Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well ? ’ asked Morse at long last . |
| 2 | Children make progress at various speeds at different ages and by watching their activities and offering the next stage when they are ready for it teachers can give them the breadth of experience that will make the formal work of later years more meaningful . |
| 3 | In contrast , those developers whose prime objective is building houses at maximum profit and with minimum care for the environment , may experience difficulty . |
| 4 | If people do not pay the Council will have to borrow money at current high interest rates to pay its bills ( including bills for trying to collect the tax ) and that can only mean higher poll tax bills next year . |
| 5 | It would still be reasonable to suspect that someone prepared to borrow money at high rates of interest was likely to be particularly vulnerable , even if there is now little surviving residue of the old suspicion or disapproval of interest-bearing credit on ethical grounds . |
| 6 | McCuaigs made whisky at Upper Cragabus ; one at Torrabus used to belong to Coal Ila ; and someone distilled at Ardinisle . |
| 7 | And , when she reached the wireless office , men who might resent her being there and fiends who transmitted Morse at devilish speeds … |
| 8 | The significance of these protocols is that synchronized firing patterns at similar frequencies occur in the hippocampus during learning . ) |
| 9 | Mass screening is not feasible , but targeting groups at high risk and asking them to attend for screening is perfectly plausible . |
| 10 | To do this , we evaluate f at certain values of x 1 and draw straight lines between adjacent points . |
| 11 | If the probe emits signals at constant frequency ( using , for example , an on-board quartz crystal oscillator ) , then , as it approaches the horizon , the photons travelling to the distant observer become less frequent and are increasingly red shifted . |
| 12 | A MAN with a compulsion to drive cars at high speed was sent to young offenders institution for a year . |
| 13 | Also under discussion today will be the inclusion of Boblyn Tuavao — the Tongan forward who has replaced Grima as the club 's third overseas player — in the Widnes side which beat Barrow at Craven Park last Sunday . |
| 14 | One possible future for biomedical engineering not essayed by Heinz ( but which is being taken seriously by electronics wizard Clive Sinclair ) is the sending of minuscule probes into the bloodstream to repair damage at distant sites . |
| 15 | Indeed , he confessed that he was deeply troubled by having to pass sentence at ill : ‘ Itis with feelings of great pain that I pass sentence upon you , the defendants , and I can make great allowance for the youthful spirit which has been exhibited by you . ’ |
| 16 | Families have many needs and those needs change at different stages of the family life cycle . |
| 17 | At the 1989 Annual Conference in Bournemouth it was resolved to support the RAF Benevolent Fund 's 50th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain Appeal , and Branches were asked to provide support at local level for what became known as the ‘ Reach for the Sky ’ Appeal . |
| 18 | He has Irwin at right back and Terry Phelan at left . |
| 19 | and er police rang them up Tuesday , cos er they found car at Great Alton , they went to pick it up , somebody had nicked it again |
| 20 | But nevertheless diamond is the unstable form and if we crystallise carbon at atmospheric pressure it will form as the more stable graphite . |
| 21 | At least financial agencies have some pressure to provide funds at competitive rates , and builders to guard against pricing themselves out of the market , but landowners just have to sit on the land until they get the price they demand . |
| 22 | Masklin tried pictures at random and got several different sorts of fruit , a squeaky green vegetable thing , and a piece of meat that tasted rather like smoked salmon . |
| 23 | These include opening books at random . |
| 24 | It is a bit difficult to tell what lies in store when one opens a book at random and finds a section on opening books at random . |
| 25 | DOREEN Barnett , seated , with one of her retirement gifts , says farewell to her colleagues in the potting department at Imperial Pottery after 27 years ' service . |
| 26 | Seamans said it was very rare that violence broke out at American football , baseball or basketball games , ‘ and what is the biggest concern is that it seems to be organised violence at European soccer games which is something we have never experienced , ’ he added . |
| 27 | Hundreds of privately owned aircraft at Tamiami Airport were blown over and on top of each other , a parked DC–6 disappeared completely and was found over a mile away from its tie-down point on the Airport . |
| 28 | The old Poor Law had always provided instances of parishes making allowances to able-bodied parishioners unable to secure work or , more commonly , unable to secure work at adequate wages . |
| 29 | North West Gas used the census variable ‘ dwellings with no inside wc ’ to find areas at serious risk from blocked flues . |
| 30 | ‘ But you simply can not make tackling errors at crucial times and expect to win . ’ |