Example sentences of "[verb] at the [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I 'm planning to do is to put them back in the order , colleagues could you settle down please , I 'm planning to put them back on the agenda in the order that they fell off , and er , hopefully , the first opportunity in that connection may be Wednesday afternoon , but I need to have a discussion with colleagues about that , but I 'll certainly let you know at the first available opportunity . |
| 2 | He was educated at the Royal Agricultural College in Cirencester ( 1883–5 ) , graduating with honours in drawing and science . |
| 3 | Crum Brown was educated at the Royal High School , Edinburgh , and Mill Hill School . |
| 4 | He was educated at the Royal High School and the University of Edinburgh , after which he spent two years learning commerce with a London agency house . |
| 5 | The son of a post office worker in Edinburgh , he was educated at the Royal High School and at Edinburgh and London Universities . |
| 6 | He was educated at the Royal Academical Institution , Belfast . |
| 7 | He succeeded to his barony as a minor in July 1742 and may have been educated at the English Jesuit College at St Omer in France . |
| 8 | Young Archie was educated at the local National school until he was 14 and then apprenticed to Stephens & Sons , pioneers of the Stephens motor-car . |
| 9 | He was educated at the Jewish Free School in Bell Lane , and followed his father 's trade . |
| 10 | In , if the skills of MAS are likely to be required by the client in the later stages of the acquisition process , MAS should be included at the earliest possible opportunity ( if not already the main client contact ) . |
| 11 | We arranged to meet at the next new mum 's group at my house the following week . |
| 12 | Our last port of call is at Chequer 's Buttress ( E1 5b ) , which fittingly stands at the far right end of Froggatt Edge . |
| 13 | Hill reported at the first general meeting that Lord Hamilton and Sir William Birt of the GER Co. had promised to help the Alliance in ‘ every way they could ’ ( SE 14 October 1899 ) . |
| 14 | He cursed himself inwardly for this sudden indisposition , which had come at the worst possible moment . |
| 15 | The latest surge in the yen has come at the worst possible time for many Japanese companies , especially exporters . |
| 16 | She said she was sure she had rung at the worst possible moment — she always rang important people at the worst possible moment . |
| 17 | Well , I 'm not sure that 's correct , but anyway Mill thinks that these ideas local participation of jury service are ways of getting people involved at the highest practical level of participation . |
| 18 | Vanessa looks at the familiar mucky mix of local political wheeler-dealing and multinational corruption with a Welsh village finding that embracing the entente cordiale fools them into having their lake turned into a French chemical waste dump . |
| 19 | This project looks at the global industrial context of the Single European Market . |
| 20 | Turmoil is a word that comes to mind when one looks at the evolving British education system . |
| 21 | Turmoil is the word that comes to mind when one looks at the evolving British education system . |
| 22 | ‘ Turmoil is the word that comes to mind when one looks at the evolving British education system , ’ wrote John Davies , director of the Educational Publishers Council of the Publishers Association , in The Bookseller in January . |
| 23 | The chapter looks at the formal regulatory approach as adopted in the UK and the US . |
| 24 | Here Nevile de Moraes of William Osborne looks at the FAB 3 story from the builder 's point of view . |
| 25 | What a pity Roman did n't take after any of them , she thought privately , smiling as Christian reached out a rather sticky little hand and tugged the poppy-flowered silk sleeve of her sheath-dress , and then caught at the heavy blonde plait at her nape . |
| 26 | The agents , who were sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment for sinking the Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior and killing one of its crew in Auckland harbour in 1985 , were released into French custody in return for $7,000,000 in compensation and a guarantee that they would be confined at the French military base on Hao atoll for three years . |
| 27 | Many Americans who lived through the war years and remembered quite vividly the virtual hatred and perceived Japanese treachery fuelled during the war probably stiffened at the presented Japanese viewpoint but it remains , for the most part , historically accurate . |
| 28 | Maurice Cottrell , who lives at the same nursing home as Les , was lucky enough to have his name picked out of the hat . |
| 29 | O N A less acrimonious note , I was glad to read that David Alton , the Liberal Democrat MP for Liverpool Mossley Hill , is likely to stand at the next General Election . |
| 30 | The economic theory underlying this optimistic view of technical change is termed ‘ compensation theory ’ , and we will discuss this after we have looked at the competing rhetorical question . |