Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] at a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This power to ‘ speak ’ to the worshipper at a deep level is sufficient to justify its use alongside the reading of Scripture and the preaching of the Word of God . |
| 2 | Burun decided to mention the conversation to the Sechem at a suitable opportunity . |
| 3 | The revaluation at a common date has helped , as has agreement in practice to arrive at comparable results . |
| 4 | Jack Millar , Stoddard Templeton 's Sales Administration Director , accepted the award at a special reception at the exhibition held in the Galleon Bar of the Winter Gardens . |
| 5 | The two rabbits went up to the board at a hopping run and crouched in a patch of nettles on the far side , wrinkling their noses at the smell of a dead cigarette-end somewhere in the grass . |
| 6 | The rate of shell growth was determined by measuring and marking the edge of the shell at a recorded time , returning the mussels to their natural habitat , then remeasuring the shell dimensions after 1–5 years of in situ growth . |
| 7 | I was involved in the case at a late stage , and that is the subject of the court 's findings . |
| 8 | The mismatch between promise and performance in computer programming was first publicly recognised by professionals in the field at a famous conference on software engineering in 1968 . |
| 9 | They crossed the field at a leisurely walk , and as Lucy drew in deep breaths of the clear , crisp air she felt thankful for her jacket 's protection against the sharpness of the southerly breeze which whipped colour into her cheeks . |
| 10 | As we suggested earlier , most users ( and even most programmers ) see the computer at a level remote from the hardware , shielded as it is behind layers of operating system and compiler software . |
| 11 | Having called the election at a bad time , defending the 13-year record , and with an anti-Government trend growing significantly , the Conservatives have found it difficult to say clearly why they should go on and on . |
| 12 | Bills are certificates containing a promise to pay a specified sum of money to the holder at a specified time in the future . |
| 13 | In Kursell v Timber Operators and Contractors Ltd [ 1927 ] 1 KB 298 , a contract for timber to be felled by the buyer at a future date was treated as a sale of goods . |
| 14 | Patients in the sulphasalazine group had been maintained on the drug at a daily dose of 2 ( 2–3 ) g for 8.0 ( 1.7–2.1 ) years and had never received mesalazine . |
| 15 | Their horses were fresher , and gradually closed on Sharpe who , to spare the mare 's strength , tried to avoid the worst hills , but he eventually found himself trapped in a long valley and was forced to put the mare at a steep grass slope which led to a bare skyline . |
| 16 | In such cases the local authority can now compulsorily acquire the building at a low price , technically known as ‘ minimum compensation ’ . |
| 17 | Jane had also done up and let the cottage at a low rent . |
| 18 | To test such a wide-band network ( Fig. 5 ) , the output of a white noise generator is passed through a notch filter which cuts a slot in the spectrum at a narrow band of frequencies around . |
| 19 | When there are several poles and zeros , the strength of the spectrum at a particular pulsatance ο is obtained by taking the product of the lengths of the various vectors drawn from the zeros to the point on the imaginary axis and dividing this by the product of the lengths of the several vectors drawn from the poles to the same point on the imaginary axis . |
| 20 | Setting the white balance used to be a fiddly and time-consuming procedure , hut nowadays it is done automatically , or by setting presets , or manually by aiming the camcorder at a standard white reference . |
| 21 | Erika moved on to the floor , keeping the Lout at a safe distance , but he was not as loutish as his manner suggested . |
| 22 | It was felt essential to continue the Course at a National level and be available to students from a distance and as our training strength is already at full stretch it would not be possible at present to consider a weekly training course , which had been mooted to run alongside . |
| 23 | But when taken in conjunction with other Budget measures which could benefit the family , Labour has estimated the loss at a rounded down figure of £8 . |
| 24 | This cam be adduced from the fact that their internal document , Ireland Today , speculated about the replacement of some of the leadership of the association at a future date . |
| 25 | ‘ We have loads of attractions during the day and in the evening Clive Webb and I will be providing the cabaret at a special show . ’ |
| 26 | Remember that the primary purpose of the tail rotor is to counteract the torque effect of the main rotor and maintain the fuselage at a constant heading . |
| 27 | The CEGB itself admitted that if a plane weighing over 2.3 tonnes — a five seater light aircraft — struck one of the core buildings of the complex at a critical point it could lead to an ‘ uncontrolled release of radioactivity ’ . |
| 28 | UP TO 300 workers are facing the axe at a struggling Merseyside firm . |
| 29 | Perhaps the most quoted model ( Gordon , 1959 ) is one that assumes that dividends will grow in the future at a constant annual rate , g . |
| 30 | ‘ Good heavens ! ’ she breathed , watching one figure speeding over the snow at a break-neck pace , yet seemingly in effortless control . |