Example sentences of "[verb] at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This genetic cohesion of a population arises because , while the very slow processes of homogenisation are at work ( among copies of a family on the same and different chromosomes ) , the chromosomes in a population are being mixed at each generation . |
| 2 | The new mortar should be mixed at one part cement to four parts sand . |
| 3 | Charles Laubscher recalls : ‘ My feelings were mixed at this news ( of the move to Malta ) . |
| 4 | Under harder acceleration it intrudes , finishing up as a deep , rough-edged sounding beat at full throttle . |
| 5 | There was 110 possible reason why he should have wished at that stage to foreclose his options between December and January , or January and the spring . |
| 6 | The drop down from Meall Corranaich and back up to Beinn Ghlas was a great deal more substantial than I would have wished at this point in the walk , keeping in mind that I was hallucinating from the effort of the chase and the subsequent lack of oxygen managing to get anywhere near my lungs via a mouth full of clenched teeth . |
| 7 | Alice stood marvelling at this thought : that only a couple of days ago Mary Williams had seemed to hold her own fate Alice 's — in her hands ; and now Alice had difficulty in even remembering her status . |
| 8 | Memory and imagination were grappling at each other 's throats , and these people would lose if he lay here much longer . |
| 9 | Whereas a bottom-up or data-driven system such as HWIM can hypothesize any of the 1,000 or so items in its lexicon at the beginning of the utterance , HARPY can only hypothesize those words permitted at that point by the grammar . |
| 10 | Their 7 foot 6 inches-wide body was the widest permitted at that time , and allowed two-by-two seating on upholstered seats in the saloon . |
| 11 | Approaches to members of staff and to the company 's premises , customers and suppliers will not be permitted at this stage . |
| 12 | Fortunately , Evan-Thomas in Barham , steaming at maximum speed with his four battleships , had come within firing range . |
| 13 | EIGHTY years ago tomorrow , on the night of 14/15 April 1912 , the ‘ unsinkable ’ passenger liner Titanic , steaming at high speed on her maiden transatlantic voyage , ran headlong into an iceberg off Newfoundland and plunged to the bottom of the ocean , taking more than 1,500 souls with her . |
| 14 | That deaf people marry other deaf people was not , as could be supposed at that time , a new phenomenon — it will be recalled from Chapter I that John Dyott married a deaf girl after the Civil War in 1645 . |
| 15 | I am afraid this is all very complicated and difficult to untangle at short notice , but I hope , nonetheless , that it is of some help . |
| 16 | At the moment it is the ultimate loser who pays the costs even if he or she happens to have won at first instance and in the Court of Appeal . |
| 17 | But it was this battle , won at huge cost by both Tyne Tees and Yorkshire , which finally propelled the companies into each others arms . |
| 18 | Their study shows that every $10 of interest payments per year and per person means 142 days less of life on average , had life expectancy continued to increase at pre-debt crisis rates . |
| 19 | Why did they buy at that time ? |
| 20 | Would anyone buy at this price ? |
| 21 | The only fault which can be levelled at this production is its brevity in comparison with its cinema counterpart Shirley 's Greek idyll is compressed at break-neck speed into a second half which lasts less than 45 minutes . |
| 22 | The entire German Army attacked at first light on 28 August . |
| 23 | They lay up all the following day , expecting to be attacked at any moment , but no enemy showed up . |
| 24 | My first reaction to the resignations was that they were tantamount to an admission of guilt when , in fact , the Argentinians could have attacked at any time in the previous fifteen years . |
| 25 | The new money will still leave gearing at 60 per cent , but Mr Scott says the company will be happy with that level of debt , given that gearing at other transport groups can be as high as 90 per cent . |
| 26 | What made you jump at that moment ? |
| 27 | In November he was able to lecture at Central Hall , Westminster , on " The Three Voices of Poetry " — in the recording of that address , his clipped and precise speech , almost professorial in character , can be heard — but it was to be his last major engagement for many months . |
| 28 | I knew both of them very well from my Lincoln days and had agreed to lecture at this school . |
| 29 | Finds that are fragile or should not be washed for any other reason ( such as metalwork ) are also sorted at this stage . |
| 30 | The principle of Speedlink is that train sections are exchanged at specified groups of sidings on the network , rather than individual wagons sorted at full-scale marshalling yards . |