Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Using committees internally to overcome restrictions on information and thereby arrive at a decision . |
| 2 | The eggs were clear and had a diameter of between 0.6 and 0.9mm and mostly floated at the water surface . |
| 3 | However , it is good enough to say that light entering one end of the fibre will reflect repeatedly along its length and eventually emerge at the other end ( see Fig 4 ) . |
| 4 | The digits move along one step at a time and eventually arrive at the end of the chain whereupon they are fed along the line . |
| 5 | We get out of the car , stomp round to the wheel , look at it , kick it , swear , look at our watch , feel guilty about not having left enough time to cope with the unexpected , open the boot , bang our head on it , swear again , wonder whether it would n't be better to walk to the phone , decide to change the wheel ourselves , lose one of the nuts and eventually arrive at the meeting half an hour late in a filthy temper , and take up the next five minutes explaining that it must have been a sharp chipping off one of those construction lorries and they overload them to save money and they ought to do something about it … |
| 6 | The Commander-in-Chief in Scotland was Lieutenant-General Sir John Cope , later the subject of a derisory song ‘ Hey , Johnny Cope ’ , and unkindly described at the time as ‘ a little , dressy , finical [ i.e. fussy ] man ’ . |
| 7 | This early ‘ satiating effect ’ was dose dependent and most marked at a dose of 40 µg per animal ; about equimolar to procolipase secretion during maximal stimulation with secretin and cholecystokinin ( CCK ) . |
| 8 | HERE in the West , episode two of Blackeyes ( BBC-2 ) hardly advances the narrative at all and slowly picks at the same psychological scabs . |
| 9 | ( Oct 24-Nov 22 ) With the Sun and Mars blocked away in the most sensitive and private area of your solar chart , you , in turn , are bound to be feeling restricted and rather frustrated at the moment . |
| 10 | The heavy chainmail was gone ; he wore a long dark blue tunic , embroidered with silver thread and loosely belted at the waist . |
| 11 | So a Gettier counter-example is one in which a has a justified but false belief by inference from which he justifiably believes something which happens to be true , and so arrives at a justified true belief which is not knowledge . |
| 12 | It would seem that she intended to pull him down — in itself a tall order — and so grabbed at the reins . |
| 13 | In reciprocal discourse , then , interlocutors can always establish , by the turn-taking of talk , the necessary grounds of shared knowledge , and so arrive at a mutually satisfactory schematic convergence . |
| 14 | On his way down to take part in an official inspection , Wycliffe had monitored reports on his car radio and so arrived at the scene of crime before his headquarters had got a team together . |
| 15 | Therefore , they were left with the option of investing millions of pounds or closing them , and perhaps looking at the building of a new reactor . |
| 16 | Hun Sen initially refused to attend unless Sihanouk did , and only relented at the last moment . |
| 17 | He did not seem to like it very much either , but he was perfectly good-natured and only jibbed at the dressing up . |
| 18 | The USSR won decisively against all their serious rivals , Yugoslavia , the US and England , in the first five rounds and only slackened at the end when the gold medals were assured . |
| 19 | It was certainly a spectacular display of what dancers could do with their legs whilst merely marching but the ports de bras were very limited and merely swung at the sides or sprang to attention . |
| 20 | There was one vehicle there , a car with two figures sitting in the front seats and apparently looking at the road ahead of them . |
| 21 | The null geodesic , v = constant , starts in region I , passes through the gravitational wave and apparently ends at the singularity . |
| 22 | Charles complained of ‘ astigmatism ’ , and exaggeratedly squinted at the matrices , removing and putting back his glasses continually . |
| 23 | The existing standard number , determined under section 15 of the Education Act 1980 and generally set at the intake of pupils to the school in 1979–80 ( a peak year ) , will be the new standard number — unless in 1989–90 , the year before the law changed , admissions exceeded the 1980 Act standard number . |
| 24 | He brought with him a bottle of his own herbal remedy for fevers and scarcely looked at the baby before worrying about his fee . |
| 25 | Head down , they race to departments , charge at the shelves and scarcely look at the price before stampeding to the cash tills . |
| 26 | He explained that what makes the document confidential is the fact that the creator of the document has used his brain and thus arrived at a result which can only be produced by somebody who goes through the same process . |
| 27 | We do this by assuming that it is in fact cooperative , and then asking ourselves what possible connection there could be between the location of Bill and the location of a yellow VW , and thus arrive at the suggestion ( which B effectively conveys ) that , if Bill has a yellow VW , he may be in Sue 's house . |
| 28 | Hateley , of course , spent three seasons in France with Monaco However , earlier this month , and just smiles at the mention of the Frenchman 's name . |
| 29 | Hebbert was leafing through Hard Rock to re-live Great/Bow combination and just glancing at the Vember chapter , which was the nearest the book got to Curving Crack . |
| 30 | I mean one day , I mean I was in a customer care meeting for three hours on Monday , so obviously I lost some there , but you know , that particular day I was on a , just on the phone personally on my B M S for just over three hours , and just looking at the other things that I had to deal with . |