Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harris ( Meyers , 1984 personal communication ) has found that high amplitude stylolites formed at burial depths of less than 1,000 m in the Burlington Formation ( Mississippian ) . |
| 2 | On one side of the ancient north-south coastal highway linking Saigon and Hanoi steep cliffs fell away to a dazzling beach of white sand fringed with coconut palms , and on the mirror-flat surface of the South China Sea far below , bat-winged Chinese junks floated at rest like toys on a turquoise pond . |
| 3 | There was an instant when both parties halted at gaze , no more than a quarter of a mile apart ; and though they were so far from him across the valley , he felt the shock of confrontation and recognition quiver through his own body as they measured each other . |
| 4 | Action project clients sustained at home |
| 5 | Two more hi-jackings , set up by Hatton , who had kept the drivers occupied at pontoon in a carmen 's cafe ? |
| 6 | In 1940 , the school was badly damaged by fire — not by enemy action , but ( it seems ) by the carelessness of fire-watchers installed at night to forestall such action . |
| 7 | His enterprise did not stop here and in 1786 he advertised to the public that he had opened another school for ladies , ‘ at his house at 2 Brazenose Street in drawing , writing and accounts , ladies and gentlemen instructed at home and boarding schools attended as usual . ’ |
| 8 | This consisted of a collection of kitchen equipment — saucepans laid in strategic positions on the floor , a roasting tin filled with cutlery balanced on the top of the door , kettles hung at face-level from the ceiling . |
| 9 | As soon as the offices and shops closed at noon , the square and all the streets leading off it were filled with bicycles , then as now the best way of getting about in Parma . |
| 10 | Heath 's new style of government was tested to near destruction within three years as a concatenation of crises generated at home and abroad struck his administration in 1973 . |
| 11 | The woman was killed while she was out walking with her husband , when two cars collided at traffic lights . |
| 12 | One patient had stones cleared at a third stage , two patients had the remaining fragments removed at cholecystoscopy , and one patient by percutaneous cholecystolithotomy . |
| 13 | However , exemption is granted in respect of particular subjects taken at University , and the requirement of attendance at the lecture course for the C.P.E. can be waived . |
| 14 | Council tax savings put at fraction of forecast |
| 15 | For George Tyson and his wife , Rosie , it meant the release from a tormenting 19 months which saw their £15,000 savings put at risk . |
| 16 | High on the list of anxieties expressed at pre-retirement and over-50s discussion groups — and sometimes ahead of worries about financial problems and ill health — are fears about the loss of relationships and loneliness . |
| 17 | Incomer networks were forged out of relationships created at work in the new estates and in the local social club , an institution established to help airport workers obtain some of the urban civilisation . |
| 18 | Students ' choices are usually based on their knowledge of , and competence in , science subjects studied at school , notably mathematics , physics , chemistry and biology . |
| 19 | Most importantly , it was forged out of the overlap between work-place and village , the fact that , as an occupational community , relationships established at work spilled over into leisure hours , while the accepted code of behaviour which was followed in the village also applied to the situation at work . |
| 20 | Isle of Man TT motorcycle race fans stranded at Pier Head , Liverpool , yesterday |
| 21 | The position of the office-holder should be juxtaposed both to ordinary master-servant relationships and offices held at pleasure . |
| 22 | Thirdly , and perhaps most important , the logic of the equation , no substantive rights therefore no procedural protection , which permeates the jurisprudence on both master-servant and offices held at pleasure is false . |
| 23 | Now I mentioned bonuses paid at proof stage . |
| 24 | I mentioned bonuses paid at proof stage . |
| 25 | Since subjects learnt at school have been codified and developed through written texts , and written texts are written in Standard English , it follows that children , to have any hope of mastering these subjects , must learn to read and write Standard English . |
| 26 | The doctors detailed the attempts made at resuscitation , but by 2.40 it was concluded that there was no activity in either heart or brain and that the President must be declared dead . |
| 27 | Demonstrations and pickets collected at pit gates and shouted abuse at them , as they passed through in coaches . |
| 28 | Coups are plotted in small groups huddled around a faction leader and strategies decided at fringe meetings . |
| 29 | The report contains comments from policymakers in borrowing countries , much of it criticizing Bank officials for ignoring local input while implementing policies decided at Bank headquarters . |
| 30 | The structure plans then provided a framework for local plans , which were to be more detailed strategies prepared at district level . |