Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] at a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has no heroes , except perhaps Kemal Ataturk , the stern maker of modern , secular Turkey , whose discoloured photograph he saw at a Turkish border post . |
| 2 | After dark he stopped at a Little Chef , had a quick meal of scrambled eggs and coffee , then continued his journey . |
| 3 | The 16-year-old , who can not be named for legal reasons , was granted bail at Sunderland , Tyne and Wear , on condition he stayed at a residential school run by the local authority until his next court appearance on October 7 . |
| 4 | Most chemical reactions which proceed at a measurable rate are believed to take place in a series of simple steps . |
| 5 | You play against the computer which operates at a chosen skill level so you could have a chance of winning . |
| 6 | And I suppose he that 's an area where one is worried about quantity and quality because it 's in a way you can always provide more quantity I imagine at a lesser cost by going into a conurbation than you can by going into rural areas . |
| 7 | But in music and poetry which aims at a higher aesthetic we have to avoid the trite effect which can result when words and music are in the same metre and move in identical rhythms . |
| 8 | One notable effect the alternative social format contained lay in the assault upon the senses which occurred at a pragmatic level . |
| 9 | I forgot to say that on the way to the hot springs we stopped at a neolithic site where they have excavated and reconstructed the life of the people living there 6,000 years ago . |
| 10 | An operant is a piece of behaviour which has a spontaneous nature which occurs at a predetermined frequency . |
| 11 | Voluntary organisations which operate at a regional level would be severely disadvantaged by the proposals in the White Paper . |
| 12 | For a moment she stared at a different Luke . |
| 13 | What they had said was at the end of the war they aimed at a safe and lasting peace , and to obtain that they demanded a setting up of a League of Nations . |
| 14 | Unlike offices , the level of income fluctuates although sometimes over a longer period it fluctuates at a higher level than commercial . |
| 15 | For two years he taught at a preparatory school in Reigate , before being appointed head of the English department at Stowe by the school 's headmaster , J. F. Roxburgh [ q.v . ] . |
| 16 | The argument is that he had power to enjoy so much of the income of Attleborough [ the overseas company ] as was spent in expenses , etc , so that by this route one arrives at a taxable amount of net income . |
| 17 | I shall update you with any changes which occur at a later date . |
| 18 | In sharing the Reds ' upset win in that national trial he proved a bit of success as a distributor and made two scorching breaks which hinted at a swashbuckling touch to his nature : ‘ I was very keen to make a good impression in the trial because it took place a week after my ‘ B ’ debut against Ireland and I wanted to make up for two particular errors in that game . |
| 19 | A large proportion of the people who work at a nuclear plant — a total of several hundred for each reactor — are concerned with ‘ health physics ’ , the official description for radiation protection . |
| 20 | A woman has been raped in her own home by a man she met at a local market . |
| 21 | I have seen some fine players who compete at a high level bring in another line , between the service line and the baseline . |
| 22 | He took a shuttle to the asteroid belt , he was the highest ranker there they started the race , to the belt they drove at a deadly pace no-one knows what happened that star date but we always knew poor Wes would have to wait as they pulled Will from the smoking wreck they heard him say in a terrible state bom bom bom bom tell Wesley I love him bom bom bom bom tell Wesley I need him , tell Wesley not to my love for him is never weak . |
| 23 | He took a shuttle to the asteroid belt , he was the highest ranker there they started the race , to the belt they drove at a deadly pace no-one knows what happened that star date but we always knew poor Wes would have to wait . |
| 24 | For a continuously varying trait ( let us use human size as an example ) , the value of the trait in an individual is probably determined by what genes it has at a large number of genetic loci , together with the effect of the environment . |
| 25 | Gone , maybe , are the famed histrionics but in their place is an assuredness which hints at a new maturity . |
| 26 | Reason , one might think , for the wary traveller to duck behind the luggage lockers , but no , the assembly listens rapt as John Berger ( for it is he ) embarks upon a long yarn about two Italian peasants who meet at a Communist Party dance . |
| 27 | A dapper stranger ( John Berger ) hoves into view and launches into a long , rather tedious yarn about two Italian peasants who meet at a Communist Party dance . |
| 28 | On arrival at a solitary farm we stopped at a simple stone monument which marked the nearby crash-sites for F/L Mackid 's Lancaster , : 7572 ‘ L ’ and F/L Poole 's Halifax , W1020 ‘ K ’ . |
| 29 | In the hills above the ruins of Capernaum near the Mount of Beatitudes we stopped at a natural grassy amphitheatre which could easily seat 10,000 . |
| 30 | In a sense it is a personal keeping of the ‘ minutes ’ of what occurred at conferences or in battles which will remind the writer what happened at a precise time in the course of events . |