Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [adv] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Lebanese army did not enter a nearby camp used by Dev Sol , the Turkish urban guerrilla group , but were expected to do so at a later date . |
| 2 | The repeating shape of the accompaniment in quavers is designed to recur only at the first beat of the seventh bar . |
| 3 | Indeed in cases where such companies had a vital stake , as with the British South Africa Union Minière in Zaire they were seen to behave badly at the very point at which their host countries became independent . |
| 4 | The prescription of glasses is an exact science , and they are made to fit correctly at a specific distance from the eyeball . |
| 5 | The opportunity has not been missed to point unfavourably at the controversial plans for the Bode Museum in Berlin which , it seems , will not now be restored to its original appearance as when built for Kaiser Friedrich in 1897–1904 . |
| 6 | By the end of the war this culture had been defeated , and the victorious Puritans and their nonconformist allies who had gained control of the reins of central government believed they now had an opportunity to impose on the whole nation the same moral reforms that prior to 1640 they had struggled to instigate piecemeal at a local level . |
| 7 | Swiss midfielder Alain Sutter was allowed to run hard at the Scottish rearguard , forcing Gough to concede a corner . |
| 8 | The train had been forced to brake hard at a level crossing to miss a taxi and one of the wheels had been damaged . |