Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A practical circus consists of a series of tasks each placed at a different position in the room . |
| 2 | The old Eagle Warehouse had the appearance of a curve at the west end of Bothwell Street , though in fact it was made up of four straight sections each placed at a shallow angle . |
| 3 | Using this diagram , it is possible to see at a glance the relationship of one context to the rest of the site . |
| 4 | The boy , who ca n't be named , was due to appear at a Youth Court in Swindon . |
| 5 | Mr Horn , of Hurworth Moor , resigned from his £34,000-a-year job as education officer in charge of forward planning before he was due to appear at a disciplinary hearing at the council 's headquarters in Matlock last week . |
| 6 | Figure 2.3 looks at a similar period for Europe . |
| 7 | Mm and I was just wondering if that is your girl who is due to come at a quarter past six then she erm |
| 8 | Section 47 of the Criminal Law Act 1977 , was not brought into force for another five years until 1982 , Ministers of both parties having accepted the advice of Home Office officials that the provision was too risky to implement at a time of acute overcrowding in the prisons . |
| 9 | This occurred at a time when the militancy of rank-and-file officers increased . |
| 10 | This occurred at a time when the Government support in the opinion polls was at one of its lowest ebbs and seemed a desperate attempt to create an atmosphere in which opposition to the Poll Tax became synonymous with criminality . |
| 11 | This occurred at a time when the future of the Harwell Laboratory , AEA 's main research establishment , had come under review . |
| 12 | Television is at least one escape and just like all the other trivial pastimes , should allow the unemployed to participate at a reduced rate . |
| 13 | It was ironic that 1989 saw the centenary celebration of the Fabian Essays of Webb , Shaw , and their comrades ; this came at a time when Britain seemed in more complete reaction against the imperatives of Fabian rationalism than at any time for a century . |
| 14 | This came at a time when all Latin American countries had adopted policies of export-orientated growth , economic liberalization , financial deregulation and the dismantling of investment restrictions and trade barriers . |
| 15 | This came at a time when several years of large oil-revenue increases had created an exceptionally propitious atmosphere for reaching some kind of understanding . |
| 16 | This occurs at a potential of +50mV inside that part of the axon with respect to the outside . |
| 17 | This happened at a time when the ice had , so to speak , sucked up much of the sea . |
| 18 | This happened at a turning-point in Caribbean affairs , for in 1670 the Spanish accepted the inevitable and by the Treaty of Madrid acknowledged the English colonies in the West Indies as legitimate settlements , though the logging settlements on the central American mainland were left in an ill-defined position . |
| 19 | This proceeded at a faster pace in services than in industry . |
| 20 | A gold ring from Kalyvia shows a naked woman pulling down a bough of the sacred tree and another worshipping at a boulder . |
| 21 | ‘ I wonder how long we are prepared to vacillate at a time when Britain , and all that Britain stands for , and human civilization , are in peril ? ’ |
| 22 | Then , there is the real possibility that a serious defeat for the government could result in a general election and , under the British system , the opposition , just as much as the government , would prefer this to happen at a time favourable to themselves . |
| 23 | The greater number of developers are not necessarily confined to any particular geographical area and will , therefore , not only investigate the market potential in the immediate locality of their home base , but Will be equally prepared to operate at a distance . |
| 24 | This comes at a time when some Western governments are questioning the standard hard-line attitude always taken by British and American leaders and certainly in West Germany there is a growing feeling towards more direct contact with Moscow and less reliance on America 's nuclear stockpile . |
| 25 | Paradoxically , this comes at a time when both the Conservative Government and the police themselves are much more cautious about the potential contribution of policing . |
| 26 | This comes at a time when staff contracts are changing . |
| 27 | This comes at a time when many advanced economies are undergoing profound structural change , with technological change , the growth in importance of the service sector and the growing internationalisation of production . |
| 28 | But all this comes at a cost , one which McDeere only realises as his new employers ' real work becomes increasingly clear . |
| 29 | If a partner or sole trader has more than one business enterprise ( e.g. two or three small cafes ) , and one is successful whilst another runs at a loss , the loss incurred by one enterprise may be offset against the tax liability for the successful enterprise . |
| 30 | That looking at a bald head , a stupid girl , and something else . |