Example sentences of "[num] [vb past] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Disabled Visitors : Narrow and uneven paths and many steps , not ideal for wheelchairs ; no more than 2 admitted at one time ; may be loaned at ticket office . |
| 2 | A row of 43 found at Old Erringham ( Sussex ) was 1.5 m long ; experiments have shown that 0.5 m of warp thread would require 14 loom-weights ; 1.5 m would therefore require 42 . |
| 3 | Although the unemployment rate in Wirral in 1985 stood at 20 per cent , 87 per cent of the borough 's known opioid users were unemployed , and strong correlations were found throughout the borough between level of opioid use , unemployment and social deprivation . |
| 4 | A glance at the careers of nine of the ten Muftis who held the office between 988/1580 and 1031/1622 and whose teaching careers fall in the latter half of the sixteenth century , after the building of the Suleymaniye medreses , will give an idea of the teaching background apparently considered essential to give one a chance of eventual appointment to what had by then become the highest learned office : all nine men taught at the Sahn and subsequently at one of the 60-akce medreses built prior to the building of the Suleymaniye medreses , for example , the Sehzade medrese ; two of the nine then went directly to their first mevleviyet ( early on in the period , in 1566 and 1573 ) , while six taught at one of the Suleymaniye medreses and one at the medrese of the mother of Murad III in Uskudar ( the Atik Valide medrese ) , newer than Suleyman 's medreses , before being appointed to their first mevleviyet . |
| 5 | One of the country 's vice-presidents , Mr Casimir Ionescu , said thousands of Securitate members waging a guerrilla campaign had given up , while hundreds remained at large . |
| 6 | All three looked at one another and nodded their heads together . |
| 7 | Soviet and United States arms control negotiators resumed talks in Washington on Jan. 21 aimed at clearing obstacles to a Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty ( START ) on cutting long-range nuclear arsenals by 30 per cent . |
| 8 | The famous letter from the archbishop of Rheims to Baldwin V of Flanders , praising him for his activities in draining and ditching the coastal areas ( presumably after the Dunkirk inundation of 1014–42 had at last subsided ) is explicit evidence of an interest in agricultural expansion . |
| 9 | Three relapsed at 6 years ( n=2 ) and 7 years ( n=1 ) . |
| 10 | Bucks Railway Centre staff could fairly be described as confused when Ex-GWR 6024 arrived at 08.55 hrs at Quainton without any coaches on Sunday morning . |
| 11 | The narrow margin of this victory in the January 1992 direct elections was attributed to his being held personally responsible for painful economic reforms in 1991 , which caused price rises of up to 500 per cent and raised unemployment from 27,000 to 420,000 , while inflation in January 1992 stood at 30 per cent . |
| 12 | Inflation in the 12 months to August 1992 stood at 1,014 per cent . |
| 13 | Recognising a more serious problem in the fact that Pippin II remained at large in Aquitaine , Charles moved across the Loire , this time penetrating much further than before into the south-west , where Pippin 's adherents were evidently still to be found . |
| 14 | — Guy Pearson , Surrey I LAUGHED at this property ad in my local paper : ‘ Two bedrooms , off-street park-ing , 5-piece bathroom suite , no chain ! ’ — |
| 15 | The first adjustment I would make would be to try positioning the three to six No. 6 shot at one inch gaps , starting ten inches from the hook as in diagram A. |
| 16 | It was James I wanted at this moment , more than Toby , who could n't have been expected to understand this . |
| 17 | The tyres are the original 6.00 x 160 pressured at 25 psi in the front and 30 psi in the back . |
| 18 | Also in the field of twenty-nine were previous winners Early Mist ( 1953 ) and Royal Tan , who at the age of twelve started at 28–1 to repeat his 1954 victory . |
| 19 | An extradition treaty was signed with Rwanda on Aug. 16 aimed at improving effectiveness in combating crime ; the treaty excluded individuals wanted for political offences , and both governments reserved the right to refuse to surrender their own citizens , in which cases they agreed to prosecute the individuals themselves . |
| 20 | IBM Japan Ltd , which restructured in January by creating two subsidiaries , one aimed at small and medium-sized companies and the other offering overall services including consultation and facilities management , has a new president , Kakutaro Kitashiro , who replaces Takeo Shiina , who was also a member of the IBM Corp main board , and is now non-executive chairman of IBM Japan : the new president is 48 years old , a 26-year veteran of IBM Japan , and possesses little of the charisma of the outgoing Shiina ; he rose rapidly through the ranks to a position of potential candidate for president in 1984 . |
| 21 | An expensive fund-raising exercise in 1987 aimed at financial institutions raised only £55,000 which was one third of the initial target figure although some isolated local initiatives have brought much-appreciated donations from local businesses . |
| 22 | While the full corporation tax rate between 1 April 1986 and 31 March 1987 stood at 35 per cent , the small companies rate was 29 per cent . |
| 23 | Sturt was just off to Adelaide with his family to take up the post of Surveyor-General of South Australia , and it was a matter of great good fortune that the two met at all . |
| 24 | The four appeared at Inner London Crown Court charged with the scam , which is said to have taken place between January 1989 and December 1991 . |
| 25 | For a robust rejection of forensic attacks on valuations by experts in rent reviews , see the words of Lord Templeman in Hudson ( A ) Pty Ltd v Legal & General Life of Australia Ltd [ 1986 ] 2 EGLR 130 quoted at 13.5.5 . |
| 26 | The standard tripod used for haymaking ( as earlier described ) is ideal for this purpose ; the middle leg is dropped into a one-foot-deep hole and the other two spread at right angles to the line of the fence . |
| 27 | At the close at four thirty the Footsie one hundred stood at one nine nine O point three and Wall Street was down fifty-two point three points at two four six O point five . |
| 28 | On May 19th the S&P 500 closed at 447.6 , just nine points off its record . |
| 29 | Phil said : ‘ Recent monitoring shows that a further gradual improvement is taking place , with the level for 1990 recorded at 0.2 ppm — substantially better than the EC standard of 0.3 . |
| 30 | I could n't do the Forties bit at all , padded shoulders and crêpy things , ugh , and pageboys — I think it must have been purely Oedipal , those were my parents ' things , dammit , what I was getting away from . |