Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] at [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Produced in six bi-monthly parts it gives an up-to-date , comprehensive summary of all decisions on human rights cases heard at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg . |
| 2 | Just over a year ago , over a thousand biologists gathered at an international meeting in Vancouver . |
| 3 | And we now have fifty agents of different nationalities , all highly trained in the skills taught at the special place . ’ |
| 4 | Citizens ' action groups protested at the environmental damage caused by NATO manoeuvres and , in August 1989 , the SPD called for an end to the special rights and privileges enjoyed by the allied forces . |
| 5 | Some provision was made for the giving of legal advice by salaried solicitors outside the ambit of private practice in the Legal Aid and Advice Act 1949 , but the part of the Act which would have established full-time paid solicitors located at the Legal Aid Area Headquarters and travelling to smaller places was never brought into force . |
| 6 | After the early victories in Bath and Cheltenham , the faces of party supporters gathered at the Liberal Club in Mr Ashdown 's Yeovil constituency grew progressively longer as it became clear the predicted breakthrough was not going to happen . |
| 7 | After the early victories in Bath and Cheltenham , the faces of party supporters gathered at the Liberal Club in Mr Ashdown 's Yeovil constituency grew progressively longer as it became clear the predicted breakthrough was not going to happen . |
| 8 | Sir Charles Sherrington argued that the evolution of neuronal integration of reflexes concerned with movement gave rise to large ganglia situated at the front end of mobile animals , for that is where the sense organs develop . |
| 9 | The Coroner was in his early forties , a gaunt , greying man , with thick spectacles perched at the very end of his nose . |
| 10 | Croydon cars already had cushioned seats of the highest standard on both decks and chromium plated handrails , so that they required less modification than the ex-L.C.C. cars rebuilt at the same time . |
| 11 | In one of the most enthralling finishes seen at a European Tour event this season , the 33 year-old Mancunian held his game together , coming down the stretch , to record his first Tour triumph in the European Open at Walton Heath . |
| 12 | In the years following 1868 she had several landscapes and religious pictures exhibited at the Royal Academy . |
| 13 | In the study ( Levinger & Clark , 1961 ) emotional words were shown to produce higher fluctuations in galvanic skin response ( GSR ) than non-emotional ones , free-associates produced to these words were less likely to be subsequently recalled than associates of non-emotional words produced at the same time . |
| 14 | We understand the meaning of words from their context , and in ordinary life the context includes not only other words used at the same time but the whole human or social situation in which the words are used . |
| 15 | In the distance , ponies in long-shafted light chariots trotted at a spanking pace , the wheels spinning around . |
| 16 | The lower — rough gravel and during the winter months flooded at the far end . |
| 17 | Two other Iranians arrested at the same time by Greater Manchester police were released without charge yesterday . |
| 18 | At the workshop the organisers had managed to unite informed educational opinion throughout Nigeria and to establish a productive working climate in which panels in six areas of the primary school curriculum : cultural and creative art , languages , mathematics , physical and health education , science and social studies met and in the light of the goals set at the 1969 Curriculum Conference expanded and refined objectives in these areas and produced a series of guidelines which have since been used throughout Nigeria at university and state level as a basis for detailed curriculum planning . |
| 19 | Police believe the two cars collided at a closing speed approaching a hundred miles an hour . |
| 20 | compatibility with existing phonographs did not matter , because dictation cylinders rotated at a different speed anyway . |
| 21 | The Scots aimed at a federal system which would allow them some autonomy . |
| 22 | The Labour dissidents failed at a private meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party , by 112 votes to 46 , to commit Labour to oppose an independent bank during the passage of the European Communities ( Amendment ) Bill . |
| 23 | Other northerners knighted at the same time included two Westmorland men , Christopher Moresby of Windermere and Thomas Strikland of Sizergh . |
| 24 | Other northerners knighted at the same time included two Westmorland men , Christopher Moresby of Windermere and Thomas Strikland of Sizergh . |
| 25 | Words with an early age of acquisition tend to be highly concrete ( imageable ) while words acquired at a later age tend to be abstract . |
| 26 | " The [ NATO ] Community member states … , in accordance with the guidelines established at the recent meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Copenhagen [ see p. 38313 ] , regard the ultimate reinforcement of a European defence identity as an important contribution to the strengthening of the Atlantic Alliance … |
| 27 | Table 3.4 shows how many they employed over the course of the project , together with the number of clients held at the same time . |
| 28 | As Personal Assistant to John Watson , prepare a report reviewing Palatine Ales ' position following the successful conclusion of the takeover battle , evaluating the proposals made at the last Board meeting , and submitting your recommendations regarding future policy . |
| 29 | In SPAR , however , reference resolution is able to overturn any preferences applied at an earlier stage . |
| 30 | Most , perhaps all , functionalists are thorough-going materialists who believe that mental phenomena are genuine physical phenomena seen at a particular level of abstraction . |