Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] at the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout the Johannesburg commuter system , all station platforms were divided in half , for Whites and non-Whites respectively , and the trains were similarly divided so that the appropriate part stopped at the relevant stretch of platform . |
| 2 | With the skeg placed at the very back , there is also less chance of spin out . |
| 3 | Her heart dropped at the ominous statement . |
| 4 | The cell developed at the Swiss Federation Institute of Technology in Lausanne superimposes a light-sensitive dye only one molecule thick on a thin layer of titanium dioxide , a commonly used industrial chemical . |
| 5 | The first person in each team is given a balloon and has to blow it down the room over tape placed at the other end without touching it . |
| 6 | Some recent research undertaken at the British Film Institute for a documentary on the history of black people and television has unearthed an interesting fact . |
| 7 | THE Court of Appeal has the power to increase Dr Courtney 's seven-year sentence if it feels the term imposed at the Old Bailey is ‘ unduly lenient ’ . |
| 8 | As each subsequent requiem repeated the ritual exhibited at the primary mass , the cycle proved an expensive way of praying for the repose of the dead . |
| 9 | The results of a long-term study presented at the annual conference of the British Institute of Geographers have shown that the use of sewage sludge as a fertilizer can have damaging effects on the soil that can last for thousands of years . |
| 10 | The figure stabbed at the empty air . |
| 11 | The wind licked at the white cloth and peeled up one corner . |
| 12 | Clinical teaching is at the Small Animal Practice at Summerhall and the Large Animal Practice based at the Veterinary Field Station several miles south of the city . |
| 13 | The Manchester study is linked with a study based at the Social Science Research Unit in London which considers the social support needs of a group of socially disadvantaged women and children . |
| 14 | Slater , a hotel chef trained at the Culinary Institute of America in New York ( he has worked at a restaurant in Kensington ) , got his first headlines by being sacked from a grocery store deli counter because of his Klan activities . |
| 15 | Philip Larkin , when asked by an interviewer if he ever read foreign poetry , archly replied ‘ Foreign poetry ? ’ ; and there is a celebrated photo of the poet seated at the Scottish border , where the boundary-stone reads simply ‘ England ’ . |
| 16 | The manufacture of the 12 ton covered wagon underframe commenced at the eastern end of the shop , with assembly of the headstocks , diagonals , and longitudes in a fixture ; these were then riveted by pneumatic rivet machines . |
| 17 | ‘ His trainer remarked at the immediate bond which formed between Pete and I. ’ |
| 18 | Thirdly , the Labour party 's support for the social action programme of the social charter and for a minimum wage represents a political double-barrelled shotgun aimed at the working population , particularly those in lower-paid jobs . |
| 19 | The BLX-80 is their latest : an ‘ entry level ’ 80 watt 1x10 combo aimed at the small pub or club gig and rehearsal situation . |
| 20 | ‘ A Satanic conspiracy aimed at the total destruction of all that is good , pure and true ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ High quality clinical researchers are like gold dust , ’ said Diana Dunstan of the Medical Research Council at a meeting on opportunities in clinical research held at the Royal College of Physicians just before Christmas . |
| 22 | The new title ‘ Officer Board ’ , replacing ‘ Consultative and Advisory Council ’ was a decision made at the Special Delegate Meeting in March . |
| 23 | The idea that a film 's director is the primary , shaping source of its meaning is simultaneously inscribed as middlebrow commonsense ( see the film review columns of The Observer , City Limits , or any publication targeted at the bourgeois intelligentsia , with their umbilical linking of film title and director 's name ) and dismissed as hopelessly outmoded by every branch of recent critical theory . |
| 24 | The procedure first maps the given interval onto the standard interval [ -1,1 ] and then forms an integrand in discrete form by multiplying the input DiscreteFunc by the Legendre polynomial of the appropriate degree evaluated at the corresponding exposure . |
| 25 | it creates extra communication problems , since top management is more remote from the work done at the bottom end of the organisation , and information tends to get distorted or blocked on its way up or down through the organisation hierarchy ; |
| 26 | Attached to the bottom of the betalite , which is encased in a plastic tube for protection , is a length of braided terylene tied at the other end to my back rod-rest , so that when I strike the indicator pulls off and drops to the ground . |
| 27 | Such eminent builders as Conrad Graf ( 1782–1851 ) and Johann Fritz ( active between 1810 and 1825 ) used the Walter type of check , the single batten sprung at the treble end . |
| 28 | To the Israelis , however , and to their supporters in the Jewish diaspora , the same question struck at the very morality of Zionism . |
| 29 | It began with the statement : ‘ Perhaps the favourite accusation thrown at the National Front by its multi-racialist critics is that we are simply a bunch of bigots , that our stance on Race , the very heart and core of our political being , is no more than ignorant prejudice against Coloured people ’ ( Vanguard , April 1987 ) . |
| 30 | Even the fascist is laying claim to membership of this community , as he seeks to rebut ‘ the favourite accusation thrown at the National Front ’ . |