Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [verb] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1980 when Allan Wells won a Gold Medal at the Olympics I looked at the British tracksuits and thought : well , nothing much has changed in 56 years ! |
| 2 | Many candidates who start at the bottom skip grades on the way up , or , perhaps because of pressure of other work , take more than a year between adjoining grades . |
| 3 | Most chemical reactions which proceed at a measurable rate are believed to take place in a series of simple steps . |
| 4 | Any partial hypotheses which end at the same node are equivalent as far as further right context is concerned , and only the highest scoring need be kept . |
| 5 | One notable effect the alternative social format contained lay in the assault upon the senses which occurred at a pragmatic level . |
| 6 | This hotel was at that time a sort of private dwelling crammed with the owner 's collection of Catalan works of art and pastel portraits of the great singers who appeared at the nearby Opera . |
| 7 | I forgot to say that on the way to the hot springs we stopped at a neolithic site where they have excavated and reconstructed the life of the people living there 6,000 years ago . |
| 8 | All necessary and desirable directions for disposing of the proceedings should be given at the pre-trial review , and the parties should as far as practicable ask for all the directions they need at the pre-trial review , giving prior notice to all interested parties ( Ord 17 , rr 1 and 3 ) . |
| 9 | Voluntary organisations which operate at a regional level would be severely disadvantaged by the proposals in the White Paper . |
| 10 | My hon. Friend will be aware of the concern of my constituents who work at the Royal Navy workshop at Almondbank because of the present review of helicopter servicing . |
| 11 | For two years he taught at a preparatory school in Reigate , before being appointed head of the English department at Stowe by the school 's headmaster , J. F. Roxburgh [ q.v . ] . |
| 12 | His poetry tells a different story : there was wide and profound sentience — of man and nature , of beauty and the beast , of times and seasons , of perception and tactility , of hearing and tasting , and smelling ; at the bottom of which remains an unresolved questing , a whole gamut of unanswered questions which drove at the very heart of what he most wished to believe . |
| 13 | I shall update you with any changes which occur at a later date . |
| 14 | In sharing the Reds ' upset win in that national trial he proved a bit of success as a distributor and made two scorching breaks which hinted at a swashbuckling touch to his nature : ‘ I was very keen to make a good impression in the trial because it took place a week after my ‘ B ’ debut against Ireland and I wanted to make up for two particular errors in that game . |
| 15 | Following this was the rodeo World Championships on the Bitches which decided at the last minute to include a ladies ' competition . |
| 16 | Two more birdies coming home compensated for the bogeys she had at the fourteenth and sixteenth holes . |
| 17 | The diagonal constructions employed in the paintings she selected at the National Gallery and their use as a formal agent aiding and abetting the organisation of colour is what Riley emphasises and announces in her own work of this period . |
| 18 | Tabkay , as they call him , is one of 35 Buddhists who live at the 30-room Kilnwick Percy Hall , otherwise known as the Madhyamaka Buddhist Centre , just outside Pocklington . |
| 19 | But curiously enough , such articulate recognition of the educational significance of the manyattas was exceptional , though administrators often behaved and wrote in ways which hinted at an implicit acknowledgement of the similarity between what went on in a Masai manyatta and what went on in the English boarding schools they had themselves attended . |
| 20 | Two of the daughters , Annie and Rose , were painters who exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1887 and 1885 . |
| 21 | Unfortunately , the JMP-1 has no input on the back and so in some ways it falls at the final fence , because I ca n't really see how you can set it up to work in a neat and user-friendly rack ; you 'd have to wire the thing up every time you gigged it . |
| 22 | Ditto those helpless Englishmen he skittled at the same venue two years earlier . |
| 23 | Agencies ' reports will thus provide information on both the financial and operational performance of the activities they cover at an earlier stage than is possible in departmental reports . |
| 24 | The enormous increase in the demand for lace was largely due to the fashion for lace curtains which came at the same time as a huge house-building programme , and buyers came from home and abroad to negotiate their deals in the Lace Market . |
| 25 | I know , too , that my mother valued the people she met here , from the smiles of the young folk to the friends she made at the Senior Citizens ' Lunch Club and Meeting . |
| 26 | Mr Stafford Smith is one of four lawyers who work at the Southern Centre for Human Rights in Atlanta , Georgia , which is the only office of defence lawyers funded solely by private contributions . |
| 27 | Due to a recent rule change , players who fail at the pre-qualifying stage can now return to amateur competition . |
| 28 | I have seen some fine players who compete at a high level bring in another line , between the service line and the baseline . |
| 29 | The goals must be debated and discussed until their true implications are appreciated , then their application worked out in terms of the curriculum planning and development decisions they imply at the various stages of the educational process . |
| 30 | For a continuously varying trait ( let us use human size as an example ) , the value of the trait in an individual is probably determined by what genes it has at a large number of genetic loci , together with the effect of the environment . |