Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [vb pp] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.

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1 Its aim , according to Vice-President Al Gore , is to " ensure that environmental considerations are brought to bear at the earliest stages in the development of economic policy " .
2 Neighbours and other third parties are allowed to speak at a public inquiry — though they usually appear last .
3 Six months are spent studying at an Institut Universitaire de Technologie specializing in Marketing , Management/Personnel or Computing , and this is followed by a 3-month integrated work placement .
4 At the rear of the idol , seven round indents are formed beginning at the base of the spine and extending to the head .
5 THE Dallas Cowboys were left raging at a refereeing decision which could eventually cost them a place in the Super Bowl .
6 ( The restaurant is closed on Tuesdays when guests are invited to dine at a restaurant in San Gimignano . )
7 The trouble with this is that , although the plants are meant to bloom at the same time , invariably some flower later or earlier , and ruin the whole carefully thought-out scheme .
8 Operational deposits make up approximately a fifth of bankers ' balances held at the bank , the remainder being made up of non-interest bearing cash deposits that banks are required to keep at the Bank of England to provide it with an income .
9 Hartley 's philosophy was in fact an early form of the twentieth-century scheme of mental association known as Behaviourism ( Pavlov 's dogs were taught to salivate at the sound of an electric bell ) , and if writing today he would presumably have compared the brain to a computer .
10 His formative years were spent living at a small terraced house in , a house which still remains in use today .
11 One of the large sprocket attaching bolts was found fractured at a position closely corresponding with the top surface of the sprocket ( i.e. in the lower face of the plain washer ) .
12 And most of that 14 days was spent travelling at the foot of the mountains .
13 GOODS are needed to sell at a church fete next month in Tarvin .
14 In Britain , water tables are expected to remain at a low level throughout the summer .
15 Although some speakers urged everyone who agreed with some proposition to show their hand , at no time was a vote taken : the chairman summed up the sense of the meeting after each item , announcing what he thought Kufra 's delegates were mandated to say at the National Assembly .
16 ( At one conference delegates were told to talk at the floor because Special Branch had hi-tech microphones trained on the windows to catch the sound-waves . )
17 The same fate befell the likes of Alan Hudson , Rodney Marsh , Tony Currie and Charlie George — all of whom were discarded even before their qualities were allowed to flourish at the highest level .
18 In this , the scene is divided into three sections both horizontally and vertically , and the idea is to line up the shot so that the main features are made to come at the intersections of the imaginary dividing lines .
19 Occasionally athletes are kept waiting at the start for a minute or so until television is ready .
20 ‘ The joy was therefore extreme ’ wrote Scott later , ‘ when , the ponderous lid of the chest being forced open , the regalia were discovered lying at the bottom covered with linen cloths , exactly as they had been left . ’
21 However , from July 1919 the stripes were changed to run at a 45° angle from left to right .
22 Both men are part of a coterie of so-called ‘ rugby mercenaries ’ whose pay-offs are said to start at the $120,000 mark and the best-rewarded of whom — the ‘ rugby millionaires ’ — are reckoned to be paid $250,000 per season .
23 The post translational processing mechanisms that convert progastrin to amidated peptides are known to operate at the post Golgi level on this pathway .
24 It is a rather uncharacteristic work , scored fr the unusual combination of two violins and double bass , which like Mozart 's Musical Joke , pokes gentle fun at badly played dance music , and even includes a section where the players are instructed to shout at the beats of the bar !
25 A few years back each golfer used his own collection of chipped and misshapen balls and the caddies were expected to stand at the end of the practice area and collect them .
26 It is , however , a very special kind of autobiography , and may be compared to the accounts of their own lives which the early Methodists were expected to write at the time of their reception into the church : in such spiritual autobiographies divine visitations were singled out for special mention as evidences of God 's grace and power ; they were contrasted with laments over sinful behaviour and backsliding , and led to the culminating moment of conversion .
27 After John died , when the Girls were asked to appear at the Royal Command Performance , she saw no reason why this show should be any different from the others and stood in her usual place at the side of the stage , hissing corrections at the Girls .
28 Can I assist here ? the motion that has been mooted and the amendment has been proposed the amendment has been accepted the question now is whether what the the motion has been made and uh it is a matter for you to go to your suggested that certain members be allowed to speak at the end of the day it is a matter for you to decide uh control of the who is allowed to speak on that particular motion as amended of course
29 A special Court of Governors was requested to meet at the infirmary on Saturday February 19th 1814 at 1 o'clock to elect a physician .
30 This was out of 329 volumes which were left after 150 titles were reported missing at the time of the 1865 review .
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