Friedman and Friedman ( 1980 ) , which obliges the government to expand the money stock at some fixed rate and which would make cheating on this obligation illegal . |
| 13 | a partial sale of [ shareholder ] 's x% stake with agreement for purchase of the remaining stock at some specified time in the future ; or |
| 14 | Turnover was on the low side at 529 million . |
| 15 | There we stood , side by side at those hip-high porcelain scoops , each staring grimly ahead at some Mexican firing-squad in the way that Englishmen do , neither dropping his gaze for a squint at the other 's tackle . |
| 16 | There was a creaking of chairs and crossing of legs at such plain speaking . |
| 17 | One of the most spectacular training methods at one licensed dealer was the floor contest . |
| 18 | Turnover was slightly higher than on Tuesday at 671 million . |
| 19 | On Tuesday at eleven forty exclusive highlights from the Third Round of the Coca Cola Cup featuring Aston Villa at Sunderland . |
| 20 | She would deliver Arfur at eight fifty a.m. ’ magnificent in a black coat , black ankle-length dress and black leather boots , and reappear at three fifteen , leaning against the climbing frame in the same ensemble , garnished with a scarf or a single piece of jewellery . |
| 21 | David Platt 's Juventus recovered from a bad defeat at Inter last week by thrashing Ancona 5–1 to move into fourth place . |
| 22 | Er if you fully fund a TESSA at nine thousand , we 'd estimate around eleven to twelve thousand back , and not the sixteen thousand that was projected at the top of the cycle about three years ago . |
| 23 | In the first three quarters , manufacturing investment at constant 1985 prices was 15 per cent . |
| 24 | An outward shift of the MEI schedule ( see Fig. 14.1 above ) might then raise investment at any given rate of interest . |
| 25 | General Velasco dies and his unique attempt at left-wing military government is over . |
| 26 | The scheme was a dismal attempt at wholesale social engineering , at wiping out the past and beginning all over again — although it has to be said that the new phonetic script itself , based on a design by someone called Kingsley Read , was rather attractive . |
| 27 | The uncustomary heat did n't help matters either , nor did the taxi driver 's attempt at jovial small talk , most of which Alyssia either ignored or answered in monosyllables . |
| 28 | The effect was that of an attempt at Mediterranean good taste , contrived by and for people who had no taste at all . |
| 29 | A horrible way of explaining it but er it 's some attempt at some some preciseness . |
| 30 | There is no attempt at any systematic statistical analysis of the documents , either of their numbers or their content ; there is also no attempt to supplement this material with interviews , though from the text it is clear that both authors talked to many Poles in the course of their investigations . |