Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [adj] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A tantalising mixture of talent is due to appear at the Town Hall in Oxford on Friday . |
| 2 | So inviting was the gap created that the loose forward was able to score at the back of the posts , leaving Maskill with another simple kick . |
| 3 | Doyle and the Harewoman were both staring at the boy . |
| 4 | Such a transfer is difficult to achieve at the best of times . |
| 5 | And the TCCB disciplinary committee is due to meet at the weekend to decide whether to increase Lamb 's punishment for the awful crime of failing to get his comments cleared by Lord 's before they were published in the Mirror . |
| 6 | Consideration by Ministers of the member states at the Research Council is likely to follow at the end of December and it is hoped that this will produce a ‘ common position ’ , that is agreement on the proposal possibly as amended in the light of the comments of the Parliament and of the advisory bodies to the Council . |
| 7 | For example , if the adult holds an object , such as a doll , in the child 's line of gaze , the child is likely to look at the object and then immediately glance at the adult 's face to check that they are looking at the same thing . |
| 8 | De Staël was much admired in Switzerland until 1972 , when his work was last shown at the Peter Nathan gallery in Zurich , but was then largely neglected . |
| 9 | The girl was quick to catch at the hint , drawing breath gratefully . |
| 10 | Sets of papers from the conference are likely to appear at the end of this year . |
| 11 | Could you tell me , if you and your spouse are both killed at the same time |
| 12 | Proceedings were expected to be dominated by the question of a successor to Javier Pérez de Cuéllar , whose second five-year term as UN Secretary-General was due to expire at the end of 1991 . |
| 13 | If for any reason the plaintiff was unable to come at the time fixed for his hearing , he became ‘ non-suited ’ , and the man he hoped to sue could collect the deposit he had left with the clerk on starting the action . |
| 14 | Those who ignored the role of adaptation were able to flourish at the same time as those for whom adaptation was the primary consideration , because the range of problems that could attract research funding allowed both approaches to find suitable niches for themselves . |
| 15 | He however submitted that the magistrate was obliged to look at the whole of the evidence emanating from Price and that , since Price had retracted his Swedish evidence in so far as it implicated the applicant , that evidence must be regarded as worthless and wholly unreliable , and so incapable of forming the basis of a committal . |
| 16 | Her father was busy looking at the Evening News , as he did every evening after tea . |
| 17 | The higher order of passenger was able to arrive at the station shortly before the departure of the train and proceed directly to accommodation on it . |
| 18 | Today every able-bodied man is liable to serve at the front — in a war in which casualties are sickeningly high . |
| 19 | Rey 's own music was first heard at the Concert Spirituel in 1773 , and his compositional ability enabled Sacchini , before his death in 1786 , to nominate Rey to complete Arvire et Evelina ( 1788 ) , which was successful and durable . |
| 20 | The audience were all staring at the stage — as though not daring to miss one moment . |
| 21 | THE qualifying pattern of the 1995 WORLD CUP is likely to change at the IRB meeting in Wellington , if the proposals worked out by World Cup Director Russ Thomas are accepted . |
| 22 | This model was first exhibited at the German Radio Exhibition in August 1934 . |
| 23 | Just a few weeks before the zoo was due to close at the end of September , a meeting of the Zoological Society of London , which owns both Whipsnade Wild Animal Park and London Zoo , revealed that after struggling on despite falling attendances , the zoo 's finances have finally broken even . |
| 24 | Maldoom 's version was first performed at the Theater Manufaktur , Berlin in August 1989 and was acclaimed by the German critics as ‘ one of the most significant to date ’ . |
| 25 | A bucket is useful to look at the animals more closely . |
| 26 | Strontium was first discovered at the type locality , Strontian , in western Scotland in strontianite associated with baryte . |
| 27 | With regard to UK source income it was accepted , because the income arose in the United Kingdom , that the trust was liable to tax at the basic rate and the additional 10 per cent rate ( p474(h) ) . |
| 28 | The phenomenon was first detected at the Bugey-3 reactor in France in September 1991 , but Greenpeace criticises the state electricity company , Electricité de France ( EDF ) , for devoting more attention to rectifying problems as they occur than to examining the causes . |
| 29 | Lepine was first seen at the school between four o'clock and about twenty minutes past , sitting in the registrar 's office on a bench near the door , obstructing the way of students . |
| 30 | Averaging of this kind was first done at the National Hospital in London in the 1940s by George Dawson , initially using a technique of photographic superimposition and then later a system of addition using banks of condensers , but it was the electronic processing and computing power of the 1960s and 1970s which made the accurate timing of these averaged potentials possible , resulting in a rapid expansion in ERP research . |