Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] at the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from generalities relating to balanced inclined planes , one patent sought to protect details of the lift as a whole ; the second sought to protect the device of gradually reducing the gradient of the upper end of the incline to balance the apparent loss in weight of the descending tank as it became immersed at the lower level . |
| 2 | But if the average size of a household has fallen at the same time ( this has happened in the UK ) then the income of each person in a household may have risen . |
| 3 | It has come at the eleventh hour . |
| 4 | This new expansion of the department has come at the right moment for the National Railway Museum in view of the recent acquisition of the Ian Allan negative collection . |
| 5 | And Africans — ANC leaders and trades unionists tell us , ‘ MRA has come at the right moment . ’ |
| 6 | Creaney , who now forms a new strike partnership with Andy Payton , and has nudged his boyhood idol Charlie Nicholas into reserve football , feels the Cologne tie has come at the right time . |
| 7 | Lind ( 1980 ) has looked at the microphenomenological level at which the unfolding identity of such perception occurs . |
| 8 | Robin Perutz , from the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory in Oxford , has looked at the reactive molecule formed when Green 's compound is irradiated with light . |
| 9 | In tandem with the major exhibition on Rietveld 's activities as an architect and furniture designer which has opened at the Centraal Museum of Utrecht ( until 21 February ) , the City Council of Utrecht has pledged DFl.270,000 ( £84,400 ; $146,800 ) for the restoration of ten early villas by the Dutch artist , furniture designer and architect . |
| 10 | ‘ Mickey has played at the highest level and he gets the same thing out of the game as he has always done . |
| 11 | Moreover , the P cepacia problem has emerged at the same time as social networks have developed between adult patients with CF , and their families ; many individuals have derived great mutual benefit from these contacts , which provide for most of their social activity . |
| 12 | This is what has happened at the New End Hospital in Hampstead , where the developer , by adopting a conservation scheme , has gained more space than by demolition and rebuilding . |
| 13 | We have just noted how local politics in Britain has recently become more diversified , but , as Chapter 4 pointed out , this has happened at the same time as political power has become increasingly centralized . |
| 14 | Everything has happened at the last minute , right up against our deadlines , but I am convinced that if we can promote the raffle through the summer magazine it stands every chance of being a great success . |
| 15 | A similar lane design is apparent in the short section of curving roadway which has survived at the Minoan village of Tylissos , just to the west of House C ( Figure 13 and Plate 13 ) . |
| 16 | It is quite possible , he wrote , that it will lead nowhere , even when one has begun at the right time in the right spirit , or at least not at the wrong time , in the wrong spirit , with the wrong plans and having made the wrong preparations , with the wrong tools and the wrong principles , on the wrong surface and with the wrong conception . |
| 17 | But first this lunchtime , the trial has begun at the High court in Glasgow of two youths accused of murdering the Edinburgh student Paul Sheldon . |
| 18 | Summing up has begun at the High Court in the case of a woman who claims that a routine jaw operation left her paralysed for life . |
| 19 | To a young doctor like myself , these were my ‘ valuables ’ — the Zeiss Ikon microscope in the scuffed leather case , its precious lenses protected from dust by silk covers ; the glass-lidded box of stainless-steel instruments — retractors , forceps , hooks , scissors and needles ; my much-thumbed copy of that heavy-going but essential tome , Gray 's Anatomy ; manuals of pharmacology and pharmacy ; Belding 's Textbook of Clinical Parasitology and Strong 's Prevention and Treatment of Tropical Diseases , both of which I 'd bought at the last minute in the hope that the young man in John Bell & Croyden in Wigmore Street was right when he assured me that they provided ‘ the answers to all tropical problems ’ ; and some bound volumes of the British Medical Journal which I had picked up cheap in Charing Cross Road . |
| 20 | We 'd started at the same time . |
| 21 | The family coat of arms can be seen carved at the main doorway of the house and in the Church . |
| 22 | Now , in a bit of a rush : the asparagus was excellent , but its finger-bowls arrived late , so that buttery fingers only got rinsed at the last bite . |
| 23 | For example , a centred heading above justified text would become blocked at the left-hand margin if Alt+P was applied to it as well as to the text below . |
| 24 | Support Alan on Saturday and contact him with details those items you would like auctioned at the next opportunity in December . |
| 25 | ‘ Did you know , ’ said Damian , leaning humorously across the table towards Gawain , who was gazing transfixed at the top button of Bob 's coat , ‘ Jack did marry his Mummy ? ’ |
| 26 | Perhaps the second fragment had become detached at the same time and simply fallen to the ground where she had picked it up . |
| 27 | His next-door neighbours , who are getting married at the same time , also booked with Darlington Wedding Cars but they too have changed their booking . |
| 28 | This chapter will follow up this theme , and remain focused at the local level . |
| 29 | It may have formed at the same time as Coed y Brenin . |
| 30 | For one thing he was an impatient sort of eagle , inclined to get angry and feel insulted at the smallest thing ; for another — and this took Creggan a while to realize — he was preoccupied with thinking about what had happened to Minch , not daring to hope that what Creggan had so boldly said about her coming back was true . |