Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where a driver says ‘ I was blinded by the sun ’ or ‘ There was a patch of fog ’ or ‘ The road was covered with black ice ’ , he should have stopped , reduced his speed or driven at a speed which was safe . |
| 2 | For this reason , our one-year programme is designed to allow students to take the occupational SVQ at level II in either administration or finance at the same time as the general SVQ at level II in business administration . |
| 3 | In the event of a second conviction for a like offence , a member is liable , in addition to the penalties already named , to be adjudged to be for ever incapable of holding any public office , and to be incapable for five years of being registered as an elector or voting at an election either of members to serve in Parliament or of members of any public body . |
| 4 | Next is the graphic equaliser , also switchable in or out , with a powerful 15 dB of boost or cut at the 7 well-chosen frequency centres of 50Hz , 100Hz , 230Hz , 500Hz , 1kHz , 2kHz and 5kHz . |
| 5 | 1807 " The Meeting having revised the Consideration of last year 's resolution respecting the Restriction as to the Liquor … now think that this restriction is not necessary … the Constables shall also be prohibited from Eating or Drinking at the Expence of the Publick . " |
| 6 | The Tornado would launch a Harm or Alarm at a safe distance . |
| 7 | The tentacle scales may be distinct from the oral papillae being either separated by a gap or placed at a higher level as viewed from the ventral side as in the genera Ophiotoma and Ophioblenn . |
| 8 | He let go the clutch , lifted the front wheel and drove at the far bank , sand-spit dead ahead . |
| 9 | She slumped in the far corner of the white Corniche and watched her mother nervously hugging the steering wheel and peering at the road ahead . |
| 10 | But it met a lump of grief and anger at the back of her throat and came out more like a sob . |
| 11 | Today Mary Letts hid her grief and appeared at a news conference in the hope it 'll help police catch her husband 's killer . |
| 12 | Today Mary Letts hid her grief and appeared at a news conference in the hope it 'll help police catch her husband 's killer . |
| 13 | Benedict took the card and glanced at the name . |
| 14 | Another woman explains how a food co-operative has been set up , buying in bulk and selling at no profit to members . |
| 15 | Even at four in the morning , if he woke during a rare , sleepless night , Dexter liked to brush back the curtains of his bedroom and marvel at the twinkling lights . |
| 16 | She went up to the bedroom and gazed at the old four-poster , hardly noticing the faded splendour of its blue and gold canopy as she scrutinised the decorated wooden frieze that ran along the top . |
| 17 | This violent thoroughfare , with its fumes , speed and bandits at the traffic lights , is like a medieval allegory of the pathway to hell . |
| 18 | It is the only tram in service where you have to climb up to your seat and sit at an angle of 20 degrees behind two spacemen in the front compartment ! |
| 19 | She slammed back the driving seat and looked at the unfamiliar dashboard with all its foreign signals . |
| 20 | This request was important in that it forced the staff involved in Guidance to review the programme and look at the students ' experiences in totality . |
| 21 | Most importantly , its key objective was to promote openness and trust at the top level , a refreshing contract to the dog-eat-dog approach being bred into far too many managers in this sado-masochistic age . |
| 22 | In her parent 's garden in Brentwood , little Marisa Leicester stood beside her Optimist and smiled at the 30 cameramen . |
| 23 | In fact , one piece of wood makes up the side of the guitar , all the way from the endpin , round the left-hand side , behind the neck and ending at the point of the cutaway . |
| 24 | But she is excellent in the play-extracts , lending Amanda in Private Lives just the right touch of acid mockery and hinting at a whole world of repressed longing as the suburban wife in Still Life ( the embryonic version of Brief Encounter ) . |
| 25 | In a daze of fear and dread at the vast sky that hung above him Creggan looked around at the Cages . |
| 26 | ‘ When travelling in the country , you sense an enormous fear and anger at the present reforms ; in well-healed suburbs , there is approval of the reforms but still a great fear of the random violence they have released . ’ |
| 27 | Despite the lines of exhaustion bracketing his mouth and etched at the outer corners of his eyes , his gaze gleamed dangerously . |
| 28 | Dönitz adjusted his glasses , took the first sheet of paper from the file , opened his mouth and bawled at the microphone as though it was the furthest sailor on the longest parade ground in the Third Reich . |
| 29 | Aaron sat on the roof and stared at the sky . |
| 30 | In a chair opposite sat Tom who was drinking tea and looking at a book . |