Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [vb pp] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Londoner has starred at the Upper Malone arena for the past three meetings and his clashes with arch rival Colin Jackson have been something special . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This chapter has looked at the main academic and political perspectives which have shaped thinking on health and health care . |
| 5 | Their success in this area so changed the way British films were perceived that , in 1932 , a year when a large number of exhibitors substantially over-filled their quota , the American showbiz journal Variety reported on ‘ the complete stranglehold the home-made pictures had established at the local box office . ’ |
| 6 | Perhaps of more significance was their estimate of the cost of the rise in unemployment from 1979 to 1985 : they estimated that if the figure had remained at the 1979 level , the cost to the Exchequer in 1984–85 would only have been £7.5 bn . |
| 7 | The brakes had gone at the same corner where he rolled last year . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | At 22h AEL ( shown here ) , EJC amplitude indicates increased gluR synthesis has occurred at the aberrant NMJ as in later stages of normal synaptogenesis . |
| 10 | Wimpey Construction Canada , now part of International Operations , and McNamara Construction , processed an increased level of enquiries in 1992 , but the value of work awarded remained at the same level as 1991 . |
| 11 | This unprecedented discovery indicated one of two things : either at least four meteorites had fallen at the same place in Antarctica ( an event of vanishingly small statistical probability ) , or fragments of four meteorites , which had fallen at random on the interior ice sheet , had been carried to the Yamato Mountains site by ice motion . |
| 12 | Benny had looked at the cream-coloured blouses and soft pink angora sweaters . |
| 13 | Aunt Fosters had died at the right time . |
| 14 | Saxe-Weimar had arrived at the very nick of time . |
| 15 | Both companies have arrived at the same answer . |
| 16 | ‘ Mickey has played at the highest level and he gets the same thing out of the game as he has always done . |
| 17 | Maurice looked hurt at the very suggestion and suddenly Charlotte felt she was seeing beyond what had once been opaque but was now transparent into the cogs and coils of her brother 's mind . |
| 18 | Instead of flying straight to the United States , the Shah had decided at the last minute to accept an invitation from Anwar Sadat of Egypt to pause briefly in Aswan . |
| 19 | Late the following morning he had telephoned to inform her that he would be out of Taiwan for some days as a problem requiring his personal attention had arisen at the commercial recording studio he owned in Singapore . |
| 20 | This was the first time in the 47 years of its history that the UN had met at the top level . |
| 21 | A year earlier on Dec. 6 , 1988 , another bomb had exploded at the Free University , but no one claimed responsibility for the attacks . |
| 22 | It was after they had cleared supper and were sitting by the range with a cup of tea that the first person to arrive knocked at the front door . |
| 23 | Athelstan closed his eyes and breathed a prayer as he glimpsed the blue-black holes where the hungry ravens had pecked at the scrawny , whitening flesh . |
| 24 | In that case , it was logical to assume that Guy Sterne had decided at the last minute to avail himself of his unexpectedly empty villa for an impromptu break in the sun . |
| 25 | Montgomery remained seated at the gleaming table , and motioned with his hand for Meryl to sit down opposite . |
| 26 | However , changes have occurred at the local level , for there has been a strong centralization trend evident in both . |
| 27 | A number of studies have looked at the geographical distribution of doctors both in regions and in smaller districts . |
| 28 | His Heswall colleague , Ian Spencer , is the only player from Merseyside to have succeeded at the pre-qualifying stage for the school and will be in France next week . |
| 29 | This was checked by cDNA cloning and sequencing of the 3' end of the transcript , which showed that polyadenylation had occurred at the wild type beta-tubulin polyadenylation site ( position 1710 of the sequence in Kimmel et al ( 30 ) ; data not shown ) . |
| 30 | Twelve years ago , he said , President Ronald Reagan had stood at the same podium and said if the national debt were stacked in $1,000 bills , ‘ the stack would reach 67 miles into space . |