Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] at [art] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | Again a scientist stands at the point which has at present been reached within a long tradition of enquiry . |
2 | The second in a three-part series on America 's reviving car industry looks at the way its management has changed |
3 | Other ears heard the transmission , so by the time the force arrived at the target it was covered by a very effective smokescreen . |
4 | Ward was leaning forward again , his weight dragging at the arm he was still holding . |
5 | This was confirmed when I heard a Syrian soldier talking at a roadblock we encountered . |
6 | Because bargaining occurs at the margin there is a tendency in negotiating situations for each party to take the course of action which seems to minimize the disadvantages , rather than to maximize the gains . |
7 | Both Venables and Sugar attended a 90-minute board meeting at the club which agreed to dismiss Ashby , an alleged undischarged bankrupt . |
8 | Cummins Engines , in Yarm Road , is putting on a special display of the work done at the plant which will include demonstrations of all the vehicles fitted with Cummins Engines . |
9 | He laughed wryly , walking over to the window to stare at the view she had enjoyed such a short time before . |
10 | The upper floors of the storage shed were also at inconvenient levels and the discovery of wholesale decay in this joisted construction supported a policy of removing these elements and replacing them with a new upper-floor set at a level which could be extended into the roundels to give adequate headroom in the new ground-storey rooms , while ensuring that the four upper-storey bedrooms located in these projections had a sufficiently deep vertical wall surface to accommodate conventional windows . |
11 | Topaz stared at the marquis whose suggestion had left her dumbfounded . |
12 | Between October 1989 and March 1990 there occurred a number of attacks on Spanish diplomatic missions : on Oct. 26 , 1989 , an explosive device wrecked the car of the Spanish consul-general in Rotterdam ; the following day two grenades were launched against a Spanish embassy building in The Hague ; on Dec. 6 a bomb exploded at the embassy itself . |
13 | The old women of the town marvelled at a child whose intellect had been ‘ forced into almost an unnatural ripeness ’ , and their flattery made him vain : |
14 | The months of frustration had begun to drain his enthusiasm , until the arrest of Terence MacSwiney , MacCurtain 's successor as Lord Mayor , and his death in Brixton Prison after seventy-four days on hunger strike banished at a stroke his returning doubts . |
15 | More then 40,000 ecstatic fans filled stadia each night to scream at the girly they instantly dubbed the Mighty Minogue . |
16 | Second , he assumes that the natural level of output grows at a rate which for any individual country is a constant over time but which may differ between countries . |
17 | Startled , George turned his head to stare at a woman who was standing up somewhere in the middle of the tight-packed rows of the audience . |
18 | After a bit , he took off his debonair jacket and lay back on the bed in a beautiful fluted shirt , much creased , holding her newspaper over his head to look at the article she had been reading . |
19 | And the next morning when she and Charity arrived at the meeting they were as much in the dark as everyone else . |
20 | The event started at the museum itself . |
21 | He has been questioned about alleged pornography found at the house he shares in Evesham with the school 's Headmaster , Richard Alston , who has also been suspended . |
22 | On February 3rd 1817 an entry in his diary hints at the dreariness he found in his marathon task of writing the Guide . |
23 | The irony is primarily at the expense of Mrs Moreen ( a lady less refined than she would like to appear ) , and secondarily at the expense of Pemberton ( whom we smile at and with over his impotence to get at the information he wants ) . |
24 | and they keep their reading books from the li their library going at the pace they want to go at |
25 | The intention was to reduce it to that rate which would constrain aggregate demand to grow at a rate which could be met by increases in real output . |
26 | So it would start the timing mechanism running at the moment it dropped it over the side . |
27 | He was leaning against the casualty department door leering at the nurse who was dabbing gently at the three parallel scratches on Martin 's face . |
28 | It is essential for an investor to decide at the outset what it expects to obtain from the due diligence exercise . |
29 | Mother Hilary may well be the one to shed those tears , but she is also a realist who realises that for her daughter to achieve at the sport she loves , she needed to leave home . |
30 | 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 . |