Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] at [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | where you 're just watching , helping , washing a few cups with somebody and , and then going on a course one or two days a week , and then you 're consider whether being took on and even if you 're not took on at that place at least you 've got something to say you 've done when you 're |
| 2 | On the one hand , the memorandum of association must qualify the company 's ability to provide surveying services , to the effect that such business must be carried on at all times in accordance with the Rules of Conduct for the time being of the RICS . |
| 3 | In that early ‘ moment ’ , rock 'n' roll was an important intervention though carried through at varying levels of conscious awareness . |
| 4 | The Government can not be unaware that women are frightened to travel alone at night in isolated places , to wait in bus depots where no staff are present , or to be dropped off at bus-rail links at isolated railway stations where there is no one to guard them against possible danger . |
| 5 | After taking a series of measurements I put a numbered ring on each bird 's leg so that if one came to grief and was picked up at some time in the future , its identity could be established . |
| 6 | Drake at rest distinctive with shortish bill , chestnut head , buff crown , grey underparts and white line on wing ; in flight can be picked out at some distance by conspicuous white forewing . |
| 7 | In terms of scientific choice , for example , it is possible to establish the value placed upon a country 's contribution to high-energy physics , and to decide whether or not such research should be supported , but it would be difficult to measure the individual contributions made by isolated single researchers from small departments in the UK , when the major part of their work is carried out at international centres in Geneva , or California . |
| 8 | Research can be carried out at all sorts of levels ; we could restrict ourselves simply to reading everything we can find and produce a piece of work which was wholly based on documentary sources and which did not involve us in attending any baptisms or asking anyone involved any questions . |
| 9 | The technology has evolved from operations already carried out at coastal sites in Scotland in which lengths of oil and gas pipelines are made into bundles which are towed offshore at control depths for installation at oil and gasfields . |
| 10 | A complementary body of work was carried out at this time by Flavell and his colleagues ( 1981 ) . |
| 11 | They operate in basically the same way , but VITC coding has to be recorded onto the tape ( of course without being visible in the picture ) , at the time of shooting or while being copied onto a second tape ; RCTC coding on the other hand can be carried out at any stage of the editing process , and so is the more flexible of the two systems . |
| 12 | The inspections will be carried out at local level by independent inspectors who will be registered with Her Majesty 's Inspectorate , which will withdraw the registration of inspectors who are not up to standard . |
| 13 | appropriate safety and environmental analyses are carried out at defined stages of exploration , development and production ; |
| 14 | Overall , equations ( 9.78 ) and ( 9.79 ) allow for a signal being fed in at one end of a transmission line , propagating along it and being partially reflected at the other end to give a wave travelling in the opposite direction . |
| 15 | Alongside the formal structures , a network of informal relationships has grown up at all levels of the organization . |
| 16 | However , over a period of time , and partly encouraged by urban planning policies , commuter villages have grown up at greater distances from the cities . |
| 17 | With the reversal of tidal currents deltas can be built up at both ends of the strait . |
| 18 | She knew something , though not all , of his day 's programme : she 'd rung The Randolph at 10.45 p.m. and learned from the tour leader that her husband had not turned up at any point during the day to fulfil his commitments — and that in itself was quite out of character . |
| 19 | Inside , the headmaster 's room is partitioned off at one end of the building . |
| 20 | Our job was to act as navigational escort for about seventy Hurricanes which would be transported to the Med in ‘ Furious ’ and flown off at maximum range as reinforcements for Malta which was under heavy air attack . |
| 21 | Now Robson 's jeered off at Sporting Lisbon for losing a UEFA Cup tie . |
| 22 | A Sergeant with a crudely reconstructed pink blob of a nose — obviously bitten off at some stage in his professional or previous career — sat at a damascened bronze data-desk stained green with cupreous patina . |
| 23 | ‘ If I had shown up at any exchange with that case , ’ said Quinn , ‘ they 'd have spotted it and killed the boy . ’ |
| 24 | The ends of the rivets were bent over at right angles on the back of the shield making it possible to calculate that the wooden boards of the complete circular shields were 0.5 to 1.5 cm thick . |
| 25 | The system allows information to be ‘ filed ’ on floppy discs so that stored information can be called up at any time on the computer 's visual display unit . |
| 26 | Its legs were splayed out at awkward angles on the rug , and its flanks rose and fell with the deep breaths of sleep . |
| 27 | Children who have been integrated into mainstream schools can return at any time for help and are called back at six-monthly intervals for checks . |
| 28 | I told him we were simply adapting the phrase from the social security regulations , where for years it has worked perfectly satisfactorily in deciding whether or not a worker should get benefit if he is laid off at another workplace from the one where a dispute is taking place . |
| 29 | In fact , the two separate incidents concerned a 3-year-old girl who was enticed into woods near her home and sexually assaulted and then soon afterwards , a 3-year-old boy who was abducted from a play area and driven off at high speed before being dumped a mile and a half away forty minutes later . |
| 30 | But in Heartbreak Hotel , which has a real deep echo , they had a speaker set up at one end of this long hallway and a microphone at the other end , and a sign on the door saying ‘ DO N'T OPEN THE DOOR WHEN THE RED LIGHT IS ON ’ . |