Example sentences of "[verb] at [art] [adj] [noun] were " in BNC.
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1 | It is not yet clear how many of the almost 80 other prisoners freed at the same time were held for political reasons . |
2 | At sea the ship can appear enormous , and even minor landing craft travelling at a brisk trot were a hazard to canoes , for the minor LC 's blunt bow pushed out a small wall of water . |
3 | Opposition encountered at the two festivals were City of Portsmouth , Havant , Trojans , Winchester , Old Tauntonians , Blandford , Gosport , Hamble , Yateley and Bournemouth . |
4 | This time , things proceeded in a more civilised manner and the arrangements concluded at the imperial conferences were enshrined in the Statute of Westminster 1931 , s.4 of which provided , amongst many other things , that for the future , no Act of the imperial Parliament should extend to any of the six Dominions listed above unless it expressly stated that the Dominions in question had requested and consented to the |
5 | Communications arriving at the orderly room were largely turgid documents in ‘ Whitehallese ’ from the War Office . |
6 | During the rituals for initiation into each successive age-set the ‘ true ’ meanings of certain sacred objects are revealed and it transpires that the interpretations given at the previous stage were false or partial . |
7 | To analyse whether other putative developmental control genes expressed at the midbrain-hindbrain boundary were affected by antibody injections , we examined the expression of the zebrafish homologues of murine Wnt-1 and En-2 , genes that are important for the normal formation of this region in mice . |
8 | I think that it is an open secret that if the misfortune of a Labour Government being returned at the next election were to befall Britain there would be the mother and father of financial crises , which would lead to an increase in interest rates of at least 2 per cent . |