Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [noun pl] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | EPA Administrator William K. Reilly stressed that the findings were " by no means a crisis " because the agency survey only targeted households at high risk of elevated lead levels either because they are served by municipal water lines made of lead or have interior piping made of lead or copper with lead solder . |
| 2 | It went this conference believes , that the role of trade union councils at local level , whose value is clearly acknowledged , must be strengthened by being given the right to express a view through its democratically elected delegates at annual conference within the framework of the T U C. |
| 3 | ‘ I could say without doubt that this lady would have been alive today if she had not taken drugs at that party . ’ |
| 4 | Indeed it seems that girls very quickly replaced boys at this task : " Evidently [ the boys " ] tongues do not go so glibly as the girls , " as the STC was already saying as early as 1875 , " for in most of the offices where girls are employed , reading boys are now unknown . " |
| 5 | The two US pilots involved , who had mistakenly fired missiles at British armoured personnel carriers in the Iraqi desert on Feb. 26 , 1991 , remained anonymous and had testified only by letter . |
| 6 | Esther was also offered places at both universities , and chose Cambridge because it offered her a scholarship , and because her brother had been at King 's , and because she heard an owl hoot thrice in the college garden when she retired to her narrow bed after the glass of wine with Flora Piercy . |
| 7 | As always , I shall back both horses in the race and keep OS/2 on at least one of my machines — and a Mac in the spare room , just in case Apple surprises us all and starts to sell reasonably specified machines at sensible prices . |
| 8 | McKean and Murray have now scored doubles at three major events — the 1989 World Cup in Barcelona , the 1990 European Championships in Split and now Toronto — but rather than give each other confidence by their successes , Boyle believes it 's more a case of ‘ anything you can do , I can do better . ’ |
| 9 | What would happen to the elderly and the disabled who are invariably given appointments at off-peak times ? |
| 10 | He had even made passes at some of her fellow students . |
| 11 | and that 's the way its it left we left it but of course as I mentioned to him we 'd completely omitted Tats which of course we we we had n't done Tats at all . |
| 12 | Actually French Brownies are n't called Brownies at all . |
| 13 | And if a company has n't filed accounts at all when it 's supposed to have done , that should tell you something about the organization of the company . |
| 14 | Police have even infiltrated crowds at major snooker tournaments to counter threats that the brilliant young Scot would be shot at the table . |
| 15 | He is in his school sports teams and enjoys singing , having recently won prizes at two festivals . |
| 16 | Charles and John , the politically minded liberals , seldom made jokes at all and never racist jokes . |