Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [adv prt] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wind was blowing hard at the Highlanders ' faces , according to the literature given out at the Culloden Visitors ' Centre , and the two armies were in position at one o'clock , approximately four to five hundred yards apart . |
| 2 | He still did n't know whose side to take when Mum carried on at us but she never came to the shed while we were chopping wood with him , so we had a retreat . |
| 3 | The workforce at Linton and Hirst 's is to be cut by one third despite a two million pound investment programme carried out at the company in July . |
| 4 | The libraries have been designed on the basis of research carried out at the University under the auspices of a Department of Trade & Industry programme , and include temporal functions to monitor the start and stopping time of shares , financial risk calculation and probability functions . |
| 5 | Research carried out at Bristol University 's social policy and social planning department says women are sometimes made homeless because some housing departments follow the letter of the law too strictly . |
| 6 | The libraries have been designed on the basis of research carried out at the University under the auspices of a Department of Trade & Industry programme , and include temporal functions to monitor the start and stopping time of shares , financial risk calculation and probability functions . |
| 7 | Research carried out at Queen Mary and Westfield College , London found that in a major incident at a plant of the type proposed a radius of nine miles could be affected , that is from Bolton in the north to Hale in the south , and from Leigh in the west to the easternmost boundary of Greater Manchester . |
| 8 | This year , the funds have been allocated very much according to the UFC 's grading of the quality of research carried out at each university . |
| 9 | Important research carried out at Oxford University by Olivera Petrovich ( 1989 ) suggests that such naivety is something which children learn from adults rather than being innate . |
| 10 | The warning 's based on research carried out at the Public Health Laboratory in Gloucester after the 'flu epidemic of 1989 . |
| 11 | In an experiment carried out at Palmer Station on the Antarctic Peninsula in 1989 , microscopic floating ocean plants ( phytoplankton ) were taken from the nearby bay and brought into the laboratory , where they were subjected to levels of ultra-violet radiation estimated to be equivalent to the amount of ultra-violet being transmitted through the ozone hole which has been developing in Antarctica each spring in recent years . |
| 12 | Recently some attention has been paid to the differences in degree results of men and women and an experiment carried out at University College , Cardiff shows that women 's degree classes improve when a system of anonymous marking is used . |
| 13 | A study carried out at the University of California in Berkeley compared woman who maintained 20 per cent weight loss over two years with dieters who relapsed . |
| 14 | A study carried out at Aberdeen University discovered rather depressing facts about communications between adults and their children as observed in three-minute periods in streets , buses and shops . |
| 15 | As has already been indicated , the planning processes of each company had previously been examined in a research study carried out at the London Business School . |
| 16 | A notable exception to this consensus in the early literature that madness and creativeness are frequently connected is a study carried out at the beginning of the century by Havelock Ellis . |
| 17 | A study carried out at the Army Personnel Research Establishment ( APRE ) in Farnborough simulated wartime conditions for ten soldiers , who were required to defend a position during a tactical exercise lasting ten days . |
| 18 | A search carried out at Frome in 1786 produced several hundredweight of embezzled wool.9 More interesting was the prolonged and bitter dispute which broke out in Essex in 1757 . |
| 19 | She was frowning , deep lines appearing between her eyebrows , mouth drawn down at the edges so that instead of a classically good-looking slim English Rose in her late twenties , she looked faded , years older than her real age , and shrewish . |
| 20 | On the environmental side it will be vital to ensure that the standards , rules and codes of practice drawn up at Community level are appropriate to all our circumstances and are capable of being enforced economically and efficiently . |
| 21 | You remember that night was pretty dark , so I could n't have seen if there was a boat tied up at the jetty . |
| 22 | Cross had formerly been a lover of Cedric Morris and when the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing burnt down at Dedham , he helped Morris and his partner , Arthur Lett-Haines , move into the house named Benton End where the school was re-established . |
| 23 | This pattern has also had a stitch laddered down at each side which was then picked up , but as before , sometimes the dropped stitches can be left if they do not show . |
| 24 | At times the supporting leg would bend when on balance , whilst the working one was also bent with the foot turned up at the ankle during certain poses , or when performing a rond de jambe en dehors or en dedans during the pas de deux . |
| 25 | The sweet potatoes are all of a specific variety , namely TIB 1 , which is the product of breeding work carried out at IITA in Nigeria in the 1970s . |
| 26 | Cooke hopes these research findings — along with work carried out at universities near his company 's base in Cheshire — will persuade other governments in arid areas to try polymers . |
| 27 | The results of KBS development work carried out at British Airways confirm this view , particularly in the area of intelligent support to ATE based avionic equipment testing . |
| 28 | Early in 1990 , the Mellors had major structural work carried out at their home because of subsidence . |
| 29 | Scolar 's British Printmakers 1855–1955 edited by Robin Garton ( £75 ) starts with the Etching Revival of the mid-nineteenth century , and includes the experimental work carried out at Corsham and St Ives in the 1950s . |
| 30 | Sadly , it has been our experience in the past that the most specialised work carried out at the Atomic Weapons Establishment leads scientists into a cul-de-sac of research that has little , or no , relevance to science as practised in civilian life … |