Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb past] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the rallies were violent , if only because of the resentment which Labour supporters felt at the splitting of the anti-Conservative vote . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | Social relations lay at the heart of lived experience . |
| 6 | When the Free Presbyterians arrived at the Assembly Hall in Fisherwick Place , the police threw a rope across the road and stopped the march . |
| 7 | A few men appeared at the corner of the union building , on their faces a blend of caution and apathy . |
| 8 | She smiled at the few women clustered at the counter and acknowledged their somewhat surprised greetings , and was enormously grateful to Frank Green , the owner , for treating her as if she were a regular and valued customer instead of a virtual stranger . |
| 9 | Up on the scaffolding , the two rugged manly types whistled at the womenfolk . |
| 10 | Several would-be sailors scoffed at the idea of a race until they actually set sail . |
| 11 | Whereas influential books like Flint 's Glacial and Pleistocene Geology adopted a structure in which landforms and landscape patterns comprised the early part of the book and then were succeeded by chapters on stratigraphy and chronology in different areas and this was echoed in the structure of research on specific areas ; by the late 1970s books by physical geographers had adopted a structure in which chronology and the classic models appeared at the beginning . |
| 12 | Indeed , even without having to go so far as the Commission of the European Communities did at the hearing in arguing that registration itself already constitutes a form of establishment , it must be observed that in any event registration is a precondition for taking up and pursuing activities in the fisheries sector . |
| 13 | Grey-wigged jackdaws with bright glinting eyes tumbled at the cliff edge . |
| 14 | Only fourteen comprehensive schools existed at the time when Tony Crosland was writing : good grammar schools could not simply be swept away , nor the rights and duties of Local Education Authorities brushed aside . |
| 15 | A striking example of the area 's isolation occurred when Yakovlev and his thirteen men arrived at the end of their horse-ride in the village of Nikol'sk . |
| 16 | A typical run over 10 seconds began at the moment of address and finished with the follow-through . |
| 17 | The execution-style killings occurred at the Wat Promkunaram temple , the second-largest site of Buddhist worship in the country , built in 1988 in a remote location 20 miles west of Phoenix . |
| 18 | The six competitors sat at the tea tables , together but strangely separate — each gazing at her hands or off into the distance , and never at one another . |
| 19 | The release of Cicippio , who had been abducted by the RJO in September 1986 [ see p. 35023 ] , coincided with the payment by the USA to Iran of US$278,000,000 in compensation for Iranian weapons impounded at the time of the 1979 Iranian revolution . |
| 20 | None of these methods seemed at the time to have any relevance to therapeutics , and the scientists who developed them would have found it very difficult to persuade the distributors of funds for medical research to support them , but without them the practical advances which came later would have been impossible . |
| 21 | His narrow , bloodshot eyes glared at the replacement . |
| 22 | His face began to change , and small , shadowed lines appeared at the corners of his mouth and eyes . |
| 23 | But these studies looked at the interactions between species only to explore the process by which evolution produced complex adaptive structures . |
| 24 | Seagulls , afloat like the boats , idled round Lord Jim , their white feathers soiled at the waterline . |
| 25 | The days of the popularity of black and white etchings waned at the turn of this century : the demand was filled by photographic views , first in black and white and then in colour . |
| 26 | There is good evidence that a flourishing trade in false antiquities existed at the turn of the century , and its products filtered through to the United States and Europe . |
| 27 | TWENTY more or less innocent little faces looked at the pianist and the two teachers and chanted : ‘ Thank you Mary , thank you Brenda , thank you Michael . ’ |
| 28 | And her white Reeboks screeched at the marble as she turned and led me to the waiting forms . |
| 29 | Her head drooped to one side , and her heavy-lidded eyes stared at the ashtray , even though they did not focus on it . |
| 30 | They might have been supplied by sea , but the English had more ships than that first fleet driven off , and presently many vessels appeared at the mouth of Tweed , not to attempt attack this time but to patrol up and down , blockading the harbour . |