Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [adj] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Sectarianism and intimidation in the workplace have not been taken into account either , when we asked about this at the same meeting we were told you had to prove you were being intimidated .
2 The year saw a continuation in the upward trend in both the number , and the total value of , applications received by the Fund which rose to 2,207 at a potential cost of £58.5m ( 1991 : 1,337 , £33.3m ) .
3 I asked about discipline , wondering how it compared with that at the central Scotland school where I taught .
4 Kimber first danced in public at the golden jubilee celebrations in 1887 , but the side was disbanded after this , only to be revived by the Oxford don Percy Manning in 1897 , and Kimber did not perform with them again until 1899 .
5 Moving with no clear sense of direction , I arrived at last at a wooden hut , set in a clearing in the forest which covered that part of the mountain .
6 Humpbacks , sperms and rorquals formed the basis of an extensive antarctic whaling industry , which began in 1904 at a single whaling station on South Georgia and expanded enormously over the next three decades , making use of both shore stations and pelagic fleets .
7 The OSI , which they adopted , had been pioneered by several international bodies ; the initial work began in 1977 at the International Organization for Standardization ( ISO ) on developing a seven-layer OSI reference model .
8 Ballesteros starts today nine adrift in joint fifth place , but his first victory in America 15 years ago came after he trailed by ten at the same stage , and that in the 1986 Monte Carlo Open he was seven behind with only one round to go and still triumphed .
9 So if you just sold to that at a small surgery that 's what your earnings would be .
10 John Mason died in 1899 at the early age of sixty-four .
11 Count Leo Tolstoy , whose tragic heroine Anna Karenina threw herself under a train , himself died in 1910 at the remote Russian country station of Astapovo .
12 She was ‘ rediscovered ’ as a film-maker in the early 80's , and a series of retrospectives and tributes culminated in 1990 at the International Festival of Women 's Films in Creteil , where a programme of her work was feted by capacity audiences .
13 The will to forget the occupation years was provoked initially by the disgust felt by many at the anarchic retribution known as ‘ the purge ’ in which thousands of Frenchmen accused of collaboration were executed by avenging teenagers , only sometimes under the doubtful authority of resistance tribunals .
14 We will fund crash courses in the main areas of skill shortage , aimed in particular at the long-term unemployed .
15 This time Stewart ran in unmarked at the far post to score with a downward header from Jan Molby 's free kick .
16 All but a handful of the 18,298 crowd stayed in their places but their growing frustration reached fever pitch in the 88th minute when Adams stole in unmarked at the far post to volley home Le Tissier 's inviting cross .
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