Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] at [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus tree rings are differentiated by the types , density and size of cell laid down at different times of the year ; varves by the gradation in particle size resulting from sedimentation of debris released into rivers and carried to lakes by the annual melt of glaciers ; and ice core layers by differences in dust content and acidity . |
| 2 | Whatever desperate or mundane disappointments might lie ahead , as we gazed down at those phantoms from another age I felt that we had become travellers in time . |
| 3 | On the one hand , the memorandum of association must qualify the company 's ability to provide surveying services , to the effect that such business must be carried on at all times in accordance with the Rules of Conduct for the time being of the RICS . |
| 4 | THE case must be made again for judges to stand down at 70 years of age . |
| 5 | In that early ‘ moment ’ , rock 'n' roll was an important intervention though carried through at varying levels of conscious awareness . |
| 6 | The Government can not be unaware that women are frightened to travel alone at night in isolated places , to wait in bus depots where no staff are present , or to be dropped off at bus-rail links at isolated railway stations where there is no one to guard them against possible danger . |
| 7 | In terms of scientific choice , for example , it is possible to establish the value placed upon a country 's contribution to high-energy physics , and to decide whether or not such research should be supported , but it would be difficult to measure the individual contributions made by isolated single researchers from small departments in the UK , when the major part of their work is carried out at international centres in Geneva , or California . |
| 8 | Research can be carried out at all sorts of levels ; we could restrict ourselves simply to reading everything we can find and produce a piece of work which was wholly based on documentary sources and which did not involve us in attending any baptisms or asking anyone involved any questions . |
| 9 | The technology has evolved from operations already carried out at coastal sites in Scotland in which lengths of oil and gas pipelines are made into bundles which are towed offshore at control depths for installation at oil and gasfields . |
| 10 | appropriate safety and environmental analyses are carried out at defined stages of exploration , development and production ; |
| 11 | Alongside the formal structures , a network of informal relationships has grown up at all levels of the organization . |
| 12 | However , over a period of time , and partly encouraged by urban planning policies , commuter villages have grown up at greater distances from the cities . |
| 13 | With the reversal of tidal currents deltas can be built up at both ends of the strait . |
| 14 | Even when the weather is too bad for astronomical observing , Alcock still wakes up at two-hourly intervals during the night to make meteorological observations . |
| 15 | Looking back at those debates on how we could fill in the time on our hands , the novelist Herbert Gold reflected that the Fifties were a time of ‘ happy people with happy problems ’ . |
| 16 | I 'm sure our successors will be looking back at those acquisitions as good ones ! |
| 17 | This found insignificant levels of cyanide but ‘ very significant levels ’ of lead , averaging out at 5700 parts per million , a lead content of 0.57 per cent . |
| 18 | So instead of automatically going to the timber yard and buying new timber , how about looking around at potential sources of second-hand timber and giving the poor old environment a helping hand ? |
| 19 | She set her alarm clock to go off at hourly intervals throughout the night , but even before its first summons she was disturbed . |
| 20 | knows what is going on at all times within the department ; |
| 21 | going in at eighteen pounds for two . |
| 22 | It 's going in at ten pounds for it . |
| 23 | They also have a ‘ stand by ’ appointment scheme , where you can ring in at certain times at half an hour 's notice , where prices range from £4 to £7 . |
| 24 | One example is the practice of engaging casual chambermaids , porters , waiters , bar and kitchen staff to cover the traditionally busy week or two around Christmas , or to help out at other times of the year when hotel occupancy rates exceed expected levels . |
| 25 | I know Mother used to help out at Low Fields in an attempt to ease Daddy 's burden a bit . |
| 26 | He was seen to bend down at two drains near his home . |
| 27 | The ends of the rivets were bent over at right angles on the back of the shield making it possible to calculate that the wooden boards of the complete circular shields were 0.5 to 1.5 cm thick . |
| 28 | One of the greatest of all sports car road races ever run , the Mille Miglia was first held in 1927 and , by tradition , cars set off at one-minute intervals from the centre of Brescia , raced down to Rome and returned . |
| 29 | JUN 1992 TOP post boxes and notice boards set up at various locations around the site and in mess rooms to communicate TOP news . |
| 30 | Its legs were splayed out at awkward angles on the rug , and its flanks rose and fell with the deep breaths of sleep . |