Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [vb past] at [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kate was sitting on one of the two deep sofas that stood at right angles to the fireplace . |
| 2 | The USSR 's essential military needs are met by a network of bilateral treaties entered into years before the founding of the WTO : treaties which have been supplemented by similar agreements between the individual East European countries and renewed at periodic intervals over the years . |
| 3 | Dr Robert Runcie visited the Vatican archives and looked at original documents relating to the split between the the Anglican and Roman Catholic churches in the sixteenth century . |
| 4 | There is a fundamental difference between the behaviour of lithosphere capped with oceanic crust ( oceanic lithosphere ) and that covered with continental crust ( continental lithosphere ) since only oceanic lithosphere can be generated at mid-oceanic ridges and subducted at oceanic trenches . |
| 5 | This has been proved in several places : in some arctic localities it is found with trilobites that lived at great depths in the muds of the Ordovician ocean , while in Canada the same species occurs mixed with the inhabitants of the shallow-water seas , where limestones were accumulating . |
| 6 | She claimed photographers who took pictures of her as she walked the streets or appeared at public events were then making a fortune by selling their shots to companies ready to churn out posters , T-shirts and magazines by the million . |
| 7 | In the case of cells that absorbed at short wavelengths , we checked that the pigment was photolabile by repeating the absorbance measurements after bleaching the cell with white light for 5min . |
| 8 | This growing discontent has been symbolized by Koreans refusing to comply with the stipulation that all aliens resident in Japan for any length of time have to be re-registered as aliens and fingerprinted at regular intervals , and carry alien registration cards with them at all times . |