Example sentences of "[coord] [vb pp] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several thousand kilometres of fish netting is lost or discarded at sea annually . |
| 2 | A descent upon England was long looked upon as an impracticable chimera in face of the countless and invincible naval forces that encircle this island-empire with a line of floating citadels , collected or dispersed at will at any threatened points around the coast … |
| 3 | Vast fortunes and vast debts exist only in green digits displayed on a video screen , to be wiped out or distorted at will . |
| 4 | Pre-recorded cassettes , designed to be used on the nature trail , can be loaned to groups , or bought at cost price . |
| 5 | Only one-third of sucrose consumption is visible , as that added to our tea and coffee or used at home . |
| 6 | Several families they knew had sons or fathers missing or drowned at sea , and men were being sent to France with the British Expeditionary Force . |
| 7 | Solid waste is different : unless it is burned or buried at sea , it lingers on as a visible souvenir . |
| 8 | Salt concentrations near the surface may make them especially inhospitable to vegetation ; only the soils of damper areas , in which salts are distributed evenly or concentrated at depth , are likely to support plant propagules . |
| 9 | The climate is crucial , because a reactor compartment exposed to dry air will rust more slowly than one buried in soil or sunk at sea . |
| 10 | An important feature is that once bonuses are given , they can not later be withdrawn or put at risk due to some speculative investment . |
| 11 | The DTI is currently proceeding with the 14th Round of Oil/Gas Licensing through which it is selling oil companies the permission to explore many blocks of seabed which the Government 's official advisers on nature conservation have said should not be disturbed or put at risk in this way . |
| 12 | These are the 3% placed in welfare institutions or left at home with parents , classed as ineducable . |
| 13 | ‘ The only estates in land which are capable of subsisting or of being conveyed or created at law are — ( a ) An estate in fee simple absolute in possession ; ( b ) A term of years absolute . |
| 14 | ( 1 ) The only estates in land which are capable of subsisting or of being conveyed or created at law are — ( a ) An estate in fee simple absolute in possession ; ( b ) A term of years absolute . |
| 15 | ( 2 ) The only interests or charges in or over land which are capable of subsisting or of being conveyed or created at law are — ( a ) An easement , right or privilege in or over land for an interest equivalent to an estate in fee simple absolute in possession or a term of years absolute ; ( b ) A rentcharge in possession issuing out of or charged on land being either perpetual or for a term of years absolute ; ( c ) A charge by way of legal mortgage ; ( d ) … any other similar charge on land which is not created by an instrument ; ( e ) Rights of entry exercisable over or in respect of a legal term of years absolute , or annexed , for any purpose , to a legal rentcharge . |
| 16 | ( 3 ) All other estates , interests , and charges in or over land take effect as equitable interests ; ( 4 ) The estates , interests , and charges which under this section are authorised to subsist or be conveyed or created at law are ( when subsisting or conveyed or created at law ) in this Act referred to as " legal estates , " and have the same incidents as legal estates subsisting at the commencement of this Act ; and the owner of a legal estate is referred to as " an estate owner " and his legal estate is referred to as his estate . |
| 17 | ( 3 ) All other estates , interests , and charges in or over land take effect as equitable interests ; ( 4 ) The estates , interests , and charges which under this section are authorised to subsist or be conveyed or created at law are ( when subsisting or conveyed or created at law ) in this Act referred to as " legal estates , " and have the same incidents as legal estates subsisting at the commencement of this Act ; and the owner of a legal estate is referred to as " an estate owner " and his legal estate is referred to as his estate . |
| 18 | A total of seven mineshafts were located along the route and were either consolidated by grout injection or capped at rockhead . |
| 19 | Spiked cages surround baroque colonial villas ; apartment doors are reinforced and guarded at gunpoint . |
| 20 | Upon closure of Woodhead , the class 76's were simply shut down one by one and congregated at Guide Bridge for many months afterwards , eventually departing for scrapyards in Sheffield or Leicester . |
| 21 | She had always regarded her purely as a teacher , a person who turned up out of nowhere and taught at school and then went away again . |
| 22 | Parents may be able to express their concern in the clinic while they just get angry and irritated at home . |
| 23 | The arrival of my first child , a daughter in 1989 , left me stunned and fascinated at society 's attitude towards birth . |
| 24 | Virtually all the largest American corporations broke the law in one way or another ; laws controlling pollution , the adulteration of products , the regulating of prices and so on were ignored and broken at will . |
| 25 | For already domestic class forces were being invented and manipulated at will to validate policy decisions . |
| 26 | One solution adopted by Iran appears to have been to send crude off to Aden or other refining centres abroad like Singapore and Italy for processing into products to be sent back to Iran and discharged at storage facilities available at terminals on Gulf islands like Lavan . |
| 27 | Showing no ill-effects from the ‘ chucking ’ accusation he had faced earlier in the tour , the Middlesex man soon removed Wright , driving out of the rough and caught at slip ; ended Hartland 's defiant debut at silly point ; had Greatbatch snapped up at short leg after a couple of desperate drives ; and broke through Thomson 's forcing shot via an arm ball . |
| 28 | Michael Timothy Skinner was born at Lee , London , on Aug 5 1931 and educated at Merchant Taylors ' School , Mons Officer Cadet School and Sandhurst . |
| 29 | Portland 1 strain of G lamblia was cultured axenically at 37°C in modified TYI-S-33 medium containing 10% newborn calf serum in roller bottles and harvested at middle to late log phase as described previously . |
| 30 | Their pool was oval-shaped and illuminated at night by carriage-lamps , fixed to the posts of the pergola which surrounded it . |