Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb past] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the rallies were violent , if only because of the resentment which Labour supporters felt at the splitting of the anti-Conservative vote . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Social relations lay at the heart of lived experience . |
| 5 | When the Free Presbyterians arrived at the Assembly Hall in Fisherwick Place , the police threw a rope across the road and stopped the march . |
| 6 | Delighted civic leaders said at a champagne celebration in the city that the decision was a vital boost to Manchester 's challenge to stage the Olympic Games in the year 2000 . |
| 7 | Up on the scaffolding , the two rugged manly types whistled at the womenfolk . |
| 8 | Several would-be sailors scoffed at the idea of a race until they actually set sail . |
| 9 | Whereas influential books like Flint 's Glacial and Pleistocene Geology adopted a structure in which landforms and landscape patterns comprised the early part of the book and then were succeeded by chapters on stratigraphy and chronology in different areas and this was echoed in the structure of research on specific areas ; by the late 1970s books by physical geographers had adopted a structure in which chronology and the classic models appeared at the beginning . |
| 10 | Indeed , even without having to go so far as the Commission of the European Communities did at the hearing in arguing that registration itself already constitutes a form of establishment , it must be observed that in any event registration is a precondition for taking up and pursuing activities in the fisheries sector . |
| 11 | Grey-wigged jackdaws with bright glinting eyes tumbled at the cliff edge . |
| 12 | Only fourteen comprehensive schools existed at the time when Tony Crosland was writing : good grammar schools could not simply be swept away , nor the rights and duties of Local Education Authorities brushed aside . |
| 13 | The execution-style killings occurred at the Wat Promkunaram temple , the second-largest site of Buddhist worship in the country , built in 1988 in a remote location 20 miles west of Phoenix . |
| 14 | The release of Cicippio , who had been abducted by the RJO in September 1986 [ see p. 35023 ] , coincided with the payment by the USA to Iran of US$278,000,000 in compensation for Iranian weapons impounded at the time of the 1979 Iranian revolution . |
| 15 | His narrow , bloodshot eyes glared at the replacement . |
| 16 | His face began to change , and small , shadowed lines appeared at the corners of his mouth and eyes . |
| 17 | Seagulls , afloat like the boats , idled round Lord Jim , their white feathers soiled at the waterline . |
| 18 | The days of the popularity of black and white etchings waned at the turn of this century : the demand was filled by photographic views , first in black and white and then in colour . |
| 19 | There is good evidence that a flourishing trade in false antiquities existed at the turn of the century , and its products filtered through to the United States and Europe . |
| 20 | TWENTY more or less innocent little faces looked at the pianist and the two teachers and chanted : ‘ Thank you Mary , thank you Brenda , thank you Michael . ’ |
| 21 | And her white Reeboks screeched at the marble as she turned and led me to the waiting forms . |
| 22 | Her head drooped to one side , and her heavy-lidded eyes stared at the ashtray , even though they did not focus on it . |
| 23 | The black flags waited at the Pole . |
| 24 | Sometime in the later fourth or early fifth century , major modifications occurred at the west gate , involving its remodelling as a single portal . |
| 25 | Second , demand overload and intractable and complicated problems came at a time of decreased government capacity , effectiveness , and authority . |
| 26 | ANGRY scenes erupted at a meeting in Darlington last night as the British National Party tried to gatecrash an environmental debate . |
| 27 | He dreamed , each time , of his plantation in Jamaica — banana palms leafed like green fountains , bright orange papaws clustered at the top of their naked stems , a noise of surf quickened the air with its rustling freshness . |
| 28 | It is well settled that such a grant or demise will … impliedly confer on the grantee or lessee … easements over the land retained corresponding to the continuous or apparent quasi-easements enjoyed at the time of the grant or demise by the property granted or demised over the property retained … |
| 29 | And now , in these few remaining minutes , before the photographer , the fingerprint officers , the forensic biologists arrived at the scene , he had the place almost to himself . |
| 30 | When the successful foragers arrived at the hive , many danced to indicate the car park . |