Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Made with 1.4 , 1.6 and 1.8 litre petrol engines , the Tempras are agile performers aimed at the business users ' market . |
| 2 | The former are haphazard non-deliberate operations conducted at the shelves and the latter is a structured intentional activity carried out with the assistance of a bibliographic tool . |
| 3 | It is argued that specific policies implemented at the outset of British rule led to the development of a judicial system which did not coincide with either British or indigenous notions of justice but which was none the less compatible with local culture . |
| 4 | Four former South African police officers were sought by the Namibian authorities to testify at the trial , but had refused to come forward , despite being offered immunity from prosecution . |
| 5 | Round-table discussions held at the Institute of Latin America early in 1981 revealed that several Soviet ideologists were now prepared to lend credence to the long-discredited theories of guerrilla warfare upheld by Che Guevara . |
| 6 | Some of the rallies were violent , if only because of the resentment which Labour supporters felt at the splitting of the anti-Conservative vote . |
| 7 | There was less interest in the possibility of home delivery , although mobile shops calling at the door would be an obvious service to housebound consumes . |
| 8 | He was so moved by the sufferings of the wounded at the battle of Solferino ( the Lombard village where the French and Sardinians defeated the Austrians in June 1859 ) that he published a book urging the formation of permanent voluntary aid societies to succour the wounded in time of war , and this so caught international imagination that in 1863 , sixteen European nations met at a conference in Geneva to launch the plan . |
| 9 | Is the existence of a supportive relationship before an event the critical factor , or can new supportive relationships mobilised at the time of the event be effective ? |
| 10 | This means that it can not be ruled out that new supportive relationships established at the time of a crisis might also sometimes be beneficial . |
| 11 | As drawn , equilibrium in the real and monetary sectors exists at an output level of OY 1 which is produced using a quantity of labour OL 1 . |
| 12 | The Institute 's Education & Training Directorate and the General Practitioner Board have been watching the falling numbers of students training in small firms with deep concern and both have set up working parties to look at the problems . |
| 13 | The honours list simply shores up Britain 's class system guaranteeing that those with grand hereditary titles remain at the top of the heap . |
| 14 | The Middle East peace talks continued during May with a series of multilateral meetings arranged at the Moscow round in January [ see p. 38740 ; see p. 38885 for fifth round of bilateral talks held in Washington in late April ] . |
| 15 | Of the non-INJAC groups represented at the conference the most significant were two London-based groups , the Nationalist Iraqi Constitution ( led by Salah Omar Ali ) and the Free Iraqi Congress ( led by Saad Saleh Jaber ) . |
| 16 | Just the wee group of us , there 's different groups go at a time |
| 17 | The British authorities argued at the time that the way to tackle this problem of falling competitiveness , far from being to allow the pound to devalue , was to maintain a rigid exchange rate for sterling and so through the resulting high interest rates and tight money ‘ to squeeze inflation out of the system ’ . |
| 18 | Other DCE-compliant technologies shown at the exhibition included : Transarc Corp 's Encina transaction processing monitor ; Atrium Technologies Inc 's Dazel distributed-information-delivery system and Sybase Inc 's DCE-compliant System 10 prototype . |
| 19 | Another result of training is that the different signals arriving at an element often have similar values , except that some are positive and some negative . |
| 20 | They brought their turbans , their pride and their brown eyes twinkling at the prospect of business . |
| 21 | The idea was that light waves traveled at a speed of 186,000 miles a second through the ether , which meant that an observer who was at rest relative to the ether would measure the speed of light to be about 186,000 miles a second , but an observer who was moving through the ether would measure a higher or lower speed . |
| 22 | Trevor Hold in his recent anthology A Northamptonshire Garland , identifies the house described in Leapor 's poem ‘ Crumble Hall ’ , as Edgcote House , on the grounds that the carved heads described at the beginning of the poem correspond to a drawing of Edgcote House by Peter Tillemans ( c. 1684–1733 ) . |
| 23 | English fans have at the moment , the reputation of being the top boys in Europe , and there will be others from Holland , Germany and erm let's face it , also Italy who 'll be out to knock them off their pedestal . |
| 24 | Just propped lazily against the edge of her desk , long brown legs crossed at the ankles , watching her with that cool , speculative expression in his eyes , he had the ability to make her insides seize up . |
| 25 | From Figure 10.3 , it appears that the approaching waves collide at the surface and reach a horizon at . |
| 26 | Women in thick , serge dresses and wooden clogs gathered at the doors of their houses and watched us pass whilst half-naked children ran behind us , screaming in their patois for a sou or something to eat . |
| 27 | Measured against ‘ a stagnant US economy , a not altogether successful satellite programme , and perennial crises in NATO ’ ( Zimmerman : 1969 , p. 179 ) , these developments created high expectations expressed at the November 1960 Conference of Eighty-One parties in the definitive formulation that ’ the superiority of the forces of socialism over those of imperialism … is becoming ever more marked in the world arena' ( Zimmerman : 1969 , p. 181 ) . |
| 28 | Clear scenic coastal views of unsightly sights sighted at the seashore |
| 29 | But early yesterday , several thousand people with different ideas assembled at the Dynamo Metro station , and began marching towards Red Square , where officials were putting the finishing touches to preparations for the usual annual parade . |
| 30 | Thanks to the changing critical climate , the new ideas circulating among filmmakers and the relaxation of the censorship rules , the British films made at the end of the 1930s were much tougher and more emotionally charged , than anything that had gone before . |