Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [vb -s] [adv prt] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tests show that it shoots out at only slightly less than the UK speed limit in built-up areas — namely twenty-eight miles an hour . |
| 2 | A timer can be fitted to an immersion heater so that it comes on at specified times of the day . |
| 3 | The whole enterprise is carried through with panache and — apart from the fact that it clocks in at a rather miserly total of only 52 minutes — the disc can be thoroughly recommended to anyone who wants a well-chosen selection of G&S numbers . |
| 4 | The long sentences in Swift 's ironic essay in support of cannibalism are explicable as a stylistic expression of the persona he adopts in order to intensify the impact of his outrageous proposal : in Corbett 's words , we seem to be " listening to a man who is so filled with his subject , so careful about qualifying his statements and computations , so infatuated with the sound of his own words , that he rambles on at inordinate length " The greater the range and size of the corpus which acts as a relative norm , the more valid the statement of relative frequency . |
| 5 | Er , it strikes me with the , with the comedy , he 's trying to be so funny that he shoots off at all these angles and not having |