Example sentences of "[vb past] at the [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dick Turpin is claimed to have stopped here and according to Nevinson , Queen Elizabeth dined at the Whitefriars in 1565 , after which it fell to the ground . |
| 2 | Prices of electricity and gas rose at the beginning of 1991 , increasing retail prices by 12.7 per cent overall . |
| 3 | Returning to the questions we posed at the outset of this enquiry , we would , therefore , have to conclude that anti-Semitism , despite its pivotal place in Hitler 's ‘ world view ’ , was of only secondary importance in cementing the bonds between Führer and people which provided the Third Reich with its popular legitimation and base of plebiscitary acclamation . |
| 4 | And it was the end of the road for former council chairman Archie McAuley , who crashed at the polls after 32 years on the council . |
| 5 | Her heart sank at the sight of fresh blood on the bandage , but she set about unwinding the strip of linen , praying that she had not opened up fitzAlan 's wound too badly in her frantic efforts to escape . |
| 6 | John Paton reported at the end of 1933 : The analysis of the reports shows that the policy of isolated cooperation with the Communist Party has completely failed to bring general support from the other organised bodies . |
| 7 | The intense barrage fire of our artillery sweeping the whole slope of the hill was at once a magnificent and awe-inspiring sight ; the Mort Homme flamed like a volcano , and the air and the earth alike trembled at the shock of thousands of bursting shells . |
| 8 | I come back finally to what I mentioned at the beginning of this chapter as the area of ‘ naturalism ’ more broadly conceived : that is to say , the question of founding human ethics on considerations of human nature , in some way which goes beyond merely respecting the limits , biological or other , on what human beings are able to do . |
| 9 | Structures of support between mothers and daughters are subject to all the individual variations which I mentioned at the beginning of this discussion , and at a more collective level , ethnic and cultural variation is very important , with some cultural traditions placing a less strong emphasis on this bond than does white Anglo-Saxon culture . |
| 10 | As we mentioned at the beginning of this chapter , aggregate demand is the total demand for all final goods and services in an economy over a period of time and consists of the sum of the demands of consumers , firms , the government and foreigners . |
| 11 | I mentioned at the start of this address that around the fire Joseph and Mary and their children would have gathered for fun and fellowship . |
| 12 | After passing beneath several narrow bridges , some wooden , some stone , under which Michele had to bend his head , they stopped at the intersection of two canals . |
| 13 | The best way , then , to deal with the complaint that psychological-cum-biological theories of the state are too vague is to attempt a combination between these theories and those we reviewed at the beginning of this chapter . |
| 14 | To the unwanted social and psychological fall-out produced by the earlier hiding strategies are now added various kinds of physical discomfort : the ‘ psychosomatic ’ conditions we reviewed at the start of this chapter . |
| 15 | He is now 10.5 months old and has made no developmental progress since the time of his injury which he sustained at the age of four weeks . |
| 16 | Whereas in the Ruhr Coal Basin i.e. at the southern margin of the N.W. German Basin , this first coalification was the only one ( in places at least the predominant one ) because , there , the coal reached its deepest level of subsidence and its highest rock temperature before the Asturian folding ( which occurred at the boundary between Westphalian D and Stephanian ) , this late Variscan folding combined with an uplift of the Carboniferous , was much less intense further to the north . |
| 17 | For , as we shall see , it is a remarkable and essential transformation , one which occurred at the beginning of human culture but which , in some subsequent cultures — possibly even in the modern world — could undergo retransformation back again into what it originally had been — an external tyranny . |
| 18 | I explained in my statement in the annual report about the management reorganisation which occurred at the end of nineteen eighty nine . |
| 19 | It is understood the incidents occurred at the end of last term . |
| 20 | This case is the first of the modern Court of Appeal authorities to which I referred at the beginning of this judgment . |
| 21 | Controversy erupted at the time over alleged juggling with export restrictions by Culture Minister Jack Lang and allegations were made about collusion between private art dealing and the State . |
| 22 | A Staffordshire University graduate is organising a reunion for ceramics students who studied at the centre in 1965 when it was North Staffordshire College of Technology . |
| 23 | Salgado photographed at the mine for three weeks . |
| 24 | Meryl burned at the memory of that piercing look , which had shot right through her armour of professional resentment to the vulnerable core . |
| 25 | The atmosphere of Darvel was well encapsulated in a verse of doggerel which Leslie added at the top of one of his letters : |
| 26 | You want this added at the end of roman numeral four . |
| 27 | This fellow , who must be the only , or almost the only , surviving person outside Japan who has been the target of a nuclear bomb , and who knows what it 's like for real ( as opposed to the criminally bone-headed fantasising about nuclear war indulged in by our sillier soldiers and politicians ) , was not only matter-of-fact about it all , as though it was the sort of thing that might have happened to anyone , but he actually admitted that he had never given a thought to the possibility that he might be at risk as a result of the radiation he undoubtedly suffered at the time until recent weeks when various busybodies brought the matter to his attention . |
| 28 | There are many cases recorded in which Christian subjects petitioned the sultan to redress grievances which they suffered at the hands of overbearing church leaders , and where the sultan acted in the interests of the petitioners . |
| 29 | Good work by Martin Strutt supported by Stephen McKinty led to a scrum on the Banbridge line and when they failed to clear Michael Long made good ground down the right touch line before slipping the ball inside to full back Mark Tinman who scored at the corner after seven minutes . |
| 30 | Okay , and you will suffer as a result of liberalization , and by and large those costs , or those benefits that er , reaped at the moment by those countries are very , very small in comparison to the , er , the costs of protectionism to the rest of the world . |