Example sentences of "at [adj] [noun] " 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 | At Tall Sukas between Tripolis and Laodikeia ( Latakia ) , the Danish excavator P. J. Riis found a Greek settlement with a temple which seems to have been built in the seventh century and rebuilt about 570 B.C. The Greeks remained at Tall Sukas at least until 500 B.C. to trade with Palestinians of any religious and national variety . |
| 5 | At Tall Sukas between Tripolis and Laodikeia ( Latakia ) , the Danish excavator P. J. Riis found a Greek settlement with a temple which seems to have been built in the seventh century and rebuilt about 570 B.C. The Greeks remained at Tall Sukas at least until 500 B.C. to trade with Palestinians of any religious and national variety . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This is a celebration of Puccini in trivial mood , a collection of songs written for odd occasions at odd moments through his career . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Revise from cards at odd moments . |
| 11 | I sent up the accent and made the audience laugh by suddenly relapsing into cockney at odd times . |
| 12 | ‘ I can be there at odd times . |
| 13 | Then at odd times he looks up and sees it again . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | To add to the insult the phone took to ringing at odd intervals . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | People came out of the Underground and , leaning at odd angles to meet the wind , hurried home from work by the inner streets . |
| 22 | He was educated privately at a small school run by his father at Hardenhuish rectory , and latterly at Claverton Lodge School , Bath , run by his uncle Francis Kilvert [ q.v . ] . |
| 23 | Catherine Somerville studied at York University , Toronto gaining a degree in Fine Art , and later studied printmaking with Robert Patterson at Georgian College . |
| 24 | He was formerly professor of Religious Affairs at Makerere University , Kampala . |
| 25 | And since even a polygonal story should have at least two sides in all international farewell orgies , how about packing it in and having a bash at normal behaviour eh , so as to get bashed again as whipping boy despite my morseled-out attempts to break free or go shiating on , turning the other cheek to sheer cheek as sitting target for the unclear missiles of affreux dizzy acts or as wailing wall of blame beyond the demarcation line or bowstring frontier that will boomerang back and much joy may it give me. ( 102 ) |
| 26 | The water was running at normal winter level with just a tinge of colour . |
| 27 | Unusual features include an east-facing bay in the lounge , set at normal window level . |
| 28 | At normal energies , the strong nuclear force is indeed strong , and it binds the quarks tightly together . |
| 29 | If at normal cruise speed , there should be no need to adjust power for the above correction . |
| 30 | At normal level but cold and clear . |