Example sentences of "[verb] at the [adj] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His suicide , in protest at the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the forces of the Warsaw Pact — only Romania declined to participate - seemed to catch at the Western conscience as somehow symbolic of those dreadful days , though it produced no result other than a further deepening of the Cold War . |
| 2 | The diplomatic or business historian may gaze at the e-text archive and ask who decided what , but in situations which involve rule based elements in a Decision Support System ( DSS ) , the historian may well ask whose decision ? |
| 3 | So , we 're in a pretty strong position to make acquisitions if they appear at the right price and they fit our strategic framework . |
| 4 | First , just two appear at the front end as distinct blocks of tissue and then , about each hour , another pair are added behind them and a wave of formation proceeds backwards so that at the end of a few days there are 46 somites . |
| 5 | b , Cell bodies of the trigeminal nerve in r3 of a normal embryo are not located at the ventral midline but are distributed more laterally ( arrowhead ) and send their axons directly lateral before turning anteriorly and crossing into r2. c , DiI retrograde tracing of the facial motor nerve in a normal embryo shows that the cell bodies in r5 ( indicated by the white arrow ) are located along the midline and project their axons anteriorly into r4 . |
| 6 | So the neurotransmitters then bind to receptors which are which are the same as the channels , the channel is both the receptor , the ligan binder , and er and an ion channel , and it 's located at the postsynaptic membrane or at the surface of the muss muscle fibre if we 're dealing with a neuromuscular junction . |
| 7 | I knock at the wood-plank door and it sounds as empty as a politician 's promise . |
| 8 | Referring to the customer , he said : ‘ He was committed at the very moment that he put his money into the machine . |
| 9 | These points are being forgotten at the very time that they have become most pressing — for the transition from communism in Russia and Eastern Europe has added greatly to the demands that are being placed on western aid budgets . |
| 10 | For keyboard operators this means seating at the correct height and having a work station where the wrists are straight and the elbows bent at 90° . |
| 11 | In normal embryos this surface polarity is indicative of a profound reorganization of the embryo which develops at the 8-cell stage and is thought to underlie the process of cell divergence ( 2 ) . |
| 12 | Sanjurjo perished at the very outset when the plane taking him back to Spain from his Portuguese exile crashed on take-off . |
| 13 | They stopped at the modern bungalow that was the home and office of the local police constable . |
| 14 | From each transformant , small pieces of mycelium were picked at the thallus periphery and grown on minimal medium with or without uridine . |
| 15 | Rory sucked at the tiny wound and spat , trying to remove any dirt . |
| 16 | Will my hon. Friend reflect on the mirror image of those charges , when one looks at the Liberal Democrat and Labour party Front-Bench spokesmen to see how many come from Scottish constituencies and frequently and regularly speak on purely English matters ? |
| 17 | It looks at the WORDY licence and sees that the licence does not prevent the transfer of the package to someone else . |
| 18 | The amount of time that even ‘ professional ’ long-firm fraudsters spend in prison is remarkably small in relation to the generally large amounts of money that are obtained from such frauds ( Reading 5 , Chapter 5 , taken from Levi 's study , looks at the long-firm fraudster and imprisonment ) . |
| 19 | Peter Edwards looks at the blank space that now passes for a promotions policy . |
| 20 | Sellotape will not stick to varnish , she had discovered ; she ended up with hammer and tintacks , shrinking at the unseemly noise and violence . |
| 21 | There 's only one thing that struck me when I was reading through it but a as I say , we we got to look at this from point of view are we going to date this as it lies at the present moment and add to it pieces that we want , or do we start off by having the pieces o i its its now whe w w |
| 22 | Several of the company had dined at the Adelphi Hotel and during the meal Dotty Blundell had sung her praises . |
| 23 | It starts at the bottom line and scans across to ‘ see ’ what colours have been placed in this row of squares . |
| 24 | Unlike its competitors , Eden is still avoiding building in support for wireless data networks in its machines : it 's an attractive market on paper but ‘ we 've looked at the available technology and put together designs , but have n't taken it very far because the pricing just has n't worked ’ says Crisp . |
| 25 | Had she looked at the living Rachaela as now Rachaela looked at Ruth ? |
| 26 | Rohmer , who had become so silent , looked at the storm-driven snow and the living electricity which buffeted the window nearest to him . |
| 27 | Nobody who had looked at the bald bullet-head and roly-poly self-confidence of the visitor , or heard his folksy repartee , could fail to have been reminded of an American grass roots politician on tour . |
| 28 | I know because many years ago I happened to be in the right place , in the ambulance I was driving at the right time and was able to e effect a rescue of an old woman from her smoke filled house at Burstill Ten minutes later I could not have done it because of the smoke . |
| 29 | It will probably not go unnoticed if you appear well organized at this stage , and it will certainly help you to appear at the right place and at the right time looking calm and unruffled . |
| 30 | The regent has said , even if it takes all day , we are not to appear at the royal palace or the Savoy until we have something more to tell him ! ’ |