Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] at [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hens pecked at unwanted rouble notes from piles of sacks dumped on the railway lines for no clear reason . |
| 2 | The mouse and human sequences differed at two restriction sites corresponding to amino acids 43 ( HindIII ) and 221 ( EcoRI ) . |
| 3 | Boulton & Watt 's beam engines employed large cylinders operating at low steam pressures , and McNaught 's expedient consisted of the addition of a small higher-pressure cylinder acting on the other half of the beam about midway along its length , with an appropriately shorter stroke , exhausting its steam into the original low-pressure cylinder . |
| 4 | In practice the particle sizes in the sediment are computed from the weights settled at specific time intervals . |
| 5 | Ambitious social workers will be pouring into Manchester later this month to explore the job opportunities provided at New Century Hall , Corporation Street . |
| 6 | Police Sergeant Dick Howard , here with his second family is typical of the angry ex husbands protesting at new maintenance orders . |
| 7 | After the long drive up from Egypt , the various parties assembled at Eighth Army Headquarters at Bouerat . |
| 8 | Two books aimed at developing language skills through presentation and discussion of thought-provoking topics . |
| 9 | An easy cart track heads north and in five minutes arrives at Dry Laithe Cave , commonly known as Calf Holes , where a stream coming down on the right disappears in a rash of rocks and passes into a cave under the track . |
| 10 | The principle of Speedlink is that train sections are exchanged at specified groups of sidings on the network , rather than individual wagons sorted at full-scale marshalling yards . |
| 11 | Langbaurgh Council is to take stands at Birmingham and Stavanger in Norway to help local companies exhibit at major trade fairs this year . |
| 12 | We 've then got two areas to look at national curricular levels and general skills and abilities . |
| 13 | Captain Edward Tupper made attempts to organise at various fishing ports from April 1910 , and claimed a fishing membership of 5,000 for the NSFU in 1919 which appears not to have survived the post-war depression . |
| 14 | Each internal street has been repaved , with speed bumps installed at 40 metre intervals or paviours arranged to look like bumps even though there is actually no bump at all ( Figure 4.16 ) . |
| 15 | Where possible , steps will be taken to ensure that publicity campaigns include specific messages targeted at this age group . |
| 16 | Obviously Wordsworth thought that his poems would have some positive effect in this direction ; it becomes clearer why so many of the poems written at this time deal with ‘ domestic affections ’ , and in particular with the separation of mother and child . |
| 17 | Although we had excellent training schemes for our general customs work at this period cutter crews did not receive any specialised instruction for crewing duties . |
| 18 | Yes , I am indeed a Labour member of this Local Authority , and I certainly would argue that both national and local governments need at local government level need to take much more up front stances about the encouragement of equal opportunities for women , both in the labour market and in all educational and social spheres . |
| 19 | At least ten years experience at senior management level . |
| 20 | For plant subjects the only evidence is ( a ) the above comparison with the true leaf area , obtained from the leaf area machine and ( b ) the consistency of consecutive readings taken at short time intervals ( one to five minutes ) . |
| 21 | Our data for the first demonstrate that A-tracts repeated at helical turn periods can display no mobility anomaly if they are appropriately phased with GGGCCC motifs . |
| 22 | Plumb ( 1983 : 289–315 ) and Forty ( 1986 : 63–91 ) document the rise of goods aimed at specific consumer groups such as children , later developed as youth groups demanding particular age-based products . |
| 23 | In the United Kingdom it took the form of productivity deals aimed at eroding shopfloor control over working practices . |
| 24 | Japan also agreed to intensify the enforcement of its existing anti-monopoly legislation , to introduce tax reforms aimed at encouraging property development , and to increase spending on housing and public works , in an effort to increase Japanese domestic demand . |
| 25 | Further publications targeted at specific user groups are now in preparation and these will be circulated widely as they become available . |
| 26 | Mr Murdoch can draw some comfort from the fact that News ' own interest rates are 70 per cent fixed at long-term rates , and it looks as though he will narrowly avoid joining the A$1bn interest payers list at next year end . |
| 27 | And soon 15 MG RV8s a week will be handbuilt on a new low volume production line at Cowley in Oxford , using bodies built at British Motor Heritage in Faringdon . |
| 28 | The driving simulator at the Applied Psychology Unit allows subjects to sit in the shell of a car and watch videos of driving situations projected at near life size . |
| 29 | Further motivation came from comments expressed at external training sessions that each Borough could afford to send only one or two people to courses costing £30 plus per person per day , and also from the need for specialised training for non-professional staff . |
| 30 | Dark panelling ; tall glass-fronted bookcases full of great leather-bound books ; solid brown furniture ; shabby plush chairs ; shabbier plush curtains hanging at high sash windows , and several very new watercolours of sailing vessels in gilt frames which looked uncomfortably out of place on the sombre walls . |