Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] [verb] at [art] [noun] " 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 | A pie chart can help the retailer or business-person see at a glance exactly where the money goes . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Some dry leaves or grass scattered at the base of the pit will provide the ferret with some comfort . |
| 10 | Peat , clay or leaf-mould placed at the bottom with a layer of unwashed river sand or fine gravel should be provided . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The answer is that it is simply the degree of an experience 's pleasantness or painfulness taken at a moment , or its average pleasantness or painfulness over a period . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ? ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | There is spiritual value in the very handling of its primary elements to write a little song or dance , even an exercise ; even , as Bruckner used to show his classes , in a fifth or octave struck at a piano . |
| 17 | that neither angel nor devil came at the hour that he was dead . |
| 18 | You are the English guest that madame has at the farm , n'est-ce pas ? |
| 19 | Probability of life arising on a planet ( in , say , a billion years ) , if we assume that life arises at a rate of about once per solar system . |
| 20 | And , although Folly stared at the slip of pasteboard with the kind of intensity that fortune-tellers reserved for Tarot cards , she did n't know exactly what he had in mind … |
| 21 | We said no , I , I , I 'm doing everything that table says at the moment , so no , but I 'm going to give one to Shirley because she got most of the answer and then she came back with the right bit at the end as well . |
| 22 | We said no , oh , I , I , I 'm doing everything that table says at the moment , so no , but I 'm going to give one to Shirley because she got most of the answer and then she came back with the right bit at the end as well . |
| 23 | The unusual theme was carried through the entire wedding , with vodka and schnapps served at the back of the church . |
| 24 | All through trains ceased on the GC in the early hours of 4th September 1966 , when signal boxes were locked out of use until demolition began at the turn of the year . |
| 25 | If the contra operation worked , Central America would be saved for democracy and Communism stopped at the doorstep of the United States . |
| 26 | K-Swiss continue the theme of protection , support and stability with its Grancourt Gstaad tennis shoe , again a shoe for both men and women which is constructed by combining sock lasting in the fore part and board lasting at the heel to support and stabilise the foot . |
| 27 | It was rapidly cleared and building commenced at the end of 1943 . |
| 28 | A bookcase was set alight in what was the latest in a series of death threats and vandalism aimed at the Mossley Hill MP . |
| 29 | Brian Evans , of the development engineering department , devoted every available hour of every day to studying , even during his worktime lunch and tea breaks at the factory , to achieve his academic goal . |
| 30 | Bailiffs move in and stock sold at the George Hotel , Shrewsbury . |