Example sentences of "a [noun] [conj] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , perhaps going back a bit and looking at the history of the last ten years , it is important to realize that we have developed small centres as well as large ones . |
| 2 | His thick , almost grey hair appeared to be worn without a parting and stopped at the lobes of his ears . |
| 3 | It turns out that if I choose a direction and look at the electron 's spin in relation to that direction then either its axis of rotation points along that direction or it is wholly in the reverse direction . |
| 4 | He , too , was a writer and worked at a brewery — as Havel had done — keeping his thoughts to himself . |
| 5 | He advertised for sale a watch and ring at the total price of £5,950 . |
| 6 | The last he had heard she had returned to Ponten VI — the planet which had been ceded to the Guild of Adjudicators in perpetuity by a wary but appreciative Earth Central — but that was too far away for anything but the so-called pigeon post ; recorded messages dumped into a hyperdrone and aimed at the recipient 's projected location . |
| 7 | Slowly the stillness rose in a tide that lapped at the rage within her ; her breathing steadied . |
| 8 | Anna heard a noise and looked at the door . |
| 9 | The two girls , it transpired , did not work in a cabaret but assisted at a gambling salon . |
| 10 | The tentacle scales may be distinct from the oral papillae being either separated by a gap or placed at a higher level as viewed from the ventral side as in the genera Ophiotoma and Ophioblenn . |
| 11 | What the maker has done has been to start with a 12-fret guitar design ( not a guitar with only twelve frets , but a guitar with a neck that joins at the 12th as opposed to the 14th fret ) and then he 's combined this with a deep cutaway on the treble side to open up the whole fingerboard for exploration . |
| 12 | He might try to justify the principle by appealing to logic , a recourse that we freely grant him , or he might attempt to justify the principle by appealing to experience , a recourse that lies at the basis of his whole approach to science . |
| 13 | Marian made a bed of dry bracken for Hugh while Allen lit a fire and fetched water from a brook that ran at the foot of the bank on its way to swell the nightmare of the Swamp . |
| 14 | Marian made a bed of dry bracken for Hugh while Allen lit a fire and fetched water from a brook that ran at the foot of the bank on its way to swell the nightmare of the Swamp . |
| 15 | In that case her relatives would have enquired for her , raised a hue and cry at the time of the accident . ’ |
| 16 | The Tornado would launch a Harm or Alarm at a safe distance . |
| 17 | The gall bladder is a reservoir that empties at a slow pace . |
| 18 | He matriculated at Glasgow University in 1797 , but left without a degree and studied at the theological college of the associated synod in Selkirk , under George Lawson [ q.v . ] . |
| 19 | He pulled out a bundle and looked at the first address , but he did n't recognise it . |
| 20 | When back pain and arthritis are the problems it can help to take short rests or breaks from a long stint in one position — say sitting at a desk or standing at an ironing-table . |
| 21 | Those people are not exploiting a loophole or grabbing at a large pot of gold . |
| 22 | Neural crest cells are a group that arise at the site where the folds of the neural tube fuse . |
| 23 | She chewed at the spiky end of a plait and kicked at a kitchen chair-leg . |
| 24 | If we just pause for a moment and look at the A C C digest that the papers see . |
| 25 | Look at them — ’ The swan stretched a wing and pointed at the departing ducks . |
| 26 | After we had been locked in I spent the evening making preparations with Malleson 's help : sewing on buttons , dubbining my boots , making a pillow case into a rucksack and staring at a map with unreal names on it like Danzig and Berlin . |
| 27 | Reg Akehurst 's charge was a firm favourite for that contest and gave his backers not the slightest hint of a scare when leading at the furlong pole to score by a length-and-a-half. way off the pace makes an accurate assessment of his progress very difficult for the handicapper , but this observer is convinced there is significant improvement still to come . |
| 28 | CAN you imagine a situation at a cemetery — the funeral procession arriving , formally attired people getting out of cars at a marked spot , but some of these well-dressed mourners removing their jackets , rolling up sleeves , unloading picks and spades from the boot and starting to dig the grave ; possibly with the professionals cum gardeners watching from a distance and gloating at the mess these amateurs are making ? |
| 29 | Imagine the triangle was made into a square as shown at the side . |
| 30 | Whilst they were doing five shows a day and rehearsing at the Paramount , they were told to double at the Lido . |