Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [verb] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between 1985 and 1990 , however , the number of people aged over 85 supported in residential care by local authorities has declined at a slower rate than that for all people aged 65+ . |
| 2 | Over this period the stock of such investments has expanded at an average annual compound rate of just under 19% . |
| 3 | On the back of Wall Street 's overnight strength , the FT-SE 100 cash index rose 33 points at the outset and , with the futures index opening at a hefty premium , looked poised to turn in a record-setting performance . |
| 4 | Investigations are continuing to discover how the two cars came to collide at the Great Stainton crossroads on the narrow road . |
| 5 | ‘ If the number of candidates keeps rising at the present rate ’ , he said , ‘ then by the year 2010 the entire population of the world will have a SCOTVEC National Certificate ! ’ |
| 6 | Their success in this area so changed the way British films were perceived that , in 1932 , a year when a large number of exhibitors substantially over-filled their quota , the American showbiz journal Variety reported on ‘ the complete stranglehold the home-made pictures had established at the local box office . ’ |
| 7 | However , the same block grant system was retained , and the GREA formulae tightened to produce at the local level deductions of grant for all levels of expenditure . |
| 8 | The brakes had gone at the same corner where he rolled last year . |
| 9 | In the first quarter of this year we 've seen more moderate growth in those geographical areas but in nineteen eighty nine nearly forty percent of Pearson 's trading ca profit came from economies outside the U K and North America and we expect our activities in these other areas to continue to grow at a satisfactory rate . |
| 10 | Why so many of the other directors chose to sell at the same time is not known to me . |
| 11 | So why did US companies fail to invest at a higher rate ? |
| 12 | This unprecedented discovery indicated one of two things : either at least four meteorites had fallen at the same place in Antarctica ( an event of vanishingly small statistical probability ) , or fragments of four meteorites , which had fallen at random on the interior ice sheet , had been carried to the Yamato Mountains site by ice motion . |
| 13 | Both companies have arrived at the same answer . |
| 14 | It is possible that time-gap experiences represent driving at the tactical level which is conducted without controlled processes being involved , the assumption here is the common one that unless a stimulus event receives conscious attention it will not be stored in long term memory ( e.g. Bargh , 1984 ; Broadbent , 1958 ; Moray , 1959 ; Shiffrin & Schneider , 1977 ) . |
| 15 | Planners need to look at the long term provision of locally based day care as well as reviewing current provision in terms of suitability , costs etc . |
| 16 | So this was quite a mission which I believe has not been adequately covered in the history and was a forerunner of things to come and like I say we got through that mission without any damage , our gunners got to shoot at the first German fighters and we were an experienced crew with one mission under our belt . |
| 17 | Luckily , one of the participants had to withdraw at the last moment and taking her place on the team , I went off in search of sponsors . |
| 18 | So general SVQs have arrived at a good time . |
| 19 | His fingers began to scrabble at the coarse edge of the steel plate . |
| 20 | News of the victory spread as the clans began to muster at the appointed time at Glenfinnan , which , with the mountains rising all around the tranquil waters of the loch , provided an intensely dramatic setting for the formal beginning of the campaign . |
| 21 | Like writing , paintings seem to hint at a topsy-turvy world in which , so to speak , time 's arrow moves the other way . |
| 22 | Some of these changes seem to occur at an early stage of the neoplastic process . |
| 23 | Overall this looks to be a group with the physical and mental resources needed to play at the top level in New Zealand . |
| 24 | There have been a number of studies attempting to look at the vexed question of the effect of healing of oesophagitis on oesophageal function . |
| 25 | In this way , all her eggs begin developing at the same time . |
| 26 | Athelstan closed his eyes and breathed a prayer as he glimpsed the blue-black holes where the hungry ravens had pecked at the scrawny , whitening flesh . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , the farmers had to sell at a controlled price and vast sums were retained by Britain , exporting cocoa for dollars . |
| 28 | ( 8 ) The more female ducks the males have to look at the more time they spend looking at them . |
| 29 | Previous culture experiments have hinted at a mycobacterial aetiology , and the circumstantial evidence such as granulomas is suggestive . |
| 30 | However , changes have occurred at the local level , for there has been a strong centralization trend evident in both . |