Example sentences of "[verb] it at [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here the general principle is that those who receive the largest amount of money overall receive it at the least frequent intervals and rank highest in the hierarchy of power . |
| 2 | Twenty minutes later he had reached paragraph 9 when a voice from the next room told him that if he were typing anything other than his bloody resignation he should bloody well do it at a more civilised bloody hour . |
| 3 | ‘ I knew there would be trouble at that roundabout — the road approaches it at a very acute angle . |
| 4 | This task is made all the more necessary by the fact that opponents of absolute holism often find it strongly counter-intuitive , not to say absurd ; although they can grasp it at a very general level , they have difficulty in imagining either how it could be developed , or what would make it plausible . |
| 5 | However clear and well presented reading material may be , there can still be problems in its use , particularly for pupils who need to use it at a very close distance from the eye . |
| 6 | Not if he arranged it at the most awkward time of the year ? a little voice rejoined . |
| 7 | A er twenty five watt lamp in the fridge is using it at a very low rate , it 's hardly using any electricity . |
| 8 | Lest we seem obsessed with sex , we should point out that only 18% of our respondents ranked it ‘ very ’ important in their lives — with the largest group ( 47% ) putting it at a more discreet ‘ quite ’ important . |
| 9 | His brief was simple : charter a large cargo plane and bring back to Farnborough all the pieces of wreckage that will , in your judgement , need to be examined in detail in connection with this investigation , and do it at the least possible cost to the taxpayer . |
| 10 | This is not only the case of small linguistic communities vulnerable to quite modest demographic changes , such as the thinly-populated hills and coasts of Welsh-speaking Wales , or Estonia , whose 1m or so Estonian speakers would in any case place it at the very lower limit of populations capable of maintaining a modern linguistic culture at all levels . |
| 11 | He pulled on his wet cap , adjusting it at an unusually rakish and dashing angle , and made his way , swaggering very slightly , to his comforts next door . |
| 12 | It 's edited by Outdoor Action 's editor Laura McCaffrey and we are offering it at a very special price . |
| 13 | A completely brittle material like glass is reasonably safe as long as we are content to operate it at a very low stress level , for instance as a shop window , because the Griffith crack length is then quite long and so the material is safe against minor chips and abrasions . |