Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [vb pp] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Application may be made only in default actions and where the claim exceeds £500 and the defendant has delivered at the court office a document purporting to be a defence ; the application is for judgment on the grounds that notwithstanding the delivery of that document , the defendant has no defence ( Ord 9 , r 14 ) . |
| 2 | Even Association football has grown at the grass roots with a further 2,000 clubs affiliating to the FA in the second half of the 1970s to make up a total of almost 40,000 . |
| 3 | A FORMER mayor has died at the age of 86 . |
| 4 | This chapter has looked at the importance of temporary jobs as a source of flows both from unemployment into employment and from employment into unemployment . |
| 5 | Maybe the wind has changed at the Victoria Ground . |
| 6 | Now see the way his car 's banged at the front ? |
| 7 | So Thursday we , we usually come out of Bridge Street , go round the corner and then down to the end of the , car 's parked at the end of the lane . |
| 8 | Edmund arrives to find Emily 's cat has got at the lobsters and broken her beautiful china ; and in a moment of quiet at the end of his visit a boring neighbour ( well known to him from the letters ) makes her way in — and alas , like most bores who are funny in letters , she is not so in real life . |
| 9 | ‘ Now I 'm in the voucher scheme I feel safer knowing that the council has looked at the people it employs , and if there 's any difficulty I can go to Joan [ the manager ] . ’ |
| 10 | East Devon District Council has looked at the paperwork and has realized that the Community Council is going to match anything that they give , so I 've spoken to their recycling officer and he thinks that the way the budget is , we 're very likely to get one of the containers from them , which would be matched by another from the Community Council . |
| 11 | Another accolade has fallen at the feet of Patricia Grant , already honoured with an OBE by the Queen for her efforts in building up Norfrost , the domestic freezer supplier which exports 75 per cent of the 5,000 units it produces each week . |
| 12 | Dun & Bradstreet claims that business confidence has declined at the start of 1992 , according to other results of its latest survey . |
| 13 | A similar group has existed at the Met for years . |
| 14 | In Britain and America , for example , wine has grown at the expense of beer and spirits whilst in Spain and Italy , it is beer that has grown at the expense of wine and spirits . |
| 15 | It is important to note that the preferential creditors are given priority where a receiver is appointed with respect to a charge ‘ which , as created , was a floating charge ’ ; thus the fact that the charge has crystallised at the time a receiver is appointed does not result in preferential debts being denied their statutory priority . |
| 16 | Casey has slowed at the station entrance and is looking around . |
| 17 | There are recognized ways of doing things that ensure that the job gets done at a time when we are probably incapable of thinking things through carefully . |
| 18 | Well well actual fact , unless it 's done , the security 's fitted at the time of manufacture you can actually serious damage the framing . |
| 19 | But instead of going at the end of the process of building the new Europe , the Wall has gone at the beginning . |
| 20 | I had the opportunity to discuss the matter that the right hon. Gentleman has raised at the conference this week . |
| 21 | ‘ That variety of horrors art has spread at the bottom [ of Coalbrookdale ] ; the noise of the forges , mills , etc. , with all their vast machinery , the flames bursting from the furnaces with the burning of the coal and the smoak of the lime kilns , are altogether sublime . ’ |
| 22 | stuff gets left at the bottom . |
| 23 | Democracy has arrived at a gallop in England and I fear all the time it is a race for life . |
| 24 | There are occasions when after a long and difficult dig , and when a long time has elapsed before the recovery of the ferret and rabbit , you may discover that your ferret has scraped at the hindquarters of the rabbit for so long that it has broken the skin , drawn blood and started to eat the rabbit before it died . |
| 25 | The microcomputer has arrived at a time of high unemployment . |
| 26 | In developed countries , fat intake has increased at the expense of a reduction in complex carbohydrates . |
| 27 | While the arable area has increased at the expense of ornithologically more interesting permanent grassland , there has been a simultaneous reduction of the one-year ley , usually clover , within the arable system , combined with an increasing use of herbicides . |
| 28 | The Bosnian government has protested at the UNHCR 's failure to reach the Muslims in the east by refusing to accept UN aid for the besieged capital , Sarajevo . |
| 29 | ‘ Child , your dress has split at the back , ’ said Robina , coming back into the room . |
| 30 | A DARLINGTON man who worked in the same menswear shop all his adult life has died at the age of 73 . |