Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several of my old shipmates from earlier years were now established on the cutters and were building up reputations as excellent navigators , boat handlers or engineers , as well as hitting the headlines occasionally with notable seizures or rescues at sea . |
| 2 | Then later , in 1896 and 1897 , letters were sent by Fellows , Morton and Clayton to the Grand Junction , complaining of the lack of progress in either constructing wide locks or lifts at Foxton and Watford . |
| 3 | v. There is nothing that can be in our way , for this is Jekub that Laughs at Barriers , and says brrm-brrm . |
| 4 | The foreword is supplied by artist David Shepherd OBE and proceeds from the book are being devoted to continuing the restoration of this wonderful little locomotive that lives at Haven Street on the Isle of Wight railway . |
| 5 | I was , I was alright at the weekend , that 's my Darlington meeting and she was talking to one of the boys erm the one that lives at Filey . |
| 6 | In very recent years holy war has been fought between Iran and Iraq , and with a ruthlessness that has at times , with the use of chemical weapons for example , offended international codes of conduct . |
| 7 | Douglas Hurd has proved a reassuring figure in a campaign that has at times seemed to lack confidence and direction . |
| 8 | The Royal Commissions and official committees of inquiry have maintained a reticence on such matters that has at times made their recommendations Appear naïve — as if one could consider the reorganisation of Political institutions in isolation from politics ! |
| 9 | Normally , one would assume that the particle will move on a straight line away from A. However , according to the sum over histories , it can move on any path that starts at A. It is like what happens when you place a drop of ink on a piece of blotting paper . |
| 10 | The object then becomes to maximize the difference between and ( which is the maximum difference between TB e and C 3 that occurs at project size OP in Fig. 11–12 ) . |
| 11 | Only thing that happens at home is Course Work and Exams . |
| 12 | It 's just one of those things that happens at parties ; people do get drunk and they do do things they would n't normally think of . |
| 13 | In some schools you will be asked to participate with other students in basic class work over a weekend ( as happens at the Bristol Old Vic drama school ) and in some you may find yourself being judged partly by senior students of the school who will be sitting with the faculty panel ( which is something that happens at Drama Centre ) . |
| 14 | These include , first , any calls for a radical restructuring of society in which new structures and processes of government are sought which would significantly alter the balance between governors and governed ; second , calls for greater priority to be given to social , community and ecological factors in decision-making and lower priority to be given to economic and technological factors which are geared towards reproducing or sustaining the kind of society that exists at present ; and , third , calls for a significant change in defence policy , for example , a renunciation of nuclear weapons , neutralism or disengagement from military alliances such as NATO ( McAuslan , 1980 , p. 6 ) . |
| 15 | Maynard Smith calls the strategy that natural selection produces ( that is , the strategy that exists at equilibrium ) the ‘ evolutionarily stable strategy ’ or ESS . |
| 16 | Marriage is an earthly institution that ends at death . |
| 17 | In autumn fast ice grows out from the land to meet new ice that forms at sea ; from a March minimum of 3–5 million km 2 the pack ice spreads to 17–20 million km 2 by September ( Foster , 1984 ) , an annual variation far greater than that of the Arctic Ocean ( Figure 5.5 ) . |
| 18 | Much civility , much comfort ( comfort in France ! ) made every arrangement pleasurable ; and all this without more vociferation or commotion than prevails at Paddington ; to say nothing of the second-class carriage being nearly equal to our first . |
| 19 | In the context of these questions , what is it in the brief history of White Western feminist criticism and theory that seems at odds with what is going on in the rest of the world ? |
| 20 | Informalisation or permissiveness is seen as involving increasingly less regulation and less formality over rules of conduct , a relaxation in standards that seems at odds with the civilising movement identified by Elias . |
| 21 | They trap the carbon dioxide that enters at night in temporary chemical stores , and release it into the chloroplasts during the day , when the sun is shining again . |
| 22 | Also , the normal deglutitive response is generally considered to consist of a contraction wave that appears at manometry as a single or M shaped peak . |
| 23 | Although the apex of the pitched roof of this wing was 6.5m ( 21ft ) above floor level , unlike the arrangement that applies at Shawell school , the internal space did not extend up to the roof ridge-board . |
| 24 | Even in the 1830s the most influential work on international law could assume that salutes at sea were still a significant aspect of the subject . |
| 25 | One example presented involved the production of a jet that moves at km and eventually connected with another footpoint 400,000 km away . |
| 26 | But the inquest was told that lifts at Hamilton Hall had a history of breakdowns and students often attempted ‘ self-rescues ’ . |
| 27 | This is a pattern that recurs at Winchester and Hereford too , and perhaps at other locations not yet studied . |
| 28 | It is a real moral aberration that leaves at liberty those who violated human dignity and those who rose up against the constitutional order . ’ |
| 29 | However , if it is accepted , then a bird that dies at age x ( in completed years ) lives on average ( x + ½ ) years . |
| 30 | Wren ( left ) Peter Pan alongside 7hp Lister Thorin Oakenshield and skips at Page 's Park Station . |