Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [verb] at [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it 's only now , 17 years after her death , that the first lady of crime fiction has at last acquired a fan club . |
| 2 | The visit lasted over an hour during which time Neil Kinnock experienced at first hand what carpet manufacturing was all about . |
| 3 | In comparison with the BCG matrix , the McKinsey-GE matrix seems at first to be less explicit about building some ‘ problem children ’ into ‘ stars ’ and identifying ‘ cash cows ’ and ‘ dogs ’ , but the implications are present , as indicated by figure 4.3 . |
| 4 | Recent legislation had improved matters , however ; the 1833 Factory Act prohibited the employment of young children and the 1847 Ten Hours Act had at last given working people some time for recreation . |
| 5 | Digital Equipment Corp has at last announced its OSF/1 Unix-based operating system for Alpha-based AXP systems , giving its Alpha hardware customers an alternative to VMS . |
| 6 | IBM Corp has at last woken up to the fact that to remain competitive in the personal computer business , it is necessary constantly to add new models , and in the US , the company yesterday added new 80486-based PS/1 models based on chips ranging from the 25MHz 80486SX to the 66MHz 80486DX2 ; they come in desktop and minitower configurations and are available now at prices expected to go from $1,200 to $3,000 ; they are upgradable to the Pentium . |
| 7 | He continued to urge Canterbury 's supremacy over York , and in the general settlement of 1107 , Archbishop Gerard promised at last to show him the same obedience as archbishop as he had owed as bishop of Hereford . |
| 8 | As the mysterious man following Blackeyes , Nigel Planer speaks at last , though he has damn all to say . |
| 9 | The work at Llandrindod Wells lake has at last revealed the answer . |
| 10 | ‘ Flying Scotsman 's ’ spare corridor tender has at last been purchased and delivered to the Morpeth works of Ian Storey Engineering . |
| 11 | On 12 May Macmillan arrived at Eighth Army headquarters at Treviso with his assistant Philip Broad at about 10.30 am . |
| 12 | Central News South has been to South America to see at first hand the lives that Oxfam hopes to improve . |
| 13 | First-timers spot bargains as home market moves at last . |
| 14 | Mr Edgar refused at first , and Linton sent him several more letters . |
| 15 | Although lateral eye movements appear at first sight to offer a simple and straightforward way of assessing which hemisphere is active at a given Instant , the evidence relating eye movements to hemisphere function is at present rather insubstantial . |
| 16 | The poem ‘ Futility ’ by Wilfred Owen seems at first glance to be simple and relatively straightforward , but , as with many of Owen 's poems , it is well structured and very clever . |
| 17 | VISITORS to Middlesbrough Council 's Southlands Leisure Centre saw at first hand that the world of fun and sport was literally on their doorstep . |
| 18 | The Phantom and Teardrop which Eddie Allen looked at last month were made by Paul Chandler in the USA . |
| 19 | Midlands canals tended at first to link local industries with their raw materials . |
| 20 | ‘ Let him be , ’ Uncle Nick said at last . |
| 21 | Jim Wagstaffe says at first he was shocked … and then delighted by the news that his wife was expecting . |
| 22 | Channel 4 's comedy department has at last found the right format for a cabaret star — by going back to the innocent childhood of TV comedy . |
| 23 | Karate Kids is a ‘ -minute AIDS education cartoon aimed at Third World street kids . |
| 24 | Karate Kids is a ‘ -minute AIDS education cartoon aimed at Third World street kids . |
| 25 | According to French sources , the problems with the Longines Classic started at last year 's event when , though the sponsors paid out the prize money , it did not reach the players . |
| 26 | A serious feminist critique of masculinity and male power was long overdue ; Lynne Segal has at last provided it . |
| 27 | It had gone now , its place taken by a summer suit Claudia loved at first sight , but she was n't here to buy clothes — she must find Dana . |
| 28 | ‘ You must be crazy , ’ Pietro Miletti said at last . |
| 29 | No idea of the nicest , but the nastiest was our January '91 cover with the words ‘ Jesus Jones Arrive At Last ’ — the words ‘ On The Front Of The NME ’ were conspicuously absent . |
| 30 | It was not until the following Pentecost , in early summer , that Rosalba heard Tommaso Talvi had at last come back . |