Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [verb] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If managerial functions are to be carried out both efficiently and effectively , then it is a prerequisite that high quality information is available to inform decision making at the various managerial levels . |
| 2 | Some time later I heard a chink of glass and looked up to find Dennis sitting at a nearby table with a half-empty bottle of chilled rosé . |
| 3 | The JMU will take a dim view of any practice in which it discovers repeat breaches or a failure to meet undertakings given at an earlier inspection , regardless of whether or not these were the subject of subsequent correspondence with the Institute ( the fact that they were raised and documented at the closing meeting with the Inspector is a sufficient record ) . |
| 4 | Known locally as the Kenwood Triangle , Bishop 's Avenue has properties starting at a million pounds and rising to the £25 million asking price of the vast , newly-built Towers . |
| 5 | It starts pattern knitting at the first point cam . |
| 6 | In addition such strategical decisions may be based on episodic memories for particular instances of driving the planned route , for example , the memory that you encountered road works at a particular junction recently and that it should thus be avoided until they have been completed . |
| 7 | Singer introduced International Relations to a vexed topic , familiar to other social sciences , to do with relating explanation couched at the systemic level ( the international system ) to explanation couched at the unit level ( nation states ) . |
| 8 | He , the laibon , had heard Fahfakhs shouting at the accused man in the cells at Ewaso Narok police post before he was taken to the coast . |
| 9 | Roscarrock Hall stood at the southern end of the village of Polruan , occupying several acres of terraced fields , outbuildings and woodland . |
| 10 | Her rise to prominence was the culmination of a career which combined a feminist commitment to challenging male sexual behaviour , with traditional beliefs in moralizing philanthropy directed at the poor . |
| 11 | Zeuxis 's painted vine provoked the wonder and the applause of all his audience when it attracted birds to peck at the plump fruit . |
| 12 | He noticed Willie looking at the black box on the stool . |
| 13 | Tess Miller studied at the Royal College of Music and has performed and recorded in this country and abroad with most of the London chamber orchestras , both as soloist and orchestral player . |
| 14 | It is useful to photograph the site from a variety of angles , obtaining views both into and out of the proposed development ; photographs often reveal factors overlooked at an initial inspection . |
| 15 | The Soviet Communist Party 's ideology chief denied on Monday that the entire ruling Politburo had offered to resign or faced calls to resign at a key party meeting this month . |
| 16 | Finally , computed tomography of the chest showed pleural thickening at the left lung base in an area corresponding to that previously noted on a chest x ray ( Fig 3 ) . |
| 17 | He did n't say anything about ( well-documented ) insults Yeugh directed at the distinguished internationals for no apparent reason — like telling Eddie Gray ‘ if you were a racehorse you 'd have been shot years ago ’ in front of the team — or indeed any of the other eccentric behaviour of the man that got him fired . |
| 18 | She understood then that if she had had leisure to listen at the right moment , she might have heard the faint , suggestive sounds of a third presence . |
| 19 | He could see Everett sitting at a tall stool , in an office not unlike Henry ‘ s , helping to build the wealth of the empire . |
| 20 | Honeybeer Mead fell at the seventh , where Omerta was pulled up because jockey Lorcan Wyer feared he had broken down . |
| 21 | Notice how the melody given in Example 8 , after four bars of ( almost ) adjacent notes , suddenly expands into more intense emotion with the octave leap and the temporary abandonment of stepwise motion : This shows leaps placed at the right psychological moment , when the intensity of a large leap is crucial to the emotional flow . |
| 22 | The human world and hell joined forces to scoff at the dying man . |
| 23 | There is , however , separate evidence which shows that the Jovian interior is indeed hot , namely , that Jupiter radiates energy to space at a greater rate than that at which it absorbs energy from the Sun . |
| 24 | A couple of minutes later , she heard footsteps approaching at the other end of the line . |
| 25 | In evaluating credit scoring at the present time , we had to consider three aspects : |
| 26 | Well , I 'm not sure that 's correct , but anyway Mill thinks that these ideas local participation of jury service are ways of getting people involved at the highest practical level of participation . |
| 27 | On Aug. 30 the National Assembly passed a series of measures which ratified decisions taken at the Grand National Debate . |
| 28 | Messages would be sent out , up and down the track , summoning song-owners to assemble at the Big Place . |
| 29 | Geophysical and borehole evidence for regarding the structure as the surface expression of movements on a Variscan thrust plane developed at the southern margin of the London Platform ( East Anglian — Brabant Massif ) has been summarised by Smalley and Westbrook ( 1982 ) . |
| 30 | Claud Cockburn sneers at the forgotten bestselling novelist W J Locke . |