Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [adv] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wind was blowing hard at the Highlanders ' faces , according to the literature given out at the Culloden Visitors ' Centre , and the two armies were in position at one o'clock , approximately four to five hundred yards apart . |
| 2 | Ingrid Heseltine , an EC civil servant , found the vacancies tucked away at the back of Euro documents , printed in French . |
| 3 | Iain looked up when Andrew came in but quickly returned his attention to the screen when he heard the volley of shots and his lips parted slightly at the crescendo of violence and glamour . |
| 4 | The workforce at Linton and Hirst 's is to be cut by one third despite a two million pound investment programme carried out at the company in July . |
| 5 | The libraries have been designed on the basis of research carried out at the University under the auspices of a Department of Trade & Industry programme , and include temporal functions to monitor the start and stopping time of shares , financial risk calculation and probability functions . |
| 6 | The libraries have been designed on the basis of research carried out at the University under the auspices of a Department of Trade & Industry programme , and include temporal functions to monitor the start and stopping time of shares , financial risk calculation and probability functions . |
| 7 | A notable exception to this consensus in the early literature that madness and creativeness are frequently connected is a study carried out at the beginning of the century by Havelock Ellis . |
| 8 | A study carried out at the University of California in Berkeley compared woman who maintained 20 per cent weight loss over two years with dieters who relapsed . |
| 9 | A study carried out at the Army Personnel Research Establishment ( APRE ) in Farnborough simulated wartime conditions for ten soldiers , who were required to defend a position during a tactical exercise lasting ten days . |
| 10 | Once you have all your lists of goals written somewhere at the front of your diary , you are ready to start . |
| 11 | You remember that night was pretty dark , so I could n't have seen if there was a boat tied up at the jetty . |
| 12 | Posidonius confessed that at first he had been disturbed by the spectacle of human heads nailed up at the entrance of the aristocratic Celtic houses , but afterwards " becoming used to it he could bear it with equanimity " ( Strabo 4.4.5 ) . |
| 13 | It is therefore particularly fitting that it is a charity associated with the teaching profession hat takes some of the books left over at the end of the sale to ‘ sent to countries in dire need ’ , as Lewis Romanis , former Headmaster of Boroughmuir School , put it in his gracious thank-you letter . |
| 14 | At times the supporting leg would bend when on balance , whilst the working one was also bent with the foot turned up at the ankle during certain poses , or when performing a rond de jambe en dehors or en dedans during the pas de deux . |
| 15 | The interiors of a number of parish churches were similarly transformed as the Laudian bishops campaigned vigorously for the erection of altars positioned permanently at the east end of the chancel and railed off from the nave . |
| 16 | With the issue priced right at the bottom of market expectations , analysts last night forecast that shares will start trading at a hefty profit . |
| 17 | With the issue priced right at the bottom of market expectations , analysts last night forecast that shares will start trading at a hefty profit . |
| 18 | Although there were some variations as the election campaign unfolded , the thrust of the Tory message on law and order did not deviate from the plan drawn up at the meeting on 7 July 1978 . |
| 19 | Football specials lined up at the Pleasure Beach loop on 22 November 1980 , during a cup-tie match between Blackpool and Fleetwood . |
| 20 | It should be no more and no less than the business carried on at the time of completion . |
| 21 | The completion accounts shall consist of [ a statement of net assets of the business drawn up at the transfer date and a profit and loss account for the xx months then ended and such additional notes as the Vendor 's accountants shall deem reasonable ] and shall be prepared , in order of descending priority , with due regard to the concept of materiality in accordance with : |
| 22 | The completion accounts shall consist of [ a statement of net assets of the business drawn up at the transfer date and a profit and loss account for the xx months then ended and such additional notes as the Vendor 's accountants shall deem reasonable ] and shall be prepared , in order of descending priority , with due regard to the concept of materiality in accordance with : |
| 23 | There is also a collection of Wycliff 's writings brought over at the time of England 's Queen Anne . |
| 24 | like Jimmy next door , he 's always dropping off and he got a vent put in at the bottom of his door , they took the pipe out and behind you had a big open |
| 25 | And then , terribly pleased with that demonstration , the anthropologist goes on to try to fit in everything : and a good anthropologist is one who completes the picture and appears to have no pieces left over at the end . |
| 26 | I wanted the sleeves to be semi-full , with the ease taken in at the wrist . |
| 27 | They had shown the cluster of dark low-roofed buildings huddled together at the road 's side , reaching far back into the hillside . |
| 28 | Nerina called in at the office to see her mother . |
| 29 | It all started early this morning , when a rather anxious mum called in at the office . |
| 30 | The examination schedule drawn up at the beginning of the test may need to be modified in the light of findings in the earlier stages of the test . |