Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.

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1 Ca can we just look at a I do n't know which way to be specific or to look at the general first , can I just
2 The cost of his travels and his books ( many of which were distributed free or sold at a subsidized price ) was heavy .
3 A student having completed Music Making : Solo 1 may proceed to Solo 2 or remain at the same level , provided that the study employs different techniques : for example , voice and keyboard ; guitar and bass guitar ; violin and sitar .
4 What is easier than to look at the most conspicuous item in the marketing budget and one which is largely the concern of an outside supplier , at that ?
5 erm Well not really because erm I believe erm that one was erm one of a few that survived at the erm time of the change of the erm Prime Minister .
6 Do not open this and drive at the same time .
7 The input to a program should be clear and kept to a minimum ; the output on the screen should be clear and presented at a sensible speed ; and any ‘ special ’ or complex computer procedures should appear to the user as ordinary and easy to use .
8 He was one of the founders of the Indian National Congress in 1885 and presided at the 1886 and 1893 sessions .
9 Others might be talking to their girlfriends or just idly smoking and looking at the sky .
10 When he shows a film or summat his room 's like a little cinema — you know , people sitting round watching the telly in the dark , and smoking and laughing at the funny bits and that .
11 The photograph was brown and curling at the edges .
12 Mauléon also has a rather wonderful Renaissance chateau in the centre of the town , with a roof to remember , a good thirty feet high and pitched at an angle of 75 degrees .
13 Sitting with legs apart , stretch your arms up high and twist at the waist .
14 Stretch up high and twist at the waist .
15 Each had a feather-plumed bonnet and the filabeg , the small plaid , heavy wool an arm 's length wide and four arm-spans long , pleated and belted at the waist , the free end swung up and pinned over the shoulder of his saffron-dyed shirt .
16 I am deeply grateful to my parents for the fact that until I was twelve years old and started at the grammar school , I was completely unaware of class distinctions .
17 These teeth are also shorter and set at a different angle from the other teeth .
18 The young leaves are very narrow , ribbon-like , linear and pointed at the tip .
19 Turning to football , the West Indies have done nothing on an international scale , though the game is popular and played at a domestic level .
20 His requirements are not modest : he would like a building of 3500 to 5000 square metres , acquired , staffed and maintained at the expense of the British government .
21 Different types of management experience were integrated into a set of principles which were all interrelated and presented at a level of generality which made them as widely applicable as possible .
22 It may also be necessary to begin keyboard skills in the last year of primary school and to continue this as required at the secondary level .
23 Your eye makes a natural adjustment for this when looking at the scene direct so that the colour appears the same irrespective of the lighting .
24 I first heard of this when camping at the foot of Bredon Hill in Worcestershire in 1960 .
25 It 's probably no more pleasant than living at the centre of some large , dirty , crime-ridden city .
26 I expect a Public Sector Borrowing Requirement in the current financial year of £35 billion , slightly lower than projected at the time of my Autumn Statement .
27 Though the next decade quickly reversed the conservatism of the 1950s , the notion that British fiction lacks experimental energy , or even just quality , still survives ; a partially accurate picture , based upon a lapse in the experimental tradition less complete than suggested at the time .
28 There was nothing in the cast of her features to suggest that she had been alarmed or frightened at the moment of her death .
29 Prosecutions by local authorities under the Act of 1950 have little deterrent effect , because the increased sales are such that fines at the level presently authorised under the statute can be absorbed by large retailers as a relatively small increase in their costs , though the same is not true of small shops with their much lower sales .
30 ‘ But the men were many and clever and shot at the eagles with arrows , and trapped them in nets and put them to death , one after another .
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