Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adj] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , London Transport was unwilling to go to the expense of refitting proper external lighting and the headlamp masks were never removed , as they incorporated red slides for display at the rear end of the car and the combined side lamps-tail lamps and route numbers had been removed or rendered ineffective at the beginning of the war . |
| 2 | You could win or lose thousands at the races , etc . |
| 3 | Stay in the queue or join those at the churn ? |
| 4 | Because many of these houses were little known , or stood unseen at the end of long drives , there was no pressure to repair them . |
| 5 | It 's something that goes wrong at the nerve muscle junctions ? |
| 6 | Where 's the power to choose for those elderly people that want free at the point of service National Health Service treatment ? |
| 7 | Where 's the power to choose for those elderly people that want free at the point of service National Health Service treatment ? |
| 8 | The Swansea and Neath Society was founded in December 1822 but made no appeal through a public meeting until January 1826 ; the Manchester Society , although becoming active at the beginning of 1824 , issued no report to the public until March 1827 and had only had its first public meeting on 22 March 1826 . |
| 9 | It was not the huge success that Lotus Development had anticipated mainly because it demanded hardware that seemed excessive at the time — an AT with at least 1MByte of RAM . |
| 10 | Yes , that was Cat 's way of life : he would always be the sex that seemed fashionable at the time . |
| 11 | Almost every major work of scholarship written in the past six or seven years on recent British political history has taken a far more balanced view of him than seemed likely at the time of his death . |
| 12 | Sometimes our dreams tell coherent stories , but more often they are a jumble that seems logical at the time but is revealed by our conscious memory as a nonsense . |
| 13 | People here are not functional specialists and , therefore , are less likely to advocate policies that promote functional at the expense of corporate interests . |
| 14 | A refinement that overcomes this is a coloration that appears inconspicuous at a distance but extremely bright and vivid near by — an improvement found in certain caterpillars and moths , for example . |
| 15 | Komatsu has built a robot with eight ‘ legs ’ that move four at a time to propel the machine at 200 metres per hour regardless of obstacles . |
| 16 | This was one of two problems that loomed large at the time . |
| 17 | Each episode had to end with a cliff-hanger and repeat this at the start of the next episode . |
| 18 | John W. McCandless was born in 1884 in Londonderry , the son of a Justice of the Peace , and became deaf at the age of 10 months through scarlet fever , and was sent to the Langside Institution at Glasgow , Scotland . |
| 19 | You just can not pay attention continuously to all the different variables in a situation and remain sane at the end of the day , you have to develop routines and techniques for handling it . |
| 20 | What 's green and goes red at a touch of a button ? |
| 21 | Horribly frightened by this time , for she could not believe that Susan would have gone out of the house , she ran into the kitchen , and stopped short at the sight of the familiar figure sitting crouched in front of the fire . |
| 22 | Dot remembered how the bowl of each spoon at Mrs Parvis 's was stained a streaky brown , and bent crooked at the shaft , with NAAFI stamped on the handle . |
| 23 | ‘ But I kept trying my hardest and came good at the end . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ What 'll you have , then ? ’ asked Bill heartily , and then , with his odd alternations of mood on him : ‘ What 'll it be ? ’ quite mournfully , and looking bewildered at the array of bottles . |
| 25 | A BOMB hidden in a flowerpot killed nine people and wounded 100 at the Air France desk at Algiers airport yesterday . |
| 26 | Now what we need is a really big black pen and make a line and put rare at the top . |
| 27 | Downing Street insisted it was confident the two leaders will achieve a rapport and put that at the top of its agenda . |
| 28 | She called her a tart and a slut because she used to be married to a black man from South Carolina who sang basso at charity concerts all over Yorkshire and Lancashire and dropped dead at the Sun Hotel in Eccleshill in 1927 . |
| 29 | He bubbled noisily and dropped dead at the wizard 's feet . |
| 30 | The God who had made him get off the trike and stand still at the side of the grassily banked hill . |