Example sentences of "[vb past] at [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is also clear that the prices of different commodities rose at varying rates and at different times . |
| 2 | Now , Richard Fairbanks of New York 's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory has uncovered a detailed record which shows how fast global sea level rose at different times during the transformation from the glacial to the post-glacial world . |
| 3 | The French report , via the International Red Cross , stated that the aircraft crashed at 00.30 hours on September 18 . |
| 4 | The stunt was practised in slow motion , before the cameras rolled and captured Crawford zooming between the lorry 's wheels as it moved at fifteen miles per hour . |
| 5 | They introduced ad hoc postulates , such as proposing that objects got shorter when they moved at high speeds . |
| 6 | Eleven and a half million people voted , the overwhelming majority in favour of collective security , although three million of those who supported economic sanctions against an aggressor jibbed at military ones . |
| 7 | Like a fork bent at right angles . |
| 8 | More like a pitch fork bent at right angles then ? |
| 9 | But bent at right angles . |
| 10 | His black hair sprouted at all angles from his scalp and he still had n't found time to shave . |
| 11 | The tranquil white-washed villages were a welcome relief and they stopped at small bars and quenched their thirst with local wine and spring water . |
| 12 | He was about to catch a taxi home from Swindon town centre at just after midnight , when he stopped at public toilets . |
| 13 | I stopped at some lights on the East side . |
| 14 | I tried at regular intervals throughout the night and first thing this morning . |
| 15 | Moreover , short of methods of surveillance which are also not ‘ consistent with liberty and justice ’ it may be impossible to obtain evidence on what transpired at such meetings . |
| 16 | But , especially , they show that whenever a siege occurred at neighbouring villages invariably suffered a s a result of heavy billeting , garrisoning , or even the mustering of armies on their greens and in their fields . |
| 17 | Alone on a holiday and trying to come to terms with his grief , he reflects that ‘ the most cruel pain of all occurred at such moments , when I tried to face the still unacceptable fact that I could never tell her anything again . |
| 18 | These signals may have been less predictive of the outcome because they occurred at higher frequencies at earlier stages in the conflicts . |
| 19 | It would be naive to expect every fragment surveyed to fall neatly into a pattern in which terraces occurred at certain heights and were completely absent from the other heights . |
| 20 | As a result , extensive leaching of ooids and bioclasts occurred in the vadose zone ( early leaching ) , and cementation occurred at deeper levels in the phreatic zone . |
| 21 | It was William and Hugh who led the foresters and verderers to search the houses of suspects for evidence and arrest offenders , and who presided at special inquests on Forest offences , and at the local Forest courts . |
| 22 | Even where workers moved away from their villages for good , most maintained contact with their places of origin and visited at regular intervals . |
| 23 | Studies of the 700-km 3 Bishop Tuff eruption and its precursors from Long Valley , California reveal distinct Sr-isotope differences between crystals and their host liquids and between melts erupted at different times . |
| 24 | Magmas erupted at mid-ocean ridges are derived from the upper mantle . |
| 25 | She was too young , too soft and new , to come to terms with these wild beings whose minds veered at crazy angles from the short , straight , smooth lines of her own experience . |
| 26 | It was in the summer of 1932 that Duke paddled out alone into the biggest swell he had seen in his life , with a stiff offshore from the Koolau mountains pinning back the peaks , which he estimated at thirty feet , as big as the storm waves off Kaena Point . |
| 27 | On Monday the docks were re-opened and the stevedores were at work when Micky Wynn 's first torpedo exploded at 1600 hours ; an hour later the second one went off . |
| 28 | like those certain games that you played at certain seasons of the year . |
| 29 | ‘ It was incredible the way Jimmy played at key points in his matches ’ , recalls Segura . |
| 30 | AFHQ 's response came at 1857 hrs that afternoon [ KP 228 ] : " Agree all Yugoslav nationals in Eighth Army Area to be returned unless involves use of force , otherwise evacuation to Distone ( Italy ) in accordance with FX 77268 of 17 May . " |