Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British authorities argued at the time that the way to tackle this problem of falling competitiveness , far from being to allow the pound to devalue , was to maintain a rigid exchange rate for sterling and so through the resulting high interest rates and tight money ‘ to squeeze inflation out of the system ’ . |
| 2 | Indeed the Director of Kenya 's Institute of Education looks forward to a time when a syllabus may be devised which , in addition to a national ‘ core ’ , has specific defined areas where programmes devised at district or local levels will be developed and implemented . |
| 3 | They wore mushroom-shaped hats topped with glittering brass spikes , and white cloths fluttered at their necks to protect them from the sun ; all of them were barefoot , but Joseph noticed that their leg wrappings were yellow — the colour , as Tran Van Hieu had already pointed out , which was worn only by the emperor and his immediate entourage . |
| 4 | It re-appeared a few weeks later as Netwise UK Ltd , in what some creditors argued at the time was ‘ an apparent breach of Section 312 of the UK Insolvency Act of 1986 . ’ |
| 5 | It re-appeared a few weeks later as Netwise UK Ltd , in what some creditors argued at the time was ‘ an apparent breach of Section 312 of the UK Insolvency Act of 1986 , ’ ( UX No 375 ) . |
| 6 | What yer doin' ? ’ one of the riggers shouted at him . |
| 7 | Yes they 're more sophisticated , and what I 'm concerned about is whether we have the right back up to be able to sustain a war erm there at present the war is more like a blitzkrieg which the Germans used at the start of the second world war |
| 8 | On St Kilda solifluction and the formation of pro-talus ramparts occurred at this time ( Sutherland et al. , 1984 ) . |
| 9 | The court heard one of the burglaries occurred at an old people 's home . |
| 10 | Blue eyes twinkled at her . |
| 11 | His eyes twinkled at her as he added , ‘ Would you allow me to buy you supper before I take you home ? ’ |
| 12 | Robyn could smell the freshness of his cologne , see the way his eyes crinkled at the corners , notice for the first time the thickness of his lashes , the way his ebony hair would curl if allowed to grow long . |
| 13 | Tiny red eyes gleamed at her for a moment before disappearing . |
| 14 | IF there was one occasion that summed up sporting attitudes in l992 , it was Carl Lewis 's bizarre attempt to set an Olympic record for the greatest number of journalists asphyxiated at a single press conference . |
| 15 | The finished brow and eyes leered at her and she imagined a bacchanalian wreath twined in the wisped locks of his hair . |
| 16 | Blimey , 'is eyes bulged at that , 'e looked blue murder at me . |
| 17 | For a long while seven or eight pairs of lidless eyes gazed at Flaubert . |
| 18 | Her terrified eyes gazed at him as she stood with his back to her , both hands braced against the door , staring at the ground between his feet . |
| 19 | Her eyes gazed at the yellow light on the ceiling . |
| 20 | Like one , all six typewriters stopped and six pairs of eyes gazed at him above the machines . |
| 21 | A tear slowly rolled down his grandfather 's face , but still his eyes gazed at a point miles and miles away . |
| 22 | Hens pecked at unwanted rouble notes from piles of sacks dumped on the railway lines for no clear reason . |
| 23 | Grey-wigged jackdaws with bright glinting eyes tumbled at the cliff edge . |
| 24 | The baby doll 's blue glass eyes winked at her . |
| 25 | One of the statue 's black marble eyes winked at her . |
| 26 | Nine Yugoslav policemen were injured when Dynamo Zagreb fans rioted at Borac Banja Luka . |
| 27 | The officers estimate touts made at least £138,000 profit from fans at Wembley for the Liverpool-Sunderland final , with an average mark-up of £115 per ticket . |
| 28 | Another group of plants adopting a similar strategy to the cycads arose at about the same time . |
| 29 | The majority of the islanders lived at subsistence level . |
| 30 | HEp-2 ( ATCC CCL 23 ) , obtained from the European Collection of Animal Cell Cultures ( ECACC , PHLS , CAMR , Salisbury ) , were maintained in Eagle 's Minimum Essential Medium ( MEM , Gibco Ltd ) containing Earle 's salts , fetal calf serum ( 10% ) and antibiotics incubated at 37°C in humidified atmospheres of either 10% CO 2 in air of 10% CO 2 , 5% O 2 in nitrogen . |