Example sentences of "[verb] at [art] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DNA and protein were mixed at an approximate ratio of 2:1 . |
| 2 | Discarded and shredded by the Bank of England and banknote manufacturer Thomas De La Rue , the paper money has been mixed at the Botanic Centre with sludge from a KP crisp factory on Teesside to form a peat-free compost . |
| 3 | Gratefully Gina covered her nakedness , marvelling at the strange circumstances in which she found herself . |
| 4 | Passing the township , both brakes jammed on , I slither and judder down the newly regravelled surface , hoping for something to pass and pick me up , but also marvelling at the open splendour of the valley scenery which surprises me afresh every time I look . |
| 5 | The only medal we had ever won at a major championship since 1978 was the bronze we had gained at Stuttgart in the European . |
| 6 | Inflation was estimated to increase at an annual rate of 4.5 per cent for 1990 , according to the OECD World Economic Outlook . |
| 7 | Phyllis is very particular about cleanliness , which is why she always shops at the new branch of Safeways . |
| 8 | Mehrabad , as previously mentioned , was attacked at the very beginning of the war . |
| 9 | She had desperately scrambled at the shiny sides of the toilet-bowl as she slid into the water but to no avail . |
| 10 | Still fuming at the insensitive arrogance of the man she turned and left the office . |
| 11 | A faint smile crossed Lancaster 's face , as though he was laughing at a cruel joke in dubious taste . |
| 12 | Everybody reacted as one , condemning this nonsense and laughing at the bare-faced cheek of it . |
| 13 | Was he laughing at the absurd idea of being an old fogey ? |
| 14 | The sky clears in the childbirth sequence because of Shatov 's sublime murmurings about the arrival of a new human being , but also because the midwife has her sleeves rolled up , because she is attacking a difficult and strenuous professional job , organizing essentials , masterminding the whole exercise , scolding Marie Shatov who allowed Shatov to get between her and the family in which she was a governess ‘ with the egotistical object of marrying you , laughing at the distraught husband on his knees unable either to bear the sound or block his ears before the birth ; and when all is tidied up , ‘ after some pleasant–es about ‘ the happy couple' ’ which were not without a touch of contempt and superciliousness , she went away as well satisfied as before . ’ |
| 15 | It was as if the sight of the man prodded at a dead spot within him , where no response would come . |
| 16 | I can tell him , however , that over the 1980s GDP per head in this country rose at an average rate of nearly 2 per cent . |
| 17 | Revised figures show that Britain 's GDP rose at an annual rate of 1.4% in the first quarter , up from the original estimate of 1.1% . |
| 18 | Prices rose at an annual rate of 4% last month , up from 3.8% in April and their quickest pace of increase since March last year . |
| 19 | General ‘ political economy ’ explanations must be correct in locating such developments within complex shifts in the production process , industrial infrastructure , and labour force requirements occurring at a particular stage of advanced industrialization — though much work needs to be done to define these shifts more precisely . |
| 20 | The method of carbon dating is based on the assumption that these two reactions have been occurring at a constant rate for the past 15000 years . |
| 21 | In Keynesian economics , this increase in aggregate demand occurring at an initial state of full employment will simply raise prices : there will be no output response even in the short run . |
| 22 | We first met Pacific waters at the windswept village of Puerto Natales , and suddenly there were mountains all around us : mountains and glaciers , and curious seabirds and dolphins and spume-whipped sea , the water a vivid blue under a cloudless sky . |
| 23 | Educated at a private school in Norton near Sheffield , Gaskell was apprenticed as a clerk to Yates & Cox , Liverpool iron merchants and nail-makers , in 1827 . |
| 24 | Helena was educated at a French boarding-school in Neuville , and then at Notting Hill High School . |
| 25 | He wo n't have to go to the two language schools being set up by Volvo and Renault in France and Sweden to teach English to engineers and designers ; le Quement was educated at a public school in England . |
| 26 | He was educated at the Marischal College of Aberdeen and a private school in Chelsea , and from 1831 till 1835 he attended classes at the University of Edinburgh . |
| 27 | Descartes could not avoid being a product of the Counter-Reformation , having been educated at the Jesuit College of La Flèche . |
| 28 | From the age of thirteen he was educated at the Jesuit College of St Omer , France , winning the laurel wreath for French studies . |
| 29 | Bromhead had been educated at the private school for the deaf in Rugby and was a fluent writer and reader of German , French and Latin . |
| 30 | He was educated at the private school for the deaf at Rugby , and then by private tutors — all entirely by sign language and fingerspelling , as was his sister . |