Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [vb pp] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the one hand , some clients may prefer a structured day with routine care , which everyone receives given at set times , very probably by a succession of nurses . |
| 2 | Indeed , pre-existing opportunities have contracted as a result of the sale of council houses , which has proceeded at faster rates in more attractive suburban-type locations ( Forrest and Murie , 1983 ; Kleinman and Whitehead , 1987 ) , while the prices in the owner-occupied sector have risen so far that first-time buyers appear increasingly to be excluded from the housing market ( NBS , 1986 ) . |
| 3 | Again , part of men 's extra earnings comes from their greater tendency to work shifts for which they get paid extra , and overtime which gets paid at premium rates . |
| 4 | The strange thing is that the SERC itself has looked at similar issues in a report on the ‘ decline in physics ’ ( ie ‘ little ’ as opposed to ‘ big ’ physics , which includes the solid state physics that underpins materials science and microelectronics ) . |
| 5 | The Prime Minister gave no hint during her performance in the Commons yesterday that her language at Strasbourg will be any less caustic than the manner she has adopted at recent Commonwealth summits . |
| 6 | The Prime Minister gave no hint during her performance in the Commons yesterday that her language at Strasbourg will be any less caustic than the manner she has adopted at recent Commonwealth summits . |
| 7 | Now as someone who 's taught at other institutions — I 've taught at the University of Kent and at Middlesex Polytechnic — I think I was aware of the level of harassment which erm was there in those institutions , there certainly was sexual harassment , it certainly was a problem , but I have to say it did n't seem to me to be the problem that the students have identified it as being in Oxford and I think that 's striking and it 's something that erm as tutors and as a university we really do have to think about . |
| 8 | Festival spokesman Joe Leddin said : ‘ The Japanese man was born in 1903 and intends to play , as he has done at previous festivals . |
| 9 | Laing feels strongly that the chief executive of a company should define , as he has done at United Biscuits , exactly what its responsibilities to the community are . |
| 10 | He has looked at marginal rates in some cases , but not in others . |
| 11 | It was such an idea of modularity that Minsky intended in the quoted passage above , and he has suggested at various times that an organism would be more efficient , in terms of its ability to survive , if it had , as a separate module , a model of itself , which might of course be totally false as to the facts of the self 's reality : alcoholics who believe themselves to be merely social drinkers probably survive less well than those who believe themselves to be alcoholics . |
| 12 | His journals , which he has published at regular intervals ( the fourteenth volume appeared recently in France ) bear witness to the enormous interest he takes in everything that happens in the world outside him , and to a human being scornful of bourgeois conformity , almost an anarchist , and a convinced pacifist . |
| 13 | The ratio of girls to boys going to university fluctuated from 70 per cent in 1925 ; 50 per cent in 1937 ; 47 per cent in 1950 ; 50 per cent in 1960 ; 66 per cent in 1973 ; and it has remained at that level since . |
| 14 | Although the board paid an interim dividend of 0.65 pence , it has decided at this stage to invest its funds in the business — the amount available , says chairman Rupert Bayfield , would have been negligible anyway . |
| 15 | It 's done at six days |
| 16 | So wherever you are in the country , it 's charged at local prices . |
| 17 | The computer misuses act sounds like another law which might help , it 's enforced at this police unit in London , but it too seems powerless to stop outsiders impersonating or bribing their way to get hold of personal data . |
| 18 | ‘ The players have to take a heap of responsibility for what has happened at Celtic Park , ’ he said , ‘ but the squad is also made up of footballers who want to play in the manner Liam Brady has adopted as his philosophy on the game . |
| 19 | She is trying to make explicit what lies hidden at another level , one which the participants , whether schooled or unschooled , are not drawing attention to themselves : the cognitive level . |