Example sentences of "at [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the activities described above are available FREE at HCI Clubs — from FREE wine with meals to a full programme of sports and entertainments making HCI holidays superb value for money . |
| 2 | At HCI Clubs we look after the children so that parents are free to enjoy their own holiday . |
| 3 | Assume both firms are just breaking even at prevailing prices so neither wishes to leave . |
| 4 | Nor had they gone far before she was forced to stand still and stare up at tall tree-ferns , their gracefully curving fronds sheltering the path like a row of lofty umbrellas . |
| 5 | This is a celebration of Puccini in trivial mood , a collection of songs written for odd occasions at odd moments through his career . |
| 6 | Unable to summon the courage to enter the cold dark of the river the man , a lawyer by profession , finds himself at odd moments thereafter , and even in the courtroom , increasingly assailed by a laugh at the back of his mind , a laugh that mocks his whole posture in the world , a laugh that progressively exposes in him what he chooses to see as a guilty pretence . |
| 7 | But in the last six months his father 's image had begun to intrude on his consciousness at odd moments , in the middle of a meeting , across a boardroom table , in a gesture , the droop of an eyelid , the tone of a voice , the line of a speaker 's mouth , the shape of fingers splayed to an open fire . |
| 8 | Revise from cards at odd moments . |
| 9 | I sent up the accent and made the audience laugh by suddenly relapsing into cockney at odd times . |
| 10 | ‘ I can be there at odd times . |
| 11 | Then at odd times he looks up and sees it again . |
| 12 | Most of us have no idea how much we actually pay for services , because in fact we do buy parts at odd times when they are needed , so the cost is spread out over the year . |
| 13 | John Murphy 's daughter had separated from John Neal and returned to her parents ' home but Mr Neal continued to call , often drunk and at odd hours . |
| 14 | At odd intervals external debt considerations , balance of payments constraints and reduced international capital inflows have forced some NICs to cut back their economic development programmes , with consequential rises in unemployment and related social problems . |
| 15 | To add to the insult the phone took to ringing at odd intervals . |
| 16 | Dimples mischievously collide with each other at odd places around his face as he glances at me and wonders how on earth I could ask a question that is so dumb and yet so fundamental . |
| 17 | Director of Edinburgh-based MacGregor and Company , Charles Cavaye , argues that because there is no nickel content in 13/0 , there is no strength : ‘ Hence the bent knife or the fork with prongs at odd angles . |
| 18 | Even if someone were to leave the Department , or drop dead-even if you were to , what 's the expression , take out a contract on one of us ’ — he laughs to show that this is a joke , displaying a number of chipped and discoloured teeth , set in his gums at odd angles , like tombstones in a neglected churchyard — ‘ even then , I very much doubt whether we should get a replacement . |
| 19 | People came out of the Underground and , leaning at odd angles to meet the wind , hurried home from work by the inner streets . |
| 20 | At normal energies , the strong nuclear force is indeed strong , and it binds the quarks tightly together . |
| 21 | These records were given conventional catalogue numbers and were sold at normal prices , but they have special label designs . |
| 22 | Yeah , no well we , we can let you have a copy erm but erm , you know , I , I ca n't make these reservations at at normal prices , my delegates wo n't accept that . |
| 23 | So try to maintain normal meals at normal mealtimes , and normal sleeping patterns as far as possible . |
| 24 | Strictly speaking , though , the possibility remains that heritable cancer genes may exist : no-one else has looked at normal tissues from cancer patients . |
| 25 | ( c ) A compound shows significant deviations from the ideal gas law at normal conditions of temperature and pressure . |
| 26 | The children sat on ordinary chairs at normal tables and there were no grab bars or straps despite the fact that one child had great difficulty in controlling his limbs . |
| 27 | Yevdoxia , who had grown up with the belief that sex was disgusting even at normal times , had refused to take any more of it , ever . |
| 28 | The castle is in the care of the Department of the Environment and can be visited at normal times . |
| 29 | This stuff , this human stuff , at normal times ( and in civilized locales ) tastefully confined to the tubes and runnels , subterranean , unseen — this stuff had burst its banks , surging outward and upward on to the floor , the walls , the very ceiling of life . |
| 30 | A general approximation is that a 10°C rise in temperature doubles the rate of reaction , but in practice , the usefulness of this approximation is limited by the fact that at temperatures far removed from ‘ normal ’ , other changes often take place which never occur at normal temperatures . |