Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb pp] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Operating system revenues were up $1.8m to $61.7m , though revenue growth has not increased at the same rate as unit volumes shipped because of volume discount schedules . |
| 2 | A spokesman for the Housing Executive said : ‘ While building costs have increased the tender price has not increased at the same rate . |
| 3 | By failing to take this holistic stance and by the adoption of a narrow perspective ( the curriculum ) within a managerial approach dedicated to control , standardisation and output evaluation , the ‘ Great Debate ’ has not arrived at the promised land but has been confined to endless wanderings in the wilderness of the present or indeed the past . |
| 4 | The exhibition that has just opened at the Grand Palais with the title ‘ Les Etrusques et l'Europe ’ therefore has two parts : the world of the ancient Etruscans ; and their latter day reemergence as a cultural influence from 1554 with the discovery of the ‘ Chimera ’ at Arezzo ( which immediately entered the Medici collections ) . |
| 5 | Fred Jarvis of the National Union of Teachers has already hinted at the fundamental difficulty which arises when the professional is set within tightly prescribed guidelines . |
| 6 | he continued to teach at Chelsea School of Art , and has also taught at the Royal Academy Schools since 1975 when Peter Greenham invited him to teach in the Life Room . |
| 7 | Elvira has also worked at the Christian Literature Crusade headquarters in London and took part in a project for the rehabilitation of drug addicts and homeless people . |
| 8 | Since the mid-50s he has designed well over 100 West End productions and has also worked at the National Theatre , the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Chichester Festival Theatre . |
| 9 | Since 1947 breeding has also occurred at the following sites : Itchenor , up to 18 nests from 1946 to 1951 ; Chichester gravel pits , one nest in 1960 ; Fynings Moor , Rogate , two nests in 1963 and 1964 ; Beauport Park , Hastings , four or five nests in 1950 ; Great Park Wood , Udimore ( one of the original sites of the present Leasam colony ) , irregularly occupied until 1960 by up to nine pairs ; Nuthurst , a pair in 1973 ; Knepp , eight pairs in 1976 Buxted Park , one pair in 1976 . |
| 10 | The first haul of 264 specimens has now arrived at the Open University 's base in Milton Keynes . |
| 11 | If correct — and Samuel says a second Soviet team has independently arrived at the same figure — it lowers the previous estimate by only one per cent . |
| 12 | But ZZAP ! has never looked at the other side of the problem or asked themselves : ‘ Why is there so much software piracy ? ’ |
| 13 | TWO men accused of killing a pensioner when a mugging went wrong had the charge found not proven at the High Court in Glasgow yesterday . |
| 14 | Two of the members , trumpeter Bryan Allen and horn player Stephen Roberts graduated from the University Music Department in 1980 , Stephen Roberts having previously studied at the Royal College of Music and held orchestral positions with the BBC . |
| 15 | At the time Rachel herself had still been doing her training but they had all worked at the same hospital — David as a senior house officer and Jennifer as a staff nurse on Orthopaedics . |
| 16 | She looked up , startled to find that they had already arrived at the top floor , and were now walking down the corridor towards her apartment . |
| 17 | She had desperately scrambled at the shiny sides of the toilet-bowl as she slid into the water but to no avail . |
| 18 | In this connection , it was noted that France had not participated at the Military Committee meeting ( having remained outside the NATO joint military structure since 1966 ) , but had decided in March to join a working party created at the July 1990 NATO summit [ see p. 37599 ] to consider the strategic implications of the changed world situation . |
| 19 | At the final endoscopy , 934 ( 97.1% ) of the 962 patients whose duodenal ulcers had not healed at the two week endoscopy had taken their medication regularly , 15 ( 1.6% ) had taken medication irregularly , and information was lacking for 13 ( 1.4% ) patients . |
| 20 | I explained that I had not entered at the right time because I had been a hostage in Iraq . |
| 21 | During the summer when there was not even a blade of green grass in the paddock , her feed of oats and other goodies became inordinately important to her , to the extent that one day when her dinner had not arrived at the usual time she began to paw at the fence in anxiety . |
| 22 | It would be surprising if Tolkien had not looked at the calm face of Tollund Man , or the hideously frightened one of ‘ Queen Gunhild ’ ( all too obviously still struggling as she was pinned down alive ) , and reflected that these were the true lineaments of his pagan ancestors . |
| 23 | It was happening in Liverpool , where giggly Karen had just started at the local secondary mod , and in London , where Dennis Parsons was fast learning that the prime number is number one , and where Liza was studying art at the Slade . |
| 24 | The style was constantly attracting new figures and had influenced , directly or indirectly , almost every significant young painter in Europe ; even Matisse , whose art had always seemed at the opposite pole to Cubism , was introducing a hitherto unknown severity into his painting in preparation for Cubistic experiments in 1915 . |
| 25 | There was no fire there , now , no sign of life , nor of the spirit that had once shrieked at the local folk who had emerged from the fortress demesne to loot and honour the dead : Four black-robed women and one man , robed in grey , a greybeard : he had understood the mythology of stone . |
| 26 | The only consolation was that Newcastle and Sheffield Wednesday , whom he had predicted would still be in the Cup along with Arsenal , had also fallen at the first hurdle to lesser teams . |
| 27 | They had nearly arrived at the first of the longhouses scattered over the hillside , belonging to the families who stayed in Orphir all the year round and cared for the land and the hall on behalf of the Earl . |
| 28 | The Collector had independently arrived at the same conclusion by watching the slope above the melon beds where the number of spectators was beginning to increase rapidly . |
| 29 | Picasso had never exhibited at the large Salons or taken part in any group manifestations , and after the Indépendants of 1909 , Braque joined him in this particular kind of artistic isolation . |
| 30 | We 've got everyone here and Dalton 's just arrived at the front desk . |