Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [noun] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I defended myself stoutly by pointing out that the alternative was to break off negotiations , with a dispute that could have gone on for months at great cost to the health of the nation . |
| 2 | If the trust had n't needed these holes we 'd have had to bring soil in by lorry at great expense through surrounding villages which no one would have liked . |
| 3 | Over the next few days considerable numbers of Croats in smaller groups did manage to cross over into Austria at various points along the frontier . |
| 4 | Altogether , the Drummond House workforce sip their way 22,000 cuppas each week which means there are so many empties they have to be carted off by lorry at regular intervals . |
| 5 | When kept under conditions of constant light and temperature , they still turned up for meals at regular intervals . |
| 6 | Post offices , railway stations and schools had the new , and the rest the old ; in the cottages there was friction as children and their fathers turned up for meals at different times . |
| 7 | Sadly , all too often they end up shelling out for mechanical write-offs which have been given a quick paint job and put up for sale at outrageous prices . |
| 8 | Former Ulster half-backs Ashley Armstrong and Annsley Harrison have teamed up again to renew their dalliance with the game they grew up with back at Methodist College . |
| 9 | Countries like Ethiopia have been fed out of surpluses at little cost , but even there thousands have died before the food reached them . |
| 10 | THE recession has taken a large bite out of profits at Daily Mail Trust , parent of the Daily Mail , Mail on Sunday and the Evening Standard . |
| 11 | What is urgently needed is forms of education which open up resources — intellectual and material , critical and role-supporting , analytical and committed — to sustain a dialogue between people engaged in different kinds of struggle : a dialogue that respects the differences , while seeking to generalise out of practice at local level to reach an understanding of the power structures against which struggle takes place . |
| 12 | The following season , he carried his bat for a brilliant 215 not out against Lancashire at Old Trafford . |
| 13 | Out-of-favour Neil Webb is giving himself a two-month deadline to get back into favour at Old Trafford . |
| 14 | Having sworn allegiance to the sovereign on 15 October , the Volunteers then had a special function to perform two weeks later : they were out in force at Divine Service on 29 November , forming a focal point for a day of General Thanksgiving for the glorious victories achieved by His Majesty 's troops by land and sea . |
| 15 | Group out in force at national conference |
| 16 | They drag them back from Italy at various times . |
| 17 | Not as I remember no funnily enough but they used to have people who , who went out to work at different airports after the planes had gone out they used to have gangs that went out to Perton and er we used to draw equipment from er the maintenance un RAF maintenance unit at Stafford things used to come from there . |
| 18 | There is a great advantage in combining programmed instruction with practical exercises , as has been carried out by Wendt at Southern Illinois where use is made of a sample catalogue drawer . |
| 19 | Once you have assured yourself that you are doing your best in this respect , you can go on to look at other possible causes , if you still feel generally unfit or without a zest for life . |