Example sentences of "[vb pp] at [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 During the 1983 — 7 Parliament two seats were won at by-elections but three were lost in the 1987 general election .
2 Although these troubles occurred in the city , foreigners were also attacked at times of peasant rioting when the rebels came to London , so it is clear that there were some sentiments which were shared by townsmen and countrymen alike .
3 Events are being organised at venues throughout London and the south-east aimed at beginners of all ages and levels of fitness .
4 Alternatives would be offered in the curriculum plan but there would also be opportunity for many other alternatives hopefully designed at teachers ' workshops .
5 Two Russian boys , being educated at Downs School near Malvern in Worcestershire , have been in Britain long enough to learn the language , one of them proud to interpret .
6 One is that personnel officers , themselves often educated at universities , are simply prejudiced against the polys ; another , which can be supported by reference to A-level qualifications , is that universities recruit a superior class of student .
7 He was educated at schools in Rochester and privately at home , and then at the age of sixteen became apprenticed to his uncle , a chemist and druggist in Bristol .
8 He was educated at schools in Kent and London , and at Sidney Sussex and Emmanuel Colleges , Cambridge .
9 He was educated at schools in Kidderminster , Bedford , and East Dereham .
10 The epidermis is penetrated at intervals by tiny pores known as stomata , which can be opened or closed by the surrounding guard cells , through which carbon dioxide enters ( and oxygen exits ) .
11 A selected set of sea-level gauges will be located at intervals , using this new satellite technology so that vertical land movements over decades can be identified .
12 On listing the known elements in order of ascending atomic weight , Newlands found several groups with similar properties located at intervals of eight steps from each other , and accordingly proposed his ‘ law of octaves ’ in 1865 .
13 ‘ Market research has revealed that customers prefer ATMs to be located at supermarkets , shopping malls , airports , railway stations and self service petrol stations , ’ he said , ‘ so the main thrust of our expansion programme is towards remote sites .
14 The 69 amino acids POU-specific domain ( POU S ) is located at positions 454 to 522 in the derived protein sequence and is separated from the 60 amino acids POU homeo domain ( POU HD ) ( positions 542 to 600 , defined according to Laughton ( 22 ) ) by a 20 amino acids linker sequence .
15 ( 3 ) The P. wickerhamii introns are located at positions within the structural genes which can be considered as preferred intron insertion sites in homologous mitochondrial genes from fungi or liverwort .
16 Thus Mack and Laimins ( 25 ) have shown that another site distinct from the one characterized here and located at nucleotides 7641–7675 in the HPV 18 URR also binds both Oct-1 and a keratinocyte-specific protein although this site is not conserved in the HPV 16 URR .
17 Special emergency trailers are located at depots at Bromborough , Stanford-le-Hope , Glasgow and Hull .
18 Finrad , specialists in radiator technology and manufacture offer a wide range to suit all needs including their new Finrad Convectoradd 105 which , despite its small size and weight has a very high heat output , allowing heating to be located at windows .
19 For instance , instead of sending work to the paint shop to be painted , the painters were in many cases permanently located at points where work was sufficiently finished .
20 But Mr Soley defended the policy in an interview with the Guardian : ‘ The problem is most acute in rural areas , such as the South-west , where there is a growing problem of ghost villages where 70 per cent of the houses are only occupied at weekends or during the summer , ’ he said .
21 Disillusioned at times he might be , but art dealing was what he was good at .
22 The chips are in production and reports from the field indicate that Sun 's next-generation Viking-based boxes are already installed at sites .
23 Tables are installed at gateways and usually comprise distinctive paving materials .
24 Water clean-up equipment must be installed at plants ‘ where appropriate ’ by that date .
25 In his official capacity , Bishop Daly has attended a number of recent public functions and officiated at funerals for two priests .
26 He was pursued all over Galloway , Carrick and Kyle , and given little respite , but still he preached at well-attended conventicles , baptised children , and officiated at weddings .
27 The price includes dinner ( or lunch ) , bed and breakfast with drinks and a wide choice included at meals .
28 He was a North-countryman , and the bluntness of his approach to many issues should be considered , I think , as a traditional North-country attitude , exaggerated at times to the point of obtuseness ; it may have been merely a defence mechanism .
29 That in the interests of consumer awareness , advertisers should not be allowed to imply that beers are brewed at locations other than true point of origin .
30 As it so happened , emerging civilisation created communities in various parts of the world , spaced at intervals covering long periods of time , each community being unaware of the others , and each developing some form of religion and worship .
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