Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun] at " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ A shower of rain wo n't kill me , ’ she retorted , as that derisive eyebrow lifted again in mocking challenge at her apparent hesitation . |
| 2 | Three Spanish trawlers which had been observed fishing in Namibian waters at the end of March were boarded by South African coastguards and returned to Windhoek . |
| 3 | But that means nothing to the army of unemployed and to threatened companies which would rather have any work than none , or to politicians caught up in righteous anger at ‘ unfair ’ competition . |
| 4 | The halving in aggregate attendance at football matches , which has taken place between the early 1950s and the early 1980s ( from almost 40 million to under 20 million ) , is a result of the disinclination of married men to spend most Saturday afternoons watching live football . |
| 5 | What do you do , sort of buy them in fifty packs at Sainsburys ? |
| 6 | Moscato fought in an amateur bout in Amiens which he won in controversial circumstances at the beginning of April . |
| 7 | The February index shows the increase in total earnings at management level down from an annual rate of 8.3 p.c. in December to 7 p.c. , from 7 p.c. to 5.6 p.c. at clerical level and from 7.4 p.c. to 6.8 p.c. among operatives . |
| 8 | But she was forced to snatch her gaze away in total disarray at the sight of the way his thick dark hair was curling in delicate wet tendrils over his forehead . |
| 9 | Each man stood in total silence at the end of his bed in the at-ease position , his locker open behind him . |
| 10 | The West Indies , chasing Australia 's 198-8 , collapsed spectacularly after looking in total command at 157-2 . |
| 11 | Zambia had been in total agreement at first . |
| 12 | Athelstan stood outside his church and stared in pleasant disbelief at the blue-washed sky and the early morning sun as its rays danced and shimmered over the snow-covered roofs of his parish . |
| 13 | FERRANTI was warned in strong terms at the time of the takeover two years ago of the dangers of buying International Signal and Control . |
| 14 | So the union — and the game — are held in low esteem at present . |
| 15 | The measurements are taken by accelerating the car in low gears at full throttle as it approaches and passes the noise meter . |
| 16 | According to John Landon , senior lecturer in multicultural education at Edinburgh 's Moray House College , a child who appears to be fluent in English in spite of its not being his or her first language may still be unable to cope with testing in English . |
| 17 | The Authority recognized that classroom practice would not improve without a considerable investment in INSET and in professional support at both LEA and school level . |
| 18 | A SCHOOLGIRL was subjected to a terrifying three-hour sex ordeal after a being kidnapped in broad daylight at gunpoint , police said yesterday . |
| 19 | The attack happened in broad daylight at M-G-J jewellers in Wallingford . |
| 20 | James Cocker , 53 , of Milton Road West , Edinburgh , was said to be in stable condition at Stirling Royal Infirmary last night after being recovered by the Killin mountain rescue team . |
| 21 | For larger displacements the rotor and stator teeth become aligned in stable equilibrium at a distance which is a multiple of the rotor tooth pitch from the required step position . |
| 22 | CANADIAN Scott Killen , 30 , shook hands with 25,289 people in eight hours at Seville 's Expo 92 to grab a new world record . |
| 23 | HENRY WHARTON set up the biggest fight in Yorkshire for years when he successfully defended his Commonwealth super-middleweight title by stopping Australian Rod Carr in eight rounds at Leeds Town Hall on Wednesday . |
| 24 | Gooch moved to his 50 his third in eight days at Old Trafford with his sixth four , off DeFreitas . |
| 25 | The gallery , a relatively small space , allowing for the hanging of twelve to fifteen paintings , will be run by Christophe Lázar , who originally came to Colnaghi 's after eight years in private banking at Schroders in New York and investment banking at Credit Suisse First Boston in London . |
| 26 | On their return , children played with toys and games in private rooms at Gatwick airport , while their parents underwent debriefing by Foreign Office officials . |
| 27 | This may be done through the employment of lawyers within the organisation or by the engagement of lawyers in private practice at the expense of the organisation . |
| 28 | Dr Hughes lectured in Economic History at Balliol College , Oxford , for 12 years before becoming Labour MP for the City of Durham in 1970 . |
| 29 | And most important of all , although past feelings — often encapsulated in vivid stories — can certainly be remembered , we all go on reinterpreting our lives in emotional terms at every stage . |
| 30 | About half of all married men engage in extra-marital sex at least once in their married lives — a statistic which has remained more or less constant for many decades . |