Example sentences of "[verb] at a [adj] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cultivation extends to about 600m , ending at a lower level on the colder north side of the island . |
| 2 | As Eurodisney opens in France , and the Minister of Culture Jack Lang is elevated yet higher by President Mitterrand , Michael Ignatieff looks at a stinging attack on French cultural politics |
| 3 | To find it , simply follow a line from Beta through Epsilon ; Omega lies at an equal distance on the far side of Epsilon . |
| 4 | Stretched out on a bed was Chuck Riley , with a girl dabbing at a nasty bruise on his forehead . |
| 5 | As Cixous suggests , the mode of knowledge as a politics of arrogation pivots at a theoretical level on the dialectic of the same and the other . |
| 6 | The UN Security Council was reported at a closed session on Nov. 25 to have accepted the conclusions of a report by Boutros-Ghali which described existing UN policy in Somalia as untenable in view of the looting of up to 80 per cent of aid and attacks on relief workers , as well as the shelling by armed groups on Nov. 24 of a UN-chartered grain ship approaching Mogadishu harbour . |
| 7 | The judge also ordered that the matter be further considered at a full hearing on 10 July 1992 . |
| 8 | for example , a production manager may be stuck about ideas on how to improve factory efficiency but looking at a potted plant on the desk might suggest an improved working environment or employees being given more wages ( which may be seen as the equivalent of plant food ) . |
| 9 | John had advised him to transfer from Rome airport to the railway station to avoid a five hour wait at Rome , but oh ! no ! big boots insisted on flying , although the late flight from Rome is notorious — and , of course , just after John had left for Naples airport , having to do quite a lot of the journey on foot , as late evening buses stop at a given time on Public Holidays , rang to say that Alitalia was alleging weather problems at Naples and so the passengers would be transferred by coach arriving at 2am . |
| 10 | A chance meeting at an international conference on prison security in Stockholm led to Latvia getting the blessing of a Scottish Office minister for assistance from the Scottish Prison Service towards reform of their penal system . |
| 11 | The result of our cursory glance at the attempts that have been made at a new perspective on law and the legal system is thus both clear and complicated : the legal system can no longer be understood to be monolithic , but is differentiated , and this differentiation is structured by its relationship to other social sub-systems ; law , moreover , has a different ideological role in different national legal cultures . |
| 12 | Refractory pouchitis — We selected 24 cases that were well known to their gastroenterologists and that fit the clinical , endoscopical , and pathological criteria for RP as adopted at an International Workshop on Pouchitis in London in January 1989 , including clinical symptoms ( bloody diarrhoea , malaise , or weight loss , or all three ) ; resistance to treatment with antibiotics and steroids ; and endoscopical features ( serpiginous ulcerations , cobblestone mucosa , or ileitis proximal to the reservoir , or all three ) . |
| 13 | The first skirmish over the national security issue came at a closed hearing on Jan. 11 when it was reported that the prosecution had accused the lawyer of one of Noriega 's co-defendants of improperly disclosing classified information when making an earlier request for access to National Security Council records . |
| 14 | Look at a particular point on the wall in front of you and try to relax . |
| 15 | It happens erm I 've handled a case myself where shares were valued at a particular amount on the death and er in due course they needed to be sold as part of the administration unfortunately they 'd gone down er a fair amount in the mean time . |
| 16 | The Figure omits the clones and probes spanning the rDNA region , because the majority of these clones also hybridise to over half of of the other YAC probes , and so it is not possible to place these clones and probes at a single position on the map . |
| 17 | An acid derived from the oil is produced at an unlikely location on the Outer Hebrides . |
| 18 | In the well planned enclosure , a special section of a much larger building , the heaters are mounted at a safe height on rafters or purlins to provide complete safety for shepherds and sheep alike . |
| 19 | The traffic had thinned considerably by now , and most of the twenty minutes of the journey were taken up by Carson calling at a late-opening delicatessen on the way . |
| 20 | Speaking at a military parade on May 14 to mark Kamuzu Day ( the President 's birthday ) , Banda accused foreigners of inciting the violence . |
| 21 | Commenting at a later stage on the commonly held expectation that London should lead developments in medicine , the Hampstead DGM was able to report that the Royal Free had ‘ in many ways been very successful in maintaining and consolidating its position ’ . |
| 22 | The obstruction of the peace process by the Khmers Rouges was repeatedly condemned at a Ministerial Conference on the Rehabilitation and Reconstruction of Cambodia which met in Tokyo on June 22 . |
| 23 | Finance costs should be recognised at a constant rate on the carrying amount , and that amount will be increased by the finance costs in respect of the period and reduced by payments made . |
| 24 | THE new poll tax for Darlington is likely to be set at a special meeting on Thursday . |
| 25 | To recognise where a reform is urgently required and must be effected at any cost , or where it may be postponed , or where it may be counted on to effect itself without outside influence , and , perhaps most important of all , to be able to recognise the fact that certain reforms would be beneficial could they be effected but that it is not possible to effect them at all ; to be able to arrive at a right decision on such points as these is what is chiefly required of a Resident . |
| 26 | The project focuses on the manner and extent to which these interests can arrive at a common view on the objectives of vocational training . |
| 27 | At about ten to nine I tethered the bike to a lamp-post and proceeded at a leisurely pace on foot to the Parsons ' . |
| 28 | Mum was the word in Bournemouth as work proceeded at a feverish pitch on a stunning new exhibition at the ExpoCentre . |
| 29 | His classification into personal and projected play represents a hierarchy of abstraction ; dramatic activities using oneself as the medium of expression standing at a lower level on the table of abstraction than dramatic activities using media other than oneself . |
| 30 | ‘ The answer to both your questions is yes , ’ she told the girl sitting at a long table on the far side of the room . |