Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [noun] [vb pp] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | MICHAEL Jackson lay low in his hotel room preparing for his final concert in Taiwan today , while newspapers , consumer groups and politicians fumed at the superstar 's offstage shopping style . |
| 2 | General secretary of the Society Kate Ashbrook argues that the change of mind shows that ‘ The predictions , promises and guarantees given at the inquiry have been proved wrong . |
| 3 | On the other hand , transmission mechanisms may work by changing the perceptions of costs and benefits made at the ‘ working level ’ of management , and this in turn may create upward pressures in the organization for strategic management to bring its policies into line . |
| 4 | It stressed that it accepted that Black had nothing to do with the stolen goods or weapons found at the cottage . |
| 5 | Punishment is just a word after all : nothing more than convenient political rhetoric meriting only lip-service from probation managers and practitioners poised at the ‘ window of opportunity ’ . |
| 6 | A bookcase was set alight in what was the latest in a series of death threats and vandalism aimed at the Mossley Hill MP . |
| 7 | Borough and county councillors and officers gathered at the junction of Duke Street and Raby Terrace on Monday to officially launch the 18month trial project . |
| 8 | ‘ Veterinary College May 9th 1792 — At a meeting ( held at the Crown & Anchor Tavern in the Strand ) of a committee of Physicians and Surgeons appointed at the request of the Veterinary College , for the purpose of investigating the medical and chirurgical abilities of Mr C.B. Vial the professor of the above Institution , Present : John Hunter , Esq. , Sir George Baker , Bart. , Doctor Crawford , Doctor Packwood , Everard Home , Esq. , Mr Cline , Mr Vaux , Mr Peake and Mr Thos . |
| 9 | But nowhere , not even in the potentially ‘ educational ’ rides and attractions based at The Land or The Universe Of Energy pavilions , is there any reference to the world 's problems nor , except as fantasy , to any world at all outside a US focus . |
| 10 | But two days later he was on duty , coloured bright orange from iodine on cuts and bruises got at the elections which he had attended in the Jlulat interest . |
| 11 | Some dry leaves or grass scattered at the base of the pit will provide the ferret with some comfort . |
| 12 | ‘ As long as you have all these lords and ladies lodged at the top of the heap , no one else can break through except those they allow in . |
| 13 | I get to the fence leading downhill and follow it , stumbling now and again on the rocks and stones left at the side of the field ; my eyes are still adjusting to the darkness . |
| 14 | Although we might expect bedrock mineralogy to exert a pervasive control over the products of chemical weathering this is not the case , at least at the broad scale , both because the rocks and minerals exposed at the Earth 's surface are dominated by just two or three types ( Table 6.5 ) , and because prolonged weathering tends to lead to a convergence of secondary mineral types irrespective of parent material mineralogy . |
| 15 | As news filtered through from Bombay last night of a city paralysed by strikes and tourists stranded at the City 's airport by stone-throwing mobs rampaging through the streets , pressure for the tour to be called off is growing . |