Example sentences of "[verb] at a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only medal we had ever won at a major championship since 1978 was the bronze we had gained at Stuttgart in the European . |
| 2 | A faint smile crossed Lancaster 's face , as though he was laughing at a cruel joke in dubious taste . |
| 3 | It was as if the sight of the man prodded at a dead spot within him , where no response would come . |
| 4 | General ‘ political economy ’ explanations must be correct in locating such developments within complex shifts in the production process , industrial infrastructure , and labour force requirements occurring at a particular stage of advanced industrialization — though much work needs to be done to define these shifts more precisely . |
| 5 | The method of carbon dating is based on the assumption that these two reactions have been occurring at a constant rate for the past 15000 years . |
| 6 | Educated at a private school in Norton near Sheffield , Gaskell was apprenticed as a clerk to Yates & Cox , Liverpool iron merchants and nail-makers , in 1827 . |
| 7 | Helena was educated at a French boarding-school in Neuville , and then at Notting Hill High School . |
| 8 | He wo n't have to go to the two language schools being set up by Volvo and Renault in France and Sweden to teach English to engineers and designers ; le Quement was educated at a public school in England . |
| 9 | On April 6 Parys had claimed at a televised meeting with army officers that politicians were preparing to use the army for " political intrigues " , offering officers promotion in return for their support . |
| 10 | The MoD had claimed at a public inquiry in 1988 that they needed the land for training and in 1991 asked to extend the area further . |
| 11 | The six have admitted the charges , committed at a rented factory in Burn Road , Hartlepool . |
| 12 | Herman , whom Erika had already been keeping at a safe distance from her feet , backed away . |
| 13 | For a continuously varying trait ( let us use human size as an example ) , the value of the trait in an individual is probably determined by what genes it has at a large number of genetic loci , together with the effect of the environment . |
| 14 | The nine-foot figure stands at a new development in Dockwray Square , North Shields , Stan Laurel 's home for 10 years . |
| 15 | This miraculous event caused Massaccio immediately to repent his past life , and he became a Benedictine monk , dying at a great age with the reputation of having led a saintly life in his chosen monastery . |
| 16 | With the basket of stocks trading at a combined price of £12.70 yesterday , the puts , exercisable at a strike price of £14.09 and initially costing 117p apiece , carried a mid-price of 203p . |
| 17 | Along with the rest of the property sector , British Land 's shares have been trading at a considerable discount to its assets per share , and yesterday 's move is an attempt to close the 40 per cent gap which built up as institutions took a dimmer view of the market . |
| 18 | Twilight had crept out of hiding and was stealthily wrapping the dying day in lavender shrouds , before they stopped at a small trattoria alongside one of the quieter canals . |
| 19 | The Select Committee 's examination of the four options which looks at a wide range of technical , economic , social and environmental factors and recommends the government to choose the Channel Tunnel Group proposal . |
| 20 | The report also looks at a wide variety of other Scottish buildings which have been allowed to deteriorate or may be destroyed by development . |
| 21 | As Eurodisney opens in France , and the Minister of Culture Jack Lang is elevated yet higher by President Mitterrand , Michael Ignatieff looks at a stinging attack on French cultural politics |
| 22 | Figure 2.3 looks at a similar period for Europe . |
| 23 | Brian Edwards looks at a handsome solution in central Glasgow — the Eagle Building |
| 24 | Football : Roxburgh has the flak flying : Don Lindsay looks at a buck-stopping inquest into a hiccup in Paris |
| 25 | This chapter looks at a different kind of self-access access by teachers to a camera . |
| 26 | The third looks at a different way of providing collective security , and centres on friendly societies bidding for the social security work the Government intends handing over to agencies , or hospitals opting for trust status within the NHS . |
| 27 | ‘ MEETING JESUS ’ by Leighton Ford contains 13 studies each of which looks at a different aspect of who Jesus is . |
| 28 | Already he has had offers from league and , although he has no interest in switching codes at the moment , the history of the game is littered with examples of guys who were caught at a low ebb by rugby league scouts and consequently signed . |
| 29 | This seems an apt description of the defensive strategies associated with a racism of relative affluence caught at a particular moment of its crystallization . |
| 30 | The lower slopes , which descend at a lesser incline to a height of 110 metres , also produce fine wines , although not quite the same exalted standard as the rest of this village . |