Example sentences of "[verb] in [noun] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Special Forces men burst through the front door of The Anabaptist Reform Church , and gaped in horror at the unholy tableau spread out before them . |
| 2 | In a television interview given after appearing in Adelaide at the annual meeting of his parent company , News Corporation , he confessed to having ‘ considerable sympathy ’ for the way Bob was handling the economy . |
| 3 | I had to promise mum I 'd write to each of them , and apologise in person at the first possible opportunity , and also that I 'd stop off at Lochgair before I returned to Glasgow , to see dad . |
| 4 | It was taken away stone by stone and rebuilt in part at the Beamish Museum in Newcastle area , which specializes in preserving country ways . |
| 5 | There , Emerson made a superb start but got caught in traffic at the first left-hander . |
| 6 | All have resigned in despair at the Russian government 's inability to influence the central government . |
| 7 | Winchelsey 's pre-eminent objective had been to ensure that clerical taxation by the crown — conceded in principle at the Third Lateran Council in 1179 — was subject to clerical consent and was collected and managed by the clergy , a necessary corollary to their freedom of consent . |
| 8 | The system will be presented in detail at the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks 92 to be held in Baltimore , Maryland next month . |
| 9 | Instead , she stood still , looking in surprise at the gentle lined face above her , in which was set a pair of kind eyes of the brightest blue she had ever seen . |
| 10 | A White Paper outlined their proposals in February 1971 and legislation followed in the parliamentary session of 1971 — 72 ; but before looking in detail at the consequent Local Government Act 1972 , a few general considerations need to be discussed . |
| 11 | Looking in detail at the fiscal assessment of the settlement around 1200 , she came to the conclusion that the village was originally planned between 1066 and 1086 , when it consisted of 16 crofts , eight on each side of the village street . |
| 12 | We shall be looking in detail at the full routine for carrying out an assemble edit later in this chapter . |
| 13 | By looking in detail at the different responses this process elicited , I want to raise some questions about reading as a specific social activity . |
| 14 | TRACE II has no choice but to start at the beginning and work rightwards , since input directed to feature detectors automatically results in activity at the phonetic and lexical levels through the hard-wired connections . |
| 15 | Apparently acting in protest at the economic blockade , a 52-year-old Lithuanian factory worker , Stanislovas Zhamaitis , committed suicide by setting fire to himself outside the Bolshoi Theatre in the centre of Moscow on April 26 . |
| 16 | She squinted in bewilderment at the ten or so boarders who had formed her little band of helpers . |
| 17 | He set up a Press release and organised a Press Announcement to be made in London at The Natural History Museum . |
| 18 | Going back : Graham Robb , the Tory candidate defeated in Hartlepool at the general election , is to move back to Darlington . |
| 19 | The two senior residents frowned in unison at the rising temperature chart . |
| 20 | The major slick , and the only one posing a serious threat to wildlife , had emanated from the Mina al-Ahmadi terminal in Kuwait , and from oil storage tanks ruptured in combat at the Saudi border town of Khafji ; smaller slicks came from Iraq 's Mina al-Bakr terminal and facilities around Bubiyan Island . |
| 21 | Let us now look in detail at the linguistic abilities required to handle intentional mode explanations . |
| 22 | Let us look in detail at the last of these , since they would seem to be most relevant . |
| 23 | From a high dune vantage point one can only look in awe at the purple dappled carpet spread out below . |
| 24 | Businessmen and elderly women picked their way over the broken concrete and steel to stare in disbelief at the crippled buildings with their bulging walls and blackened balconies . |
| 25 | She sighed in delight at the delicious possibilities for revenge … |
| 26 | Momper 's " red-green " alliance had collapsed on Nov. 15 when the AL withdrew in protest at the violent eviction by 3,000 police of several hundred ( mainly west Berliner ) squatters from 13 apartment buildings in the Friedrichshain district of east Berlin the previous day ; 300 people were arrested and over 100 injured in the clashes . |
| 27 | Mr Furbank gives an excellent picture of this hand-to-mouth existence , not so different from that which Samuel Johnson was leading in London at the same time . |
| 28 | The Palestinians were kept bound and blindfolded in buses at the Lebanese border for some 20 hours while Israeli civil rights lawyers tried to win a court order to halt the deportations . |
| 29 | Anyway , ’ he concluded morosely , ‘ it was established that he arrived in Kinghorn at the expected time . ’ |
| 30 | The question of forming an independent union had sharply divided delegates during the five days of debate , despite having been approved in principle at the first congress in June [ see p. 37617 ] . |