Example sentences of "[noun sg] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Buckinghamshire , High Wycombe ( Table 2.9 ) was still the sole chartered borough at this date . |
| 2 | They addressed most of their conversation to Zimmerman and his wife , occasionally deigned , as it were under protest , to speak to the Frenchmen , but pointedly avoided addressing the fräulein at all . |
| 3 | ‘ I was never much of an athletics fan at all , ’ he explains in thick Teesside tones . |
| 4 | As the cash poured in , and Sam became the nation 's number one pin-up , her 48-year-old father was her biggest fan at first , then her manager . |
| 5 | And Leo had also been taking steps to revivify the influence of religion at other levels . |
| 6 | In many the majority may have no religion at all , and may be totally sceptical about the necessity for there to exist any such thing . |
| 7 | The ‘ unit of desire ’ however , is admitted to be a presumption , but if it were possible to prove with scientific exactitude that it really existed then it would not be within the province of religion at all , but of science . |
| 8 | Although , I do think that probably erm , religion at that time er , could have been this very narrow , rigid |
| 9 | Just how strongly Eliot was spurred on to emphasize the connections between sex and religion at this time is seen in ‘ The Hippopotamus ’ ( 1917 ) which contains one of his most shocking jokes : |
| 10 | Duncan Knight , having set the target speed at 110 m.p.h. , was closely followed by Tony Marti at 105 m.p.h. , but Marcus Robinson also clocked up 105 m.p.h. so a ‘ play-off ’ was arranged . |
| 11 | In Baldersdale that process gathered no speed at all and indeed , never even crossed the finishing line . |
| 12 | Because the machine 's speed is reliant upon the whim of its rather dim-witted crew , the player has little control over its speed at all . |
| 13 | How , after such an accident , its limbs managed any speed at all was a miracle , but it was off at a pace that Marlin could n't hope to match . |
| 14 | And so erm , it was n't as though these children ran across an open zebra crossing and she could see the children travelling er , walking or running all the way across the er er er er the pedestrian crossing the two children one was estimated by her to be about six years old , and the one who was actually knocked down was estimated by her to be about er , nine years old and she was n't travelling at any significant speed at all , she was travelling slowly because of the amount of traffic and she says that er the first she saw them was erm , appearing from the behind a car and dashing across the front of her car , and in fact , it was only the the the one who ran first the the older of the two children that she actually hit , she hit hit her with the near side front of er of her vehicle . |
| 15 | This pursuit of efficiency is n't your speed at all . ’ |
| 16 | It politely requested that , for security reasons , I bring my ship down to Underlight speed at specific co-ordinates , at a specific time , and prepare for rendezvous with the Emissary 's ship . |
| 17 | a convertible , with a eyes streaming , it was really hard to see , and clocked his speed at fifty , and er the bloke behind me nearly got hit , because when I went past this bloke I went |
| 18 | In these violent thermals it is possible to be flying with a good margin of speed at one moment and to be falling with virtually no speed the next . |
| 19 | By the time they had received instructions to follow and observe , they had lost it in a swirl of speed at one hundred and forty miles an hour . |
| 20 | Squadron 's ordered to transfer to the field at Achiet with all speed at first light . ’ |
| 21 | Once the speed is below the 140- knot flap limit fifteen degrees can be lowered and the gear extended , smartly followed by a power increase to stabilise the speed at 130 knots . |
| 22 | Our earlier quoted settings , which perhaps could be nudged a little sacrificing fuel burn and noise comfort , produced around 145 knots true air speed at low level , and at height around 155 . |
| 23 | Excessive speed at this time can be dangerous in rough air if the pilot is pulling back hard . |
| 24 | They have heavy bodies , and sit and wait for prey to come to them , striking with unerring accuracy and speed at any small mammal as it passes . |
| 25 | When interviewed by police , Williams put her speed at 30 to 35 mph , he added . |
| 26 | The bottle of detergent stood in reproachful isolation at one end of the table . |
| 27 | This is a well-documented conflict , especially among creative people who need isolation at certain times and company at others . |
| 28 | Therefore , if this backward boy was to get a good education , he must somehow be crammed up or taught up to scrape a scholarship at one of the big independent schools where most of the fees would be paid for scholars . |
| 29 | English language scholarship at this time failed to reflect the broad range of Japanese language scholarship , in particular the strong Marxist influence on interpretation and conceptualization . |
| 30 | Maybe I will get to join the YF at last . |