Example sentences of "[vb pp] and [verb] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A full skirt of crimson and black swelled over her hips and was lifted and pinned at one side to reveal a cascade of lacy petticoats . |
| 2 | East Berlin is being rebuilt and restored at vast expense as a full-scale capital and show-window . |
| 3 | He is respected and kept at arms- length by those academics having a vested interest in the heritage circus , many of whom have displayed a less-than-equal intellect and an ability to shoot themselves and their often spurious causes in the foot ! . |
| 4 | It was for this convict , who could be caught and hanged at any moment , that I had deserted Joe . |
| 5 | In the Kadanwari field in the Tajjal block , four wells have been successfully drilled and tested at average rages in excess of 30 mmcfd . |
| 6 | However , many godly ministers were fined and imprisoned at this time . |
| 7 | And as family members we have seen and felt at close hand some of the most intense pains and also pleasures of later life : on the one hand , bereavement and loss , but on the other , the continued mastery of old skills , the creation of new pursuits and interests , the discovery of new friends and of new ways of contributing to the wider community . |
| 8 | We were wined and dined at great expense and the next time I met Tommy he thanked me profusely for assisting him on that evening . |
| 9 | Here , reports were prepared and distributed at regular intervals and the occasional request for ad hoc information was dealt with as the need arose . |
| 10 | Planning permission was sought and granted at breakneck speed and the foundations were already being excavated for twenty-four executive-type four to five bedroom ‘ dwelling units ’ with two garages apiece but no gardens . |
| 11 | If the application is urgent , eg for a non-molestation injunction under the Domestic Violence and Matrimonial Proceedings Act 1976 and there is no judge sitting , the court office will say at what court there is a judge and the application may be made and heard at that court , but the more usual practice is for the application itself to be made in the court which would otherwise have been appropriate , with the papers and order being sent back to that court after the hearing . |
| 12 | Some document that erm was produced and lost at some point or . |
| 13 | Changes in trace organics are being sampled and identified at various distances along a gas migration path from a landfill in Suffolk . |
| 14 | Surely she should be encouraging people to improve the quality of life in such areas as Tottenham , where housing can still be bought and rented at realistic prices . |
| 15 | allowing errors to be detected and repaired at non-critical periods |
| 16 | The cell cultures were inspected and photographed at daily intervals . |
| 17 | The technique does however allow constraints and associations to be established , entered and modified at any stage . |
| 18 | It is vital that the thermostatic controls are correctly set and maintained at those values . |
| 19 | A motion was proposed and passed at that meeting , which set out general suggestions concerning a possible way forward . |
| 20 | Remarks ( i ) The reader who feels both exhausted and cheated at this outcome ( if any such reader there be ) will perhaps comment : " What a waste of time . |
| 21 | They were very large evidencing the importance of the cities being replanned and reconstructed at this time . |
| 22 | As late Anglo-Saxon rulers were often required to give undertakings of this sort at their coronations , Cnut was possibly crowned and anointed at this time . |
| 23 | There are trees such as willows which can be cut and harvested at frequent intervals . |
| 24 | For this the samples were thawed and centrifuged at 3000 g for 10 minutes to remove the mucus . |
| 25 | New skills and awarenesses — of assessment , management , counselling , computing , pedagogy and the rest — are being defined and promulgated at high speed . |
| 26 | The supernatant was removed and centrifuged at 100 g for five minutes . |
| 27 | The supernatant was removed and centrifuged at 100 g for 5 minutes . |
| 28 | There are two problems with the type of stack found in the KDF9 computer : ( a ) it is of fixed size , so that the programmer or compiler has to take care to keep within its bounds ; and ( b ) in a multiprogramming environment the stack has to be emptied and refilled at each process switch ; the latter could be done on the KDF9 only one element at a time ( although suitable stack dump and restore instructions could be envisaged ) , and the problem was solved on that computer by providing multiple nesting stores . |
| 29 | Supernatants were combined and centrifuged at 16500 g for 25 minutes to obtain a lysosome enriched pellet . |
| 30 | The point about the Urgonian limestones , say , is that we know that they are of about the same age throughout Europe in spite of the fact that fossil evidence shows them to have started and ended at different times in different places . |