Example sentences of "[vb infin] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To quote Kurt Vonnegut in Bluebeard : ‘ In the movies back then , just about any big-nosed person whose ancestors came from the shores of the Mediterranean or the Near East , if he could act at little , could play a rampaging Sioux or whatever . |
| 2 | This time tomorrow we 'll know at long last what the future holds for Oxford United and Swindon Town , with a dramatic finale to the football league season in store . |
| 3 | He argued that two bodies of the same material but different weights would fall at different speeds . |
| 4 | Some of the latter may excel at specialised subjects such as engineering or finance . |
| 5 | It reckons Unix will continue to dominate in the technical arena and says OS/2 will flourish at corporate sites where personal computer communications are important . |
| 6 | Border , too , it is rumoured , is nearing the end of his career and could easily survive at great profit in the county scene having also tasted life in England with Essex . |
| 7 | Its adaptability means that it can survive at high altitudes , in semi-arid areas , and in rocky areas as well as in forests . |
| 8 | These cards come equipped with their own VideoRAM memory which determines the number of colour the monitor can display at certain resolutions . |
| 9 | The Act also empowers the Secretary of State to define the structure and content of each of these subjects in considerable detail , and to specify what pupils of different abilities should study and achieve at various ages . |
| 10 | Now you can confirm at close hand the patterning and colour of the Koi , whether any Doitsu scales are regularly placed , the condition of the fins and ( hopefully ) the complete absence of parasites or fish-pox nodules . |
| 11 | These were groups of people with a common bond who had joined together to make regular contributions into a pool from which they could borrow at low rates of interest . |
| 12 | Because they can borrow at subsidised rates , government-sponsored enterprises tend to grow until they dominate their field . |
| 13 | Under ‘ mass-production ’ conditions the industry was obliged to keep its labour-teams steadily employed , moving in a planned succession from one undertaking to another , and progressively brought down its costs to reach an ever-widening circle of demand for homes to buy or rent at economic figures . |
| 14 | His exhibition closes at Derby 's Metro Cinema on 1 March , but will no doubt appear at other venues soon . |
| 15 | His exhibition closes at Derby 's Metro Cinema on 1 March , but will no doubt appear at other venues soon . |
| 16 | Objects may appear at infrared wavelengths because they are cool , because they are obscured by dust that transmits only longer wavelengths , or because their intrinsic mechanism of radiation cuts off at wavelengths shorter than infrared . |
| 17 | Now what this meant in practice was that er y'know appropriate supervisors would appear at random intervals and give people tokens if they were wearing ear defenders , okay ? |
| 18 | The full length of unsupported trailing edge on the comparatively deep cone will vibrate at considerable amplitude . |
| 19 | And this is why it will be particularly damaging to introduce the tests proposed by the Secretary of State to monitor what children know and can do at fixed ages , 7 , 11 , and 14 . |
| 20 | Excursions : Enterprise have arranged much for you to see and do at reasonable prices . |
| 21 | But this usually means the power amp is hardly ticking over in and so the resulting distortion is rarely fully representative of what the amp can do at full throttle . |
| 22 | ‘ Yes , it was the best I could do at short notice . ’ |
| 23 | It was the best he could do at short notice . |
| 24 | With regular partial water changes , and plenty of food , they will grow quite quickly and will need thinning out as many will grow at different rates and need more space . |
| 25 | While Baptist fundamentalists are powerful in the ‘ Bible Belt ’ of North and South Carolina and Virginia , they can only ever succeed at federal level by working in alliance with other conservative blocs , of which the biggest is that of American Roman Catholicism . |
| 26 | Yesterday , back down the order , Hick reacted to England 's latest batting crisis with a confidence many had feared he could never show at top level . |
| 27 | Erm you can phone them up and ask them for a Yellow Pages listing and they and they 'll give at random a listing from the Yellow Pages in whatever area you ask for . |
| 28 | It will spin at different speeds with less or more sand . |
| 29 | Trains will run at regular intervals from 11am to 4pm . |
| 30 | The curvature of space–time also means that identical clocks at different gravitational potentials must run at different rates . |