Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [vb pp] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gang has struck at several homes in Monaghan , Cavan and Armagh stealing money from pensioners . |
| 2 | The importance of these statutory provisions appears to me to be that Parliament has considered at various times and in various contexts the need for recovery of imposts paid but not due and has legislated in a manner which suggests that no such general principle as the Woolwich contends for was thought to be in existence . |
| 3 | Accordingly , recent work has looked at new ways of defining rural deprivation over and above the arithmetic of woe shown in Tables 6.5 and 6.6 . |
| 4 | In the last chapter we looked at how the social institution of marriage has changed at different times in history . |
| 5 | They say that they want real convergence and decisions in the treaty for which no one else in the Community has argued at any stage . |
| 6 | Because star formation and hence the formation of neutron stars by supernova collapse in NGC6342 ceased long ago , the apparent youth of the pulsar suggests that a major event has occurred at some time during the last 10Myr . |
| 7 | Avoid specimens that are swimming off the aquarium bottom as this is a sign of distress and usually means an imbalance of water has occurred at some stage of the export/importation process . |
| 8 | The monthly inflation rate has remained at four point one per cent , but it is below the German annual inflation rate for the first time since nineteen sixty-seven . |
| 9 | The marketing blitz has raged at full tilt for some time now , making it likely that this blockbuster will live up to its imperial ambitions . |
| 10 | The basis for the proposition that individual women may improve their own prospects and those of their young children as regards health and mortality is the evidence that age at marriage and at childbearing , the amount of time that elapses between births and the total number of children that a woman has borne at various ages have a pronounced influence upon maternal and child health , and that a child 's birth order may be a factor in its survival chances . |
| 11 | Government has stressed at several points that it seeks the development of local district services first , with asylums to close only when the latter services can cope with the patient workload . |
| 12 | The German government has approved at massive programme to clean up one of eastern Germany 's most polluted regions , the triangle linking Halle , Leipzig and Bitterfeld , formerly a major centre of lignite mining and chemical processing . |
| 13 | They have two natural gaits the gentle , lolloping , forward movement of the warren on a summer evening and the lightning dash for cover that every human has seen at some time or other . |
| 14 | All factual evidence indicates , for instance , that in the last 20 years , Americans ' health has improved at unprecedented speed — whether measured by mortality rates for the newborn , survival rates for the very old , the incidence of cancers ( other than lung cancer ) , cancer cure rates , or other factors . |
| 15 | It is no wonder that ordinary men and women throughout the country wish that Guy Fawkes had been successful when they consider the punishment that this House has levelled at ordinary men and women in a state of poverty . |