Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The type of batteries most favoured at present are either 1.5 volt AA pen-lights or the 9 volt PP3s . |
| 2 | Mr. Steed was duly registered at H.M. |
| 3 | Generally , all the clues for problem solving are there , if a little disguised at times , but it 's unlikely you will get too stuck on the easy setting . |
| 4 | The steady rise in quality of the materials produced and developed at Dudley Teachers ' Centre , for instance , is an excellent example ; the centre has an enthusiastic warden and much of the work has developed under the stimulus of an outstanding educational adviser , but the content of the materials has been developed by local teachers with admirable results ( mostly limited at present to print-form ) . |
| 5 | I got wet thro ’ and was kindly and hospitably treated at Mrs. Fletcher 's sisters … ’ |
| 6 | The industry received a subsidy , optimistically calculated at £10 million , but in fact costing £23 million , to keep wages and profits at their existing level . |
| 7 | For those in search of the true state of this extraordinary art , there is no better guide than the massive , three-volume Handbook , written by the cream of the US artificial intelligentsia and skilfully edited at Ed Feigenbaum 's AI citadel at Stanford University . |
| 8 | The necessary contact could partly be maintained by means of meetings and round-table discussions of the kind so successfully organised at Uig for the Arkleton Trust , but it would be desirable to give it some more concrete , institutional form as well . |
| 9 | They were in the ecclesiastical tradition which would have prevailed in the north if Wilfrid had not been forcibly installed at York by Theodore in place of Chad . |
| 10 | Such papers are widely dispersed at present , in specialist clinical , radiological , pathological , and epidemiological journals . |
| 11 | This was an activity not much favoured at Verdun , as it invariably attracted a tornado of enemy fire . |
| 12 | It is a system which not merely connived at nepotism , it depended upon it . |
| 13 | Plover Hide is one of thirteen hides , all situated at sites regarded as particularly rewarding from a bird watcher 's point-of-view . |
| 14 | The former UK Prime Minister Edward Heath , conducting a humanitarian mission for which he was much criticized at home on the grounds of the possible propaganda opportunities which it might afford to the Iraqi leadership , secured the release of some 40 British nationals who arrived at Gatwick airport early on Oct. 24 ( two children , several women , and some of the men on the list of the elderly and sick which he had presented to Saddam Hussein at lengthy talks on Oct. 21 ) . |
| 15 | But Mr Soley defended the policy in an interview with the Guardian : ‘ The problem is most acute in rural areas , such as the South-west , where there is a growing problem of ghost villages where 70 per cent of the houses are only occupied at weekends or during the summer , ’ he said . |
| 16 | Mr Donjela ‘ Donnie ’ Wahlberg , the putative vocal stylist with the popular beat ensemble , Recent Children In The Vicinity ( aka New Kids On The Block ) , is apparently mortified at claims that he and his fellow troubadours ‘ do n't sing on their albums or at concerts . ’ |
| 17 | They were then left with a hole to fill but they came up with a rider who not only won at Kirkistown but also showed a lot of talent . |
| 18 | For the first twenty years he was confined in prison-like conditions , somewhat alleviated at Broadmoor , where terraces allowed views of the surrounding countryside . |
| 19 | He was still sick and light-headed with the fever that had kept them so long immobilised at Cegidfa , and made the ride home such long-drawn discomfort to him ; but the sorry account he had to make of his stewardship weighed more heavily on his spirit than his wounds did on his body . |
| 20 | Usually only seen at night , the badger is well established in quiet urban areas . |
| 21 | Two childish Christmas cards , obviously made at school , stood on the mantelpiece . |
| 22 | The material therefore only hinted at differences in social life between them . |
| 23 | Other big sellers included Sue Townsend 's The Queen and I ( which most booksellers agreed was very sensibly priced at £9.99 ) , Mr Bean 's Diary by Rowan Atkinson , The Liar by the ubiquitous Stephen Fry , Douglas Adams ' Mostly Harmless , Andrew Morton 's Diana ( mainly in paperback ) and James Herriot 's Every Living Thing . |
| 24 | He found it and obviously felt at ease enough to go ahead with the appointment , ’ said Mr King . |
| 25 | The Laplacian derivation of the response of a series resonant circuit comprising resistance R , inductance L and capacitance C , to an e.m.f. suddenly applied at time , is worthy of comparison with the direct derivation of the same response carried out in section 4.5 through the solution of appropriate differential equations . |
| 26 | This fire watching was only done at Wolverton on Saturday and Sunday nights ; for the rest of the week a full night shift was employed . |
| 27 | ‘ Your spy ? ’ she gibed , recalling that Cavell had been with her when another DJ had telephoned to ask her out to a street market that only operated at night . |
| 28 | The European BlueLine range is based on a dozen basic products , all made at Felling , on Tyneside . |
| 29 | They got to their target area without any great difficulty , the false ‘ Germans ’ being apparently accepted at checkpoints . |
| 30 | On the desirability or otherwise of a comprehensive list of what should be done at each level , the best way to proceed is for there to be a presumption , effectively , that matters are best dealt with at national level unless it can be shown that that is better done at Community level . |