Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE ULTIMATE teen movie , a sharp-edged black comedy which mercilessly swipes at adolescent angst , peer pressure , consumerism , and that old favourite , the generation gap . |
| 2 | The wintering population has increased considerably in recent years , but little change at other seasons is apparent . |
| 3 | The winter population has declined in recent years , but little change at other seasons is apparent . |
| 4 | ‘ To my mind , ’ she wrote , ‘ he has all the qualities of a leading man that the British film industry badly needs at this juncture : youth , good looks , a photogenic face , obviously alert intelligence and a trick of getting the maximum effect with the minimum of fuss . ’ |
| 5 | After the third day of REM sleep deprivation little sleep at all was being achieved , and the symptoms that the subjects showed were a combination of the effects of total sleep deprivation and suggestion . |
| 6 | The cordon was eventually lifted at 1900 hours and the section flown home , only to prepare for a very full day 's patrolling on the following day . |
| 7 | For example , Brunsdon notes that ‘ Hollywood , as the world-dominant cinema , exports ideals of White femininity worldwide ’ , yet feminist critics have rarely looked at this aspect of the Hollywood dream-machine in their copious critiques of it . |
| 8 | Essentially , it had a directing and supervisory role , ensuring that the policies laid down by the Politburo were known and vigorously pursued at all levels . |
| 9 | Let us rather glance at two of what are presented as solutions to the problem , the metalinguistic and the possible-worlds proposals . |
| 10 | She was not scrapped and remained at Wroughton where on March 16 , 1956 , she was officially transferred to the RAF 's Historical Aircraft Collection , which at that time was widely dispersed at such locations such as Gaydon and Fulbeck . |
| 11 | It would be tedious to list the types and colours of stone , ceramic etc. used at each site in Britain ; if any picture at all emerges it is that mosaicists made good with what was easily obtained , and that the types of stone used for various shades of colour are predictable and limited in number . |
| 12 | He was still up when the theatre eventually stopped at three-forty , and returned with the S.S.O. The latter was in theatre clothes , with his green cap pushed back on his red head and his mask limp round his neck . |
| 13 | The stone castle was only developed at all widely in the eleventh century , when the large keep , fort and dwelling-house in one , of which the Tower of London is a particularly fine example , came into fashion among men of exceptional wealth . |
| 14 | And I suddenly realized at this stage that there was going to be something rather unexpected happening . |
| 15 | The Council indicated a few limited examples of such circumstances ( e.g. to the newly baptized in a Mass following their baptism ) , but here again , once admitted , the essential rightness of Communion under both kinds became more and more widely recognized so that communion is now so given at all Masses in many churches and dioceses throughout the world . |
| 16 | He probably tells you that it is all arranged at this end , whereas in point of fact nothing has been laid on except by verbal arrangement with him , and then we have a frightful period such as is now going on . |
| 17 | The room we sat in contained two television sets , two oak sideboards , slightly lower than the ceiling and four clocks all stopped at different times . |
| 18 | The vast majority of the black people follow his wing of the ANC ( not Nkomo who only represents at best 20% ) . |
| 19 | When EF lies in a Landau level ( Figure 4 ) , scattering is possible and the current flow comprises electrons with paths that are constantly modified at each collision . |
| 20 | The problem , however , is turning phrases that are warmly applauded at rotary club or chamber of commerce lunches into serious investment . |
| 21 | If a market surplus of liquidity is forecast , then the Bank will only act at 2.00 p.m. if it is large . |
| 22 | It is therefore unlikely that microsporidia were responsible for the symptoms in a relevant proportion of the patients reported here , especially thse at early disease stages and those without detectable secondary infection , as intestinlam microsporidiosis is apparently associated with low CD4 counts in the peripheral blood . |
| 23 | These all fly at similar speeds and have rather light stick forces like a glider . |
| 24 | Er I suppose erm er the , most of the people I 've seen in the last ten years have been people either approaching retirement , planning for retirement or actually at the point of retirement and er we 've obviously looked at this course over a number of years and we try to sort of distil it down to the basics of things that we think are important er and that we think will be useful to you . |
| 25 | She had only to hide at one of these places and wait , and they would all come along sooner or later . |
| 26 | Daniel Omara Atubu and other elected representatives apparently protested at these mass arrests . |
| 27 | So when staff are literally fuming at each other , and wanting to sue , the simple solution is to install an electrostatic air filter . |
| 28 | Cox said that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC ) , which had only looked at direct CFC warming effects , will now investigate the interactions . |
| 29 | This meant that an innocent purchaser could buy a car from such a hirer only to discover at some later date that the car did not after all belong to him . |
| 30 | Their 7 foot 6 inches-wide body was the widest permitted at that time , and allowed two-by-two seating on upholstered seats in the saloon . |