Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The loss for the quarter of $285m , $0.50 a share , was in line with analysts ' estimates , which averaged at a loss of $0.49 a share , and cost controls are seen to be improving . |
| 2 | The loss for the quarter of $285m , $0.50 a share , was in line with analysts ' estimates , which averaged at a loss of $0.49 a share , and cost controls are seen to be improving . |
| 3 | Ahead , to the left , tin roofs glinted on another plateau , which rose at a distance of eight miles away . |
| 4 | He had a nervous twitch which jerked at a muscle at the corner of his thin-lipped mouth and a malevolent stare . |
| 5 | One notable effect the alternative social format contained lay in the assault upon the senses which occurred at a pragmatic level . |
| 6 | Also , the amalgamation of unions which occurred at a rapid pace throughout the inter-war years greatly improved the organization and effectiveness of the trade union movement as the years progressed . |
| 7 | Eight German tourists were among nine people killed aboard a light aircraft which crashed at a wildlife reserve in Kenya on Dec. 27 . |
| 8 | From the detailed observation of fifteen boards , it was evident that training often followed the pattern of immediate demand rather than being linked to any developmental plan ; thus , a board might ask the headteacher or member of staff for further elaboration of a topic which surfaced at a meeting , such as subject choice by S3 , or individuals might decide to attend an area session on interviewing skills only once they knew that they were to participate in the selection of a senior member of staff . |
| 9 | A suspected EGPGC member , José Ignacio Villar Regueiro , was killed by a bomb which exploded at a discoteque in Santiago de Compostela on the same evening ; apparently the bomb had accidentally been detonated by the sound equipment . |
| 10 | Keating , an Arizona land developer , owned the Lincoln savings and loan company which collapsed at a cost of up to $2,000 million to the US taxpayer . |
| 11 | In sharing the Reds ' upset win in that national trial he proved a bit of success as a distributor and made two scorching breaks which hinted at a swashbuckling touch to his nature : ‘ I was very keen to make a good impression in the trial because it took place a week after my ‘ B ’ debut against Ireland and I wanted to make up for two particular errors in that game . |
| 12 | As they approached Arghuri , which lay at a height of more than six thousand feet above sea level , the temperature of the air became more genial . |
| 13 | Surely there were many which went at a slow tempo , such as the first Beethoven Modlinger Dance I mentioned in my original article , the rapid-fire tattoos of its French horns ensuring a slow pace . |
| 14 | I stood at the edge of a circle of standing stones , each eight to ten foot high , with a massive central stone which leaned at a perilous angle . |
| 15 | A The first kind developed out of the Romantic movement which emerged at a time when artists of all kinds rebelled against being servants in wealthy households , obeying their patrons ' orders and being regulated by religious , political and other advisers . |
| 16 | A faster grower clone , which appeared at a frequency estimated to be between 1 10 -8 and 1 10 -9 , was subcloned ; the growth rate of a subclone , namely AR , was determined in comparison with Raji and RJ2.2.5 . |
| 17 | The first of the IBM PCs was designed around the Intel 8088 processor , an eight bit device which ran at a clock speed of 4.77MHz ( we 'll cover clock speeds a little later ) . |
| 18 | Yet Lord Burghley , Master of the Wards from 1561 to 1598 , made no attempt to exploit this revenue to the full : his period of control witnessed an immediate fall in the court 's income , which remained at a low level until his son took over . |
| 19 | Second , just as Dear 's image of a few hundred ‘ young black criminals ’ was used to explain what happened in Handsworth , the problem of drugs was used to explain what happened at a national level . |
| 20 | In a sense it is a personal keeping of the ‘ minutes ’ of what occurred at conferences or in battles which will remind the writer what happened at a precise time in the course of events . |