Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun pl] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In contrast , those developers whose prime objective is building houses at maximum profit and with minimum care for the environment , may experience difficulty . |
| 2 | The significance of these protocols is that synchronized firing patterns at similar frequencies occur in the hippocampus during learning . ) |
| 3 | Mass screening is not feasible , but targeting groups at high risk and asking them to attend for screening is perfectly plausible . |
| 4 | These include opening books at random . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ But you simply can not make tackling errors at crucial times and expect to win . ’ |
| 7 | They have beaten all the top hurling powers at various stages in the last decade . |
| 8 | This entails appraising and selecting appropriate suppliers , being well informed about the purchasing market , purchasing goods at optimum prices in terms of value , and maintaining adequate stock/inventory supplies . |
| 9 | Walking scenes at full length required stop-motion , and for this an exact replica , 2 feet ( 29cm ) tall , was constructed — twice the normal size of small-scale models because of the detail required in order to cut together the full-size and small-scale model shots . |
| 10 | After spending 17 years in Congress hurling broadsides at foreign creditors and defending state enterprises , Mr Franco has changed course . |
| 11 | The corollary is obvious : a printing office employing women at low wages to do straight setting could dispense with a number of ordinary linesmen , keeping on only a highly skilled minority of men at rather above normal wages to " service " the type set up by the women . |
| 12 | FA CUP semi-final shoot-outs could be eliminated if clubs or the Football Association were willing to pay the extra police costs for staging replays at short notice , writes Christopher Davies . |
| 13 | He bent over the console , pressing buttons at random . |
| 14 | There were a number of incidents where youths blocked roads with burning tyres , and started hurling stones at passing cars . |
| 15 | Some guides are indeed very brief , suggesting visits at breakneck speed where only a few items or rooms will be seen . |
| 16 | It makes all those dreadful school problems about taps filling baths at varying speeds seem easy ! |
| 17 | So , on the whole I am cautiously in favour of machines inspecting passports at great speed , a scheme experimentally working at Heathrow . |
| 18 | Publishing newsletters at regular fixed intervals creates anticipation by parents and they will be searching children 's bags and pockets on printing day . |
| 19 | ‘ Apart from floating the shares , we are also seeking loans at reasonable interest rates from the World Bank , ’ Minister of State for Communications Sukh Ram announced at the Asia Telecom trade show in Singapore yesterday . |
| 20 | Local junior schools usually willingly accept invitations to run a stall at infant school events and secondary schools are usually eager to provide very professional looking displays at primary school parents ' meetings . |
| 21 | Before the arrival of the Packman , filling sprayers at Overy Farm was done in much the same way as it is on thousands of farms across the country . |
| 22 | The notorious death squads roam the streets of Rio de Janeiro picking victims at random . |
| 23 | ( 5.31 ) and ( 5.15 ) show that the performance of both variable-reluctance and hybrid stepping motors at high speeds is proportional to the total phase resistance ( R ) , which can be adjusted by changing the series forcing resistance in the drive circuit . |
| 24 | Anyone who heard some of the more extravagant pictures of apprenticeship painted by some of those at the original Edinburgh meeting , must feel slightly uneasy that the Association could turn into a Don Quixote tilting lances at imaginary windmills , pursuing ‘ causes ’ that are not a reality , and being antagonistic for the sake of it . |
| 25 | And Violet Hunt , loyally selling copies at half-price in her drawing room , confesses in her memoir I Have This to Say that she was at a loss to explain why the damned were damned , and the blest were blest . |
| 26 | Their values may be depicted on an Argand diagram and it is normal practice to denote zeros by drawing circles and poles by marking crosses at relevant points . |
| 27 | I take exception to the fact that the people who are deciding matters at intergovernmental conferences want to force the issue of unification far faster than I would wish . |
| 28 | Only one company is known to be still selling bonds at pre-election rates . |
| 29 | Correspondingly , there are added costs for fixing spots at particular times . |
| 30 | The business of selling shares at licensed dealers is often a gimmick which loses investors their hard-earned money . |