Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] at [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It is unfortunate , therefore , that the range of economic services carried out at individual small towns is never easy to define .
2 The purchase and sale of the land was carried out at fixed 1945 prices at a time of rampant inflation , which meant that landlords were virtually expropriated and farmers were able to pay off the purchase price and own their land outright in a year or two .
3 The third form is ‘ part process ’ in which not only is head office administration spatially separated but the actual production process is split up into discrete bits which are carried out at different spatial locations .
4 If dew-claws prove troublesome in other dogs , you can have them removed by your vet , although this is more of a major operation when carried out at this late stage than in early puppyhood .
5 There was n't a single man who was n't there all spruced up and well turned out at this awkward hour .
6 Only half of the counter had opened up at this early hour and there were no more than half a dozen people in the place , most of them in uniform .
7 A special spinners ' mat was laid down at pre-tour net sessions at Lilleshall in an effort to prepare England 's batsmen for what they could expect to face on dusty Indian pitches .
8 Manpower , which operates a system of layoffs for staff to whom it can not offer an assignment , estimated that between five and ten per cent of its workforce might be laid off at any one time .
9 The diaphragm and spermicide can be put in at any convenient time up to three hours before making love so it need n't interfere at all with intercourse .
10 has got to be taken off at some other time erm
11 Similar variations of chopping behaviour with rotor position occur at other current levels , so instead of monitoring chopping in an excited phase it can be convenient to excite , at a very low current level , a phase which would normally be switched off at any particular time .
12 How many erm are already signed up at this present day for someone to follow on to now ?
13 ‘ At my age it 's not as though I 'm going to be snapped up at any other club .
14 One two three four five six not yet seven eight nine no no ten eleven twelve wait thirteen fourteen no ! fifteen not yet ! sixteen wait , wait , wait seventeen wait ! seventeen seventeen eighteen no use nineteen the stuff was Co-ming ! twent — I must have shouted out at that precise moment where exultation turns to disgust , the moment of spilling , of defilement .
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