Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb base] at [adj] " in BNC.

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1 But he has brought with him the Furies who appear at key moments of the action — the spectral creatures whose gaze he can not endure but whose presence he understands , since he believes he has murdered his wife .
2 Happiness , surely , is a bonus we enjoy at unforgettable moments in time .
3 A slightly more realistic approach recognizes that firms have life-cycles and that during different stages in their life-cycles they grow at different rates .
4 Current local state functions are a microcosm of the repressive and class-biased strategies which apply at central state level ( Cockburn , 1977 ) .
5 To Tessa Pollard and Liane Saunders who have at various times voluntarily assisted with secretarial chores .
6 Is it only incomers who protest at perceived threats or is there a true grassroots feeling about such changes to their way of life ?
7 There are ways of saving money without missing out and in this issue we look at sparkling alternatives to champagne which will add the fizz to the proceedings without breaking the bank .
8 Our masters have had to size up the capacity they have at different plants and it made more sense to move production to Leeds
9 Then she delved into an inside pocket and produced a brown paper bag , the sort you get at off licences .
10 Whatever national curriculum we have at secondary school , this curriculum will have consequences for primary school .
11 A portion of a more general two-dimensional surface is pictured in Fig. 3.6. are geodesics across the surface which intersect at right angles ; ON is the local normal to the surface .
12 Although no definite links have yet been discovered between the first mechanical clocks and earlier geared astronomical models and automata , the way in which a surviving late fourteenth-century clock such as that of Wells Cathedral displays the phases of the moon and figures which emerge at successive hours suggests that such clocks were the product of a continuing tradition from the distant past .
13 Academics are intertwined in networks which operate at different administrative levels , from the department to the institution itself .
14 Studies which look at individual factors , however , often fail to show substantial effects and sometimes do not put the importance of that factor into true perspective .
15 Public marches permit the display of one 's symbols : the flags , the banners , the open Bible , and , on occasions , the uniforms which hint at potential violence .
16 The old people who live at Branksome Hall really look forward to our events .
17 Then they will value the work of people who work at simple domestic tasks .
18 The last two or three years have been a testing time for the 180 people who work at Angered .
19 Our shop sells most of the items you need at reasonable prices and our ‘ Country Kitchen ’ Restaurant offers a wide variety of fare from low price snacks to more expensive grills and Devonshire speciality dishes .
20 Oh yes yeah outside yes and old programmes they sell at away matches , badges , season tickets as you might understand , but they , they are going to have a good day in April on the centenary day because they have it getting all the old players Tony says he , he 's been invited to attend as well and Gilbert I believe will be going and erm
21 On a ridge with fine prospects over Edinburgh , the Pentlands and the Firth of Forth are outcrops and boulders with the stylized incisions of circles , cup shapes and concentric grooves which appear at ritual sites in many countries from Ireland to India , and in especially large numbers in Scotland .
22 The first lesson we learn at medical school is to listen to the patient .
23 And our view is that whichever way you look at approved structure plan and the two decisions of the Secretary of State , first of all in er er on the approved structure plan and secondly , on the first alteration to the structure plan .
24 As we progress up the scale of profit-taking , we find others who sell at small craft fairs and those who find an outlet through local shops , until we come at last to the favoured few who sell at the prestigious crafts fairs which Hugh prefers .
25 A new study by cancer researchers in Oxford has found a possible link between childhood leukaemia and fathers who work at nuclear sites .
26 Er , Chairman the , the only advice that I can give Dr on that point is to say that the county council is not letting them down er the funding for major road schemes is provided by central government and we make a contribution towards it but if central government do not give us permission to go ahead with the race road scheme in terms of a grant , then in fact it will not go ahead and in that situation they may be let down , that is their judgement and that should be reflected in the way they vote at parliamentary elections .
27 According to this model , local politics ( see also Chapter 5 , section 5.3.3 , where the ‘ dual state ’ thesis is discussed ) is more open to pluralist pressures , since locally based interest groups tend to be those of service consumers , rather than the various types of producer which dominate at other levels ( and often play a big part in determining what is possible at local level ) .
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