Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] at an " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1962 Planning Act upheld the right of any applicant to have their case heard at an oral hearing , but the 1976 Planning Act made this a discretionary matter for An Bord Pleanala to decide . |
| 2 | Just over a year ago , over a thousand biologists gathered at an international meeting in Vancouver . |
| 3 | Moreover , the main cloud base lies at an altitude of about 48 km , which by Earth standards is a very high cloud base . |
| 4 | Fashion : Parisian poet clothed in wit : Charlotte Du Cann looks at an exhibition to mark the centenary of Jean Cocteau 's birth |
| 5 | It makes your heart beat at an invigorating pace . |
| 6 | The court heard one of the burglaries occurred at an old people 's home . |
| 7 | Gemma sits like a reclining obelisk with messy hair dyed a shade lighter than his , large eyes resting at an artful slant , a full mouth . |
| 8 | To find it , simply follow a line from Beta through Epsilon ; Omega lies at an equal distance on the far side of Epsilon . |
| 9 | The significant point to emerge from Zeki 's work is that a perceptual phenomenon once believed to be the result of high level cognitive processing now turns out to have a single cell correlate at an early stage in the visual pathways . |
| 10 | Each programme looks at an area of the Church 's teaching , through the stories of individual Catholics , while wider issues raised are discussed by Catholic Theologians and commentators . |
| 11 | By searching for flashes repeating at exactly the same rate as the radio pulses , they were able to investigate much fainter pulsations than if they had been looking for pulses occurring at an unknown rate . |
| 12 | A Dornier Do215 strategic reconnaissance aircraft seen at an airfield in Sicily , taxi-ing past a line of Savoia S.82 transports . |
| 13 | I have a streak of economy in me , even when contemplating how to épater les bourgeois , and recipes that make their sauce out of a stock made at an earlier stage tend to appeal most . |
| 14 | Down a little tunnel at the Mesdag museum , up a flight of stairs , and you are standing atop a dune looking at an enormous 360-degree panorama painted in 1881 . |
| 15 | One pale light shone at an upstairs window . |
| 16 | As drawn , equilibrium in the real and monetary sectors exists at an output level of OY 1 which is produced using a quantity of labour OL 1 . |
| 17 | Using this relation ( µ M /µ E = cos α/2; where µ M is the electrophoretic mobility of the DNA-protein complex with the protein bound at the middle of the DNA fragment , µ E is the mobility of the complex with protein bound at an end ) we determined bending angles of 47°±5° for the ICP4 motif and 44°±5° for the Ad2 motif from several experiments using 4% gels . |
| 18 | This sensor consists of an ordinary mercury tilt switch mounted at an angle so that the small mercury bead encapsulated in the switch easily rolls on and off the contacts as the switch encounters movement . |
| 19 | The LDDC decided at an early stage that this figure should rise to 30 per cent or so , as a result of a house-building programme that was originally set at 13,000 houses within ten to fifteen years . |
| 20 | And this can so easily be the case , for such premises are instilled into the scientific mind set at an early age , becoming accepted points of reference , though really they are often nothing more than habits of thought . |
| 21 | As a spokesman for the US State Department declared at an American chiefs of mission meeting in London in September 1957 : " The United States — United Kingdom relationship is at the core of the NATO alliance and is an important element in SEATO and the Baghdad Pact . " |
| 22 | Optimistically , the mayor announced at an August 1943 conference ‘ that there would be an entire elimination of smog within four months ’ ( Krier and Ursin , 1977 ) . |
| 23 | what weight of importance to attach to each criterion to arrive at an overall assessment for each axis . |
| 24 | Another result of training is that the different signals arriving at an element often have similar values , except that some are positive and some negative . |
| 25 | His shoulders sloped at an alarming angle so that he looked like a pyramid wearing a hat . |
| 26 | The Reichsführer sat at an oak table working his way through a mound of papers . |
| 27 | The performance of computers improves at an astounding rate , perhaps unlike any other machine in the world . |
| 28 | Levi 's survey ( Levi 1986 ) put the figure at 1 billion losses , with recorded offences rising annually at 5 per cent , and the Confederate of British Industry estimates that computer crime runs at an annual figure of 25 to 30 million . |
| 29 | While the clock is chiming , there is also a 50% chance per character per round of being attacked by another object in the room : the rocking-horse bites , a chair leg strikes at a shin , a table drawer flies out and strikes a vicious blow in the stomach , a toy soldier stabs at an ankle , and so on . |
| 30 | It was already clear how the camera might be used to measure area — by simply counting pixels seen at an ‘ appropriate ’ illumination level and exposure . |