Example sentences of "[vb pp] and [adv] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Receiving the award on behalf of the company , John Stewart , Managing Director , was delighted with the achievement ‘ It gives additional confidence to a range that was already well prepared and carefully targeted at a specific market ’ , he said . |
| 2 | On March 24 a soldier was shot and seriously wounded at an otherwise peaceful demonstration by Islamic students in Makulla , east of Aden , and two days later counter-demonstrations were organized in the town , attended by several thousand people . |
| 3 | It peaked in the election years of 1983 and 1987 and even the collapse of optimism over the period 1978–80 was halted and temporarily reversed at the 1979 election ( The Economist , 1990 , p. 34 ) . |
| 4 | To score points , the techniques must be cleanly performed and strongly focused at the appropriate target areas . |
| 5 | Not surprisingly , as successful communication involves the transfer of information , and that transfer presupposes a successful evaluation of what is known and not known at the outset , a number of general suggestions have been made by theorists and methodologists advocating a communicative approach . |
| 6 | If a tree is pollarded and thereafter maintained at a much reduced height than before , it may no longer affect a nearby building . |
| 7 | These are usually concealed and then flashed at the last moment , giving the prospective predator the impression that it is approaching a much larger animal and one that is staring straight at it in a defiant manner . |
| 8 | One is that the credit card figures include balances which are incurred and immediately repaid at the end of the month . |
| 9 | The first was that Stirling had promised his men that they would never be subjected to the indecisions of the Commando days when operation after operation was planned and then cancelled at the last minute . |