Example sentences of "in [noun] [verb] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Sam Somerville took off from Heathrow , Dr Barnard was sitting in his laboratory in Fulham staring at a small collection of pieces of debris spread on a crisp white sheet of paper across a table-top . |
| 2 | This means that it will in practice terminate at the earlier of ( i ) the next AGM of the company and ( ii ) the expiry of 12 months after the passing of the resolution . |
| 3 | Police harassment and brutality towards the Black community in Tottenham continues at a shameful level . |
| 4 | Negotiations in Renville arrived at a precarious agreement , signed on 17 January 1948 , by which the Van Mook Line was accepted , in return for virtually nothing . |
| 5 | It had been announced on Feb. 4 that food supplies in Russia stood at a critical level , with stocks about to run out within 20-40 days . |
| 6 | This is a gutsy South African first novel , a romantic adventure , with the next one in hardback coming at the same time , and she will be in the UK promoting . |
| 7 | My year between school and university was about as creative as the period Terry Waite spent in captivity staring at a concrete wall with only his postcard of John Bunyan for reading matter , but I did spend the first few weeks of it in the typing class of a comprehensive school in Hackney . |
| 8 | Researchers at AT&T Bell Laboratories reported the discovery of superconductivity in buckyball compounds at the American Chemical Society meeting in April . |
| 9 | There was a marked reduction in subsidence claims at the full year — down from $35.7m to $17.5m . |
| 10 | Decentralisation refers to three main features of central-local government relationships : the range of services for which local government authorities are responsible ; the degree of discretion that local government authorities have in providing these services and the degree to which local politicians and officials can make their voices heard in policy making at the national level . |
| 11 | MOLLY SCRUTTON 's interest in movement began at an early age and led her to join a junior dance group and later a gymnastics club . |
| 12 | Fiscal reform , considered vital to improving the budgetary position and reducing inflation ( which in August stood at an annualized rate of 1,055.4 per cent ) , was also a priority . |
| 13 | But less than a month later , John Osborne 's Look Back in Anger arrived at the Royal Court , and elegant , well-made drawing-room plays like this were supposedly consigned to the dustbin of theatrical history . |
| 14 | Women in Britain enrolled at the Labour Exchanges for war work in the factories . |
| 15 | In Britain enquire at the Swiss National Tourist Office ( SNTO ) , 1 New Coventry St , London W1V 3HG . |
| 16 | Several years ago , I embarked on a course in life drawing at a reputable London college , where the tutor would often make comments such as , ‘ Splash it on , art is purely self-indulgence ! ’ |
| 17 | Several years ago , I embarked on a course in life drawing at a reputable London college , where the tutor would often make comments such as , ‘ Splash it on , art is purely self-indulgence ! ’ |
| 18 | It is now possible to quantitate radioactivity in HPLC eluates at the lowest amounts practicable with the β- ram Flow-through monitor , available from Lablogic . |
| 19 | Over the eight years of the project the reduction in inequality between different socio.economic groups was consequent upon an improvement in scores attained at the bottom end of the distribution and not the levelling down of those at the top . |
| 20 | The biggest increases in growth rate between the two periods , however , occurred largely in counties situated at a greater distance from London , namely ( in rank order ) Northamptonshire , Isle of Wight , Lincolnshire , Dyfed , Gloucestershire , Devon , Dorset and Hereford & Worcester . |
| 21 | The decision to agree in principle came at a Labour group meeting at the start of COSLA 's annual conference . |
| 22 | Foreign investment in India remained at a low level during the 1980s when compared with similar international investment elsewhere in south and south-east Asia , despite the introduction of liberalization measures in 1985-86 which had boosted industrial investment and output . |
| 23 | He knew just when , and how , to tap , in order to receive at a deeper level than he gave . |
| 24 | Holists therefore face the pressing task of effecting a compromise : they must somehow overcome the opposition between their own view of the individual and that held by individualists in order to arrive at a coherent theory . |
| 25 | But in order to arrive at a balanced judgment , a more rational analysis of the factors involved is required . |
| 26 | This is essentially a linguistic problem , whose solution probably depends as much upon the range of your vocabulary , and your response to the stimulus of words , rather than upon your capacity to reason formally through a set of data in order to arrive at a valid solution . |
| 27 | One often goes to extremes in order to arrive at a physical configuration that is mathematically soluble by simple means . |
| 28 | The first aim of the ESRC funded project is to complete the Gloucester database , to revise it as necessary in order to arrive at an optimum design for future use , and to publish the final version in the form of a book of statistical tables . |
| 29 | I have destroyed many pages and crossed out hundreds , no thousands , of words in order to arrive at an imaginative sympathy ( though not , of course , an explicit approval ) with Miller as he walks down this long , gently curving terrace of dilapidated Edwardian houses . |
| 30 | The income tax relief already given under MIRAS should be offset against PAYE deductions , income tax deducted from dividends etc in order to arrive at the net income tax already suffered . |