Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has travelled abroad at sensitive times . |
| 2 | Alongside the formal structures , a network of informal relationships has grown up at all levels of the organization . |
| 3 | The interior has suffered seriously at Turkish hands and the frescoes have been badly damaged . |
| 4 | Over the years this has averaged out at two gundogs and two rabbiting dogs . |
| 5 | ‘ M. Dupont has arrived here at this house , sir ? ’ |
| 6 | SUNDERLAND caretaker boss Malcolm Crosby has hit out at transfer-listed striker Thomas Hauser and told the towering target man to get his act together . |
| 7 | SINEAD O'CONNOR 's record label Chrysalis has hit back at tabloid criticism of the sleeve of her current single ‘ Success Has Made A Failure Of Our Home ’ . |
| 8 | However sound this may be , it is of course the case that many fellow citizens are themselves being denied this right by an economic climate which has made millions of people unemployed , and which has struck particularly at young people seeking manual work . |
| 9 | In our case this iteration has gone on at great lengths and I and my colleagues have had to struggle to ensure that we have allocated enough time to deciding the direction in which the company should be going , and the changes that have to be carried out in order to get it there . |
| 10 | The authority said : ‘ Dr Starkie has agreed that it should be made known publically at this juncture that she is suffering progressive neurological disease multiple sclerosis . |
| 11 | well there are some seats that are built set out at different divots . |
| 12 | It was all the harder because I could have given up at any moment . |
| 13 | ‘ We must hope before you go to Oxford mother will have relented enough at any rate to make writing to you possible . ’ |
| 14 | Having looked briefly at some features of particular NBFIs in section 4.1 , we want now to reflect on the extent to which they fulfil some of those functions which we said in section 2.3 a financial system is expected to fulfil . |
| 15 | But for his trust in Donleavy , he would have dropped out at this point , military or no military . |
| 16 | Normally she would have clammed up at that juncture . |
| 17 | He only liked large men around him and must have looked askance at small Welshmen like T. E. Thomas and G. D. Morgan . |
| 18 | If the investment managers had to come in they could have come in at any time . |
| 19 | Marcus could have turned up at any moment . |
| 20 | If Sabine had wanted to break away and work on her own she could have done so at any time . |
| 21 | If he had ever wanted to see her socially he could have done so at any time , but there had been only chance meetings since his marriage . |
| 22 | ‘ I suppose most of your friends must have stayed there at one time or another , ’ she said casually . |
| 23 | A Ford Orion car stolen from Middlesbrough was found burnt out at Black Man Corner between Dalton-on-Tees , near Richmond , and Great Smeaton , near Northallerton . |
| 24 | The other main rift type is to be found orientated approximately at right angles to the strike of intercontinental collision orogens . |
| 25 | They said it could have gone off at any time . |
| 26 | It could have gone off at any time . |
| 27 | A curfew imposed by the government is still in effect , although it seems directed more at confining soldiers and policemen to their barracks than at keeping civilians off the streets . |
| 28 | In a centralised education system , the setting up of machinery to undertake curriculum planning and development is no more than a means towards making possible the six processes I outlined at the beginning of this chapter and which in our ideal world should have happened logically at national level : laying a research base for change , deciding objectives , forming a strategy , developing materials , implementing them and evaluating both the process and the result — a clinical sequence which even the methodical Swedes did not perform to their satisfaction . |
| 29 | It contains a mechanism , perhaps a Quantum Mechanical mechanism or what is as fairly called a mystery-mechanism , such that everything might have gone on just the same up to some instant , let us say the instant when the bar appeared , and it might have happened instead at that instant that no bar appeared . |
| 30 | Of course it did I , I , I was able to , I was able to pick up , and I used to clear up crimes which I know that some of the others would n't have cleared up at that time . |