Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [verb] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And still , after Crime and Punishment , the idea of a confession novel or story tugs at the edge of Dostoevsky 's vision , and continues to do so for the rest of his life in the form of The Life of a Great Sinner which he planned on the scale of War and Peace , but which never got written though it fed previous material into his novels of the seventies , and especially Karamazov at the turn of the next decade . |
| 2 | And he loosed his grip suddenly , and stood back with an oath , his hand going up to his lip where blood appeared at the site of her teeth-marks . |
| 3 | Under s179 , which applies to accounting periods ending on or after 1 October 1993 , Target is again treated as disposing of assets acquired intra-group in the preceding six years , but the gain or loss accrues at the beginning of the accounting period in which Target leaves the vendor group ( see s179 TCGA and s89 Finance Act 1993 ) . |
| 4 | Havelock suggests three categories : the research and development and diffusion model , where an idea or practice conceived at the centre is fed out into the system ; the social interaction model , where change proceeds through formal and informal contact between groups ; and the problem solving model , where individuals are themselves involved in initiating , developing or modifying aspects of a programme at local level . |
| 5 | Index cards are easily handled and shuffled ; they can be kept in alphabetised boxes , come in different colours , and can have a topic , keyword or reference written at the top , as an indication of what is on the card . |
| 6 | Small mammal faunas in the fossil record provide one of the principal methods of interpreting the ecology or habitat existing at the time the fossils were preserved . |
| 7 | Where an officer of government in the exercise of his office obtains payment of moneys as and for a charge which the law enables him to demand and enforce , such moneys may be recovered back from him if it should afterwards turn out that they were not legally payable even though no protest was made or question raised at the time of payment . |
| 8 | Induced fractures or cracks occur at the borehole wall as the result of off-loading the stresses during the drilling operation . |
| 9 | It stressed that it accepted that Black had nothing to do with the stolen goods or weapons found at the cottage . |
| 10 | Some dry leaves or grass scattered at the base of the pit will provide the ferret with some comfort . |
| 11 | Unfortunately the crossing in was poor and our best chances came when Strach , Sharp , or Mcallister ran at the defence ( good tackling denied Strachan a certain goal ) . |
| 12 | Peat , clay or leaf-mould placed at the bottom with a layer of unwashed river sand or fine gravel should be provided . |
| 13 | The Christian psychologist Paul C. Vitz has said , ‘ From Freud 's example , one has reason to suspect that behind many an atheist , agnostic or sceptic of today lies shame , disappointment or rage directed at the father . |
| 14 | Where Lewis looked at the world around him , even when he was writing autobiography , Leavis looked ever more attentively at himself . |
| 15 | Although changes in global policy can not be made on the basis of the present study alone , the results suggest that a supplemental dose of IPV or OPV administered at the time of measles vaccination might increase a population 's immunity against poliovirus types 1 and 3 . |
| 16 | The small Year Niner usually looks a bit blank — possibly because she has never considered the possibility of either heaven OR hell lying at the foot of the ropes in the sports hall — and responds with a vague , ‘ Uh ? ’ |
| 17 | However , a lot of detail is included in the brochure and prepared approximately twelve months in advance , so there may be occasions when a facility or entertainment advertised at the hotel or in the resort is not available during your own particular holiday . |
| 18 | His expression was inscrutable , but his hands were clenched so tightly into fists that Meredith marvelled at the man 's ability to keep the muscles of his face so impassive . |
| 19 | It is the more remarkable that Pound , no more than any one else for fifty years after Hardy died , pondered the Virgilian epigraph that Hardy put at the head of his ‘ Poems of 1912–13 ’ , originally in Satires of Circumstance , ( London , 1914 ) . |
| 20 | This unique video shows all the build up to the World Angling Championship in 1990 , the practice sessions , discussions , the work which ensures that England remain at the top of the world . |
| 21 | This was the very first painting that Artemesia completed at the age of 17 . |
| 22 | all that proved to me is , is that Helen the board , the examination board that Helen did at the college , she said it was a much , a much better exam to do than it was at |
| 23 | Although it is true to say that Lizzie felt at the start very much under her mother 's shadow and in any case was naturally of a rather shy disposition — she was coaxed into recording quite early on in her career ; indeed , her voice can be heard ( singing Far Over the Forth ) on the same 1953 School of Scottish Studies tape devoted to her just-discovered mother . |
| 24 | A letter to Peter Davall Esqr. in the Temple , London , written 1753 and read a year later , points out that seeds exhibited at the Society did not fit the description of a particular species of Bauhinia . |
| 25 | that neither angel nor devil came at the hour that he was dead . |
| 26 | You are the English guest that madame has at the farm , n'est-ce pas ? |
| 27 | I mutter something and start to clear the dishes , but she is not going to be brushed aside , so Darius crouches at the table with his chin on his hands , watching us like we 're Punch and Judy , and I admit that someone might come . |
| 28 | Although sources suggested at the time of Craythorne 's departure that marketing director Udo Kaul might roll his responsibilities into the brief of marketing manager Peter Townsend , Brackenbury has been appointed as head of all advertising functions , with an advertising coordinator , Roger Harris , reporting to him . |
| 29 | Gin , we are told , is one of the purest spirits made , and juniper berries , the baies de genièvre or ginepro from which Geneva or gin derived its name , provide the characteristic flavouring which everyone who ever drank a glass of gin in their lives would recognize when he tastes the juniper-berry flavour in Provençal game terrines and certain Northern Italian sauces and stuffings for partridge and pheasant ; and eau de vie de genièvre is a spirit used in French and Belgian Ardennais regional cooking , so it seems extraordinary that people blanch at the suggestion that gin should go into the casseroles . |
| 30 | The product sounds exactly like a sketch that Amstrad issued at the launch of the PDA , and which was described as a possible future direction . |