Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [verb] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The importance of these statutory provisions appears to me to be that Parliament has considered at various times and in various contexts the need for recovery of imposts paid but not due and has legislated in a manner which suggests that no such general principle as the Woolwich contends for was thought to be in existence . |
| 2 | All the animals began shouting at poor Anabelle . |
| 3 | In earlier times and into the twelfth and thirteenth centuries , many of the basic administrative and judicial activities were carried out through the arrangement of hundreds , hundred courts , and hundredal manors courts being held at hundred meeting places , where three men for every tithing or vill had to attend at three-weekly intervals . |
| 4 | IN AN entry of over 1,000 cattle at McClelland 's Mart , Ballyclare , animals continued to sell at exceptional rates although prices slightly eased on the previous week . |
| 5 | The mist still limited visibility to less than a hundred yards and the fog-horn continued to blare at regular intervals . |
| 6 | Waiting just like the other four men Hitch had positioned at various places along the Thames . |
| 7 | Although authors have arrived at different figures , thus reflecting the inherent difficulty and speculative nature of the task involved , they have been unanimous in one conclusion : persons are deprived of far more money by corporate crimes than they are by ordinary economic crimes , such as robbery , theft , larceny , and auto-theft . |
| 8 | We suggest you find out where your newly-acquired friends and acquaintances tend to gather at different times of the day . |
| 9 | Accordingly , recent work has looked at new ways of defining rural deprivation over and above the arithmetic of woe shown in Tables 6.5 and 6.6 . |
| 10 | In the last chapter we looked at how the social institution of marriage has changed at different times in history . |
| 11 | Nigel liked looking at glossy magazines . |
| 12 | A case in point was a series of devastating strikes that Finniston had to weather at British Steel in 1974 . |
| 13 | He added that imports had to continue at competitive levels to safeguard jobs in the processing industry . |
| 14 | Land in this category tends to sell at inflated prices , over the current use value , varying from a marginal surcharge , to perhaps 50% over the value of building land , depending on the degree of hope that the site will receive planning approval in due course . |
| 15 | A guide price of $8,000 is being quoted for the router , which can support one or two local network connections and up to four SDLC links running at T1/E1 speeds . |
| 16 | In this particular case , however , there was no such conformity ; the attacks seemed to occur at random intervals and in many differing situations . |
| 17 | The body lay twisted at impossible angles . |
| 18 | The Air Djibouti flight from Addis Ababa had stopped at Dire Dawa but had picked up no passengers . |
| 19 | He he 's arguing I think on a basis of , of the experience of the past few years that the situation now in China was a , was a rather variable one , that land reform had proceeded at different rates in different areas and because areas where different that had to be taken into account and Mao explicitly was going back to the idea that in the newly liberated areas the policy would be one of rent reduction , interest rate reduction and that rent and interest rate reduction had to be established for some time until the position had consolidated around rent reduction , around interest rate reduction and once that had happened you would then be able to go into land reform itself . |
| 20 | Here the position that the plaintiff seeks to establish at common law is broadly consistent with the legislative policy evidenced by the Act of 1976 . |
| 21 | She declined to say if the supermarket group had looked at alternative sites in the town . |
| 22 | It is sometimes possible to find a few rare or special examples of an artist 's work that dealers have sold at rising prices , but this is no basis for saying prices for that artist 's work in general have risen . |
| 23 | Loaded down with non-performing assets , the banks have balked at new lending , which grew by just 1.1% over the 12 months to April , its slowest ever . |
| 24 | It could limit or remove altogether certain rights presumed to exist at common law . |
| 25 | Under McLaren 's tutelage , the Pistols began playing at private parties and the occasional pub , then regularly at the 100 Club in Oxford Street , building up an excitable following and a reputation for contrived mayhem . |
| 26 | So he and Mr Skinner started pointing at Tory MPs , appearing to be arguing about precisely how many of them had fallen asleep during the Health Secretary 's speech . |
| 27 | ‘ The fact that these tapes and stories keep reappearing at regular intervals suggests that someone is behind this attempt to hurt him . |
| 28 | In one area Tanucci did aim at far-reaching change . |
| 29 | One of the principles underlying Earth Mysteries is that unusual things do happen at certain places in the countryside . |
| 30 | Although the courts ' attitude to reports leading to legislation has varied , until recently there was no modern case in which the court had looked at parliamentary debates as an aid to construction . |