Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] at a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the United States government support for organised labour came at a later date than in Europe ( only in the mid-1930s ) , and even then it still remained open to employers to try to persuade their own workers ( short of using overt coercion ) not to vote for union bargaining rights ( i.e. they still maintained ‘ an ethical mandate to continue with their belligerent behaviour towards unions ’ ( Adams , 1981 , p. 287 ) ) . |
| 2 | Behind them , the Monument leant at a crazy angle , its foundations undermined by the yawning pit beside it . |
| 3 | Billions were needed to improve the urban infrastructure , a black mayor said at a Clinton-Brown debate , $6 billion , for a start , for a project in New Jersey . |
| 4 | Torpedo-shaped glass lifts offered noiseless access to the different levels , on one of which a pianist sat at a grand piano playing classical music while an enormous golden pendulum suspended from the roof swung slowly from one side of the atrium to the other . |
| 5 | But he got a pattern made and had the base of the machine made at a local foundry and he made all the leverage parts and got the , he got the blades made in Sheffield or somewhere and er he made one for himself . |
| 6 | Based on the shape of this receptive field , they then search for the stimulus that gives the best response from it , and in Figure 7 you see that one particular cell responded best to movement of a bar oriented at a particular angle , and also that it only responded when this bar moved in one direction . |
| 7 | The first skirmish over the national security issue came at a closed hearing on Jan. 11 when it was reported that the prosecution had accused the lawyer of one of Noriega 's co-defendants of improperly disclosing classified information when making an earlier request for access to National Security Council records . |
| 8 | THE YORKSHIRE COUNTY CRICKET CLUB YEARBOOK 1992 — McDermott 's withdrawal came at a bad time : an anticipatory profile of the Queensland firebreather leads the 92nd edition , followed by a réumé of others born outside the county line . |
| 9 | The crash happened at a notorious accident blackspot . |
| 10 | Mum was the word in Bournemouth as work proceeded at a feverish pitch on a stunning new exhibition at the ExpoCentre . |
| 11 | In the 1960s a man with an American accent arrived at a coastal resort in South Wales and announced that he represented an American corporation which wished to purchase a leisure and amusement arcade in the town . |
| 12 | Behind the glass an official from the Political Branch scowled at a worried-looking black . |
| 13 | were in effect suggesting that the inner psychological motivations for racism existed at a deeper level of social reality than the socially shared norms of tolerance . |
| 14 | A tomcat sprang at a mounted knight , |
| 15 | One officer came up to inquire of our purpose , while the other kept at a respectable distance hand on his holstered gun ! |
| 16 | On 30 minutes , Farnham 's defence was all over the place at a free-kick and the ball fell at a perfect height to an unmarked Lamboll who struck an unstoppable volley past Cann . |
| 17 | However , the head had at a previous meeting made the point that the self-appraisal reports were confidential and could not be read by other departments . |
| 18 | Own label development continued at a rapid rate . |
| 19 | The BDA at the end of " the decade stood at a critical juncture at home , but its place within the international deaf community was firmly established through membership of the World Federation of the Deaf ( WFD ) . |
| 20 | Nothing in the metal 's fundamentals has changed since a month ago , when the price languished at a seven-year low of $126 an ounce . |
| 21 | Dr Robat Williams , who has devised the joint charter , said the launch came at a difficult time because of the General Election campaign . |
| 22 | We ( or they , as I would probably have said at the time ) now lived in a detached , fairly large house in a village in Berkshire ; my father taught at a primary school in a nearby village , and my mother had a job at the Harwell Atomic Research Establishment . |
| 23 | The fourth-round replay began at a frantic pace and burst into life after 12 minutes . |
| 24 | With a lot at stake for both sides the game began at a frantic pace with a goal arriving at each end in the first ten minutes . |
| 25 | A TEENAGE student appeared at a special youth court yesterday charged with murdering his 38-year-old mother and 67-year-old grandmother . |
| 26 | A TEENAGE student appeared at a special youth court yesterday charged with murdering his 38-year-old mother and 67-year-old grandmother . |
| 27 | A 29-YEAR-OLD hotel manager appeared at a special court in Craigavon yesterday on a conspiracy charge . |
| 28 | It was as if the sight of the man prodded at a dead spot within him , where no response would come . |
| 29 | The political will came at a critical time when it was very necessary to keep the food costs component of the total wage bill ( including the foreign exchange component ) as low as possible to allow rapid and profitable industrialisation . |
| 30 | A man appeared at a special sitting of Scarborough magistrates on Saturday accused of attempted rape . |