Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun] [vb past] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Lucy glanced to where the tall man stood at the window , his back turned towards them , apparently deep in thought , because he made no reply . |
| 4 | The tall woman stared at the Doctor , and then closed her eyes . |
| 5 | Although oceanic crust is consumed at destructive plate margins at very nearly the same rate at which it is created at constructive plate margins , a small proportion of mantle material — perhaps only a few per cent — is involved in the generation of andesite magmas at destructive plate margins , and contributes to the volcanic rocks erupted at the surface . |
| 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 | The Abyssinian maid groped at the wall and switched on the light . |
| 8 | What the hon. Gentleman said at the beginning of his question was entirely wrong . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | The French monarchy reciprocated at the deaths of their Plantagenet kinsmen and women . |
| 11 | The French boy glanced at the man for a moment , then shrugged . |
| 12 | He carried Wynne-Jones on his back ; the old man beat at the thorns with his stick , one arm held tightly around his son 's neck . |
| 13 | A faint smile grew across her face an while the old man sipped at the soup she gradually became the proud owner of a huge , cunning grin . |
| 14 | The old Han squatted at the entrance to the corridor , waiting there patiently , knowing the dream had been a true dream ; one of those he could not afford to ignore . |
| 15 | The old fear lurked at the back of his mind : suppose Lorton had set him up for Newley 's murder ? |
| 16 | Nearly a third of the principal carers complained at the first interview about the adverse effects of looking after the dementia sufferer upon their own physical or mental health . |
| 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 chief inspector waited at the end of the room and tried to siphon off his individual murmur from the swell of coughing and clattering round about . |
| 19 | The chief superintendent dabbed at the stubble of his moustache with a finger . |
| 20 | the real drama came at the start of the second half … with two Town goals in four minutes … first Steve White went flying in the box … a penalty which Paul Bodin knocked in … |
| 21 | Alice watched while the White Rabbit looked at the names on his piece of paper . |
| 22 | In the dark of the year the little penguin gazed at the wild lights of Aurora 's Dancers whirling above her . |
| 23 | He remembered the heat of the sun on his back , and the way the cold water cleaved at the touch of the canoe , as it was propelled forward in search of prey by the hunters . |
| 24 | Winners of the Treble Chance swooned at the sight of the cheque and were generally paraded to the Press and public as examples of how , at any minute , any humble citizen who had never had more than a day out at Blackpool could strike gold . |
| 25 | In April the officers in the downtown area arrived at the riot scene but for whatever reason withdrew back to their command posts ‘ instead of staying there to control the illegal activity ’ . |
| 26 | The Prime Minister appeared at the end of the broadcast to warn of further turmoil if the Government 's health and trade union reforms were undone . |
| 27 | The hijacker in the black shirt stood at the front of the plane and pointed his gun at the passengers . |
| 28 | The black flags waited at the Pole . |
| 29 | Even if the awaited rain fell at the poem 's end , it would only lead back to that beginning , ‘ breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land , ’ with all its attendant suffering . |
| 30 | The letter bearing the Belgian stamp lay at the bottom of the morning 's post . |