Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [pos pn] [noun] at [adj] " in BNC.

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1 True , a state-of-the-art aerobatic machine is expensive , but if we are to represent our county at major championships in a competitive manner then it is required of to run competitive machines .
2 There was a human quality , too , to the noise , as if several women were clicking their tongues at great speed .
3 I 've been ringing my family at regular intervals to see how things are going . ’
4 However , he held that the criteria of unfairness are the same whether the trial judge is exercising his discretion at common law or under the statute .
5 An hour later I was fastening my safety-belt at LAX .
6 And now what she had to do was maintain her temper at white heat until he had pumped his pleasure into her so that she would not lose her nerve — and possibly her satin — by cringing away from him at that vital last moment — vital for him , fatal perhaps for her — and pleading with him not to make her pregnant .
7 While the shareholders in Manchester 's Armitage Centre , home of the Giants basketball team , were voicing their suspicions , Wednesday manager Trevor Francis was voicing his anger at United 's persistence after being told categorically last week that Hirst was not for sale .
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