Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not to say that I will desert the club I love at the first opportunity . |
| 2 | I 'm taking here about pure , blind betting of someone who is not attempting to exercise any skill but is just looking at the odds offered by the bookies , and pointing out — and I 'll have a table to demonstrate this in the talk I give at the Open Day — the way in which the rate of return on bets made in this way decreases steadily the longer the odds are offered . |
| 3 | In 1980 when Allan Wells won a Gold Medal at the Olympics I looked at the British tracksuits and thought : well , nothing much has changed in 56 years ! |
| 4 | However , there is a place in social research , and a very important one , for the type of interview which stands at the other extreme to the structured one , namely the non-standardised interview . |
| 5 | The reason for this is that the sound is recorded as a separate linear edge-track which runs at the slow forward speed of the tape , and the speed affects the audio quality to some extent . |
| 6 | So how could she possibly tell her friend about the almost wild grief she felt at the prolonged absence of her husband ; the deep , stabbing pain in her heart when she remembered their wonderful night of passion ? |
| 7 | Many candidates who start at the bottom skip grades on the way up , or , perhaps because of pressure of other work , take more than a year between adjoining grades . |
| 8 | In this chapter we look at the general nature of weak syllables . |
| 9 | With the end of that accumulatory episode we arrive at the second resultant stratigraphical situation as suggested in " 7 " . |
| 10 | On the first-floor terrace they sat at the round table while Roman did the honours with gin and tonics . |
| 11 | So the Christian who glories in a non-rational basis for his faith leaves himself vulnerable to a particularly lethal blow which strikes at the very foundation of faith . |
| 12 | Despite the title , the only scene which hints at the metabolic urgency of drug use comes when Leigh drives zonked-out through a lit-up industrial landscape . |
| 13 | Any partial hypotheses which end at the same node are equivalent as far as further right context is concerned , and only the highest scoring need be kept . |
| 14 | But with stunning clarity they demonstrate again how the great reformer has unleashed forces which he and his country no longer control , and which now are playing on the German Question itself , the issue which lies at the very heart of today 's European order . |
| 15 | It was later provided that if the commissioner from the presiding burgh should be absent , or refuse to vote , the commissioner from the burgh which presided at the last election should have the casting vote and so backwards in rotation . |
| 16 | Therefore the simple conflict between accumulation and unproductive consumption which appears at the micro level may be transformed into its opposite at the macro level . |
| 17 | Adapted from Russell 's 1978 stageplay , Stags And Hens , about a stag-night and a hen-party which converge at the same venue , it is the first BBC-funded film ever to receive a full cinematic release ( next Spring ) before its television broadcast ( September 1991 ) . |
| 18 | This rim is marked off from the rest of the cranium by a groove or postoccipital sulcus which ends at the posterior tentorial pit on either side and along which are inserted the dorsal prothoracic muscles moving the head . |
| 19 | This hotel was at that time a sort of private dwelling crammed with the owner 's collection of Catalan works of art and pastel portraits of the great singers who appeared at the nearby Opera . |
| 20 | We brought the figure down having at le , and waited two years and that 's th , I think that proves the lad 's foundation to the argument of how desperate the fire service need , need this station and it has absolutely nothing to do with Dovelands school er er whatsoever as far as I 'm concerned , I 'm the spokesperson for public protection not education and that 's it and er I 'm surprised er er that I know erm er er that Mr is is a very , very good supporter of the er southern fire station and supported us in the er in the er question we asked at the last council er meeting and er I 'm surprised he has n't spoke or even Mr who er , who likes to s , who likes to speak in the chamber but I 've has n't supported the fire station . |
| 21 | All necessary and desirable directions for disposing of the proceedings should be given at the pre-trial review , and the parties should as far as practicable ask for all the directions they need at the pre-trial review , giving prior notice to all interested parties ( Ord 17 , rr 1 and 3 ) . |
| 22 | Is that the only child they have at the present time ? |
| 23 | When , six months later , the English Opera Group was looking for a boy soprano to play the Little Sweep in a new production of Let's Make an Opera — in which the young Michael Ingram had previously treated a Brixton audience to on-stage nudity — Benjamin Britten remembered Michael , not so much for his singing , but for the havoc he caused at the earlier auditions . |
| 24 | And every waking hour she chipped at the ugly block , sanded , scored , chiselled , gouged gaping eye sockets . |
| 25 | Yet more importantly , the upper levels of the program have no access to the levels below them : the programmer who writes at the topmost , or accessible , level has no need to know how his program is being translated , even though for certain purposes he might wish to find out . |
| 26 | Victory was clinched when Lynn Marriner surged upfield and slipped a pass through to Oehlers who scored at the second attempt . |
| 27 | That handjob I scored at the Happy Isles-I tell you , She-She was giving it away . |
| 28 | Erm it , and as they sa , and as she says this tends to be er a description of a gypsy camps campsite which looks at the external surroundings of the caravans , but it does n't actually look inside the caravan . |
| 29 | Catherine and Donald Carswell were a husband and wife literary team who flourished at the same time as another pair , Willa and Edwin Muir . |
| 30 | My hon. Friend will be aware of the concern of my constituents who work at the Royal Navy workshop at Almondbank because of the present review of helicopter servicing . |