Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The programme which begins at 8 p.m. , will include modern perspectives on Rossini 's music , in the Soireé Musicales , and on English folk songs , in a work by Vaughan-Williams . |
| 2 | The 220 now supports the Power GTO three-dimensional graphics subsystem which performs at 990,000 three-dimensional vectors per second . |
| 3 | Here on this sea-scoured coast she had at last found a place which she was content to call home . |
| 4 | In practice you look at all the alternatives and examine each in turn to see how it might affect your business . |
| 5 | In the last chapter we looked at some of the effects on people of knowing that a death is likely to occur and some of the anticipated grief reactions that can be recognized . |
| 6 | In practice we proceeded at absolute snail 's pace , and every step that we took was hindered by constant misunderstanding , suspicion and argument . |
| 7 | Happiness , surely , is a bonus we enjoy at unforgettable moments in time . |
| 8 | Whenever they came to meetings at the department they sat at opposite ends of the table . |
| 9 | Although at first sight these three points apply only to overall policy development , in practice they apply at all levels , including individual branch development . |
| 10 | Thirty years afterwards Charles still felt deeply the humiliation he suffered at this time ; but unlike some little princes in similar situations , he lived , politically as well as literally , to fight another day . |
| 11 | This presents gaps in the text which surprise at first , but then allow the imagination to intervene and to draw on the richness and depth of the images to fill the spaces with one 's own interpretation . |
| 12 | The new channel was dredged to about 10.3 metres below high water ordinary spring tide which means at low water of the same tide approximately 5.5 metres of water was available . |
| 13 | Er before you come in Mr , erm I do n't know how many more points you want to raise on this to erm we have another session which starts at five thirty . |
| 14 | So the things are happening , and you 'll be talking in a moment to Jenny and the work she does at All Saints Convent . |
| 15 | The sharp tongue is now reserved for the consciousness-raising rap session she gives at American universities , where students are allowed to ask whatever they like about her life , her sexuality , her views of the world , provided they can cope with the answers . |
| 16 | Adequate security for loans is required since the EIB itself borrows at commercial rates . |
| 17 | The delicatessen was owned by a most enterprising Indian who opened at all the times when other places were shut . |
| 18 | There are ways of saving money without missing out and in this issue we look at sparkling alternatives to champagne which will add the fizz to the proceedings without breaking the bank . |
| 19 | It labelled them as personal opinion and suggested that in future the press question everything said at any time by DEC staff , no matter how high ranking , to assure themselves they are getting the company line . |
| 20 | Our masters have had to size up the capacity they have at different plants and it made more sense to move production to Leeds |
| 21 | For a second they glared at each other . |
| 22 | Sara would always remember gratefully the help he gave at that time ‘ to render a miserable cottage , an abode of comparative comfort ’ . |
| 23 | At the end of this campaign it looked at last as if the time of peace had come , when the Council for which Anselm had been pressing for the past four years could be held with royal support . |
| 24 | There was a young woman there , an attractive girl he guessed at twenty-two , who had been introduced to him as Suzanne Simonis . |
| 25 | She may have been three years older than he was , pushing forty and not quite as pert as the sort of girl he favoured at this precise moment , but one day Jack would grow up , look for a real woman to take care of him , and there she 'd be , waiting and ready . |
| 26 | On his return he settled at last under the protection of Cuthbert , first in the saint 's own resting place at Durham , then in a hermitage under the protection of Durham cathedral priory at Finchale by the river Wear — and the rest of his life is filled with his prayers and visions and miracles at Finchale . |
| 27 | You only have to look back over what 's er happened over the last few years in terms of for example O S Two , Microsoft Windows , a variety of Unix , and you 'll see that technologies will come along and however sound a decision you make at one point in time the market circumstances and potentially mean that what was right for you then not the right . |
| 28 | He did n't have much money you see at that time . |
| 29 | Now Michael White and John Gribbin have given us Stephen Hawking : a Life in Science , or rather Mr White has given us the life and Mr Gribbin the science ; the latter is awash with black holes , white dwarfs , protons , pulsars , quasars and quarks and is therefore no more comprehensible than Brief History ; also , what is one to make of a writer who speaks at one moment of ‘ tiny black holes ’ and the next of ‘ black holes which could eat solar systems for breakfast ’ ? |
| 30 | Bogie was the kind of hellraiser who lived at one end of the scale . |