Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] at [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no doubt that Charles has done a great deal that his father has been proud of and has excelled at sports like polo that the Duke of Edinburgh played when he was younger , but the Prince never felt he was good enough . |
| 2 | This upward movement in the social hierarchy by many working-class boys ( significantly none of the studies has looked at girls ) has not been achieved at the expense of the opportunities of children from middle-class backgrounds , but by an explosion in the number of middle-class jobs — or an expansion in the service class or the salariat . |
| 3 | Dissent has occurred at times among university students in attempts to radicalise dominant ideas . |
| 4 | Revegetation is particularly limited where intensive erosion has occurred at altitudes above 2200 m above sea-level where harsh climatic factors , as well as disturbance by erosion , restrict revegetation . |
| 5 | Mikhayl Piotrovskiy is an Islamicist , and he has lectured at universities in Yemen , Kuwait , Iraq , Egypt , Jordan , Syria , Tunisia and Algeria . |
| 6 | Mankind has marvelled at diamonds for at least 2000 years . |
| 7 | Separately Caci said it has arrived at agreements to settle shareholder lawsuits pending in Delaware Chancery Court and in the District of Columbia . |
| 8 | He can regard his task as done when he has arrived at entities so simple that they can safely be handed over to physicists . |
| 9 | But it has remained at levels comparable to those of the 1960s . |
| 10 | The strong normative bias in the study of social policy has led at times to a greater preoccupation with criticism of policies than with attempts to discover why they take the forms they do . |
| 11 | However , while Moscow has not possessed de jure foreign bases since the mid 1950s it has obtained at times such extensive control over certain installations that they have resembled extraterritorial enclaves and de facto bases . |
| 12 | Through the centuries it has changed at intervals by learning from errors and misfortunes , constantly adapting itself to new situations . |
| 13 | Fission-track age determinations on apatites from undeformed granodiorite indicate that the South Mountains MCC has resided at temperatures of less than 100°C since 17Myr ( termination of major deformation ) . |
| 14 | Feels choked at times . |
| 15 | Now you say it 's aimed at students , er how , how is it being er given out ? |
| 16 | I think that 's very important , it is specifically aimed at students , I mean I , this , this is no way a leaflet for the general public and , and one of the reasons is the explicitness because it 's aimed at students and that we did a lot of research with students , students were involved in the writing . |