Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , besides this we found those who had not been stopped etc. at all still reflected the overall differences between races — Blacks being least favourable , Asians most favourable , with Whites being sometimes closer to Blacks and sometimes closer to Asians . |
| 2 | The highlight of the Festival for us was really the International Violin Competition , which went on all day for 4 days ; 28 competitors played three different programmes , the ‘ survivors ’ being whittled down at each stage . |
| 3 | First we should ask whether it is necessary to popular participation that all should be gathered together at one time in one place . |
| 4 | Like warts and bristles , structures protruded from the main mass : long strands of metal gridwork , a heap of vitreous bubble-forms , metal boxes welded together at haphazard angles . |
| 5 | Lumps of excrement and sodden pieces of toilet paper lie in the water in a state which suggests they have not been broken down at all . |
| 6 | THE VALLEY OF THE River Lune between Sedbergh and Kirkby Lonsdale is bounded on the east by a lofty range of hills forming a continuous high skyline broken only at one point where a pronounced gap indicates the narrow cutting of Barbondale , carrying a lonely road over a low watershed to Dentdale . |
| 7 | SIR — Early stages of gallbladder carcinoma ( T1 , T2 ) are usually diagnosed only at definite histological examination of cholecystectomy specimens . |
| 8 | To detect any contamination of samples before breaking the code , negative controls of sterile water were included with the samples in a ratio of one negative control per three samples and treated identically at each stage . |
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| 10 | ‘ We must hope before you go to Oxford mother will have relented enough at any rate to make writing to you possible . ’ |
| 11 | By autumn 1990 Chameleon had been installed successfully at 12 sites throughout Europe , but Intergraph felt that a third party with a ‘ wider skill set ’ was needed to exploit the system 's full potential . |
| 12 | where you 're just watching , helping , washing a few cups with somebody and , and then going on a course one or two days a week , and then you 're consider whether being took on and even if you 're not took on at that place at least you 've got something to say you 've done when you 're |
| 13 | An accompanying booklet gives advice on timber selection , and how timber can be harvested locally at minimal cost . |
| 14 | On the one hand , the memorandum of association must qualify the company 's ability to provide surveying services , to the effect that such business must be carried on at all times in accordance with the Rules of Conduct for the time being of the RICS . |
| 15 | So if we 'd have carried on at that |
| 16 | If things carried on at this pace , she and Johnny would find themselves meeting every day . |
| 17 | If the investment managers had to come in they could have come in at any time . |
| 18 | Cos it 's an outdoor job , it 's a three shift system for those on the bottom , er early , morning and late , cos the eight hour day had come in at this time . |
| 19 | We are concerned in fact that er the western nations did n't rather deplore earlier er Hussein 's actions against his own people using chemical weapons , and we think it 's a shame for us that we 've only come in at this point , and we must come in carefully I think . |
| 20 | It was n't that I was n't listening , I heard him all right ; but I was busy with my own thoughts , or , rather , my own feelings — the two were inextricably mixed together at this moment — and what he said was merely a background to the tumult that was going on inside me . |
| 21 | I tell you , if a helicopter had come down at that customs post , there would have been no stopping me . |
| 22 | The ladies ' K4 500m was slotted in at this point and although Dallaway/Davey/Eastwood/Thorogood were 8th in their heat they went into a semi final which acted as a repêchage . |
| 23 | Mills were often built on an estuary where the water could be trapped upstream at high tide by sluice gates . |
| 24 | A fill can be dropped in at any time while the pattern is playing . |
| 25 | A fill can be dropped in at any time while the pattern is playing . |
| 26 | By early March , oil had come ashore at various points along a strip of Saudi coastline stretching some 130 miles south of the Kuwaiti border . |
| 27 | In that early ‘ moment ’ , rock 'n' roll was an important intervention though carried through at varying levels of conscious awareness . |
| 28 | it 's , it 's , I was sat outside at eight o'clock and it were dark , I could , sat watching traffic lights , there was that much to do I was sat outside smoking watching traffic lights change |
| 29 | It was as if the news had never come through at all . |
| 30 | Surely at least one would have been caught short at some point during the operation . |