Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The six competitors sat at the tea tables , together but strangely separate — each gazing at her hands or off into the distance , and never at one another . |
| 2 | namely Thucydides ) , but voting techniques were not : there was no counting of votes at all ( something which would have taken several hours when the agenda was as crowded as that given at the beginning of Demosthenes ' fiftieth speech of 362 BC ) , and the ‘ consensus ’ was determined by a show of hands , which tellers then adjudicated , in a fashion no more precise than that of a modern shop-steward who ‘ counts ’ a sea of hands at a trade union mass meeting . |
| 3 | If you 've had office copy entries , the date from which to search is that given at the foot of each page , when the office copy entries were issued ; your search will then reveal any entries that may have been made since that date . |
| 4 | The appended list gives names of all officers and members of Council currently serving , and indicates those due to retire at the close of the AGM . |
| 5 | ‘ He was due to retire at the end of the year anyway . |
| 6 | Peter Wood relinquished the Chairmanship of RBIC , and RBIS , to Chris Pearson , Director of Private and Offshore Banking and Director , South of England in October 1992 when the rapid growth of Direct Line made greater demands on Peter 's time ; Norman , who had been due to retire at that time , was asked to stay on for two years to see the restructuring process completed . |
| 7 | Geoff , who is due to retire at Christmas , started work in April 1943 with Armstrong Siddeley Motors in Coventry , as a fourteen-year-old trainee in the works order office . |
| 8 | The outer surface of the ergosphere is in fact a spheroid of revolution with a radial coordinate r+ which is dependent on the polar angle θ with respect to the axis of rotation : At a radius r+ ( θ ) it is just possible to remain at rest . |
| 9 | While there are few hard and fast rules about what is precisely right to wear at the office this season , there are some pointers to keep you heading in the right direction . |
| 10 | While there are few hard and fast rules about what is precisely right to wear at the office this season , there are some pointers to keep you heading in the right direction . |
| 11 | That prowls at every door and barks in every headline . |
| 12 | How should it differ from that experienced at ‘ home ’ ? |
| 13 | ‘ When everybody travels it will make it awfully pleasant to sit at home . ’ |
| 14 | The second , one that we have been promoting , is to bring in a new team of professional managers , each experienced at running a multibillion-dollar business unit . |
| 15 | On the autobahn or the test track , this translates into an uncanny ability to accelerate strongly to 140 mph with sufficient in reserve to cruise at that speed for as long as conditions allow . |
| 16 | As Sam and Frodo struggle on in Mordor , they come on a streamlet , ‘ the last remains , maybe , of some sweet rain gathered from sunlit seas , but ill-fated to fall at last upon the walls of the Black Land and wander fruitless down into the dust ’ . |
| 17 | That goes at the front , right ? |
| 18 | A practical circus consists of a series of tasks each placed at a different position in the room . |
| 19 | The old Eagle Warehouse had the appearance of a curve at the west end of Bothwell Street , though in fact it was made up of four straight sections each placed at a shallow angle . |
| 20 | She watched it slip and slide this way and that to fall at her feet . |
| 21 | If I have , I can arrange the pattern so that I 've a complete repeat at the edge of the knitting . |
| 22 | But he once explained that this was due merely to prolonged gazing at himself in a mirror . ’ |
| 23 | 5029 is due to remain at Bury until the end of February , and is subject to a six steamings a month agreement , so it should see extensive use , and provide plenty of opportunities to experience GW ( four-cylinder power in Lancashire ) . |
| 24 | The Chippendales were due to perform at the Leisure Centre two years ago . |
| 25 | If you split the firm up you will have a lot of small firms each producing at higher average cost , a waste of society 's resources . |
| 26 | That points at him amazed . |
| 27 | But everything hinges on the fitness of the eight FA Cup final ‘ marathon men ’ of Arsenal and Sheffield Wednesday , who are not due to report at England 's Bisham Abbey headquarters until later today , plus the Italian-based trio of Paul Gascoigne , David Platt and Des Walker , who arrive after tomorrow 's Serie A matches . |
| 28 | Using this diagram , it is possible to see at a glance the relationship of one context to the rest of the site . |
| 29 | This should make it possible to see at last what are the key influences when supply as well as demand-side elements have been included . |
| 30 | The idealised FAOR solutions , although impractical to implement at the time , nonetheless provided a goal that could be pursued via a strategy that would recognise the speed of technological developments , the availability of finance , and other priorities of the two departments . |