Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] at [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's asking us to save them from being depicted in overexposed snaps , and from being constantly pointed at by male senior citizens . |
| 2 | The division finally arrived at in 561 was , then , a compromise made after Chilperic 's bid for the throne of Paris . |
| 3 | Educational policies are generally arrived at through painstaking research into past and present practices , yet policies which ultimately dictate the future are rarely radical enough to reflect all the detail and ramifications of this research . |
| 4 | Somebody had been reading a paper there , which apparently happened quite often , Penelope learned , and they usually finished at about this time . |
| 5 | The scrap of paper was furiously filling up with pictures of trees and flowers , which Alyssia hardly looked at at all . |
| 6 | Romania 's ethnic Germans once estimated at between 200,000 and 220,000 , were reported to be flooding out of the country , taking advantage of the policy of West Germany which granted citizenship to anyone who could prove German descent . |
| 7 | Two other dimensions of work which have been found less important in the case of the industrial worker are also looked at in this chapter : working hours and the technical environment . |
| 8 | The maid of all work also died at about this time and was not replaced . |
| 9 | The remaining population of the " white ghost " dolphin , as it is known locally , now stands at between 150 and 350 , and is believed to be falling fast under pressure from pollution resulting largely from intensive construction work on the massive new offshore Chek Lap Kok island airport . |
| 10 | PAT officials say the number of cases has shot up dramatically in recent months , and is now running at about one case each week . |
| 11 | Despite having some of the largest base-metal mines in Europe , Ireland has collected only £5 million in mining royalties , which have typically run at between five and nine per cent of profits since 1970 . |
| 12 | Even so , it was a couple of days more before the great host , now estimated at between fifty and sixty thousand men , set off southwards from the Burgh Muir of Edinburgh for Lauderdale and the Tweed . |
| 13 | Concern with an overheating economy and an inflation rate unofficially estimated at between 3 and 7.5 per cent led in December 1990 to the signing of an agreement between government , unions and employers to regulate industrial relations and incomes policy . |
| 14 | The total loss of life since the insurgency began in 1984 was unofficially put at between 2,100 and 2,500 . |
| 15 | She comments also on the ambiguous fascination these theorists exhibit with regard to their own practice : ‘ it is all a beautiful , theoretical game , that they themselves do n't perhaps really believe in , but indulge in it as one indulges in a passion , overwhelming at the time then looked at with mild amusement , a passion for beautiful systems ’ ( 614 ) . |
| 16 | The third member of the team is production supervisor , who previously worked at for 34 years . |
| 17 | Absenteeism at Rover is currently running at between 5 and 6% . |
| 18 | Numbers of workers on strike throughout Albania in the latter half of May were variously put at between 140,000 and 350,000 , out of a workforce of 700,000 . |
| 19 | With his supplies he received news of Conflans ’ defeat at Quiberon Bay , which meant that his small-scale diversion had now become the main , indeed only , invasion , but he bravely pressed on to Ireland and , by now having lost another ship , finally landed a force variously put at from 600 to 1000 men at Carrickfergus , on the north side of Belfast Lough , on Friday 21 February 1760 . |
| 20 | Meanwhile successive years of minimal house building had led to a national housing shortage , variously estimated at between 400,000 and 800,000 dwellings . |
| 21 | In England , the mortality from the plague has been variously estimated at between 20 per cent and 35 per cent of the population , and it may be that the higher figure is the more accurate . |