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 | The interior has suffered seriously at Turkish hands and the frescoes have been badly damaged . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | well there are some seats that are built set out at different divots . |
| 8 | He only liked large men around him and must have looked askance at small Welshmen like T. E. Thomas and G. D. Morgan . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The other main rift type is to be found orientated approximately at right angles to the strike of intercontinental collision orogens . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He does appear to have looked carefully at various places , and in 1800 he settled in Ambleside . |
| 14 | I 've gawped solemnly at fuzzy ultrasound images , and pretended to recognize the head when the doctor pointed to it . |
| 15 | By early March , oil had come ashore at various points along a strip of Saudi coastline stretching some 130 miles south of the Kuwaiti border . |
| 16 | They had done so at little cost to the state or to the better-off taxpayer . |
| 17 | That being the case , the breeze she felt was probably being caused by air which had got in at low tide being forced out at high tide . |
| 18 | Pupils who have done well at Standard Grade and wish to specialise in computing may study for Higher Computing Studies or even Certificate of Sixth Year Studies Computing . |
| 19 | Now , those of you who have not been able to watch a television set may not be aware of the really remarkable performances that we have seen here at Royal St. George 's on this beautiful English summer 's day . |
| 20 | In addition to discussion and supervision from John throughout the research and writing up I have benefited considerably at various points from the help of Debra Bekerian , Ivan Brown , Andy Macleod , David Routh , Fraser Watts , and many others . |
| 21 | Those who have laboured long at programmed learning sequences , even if less wholeheartedly multi-media in scope , will agree that such units take time to prepare . |