Example sentences of "[vb pp] at [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This genetic cohesion of a population arises because , while the very slow processes of homogenisation are at work ( among copies of a family on the same and different chromosomes ) , the chromosomes in a population are being mixed at each generation . |
| 2 | Charles Laubscher recalls : ‘ My feelings were mixed at this news ( of the move to Malta ) . |
| 3 | There was 110 possible reason why he should have wished at that stage to foreclose his options between December and January , or January and the spring . |
| 4 | The drop down from Meall Corranaich and back up to Beinn Ghlas was a great deal more substantial than I would have wished at this point in the walk , keeping in mind that I was hallucinating from the effort of the chase and the subsequent lack of oxygen managing to get anywhere near my lungs via a mouth full of clenched teeth . |
| 5 | Whereas a bottom-up or data-driven system such as HWIM can hypothesize any of the 1,000 or so items in its lexicon at the beginning of the utterance , HARPY can only hypothesize those words permitted at that point by the grammar . |
| 6 | Their 7 foot 6 inches-wide body was the widest permitted at that time , and allowed two-by-two seating on upholstered seats in the saloon . |
| 7 | Approaches to members of staff and to the company 's premises , customers and suppliers will not be permitted at this stage . |
| 8 | That deaf people marry other deaf people was not , as could be supposed at that time , a new phenomenon — it will be recalled from Chapter I that John Dyott married a deaf girl after the Civil War in 1645 . |
| 9 | They lay up all the following day , expecting to be attacked at any moment , but no enemy showed up . |
| 10 | My first reaction to the resignations was that they were tantamount to an admission of guilt when , in fact , the Argentinians could have attacked at any time in the previous fifteen years . |
| 11 | Finds that are fragile or should not be washed for any other reason ( such as metalwork ) are also sorted at this stage . |
| 12 | Other INSET and resources support was also to be organised at this point . |
| 13 | The main gearbox has an oil pump to circulate the oil unlike most gearboxes designed at that time which relied on splash lubrication . |
| 14 | The earlier of the two identifies the poet with his poetry , praying that after his death he should be forgotten : Sonnet 74 draws a different line , separating the Poet from his work : The point to be stressed at this juncture — forgive the interruption ! — is the turning of the other into the self and of the self into poetry , which is at the same time the turning of life into art and of transience into immortality : This marvellous poem can be linked , no doubt , to the series attacking time and proclaiming the certainty of the poet 's survival . |
| 15 | What needs to be stressed at this juncture is the fact that this historical moment , the focus of attention in this book , centred as it is on the literary production of an interwar French communist writer , marks only the first phase of development of French socialist realism , a phase characterised in the international sphere by an objective alliance after 1934 between Western liberalism and Soviet communism designed to counter the threat of fascism , and characterised in the French national context by practical collaboration between the PCF and bourgeois liberal parties . |
| 16 | Although it was stressed at this meeting by one speaker that the school should make the appraisal a valuable exercise , other teachers expressed concern over whether their reports would actually be read . |
| 17 | What needs to be stressed at this point is that this evolution is rooted in a very specific historical moment of production . |
| 18 | It should perhaps be stressed at this point that the three-element model , while modelling many of the features of solid polymers , remains only a model . |
| 19 | It was a no-win situation for the unfortunate air crews taking part , and it would have been understandable if morale had completely cracked at that time . |
| 20 | It will be fished with 2AAA and 1BB bulk locking shot with three No.6s grouped at half depth with a No.6 and a No.8 spread equally between the bulk and the hook . |
| 21 | St. Martin 's was rebuilt over twenty years after the sack , which implies there was no extensive damage to its structure , and although All Saints ' was also rebuilt at this time , a great deal of its thirteenth-century architecture survived . |
| 22 | On stylistic grounds other northern castles built or rebuilt at this time may be attributed to him , notably Raby and Sheriff Hutton ( 1382 ) , and perhaps also Lumley in county Durham and Wressle , Yorkshire . |
| 23 | Clearly , the mill was largely rebuilt at some point in the 19th century , the brick-built section tying into the much older stone range . |
| 24 | But the LEA refused to offer the applicant 's mother a grant for the child to be educated at that school . |
| 25 | A description of the feature located at that point can also be entered into the host computer using a keyboard . |
| 26 | In the SF field , much of the work of Brian Aldiss , with its postmodern subversion of language by fragmentation of form , would be located at this node for these reasons . |
| 27 | Where the boundaries of the outside world are located at any instant will depend upon the social actor 's possession and manipulation of a set of competences of varied quality . |
| 28 | He always seemed to know exactly where Sergeant Charles Trumper of the Royal Fusiliers could be located at any time of the day or night . |
| 29 | The Romans were certainly prime movers , but not that quick , and without introducing a pettifogging intimacy with dates , names , and trifling matters of fact , might it be mentioned that the legions were desperately occupied at that time around the Medway and not Melrose ? |
| 30 | If overtime is not paid subsistence can be claimed at own base . |