Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] at [art] [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the United States government support for organised labour came at a later date than in Europe ( only in the mid-1930s ) , and even then it still remained open to employers to try to persuade their own workers ( short of using overt coercion ) not to vote for union bargaining rights ( i.e. they still maintained ‘ an ethical mandate to continue with their belligerent behaviour towards unions ’ ( Adams , 1981 , p. 287 ) ) . |
| 2 | Breathing heavily Emilia stared at the younger woman as though bereft of all hope that she might be understood . |
| 3 | The hammer fell at the lower estimate of DM250,000 ( £625,000 ; $1 million ) for El Lissitzky 's mixed media work from the ‘ Proun ’ series ; it fell at DM110,000 ( £44,000 ; $70,400 ) , exceeding the reserve , for Sandor Bortnyik 's Cubist watercolour of a newspaper reader . |
| 4 | The most serious of the disorders occurred at the Broadwater Farm Estate , in Tottenham , London . |
| 5 | Sharpe pointed at the smaller road on which he and Doggett travelled . |
| 6 | While the country 's heritage vanished at an ever-faster rate , our town centres would sprout cosmeticized precincts and flower boxes and hold congratulatory receptions . |
| 7 | were in effect suggesting that the inner psychological motivations for racism existed at a deeper level of social reality than the socially shared norms of tolerance . |
| 8 | This would make it easy to disconnect them in case there was a need to make changes , or if problems arose at a later date . |
| 9 | Foreign investors looked at the higher yield of gilts over German government bonds without worrying about exchange risk . |
| 10 | It is probably significant that manufacturing employment fell at a slower rate in the North than in the South from 1984 to 1987 , and was estimated to have increased from 1987 to 1989 . |
| 11 | George smiled at the younger man . |
| 12 | As many wartime evacuees found to their alarm , rural housing remained at a lower standard than that to be found in most urban areas , with only slow progress having been made in the provision of piped water , sewerage and electricity . |
| 13 | The chapel was small , an altar stood at the further end from the entrance we came in by . |
| 14 | Dorian looked at the older man , and wondered about him . |
| 15 | " … over backwards to accommodate you , but it really does look , I 'm afraid , as though this incident with the canal and the cat has to be just about the last straw , ah Steve , I understand from Mr Ashton here — " Smith nodded at the older man , who pursed his lips and nodded back , " — that Mr ah … |
| 16 | Marler followed at a slower pace . |