Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Westminster Abbey Library is a fragment of a funerary taper found in Abbot Thomas Mylling 's tomb , which is presumed to have been placed there at the time of his funeral in 1492 and probably came off the hearse . |
| 2 | Strangest of all is the fact that the art itself suffers by this treatment , as the circumstances surrounding the paintings and what they signify are examined perhaps at the expense of the technical representations . |
| 3 | Carol had been gazing gloomily at the lake . |
| 4 | There are no relations of power without resistances ; the latter are all the more real and effective because they are formed right at the point where relations of power are exercised ; resistance to power does not have to come from elsewhere to be real , nor is it inexorably frustrated through being the compatriot of power . |
| 5 | Instead , Amstrad PCs and PCWs are tucked away at the back with the printers and answering machines . |
| 6 | Humboldt Penguin chicks are reared regularly at the park , and in the breeding season some may be seen in the specially designed rearing unit alongside their enclosure . |
| 7 | Piece by small technical piece , these strategies are eating away at the consensus that originally made OS/2 seem a certainty as the computing world 's next-generation technical standard . |
| 8 | Since there is such a difference between the two documents , and since the Dunrossness District Plan was designed for immediate public consumption ( the Structurn Plan had not been disseminated widely at the time of our research , June , 1978 — January , 1979 ) one could suggest that the tenor of the document reflects the desire to underplay any potential conflicts between Shetlanders and incomers . |
| 9 | The policy has been applied nationwide at the company 's 100 locations after a pioneering attitude survey at Reading , where 81 per cent of the workforce were found to be non-smokers . |
| 10 | She had been living here at the château , helping with the children , but she moved down to Les Hiboux to get away from me . |
| 11 | Although there are only a handful of breeding peregrines known in the Lothians , there are sites where they have been seen regularly at the start of the breeding season , and then mysteriously disappeared . |
| 12 | But if Bobby wanted to get in on it now , he 'd have been turned away at the door : the elitists would have laughed at him for being in an indie band and ‘ Loaded ’ might never have been produced . |
| 13 | Over half of these are made either at the scene of the crime , the scene of arrest or the defendant 's home . |
| 14 | Right , you 've got , they 're hidden away at the moment , I 'll put them in the bag , alright ? |
| 15 | I 'm not being funny but we 're nitpicking now at the difference between |
| 16 | Apparently they 're laying profusely at the moment . |
| 17 | It 's a throw-in to David of Blackburn , down the right hand side , that one 's headed on by Stewart , the clearance from , is picked up by David who nipped in there ahead of and now here 's once more down the inside left channel , pushing it up towards the edge of the penalty area where holds it up well , they 're working well at the moment down that left hand side as gets it across , a snatched header comes in and it 's pushed behind by Chris for a corner kick , and we 're at the midway point of the second half , with Shrewsbury leading three two , Alan will describe it for you . |
| 18 | Membranes are used both at the interface with the bulk sample and between the biolayer and the transducer ( Fig. 1 ) . |
| 19 | These characteristics are the use of large columns to divide nave and choir from the aisles ; piers are used only at the crossing and then have slender clustered shafts . |
| 20 | Thus we are told right at the start of Isaac 's frailty and vulnerability . |
| 21 | ‘ I am going there at the peak of my form , ’ he says . |
| 22 | Syria has massive internal problems and most observers consider that apparent domestic calm has been bought only at the cost of severe repression of popular opposition to the country 's participation in the war . |
| 23 | Now they are staying together at the Hotel Cipriani in Venice . |
| 24 | She must have been staying there at the weekend ! |
| 25 | However , a cautionary note had been sounded right at the beginning of the whole exercise : |
| 26 | It was only at this stage that the dowry of the bride , which would usually have included both jewels and the title deeds to land , was actually handed over by the bride 's parents though details of the dowry would have been settled right at the beginning at Stage 1 of the proceedings . |
| 27 | They are looking after their commercial interests , but unfortunately they are doing so at the expense of the tenants and customers , the very people who are supposed to benefit from the legislation . |
| 28 | There is a minimum weight of ten stones and the rules state that a rider losing more than one pound in weight ‘ will not win prize ’ , so the entrants are weighed again at the end of the race . |
| 29 | However , crime has been displaced recently at the centre of race politics by another issue which points equally effectively to the incompatibility of different cultures supposedly sealed off from one another forever along ethnic lines . |
| 30 | Graham puts an arm around my shoulder and swivels me until I am staring squarely at the stage . |