Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] at the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the classical theory of general relativity one can not predict how the universe would have begun because all the known laws of science would have broken down at the big bang singularity . |
| 2 | The controls were voted in at the annual meeting of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources ( CCMLR ) . |
| 3 | ‘ Mind you , they never actually say when , and you did rather get dropped in at the deep end . |
| 4 | On and off street parking is available within easy walking distance of the museum and coach parties can be dropped off at the main entrance |
| 5 | Ample free parking is available adjacent to the Museum and coach parties can be dropped off at the main entrance |
| 6 | On and off street parking is available within easy walking distance of the museum and coach parties can be dropped off at the main entrance . |
| 7 | He 'd looked up at the great thing dropping out of the sky right towards his head , and had flung himself down , expecting at any second to become just a little greasy mark in a great big hole . |
| 8 | Noreen suddenly looked up at the Italian woman . |
| 9 | She was glad she had the stone , when he came into the byre ; she was waiting for him as he had asked her to , she had made her way across the orchard in the fresh blue morning and let herself in through the wooden door by lifting it off its hinges , since the bolt had rusted fast long ago , and she had looked up at the full moon of the sky in the chimney hole at the centre of the round shelter 's roof , and with her stone which was sharp as a shearing knife with a bright , honed blade the marks of the whetstone were still visible in pale striations like scouring tracks — she scraped her name into one of the stones on the interior , as many others had done before her , in tall shapely capitals , the only letters she knew . |
| 10 | Most of the cost will at first be picked up at the federal level , but the BMFT will gradually reduce its share of financial support over the eight years . |
| 11 | An emissary from London to St Petersburg was picked up at the imperial frontier and a large number of compromising letters fell into the hands of tsarist investigators . |
| 12 | The phone was picked up at the other end and Charles pressed his two p into the coinbox . |
| 13 | Well you 've got another two or three hours on the journey , but having said tha well if you get picked up at the other end it 's not too bad . |
| 14 | David Ormerod , a geology lecturer at the Open University , has been held in Oradea , Romania , for the past three days , after being picked up at the main crossing point into Hungary . |
| 15 | Their union has not only survived the rigours of a decade , but has come out at the other end stronger than ever . |
| 16 | Further modernisation was carried out at the Imperial Grain Warehouse . |
| 17 | A Contracts Specialist with Scottish Nuclear since 1990 , Gordon will be involved in the setting up and administration of a range of contracts for assessment studies for work to be carried out at the Kozloduy Power Station . |
| 18 | It is essential that proper planned maintenance of equipment is carried out at the recommended time and is correctly recorded , and rectified as quickly as possible , stating the remedial action taken . |
| 19 | The work reported in this thesis was sponsored by General Accident Fire and Life Assurance Corporation plc and carried out at the Medical Research Council 's Applied Psychology Unit in Cambridge and I thank Alan Baddeley and all at the unit for making the work possible . |
| 20 | With Norwegian jacquard , the colour changes , whether made with the colour changer or manually with the jacquard claw , are always carried out at the left side of the machine . |
| 21 | Eighty two staff at the Sainsbury 's supermarket on Tewkesbury Road in Cheltenham have contracted what 's thought to be a virus infection that causes fever , aches and vomiting.They 've all been sent home , and staff from other stores have been drafted in to keep the supermarket open.Tests are being carried out at the public health laboratory in the town to identify the illness.But Cheltenham 's Assistant Chief Environmental health officer says shoppers at the store should n't be worried about the outbreak : |
| 22 | The warning 's based on research carried out at the Public Health Laboratory in Gloucester after the 'flu epidemic of 1989 . |
| 23 | The bulk of the research will be carried out at the Public Record Office , looking at the internal workings of the policy-making machine , though also with an awareness of the theoretical issues which are raised by the pioneer attempts to manage the economy in this period . |
| 24 | Most of this linguistic investigation however is carried out at the semantic level , with emphasis on lexical fields , componential analysis , which Nash often employs as a start up for humorous argumentation , and agent shift . |
| 25 | While at the current time the main focus of this work has been to better assess need through localities , work is being undertaken to identify ways in which budgets could be allocated to localities and purchasing carried out at the local level . |
| 26 | Perhaps the worst treatment Graham had to endure was an experiment with ultra-violet rays , carried out at the local hospital . |
| 27 | The operation was carried out at the National Heart the next day , with the odds improving and I was then transferred to Harefield for five weeks . |
| 28 | I had never taught before but was pushed in at the deep end and had to learn to swim . |
| 29 | Hence there must be a facility for storing the cross- reference until it is required , and a system by which the editor is reminded that that cross- reference needs to be written in at the other point ( earlier or later in the text ) . |
| 30 | It was just I , I went down they played Liverpool in the cup about that era , and the , the wall was pushed down at the Street end but erm the people just spilled on the pitch and I do n't think anyone was really hurt , this happened when they played er Liverpool in the cup a couple of years ago the wall was pushed down at the other end on that occasion , but er there was just one , one person hurt but there was n't anybody very seriously injured as I understand |