Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] at [art] [adj -er] [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 | The hammer fell at the lower estimate of DM250,000 ( £625,000 ; $1 million ) for El Lissitzky 's mixed media work from the ‘ Proun ’ series ; it fell at DM110,000 ( £44,000 ; $70,400 ) , exceeding the reserve , for Sandor Bortnyik 's Cubist watercolour of a newspaper reader . |
| 3 | While the country 's heritage vanished at an ever-faster rate , our town centres would sprout cosmeticized precincts and flower boxes and hold congratulatory receptions . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It is probably significant that manufacturing employment fell at a slower rate in the North than in the South from 1984 to 1987 , and was estimated to have increased from 1987 to 1989 . |
| 6 | As many wartime evacuees found to their alarm , rural housing remained at a lower standard than that to be found in most urban areas , with only slow progress having been made in the provision of piped water , sewerage and electricity . |
| 7 | The chapel was small , an altar stood at the further end from the entrance we came in by . |