Example sentences of "[vb pp] [art] [noun sg] at " in BNC.

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1 At first it is not easy … we usually find that we have completed the task at hand and then we remember that we have not stopped to think first .
2 Neither had practised archery before becoming immobile ; one of them had been taught the art at Pinderfields Hospital at Wakefield and had gone on to become captain of his club .
3 He was on the move again , whether he had annoyed the proprietor at his cheap hotel by his late night rowdiness , or quarrelled with one of the pimps because the girls staying there posed for him free or simply grown tired of the place , is not clear .
4 ‘ I felt I never got a chance there , but I have been given the chance at Norwich and I 'm very pleased with how well it has gone . ’
5 A draft European Community regulation proposing that producers label their food-stuffs with a Protected Graphical Indication ( PGI ) or Designation of Origin ( PDO ) has been given the thumbs-down at the consultation stage with trade bodies describing it as ‘ protectionist and unnecessary ’ .
6 Suzanne Calvert has been in a coma for five months since being given the drug at a party by Army deserter Sean O'Brian .
7 And in fact the evidence suggests I that in the three years remaining till ninety six , it is most unlikely that those twenty five thousand dwellings will be developed , given the alteration at the present time .
8 But given the speed at which this government is moving , few doubt that the new education reforms , what ever they may be , will be firmly cemented in place by the time the commission reports .
9 The proposals will go before councillors at a private meeting , and are then expected to be given the go-ahead at a full meeting of Strathclyde Region later in the morning .
10 Given the rate at which parts of the crag seem to tumble down the hillside , including some famous classic routes , you ought to make the effort sooner rather than later , before any more lines disappear .
11 A total synthesis is not possible given the rate at which new data and techniques are being produced ; the principal difficulty remains the quantity of material that was excavated in the last century under conditions which do not assist in answering the questions now being asked and which now lie , unpublished and unstudied in museum collections throughout England .
12 We have explained the point at great length to the hon. Member for Kincardine and Deeside , but he keeps making his claim .
13 Green had also pointed the finger at his wife 's lover Stuwart Skett .
14 She had not been surprised to learn that the accountant Morris had been proved innocent of any crime and had pointed the finger at Spencer Grenfell .
15 Peter Drucker may have overstated his case when he observed that ‘ capital movements rather than trade … have become the driving force of the world economy ’ ( Drucker , 1986 : p. 768 ) , but he has pointed the finger at a central issue in the global environment .
16 Green had also pointed the finger at his wife 's lover , Stuwart Skett .
17 Reports placed the attendance at between 250,00 and 500,000 .
18 Sun Tzu had placed the subject at the end of his thirteen-chapter work with good reason .
19 Much of its strength can be attributed to the vigorous support of the church , which has always placed the family at the centre of Christian living .
20 On the 25th May 1686 ( two years after Roger 's report ) one John Blackwall wrote from Patterdale to inform Sir Daniel Fleming that he had studied the report , that he had examined the ground at Coniston , and that he was prepared , with a company , to open the mines " if terms can be agreed upon . "
21 And our own people here have never heard the word at all …
22 It now looks a big mistake to have joined the ERM at all , at any exchange rate , without first having created political institutions capable of running monetary policy in a way that takes due consideration of the needs of all members of the European Community .
23 She had joined the course at her parents ' insistence and while it was n't her idea of fun at the time it seemed a better alternative than being behind a typewriter .
24 The only other places somebody who 'd joined the Army at sixteen would know were Army places .
25 The tribunal rules that Barclays discriminated against her by making her retire at 60 , when a man who had joined the bank at the same time could work until 65 .
26 Two new faces have joined the team at Cleveland Wildlife Trust .
27 In his student days , he had been careful never to become involved in any radical movements , had joined the Komosol at the age of sixteen and become a card-carrying Party member before his 21st birthday .
28 Léger appears to have joined the circle at Mercereau 's later in the same year , probably introduced by Delaunay with whom he was becoming very friendly at this period .
29 It has also highlighted the differential at local level .
30 Mr Martin warned the jury to beware of having their judgement swayed by the unprecedented publicity that had already surrounded the case at local and national levels .
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