Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE ULTIMATE teen movie , a sharp-edged black comedy which mercilessly swipes at adolescent angst , peer pressure , consumerism , and that old favourite , the generation gap . |
| 2 | The wintering population has increased considerably in recent years , but little change at other seasons is apparent . |
| 3 | The winter population has declined in recent years , but little change at other seasons is apparent . |
| 4 | He had studied the latest Russian , German and French film theories , spent six months mixing with movie people in Hollywood , then gone on to train at British Instructional Pictures , a maker of successful non-fiction films which moved into drama production in the late 1920s . |
| 5 | The room we sat in contained two television sets , two oak sideboards , slightly lower than the ceiling and four clocks all stopped at different times . |
| 6 | The problem , however , is turning phrases that are warmly applauded at rotary club or chamber of commerce lunches into serious investment . |
| 7 | It is therefore unlikely that microsporidia were responsible for the symptoms in a relevant proportion of the patients reported here , especially thse at early disease stages and those without detectable secondary infection , as intestinlam microsporidiosis is apparently associated with low CD4 counts in the peripheral blood . |
| 8 | These all fly at similar speeds and have rather light stick forces like a glider . |
| 9 | Cox said that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC ) , which had only looked at direct CFC warming effects , will now investigate the interactions . |
| 10 | Today 's martial artists are constantly looking at other forms of combat technique in order to broaden and improve their own fighting methods . |
| 11 | One such affront , to the Archduke of Austria , later cost him his freedom and caused him to suffer a long imprisonment from which he was only freed at huge expense — much of which was raised by his neglected kingdom of England . |
| 12 | If sources of income are not all taxed at equal rates , there is obviously an incentive to convert income into the untaxed form . |
| 13 | Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise Only to wonder at unlawful things , Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits , To practise more than heavenly power permits . |
| 14 | Black phosphorus only occurs at high pressures-this is not shown in figure 6.9 . |
| 15 | Although this chapter can only look at national-level data , indicators of acute housing shortage are much more evident in certain areas such as London since the geographical distribution of housing does not match the availability of employment and the location of places in which people want to live , and regional differential price rises in houses exacerbate this problem . |
| 16 | You need only to look at commercial copy or displays to see how powerfully a type-face complements the message it is conveying . |
| 17 | I thought we 'd all agreed at previous meetings that , with minor exceptions , all the major new plants would be located on the continent ? ’ |
| 18 | Over the past two years , I have noticed the increasing sale of Painted Indian Glassfish , Painted Glassfish and Painted Angelfish , all sold at high prices to unsuspecting fishkeepers who know no better . |
| 19 | perhaps some of the real and practical problems of user education may not have been tackled , but some might argue that these might be better researched at single-institutional level , without the necessity of substantial , outside funding . |
| 20 | She shook her head in disbelief ; everything was suddenly moving at breakneck speed . |
| 21 | One shortcoming of the experiments reported here is that the effect of TAGH in inducing phosphorlyation of membranes in vitro was only detected at high doses of TAGH . |
| 22 | A roe deer came down into reeds opposite to munch at green stuff . |
| 23 | I had four cameras lying around me on the seabed , all set at different distances . ’ |
| 24 | For the congregation , musicians and clergy involved , it provides an incentive to their best efforts which may not be so marked at other times . |
| 25 | He compares the position with that of a pentathlon athlete , who is good enough to compete at top level in each event separately — along with quite a lot of other people . |
| 26 | Whichever option you choose , you can be sure that the monthly fee is fixed and messages from anywhere in the UK are only charged at local call rate — no hidden extras . |
| 27 | Barbara thank you , and the number of that line is O three four five O one O two O three , that 's O three four five O one O two O three and it 's , and it 's only charged at local prices I understand . |
| 28 | From the shadows of the chasm I had already spotted the beige and white pigeon goose-stepping around on the grass just outside Pigeon Alley , apparently pecking at sweet f.a . |
| 29 | Indeed , just as Berkeley 's immaterialism foreshadows the phenomenalist theory of perception developed by the so-called Logical Empiricists of this century , so his view , according to which the aim of science is not to provide explanations of nature 's regularities but only to arrive at concise and useful descriptions of them , foreshadows their instrumentalism . |
| 30 | I only play at Snap — |