Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Made with 1.4 , 1.6 and 1.8 litre petrol engines , the Tempras are agile performers aimed at the business users ' market . |
| 2 | It is argued that specific policies implemented at the outset of British rule led to the development of a judicial system which did not coincide with either British or indigenous notions of justice but which was none the less compatible with local culture . |
| 3 | Four former South African police officers were sought by the Namibian authorities to testify at the trial , but had refused to come forward , despite being offered immunity from prosecution . |
| 4 | Round-table discussions held at the Institute of Latin America early in 1981 revealed that several Soviet ideologists were now prepared to lend credence to the long-discredited theories of guerrilla warfare upheld by Che Guevara . |
| 5 | Some of the rallies were violent , if only because of the resentment which Labour supporters felt at the splitting of the anti-Conservative vote . |
| 6 | There was less interest in the possibility of home delivery , although mobile shops calling at the door would be an obvious service to housebound consumes . |
| 7 | Is the existence of a supportive relationship before an event the critical factor , or can new supportive relationships mobilised at the time of the event be effective ? |
| 8 | This means that it can not be ruled out that new supportive relationships established at the time of a crisis might also sometimes be beneficial . |
| 9 | It re-appeared a few weeks later as Netwise UK Ltd , in what some creditors argued at the time was ‘ an apparent breach of Section 312 of the UK Insolvency Act of 1986 . ’ |
| 10 | It re-appeared a few weeks later as Netwise UK Ltd , in what some creditors argued at the time was ‘ an apparent breach of Section 312 of the UK Insolvency Act of 1986 , ’ ( UX No 375 ) . |
| 11 | The honours list simply shores up Britain 's class system guaranteeing that those with grand hereditary titles remain at the top of the heap . |
| 12 | Of the non-INJAC groups represented at the conference the most significant were two London-based groups , the Nationalist Iraqi Constitution ( led by Salah Omar Ali ) and the Free Iraqi Congress ( led by Saad Saleh Jaber ) . |
| 13 | The British authorities argued at the time that the way to tackle this problem of falling competitiveness , far from being to allow the pound to devalue , was to maintain a rigid exchange rate for sterling and so through the resulting high interest rates and tight money ‘ to squeeze inflation out of the system ’ . |
| 14 | Rachel groaned as her alarm sounded the following Monday morning and , rolling over , she flicked the button to silence it , then lay for a few minutes staring at the ceiling . |
| 15 | At Gloucester in July 1634 the judges ' proceedings were based partly upon the 800 presentments made at the swanimote held in the Forest of Dean in the previous month : 420 of these for unlawfully cutting and selling woods , 260 for illegal inclosures and other encroachments , 80 for taking the king 's game and 10 for unauthorized operation of ironworks . |
| 16 | Other DCE-compliant technologies shown at the exhibition included : Transarc Corp 's Encina transaction processing monitor ; Atrium Technologies Inc 's Dazel distributed-information-delivery system and Sybase Inc 's DCE-compliant System 10 prototype . |
| 17 | They brought their turbans , their pride and their brown eyes twinkling at the prospect of business . |
| 18 | Trevor Hold in his recent anthology A Northamptonshire Garland , identifies the house described in Leapor 's poem ‘ Crumble Hall ’ , as Edgcote House , on the grounds that the carved heads described at the beginning of the poem correspond to a drawing of Edgcote House by Peter Tillemans ( c. 1684–1733 ) . |
| 19 | English fans have at the moment , the reputation of being the top boys in Europe , and there will be others from Holland , Germany and erm let's face it , also Italy who 'll be out to knock them off their pedestal . |
| 20 | From Figure 10.3 , it appears that the approaching waves collide at the surface and reach a horizon at . |
| 21 | — DURHAM Club Stewards Association branch of the Managerial , Scientific and Finance Union held it 's sixth annual banquet and ball with more than 480 guests attending at the Federation Brewery 's Lancastrian Suite . |
| 22 | A long way away , he could hear the sound of some dogs howling at the night sky . |
| 23 | Clear scenic coastal views of unsightly sights sighted at the seashore |
| 24 | But early yesterday , several thousand people with different ideas assembled at the Dynamo Metro station , and began marching towards Red Square , where officials were putting the finishing touches to preparations for the usual annual parade . |
| 25 | is a shift chemist with 12 years experience at the site . |
| 26 | Thanks to the changing critical climate , the new ideas circulating among filmmakers and the relaxation of the censorship rules , the British films made at the end of the 1930s were much tougher and more emotionally charged , than anything that had gone before . |
| 27 | She could n't be found when social workers called at the family home . |
| 28 | It is for these reasons that many of the relationships between media content and public perceptions remain at the level of supposition and assertion . |
| 29 | Our data may , however , serve as a basis for further studies aiming at the identification of regulatory factors ( for example , hormones , lymphokines , cytokines ) that modulate the expression and function of integrins of colorectal cancer cells . |
| 30 | These situations may be characterised not by the actual risk felt in the situation but by the potential for risky situations to occur at the junction . |