Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [adv prt] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wind was blowing hard at the Highlanders ' faces , according to the literature given out at the Culloden Visitors ' Centre , and the two armies were in position at one o'clock , approximately four to five hundred yards apart . |
| 2 | The workforce at Linton and Hirst 's is to be cut by one third despite a two million pound investment programme carried out at the company in July . |
| 3 | The libraries have been designed on the basis of research carried out at the University under the auspices of a Department of Trade & Industry programme , and include temporal functions to monitor the start and stopping time of shares , financial risk calculation and probability functions . |
| 4 | The libraries have been designed on the basis of research carried out at the University under the auspices of a Department of Trade & Industry programme , and include temporal functions to monitor the start and stopping time of shares , financial risk calculation and probability functions . |
| 5 | The warning 's based on research carried out at the Public Health Laboratory in Gloucester after the 'flu epidemic of 1989 . |
| 6 | A study carried out at the University of California in Berkeley compared woman who maintained 20 per cent weight loss over two years with dieters who relapsed . |
| 7 | As has already been indicated , the planning processes of each company had previously been examined in a research study carried out at the London Business School . |
| 8 | A notable exception to this consensus in the early literature that madness and creativeness are frequently connected is a study carried out at the beginning of the century by Havelock Ellis . |
| 9 | A study carried out at the Army Personnel Research Establishment ( APRE ) in Farnborough simulated wartime conditions for ten soldiers , who were required to defend a position during a tactical exercise lasting ten days . |
| 10 | She was frowning , deep lines appearing between her eyebrows , mouth drawn down at the edges so that instead of a classically good-looking slim English Rose in her late twenties , she looked faded , years older than her real age , and shrewish . |
| 11 | You remember that night was pretty dark , so I could n't have seen if there was a boat tied up at the jetty . |
| 12 | Posidonius confessed that at first he had been disturbed by the spectacle of human heads nailed up at the entrance of the aristocratic Celtic houses , but afterwards " becoming used to it he could bear it with equanimity " ( Strabo 4.4.5 ) . |
| 13 | The winning team is the one which has all its frogs lined up at the other end of the room . |
| 14 | It is therefore particularly fitting that it is a charity associated with the teaching profession hat takes some of the books left over at the end of the sale to ‘ sent to countries in dire need ’ , as Lewis Romanis , former Headmaster of Boroughmuir School , put it in his gracious thank-you letter . |
| 15 | At times the supporting leg would bend when on balance , whilst the working one was also bent with the foot turned up at the ankle during certain poses , or when performing a rond de jambe en dehors or en dedans during the pas de deux . |
| 16 | Sadly , it has been our experience in the past that the most specialised work carried out at the Atomic Weapons Establishment leads scientists into a cul-de-sac of research that has little , or no , relevance to science as practised in civilian life … |
| 17 | Although there were some variations as the election campaign unfolded , the thrust of the Tory message on law and order did not deviate from the plan drawn up at the meeting on 7 July 1978 . |
| 18 | I feel that the PR team have their work cut out at the best of times without the likes of Mr. Wigmore and his cheap , sensationalist style of so-called journalism . |
| 19 | Football specials lined up at the Pleasure Beach loop on 22 November 1980 , during a cup-tie match between Blackpool and Fleetwood . |
| 20 | But when she was over here , she sold up and her sister sold up at the same time . |
| 21 | It should be no more and no less than the business carried on at the time of completion . |
| 22 | The completion accounts shall consist of [ a statement of net assets of the business drawn up at the transfer date and a profit and loss account for the xx months then ended and such additional notes as the Vendor 's accountants shall deem reasonable ] and shall be prepared , in order of descending priority , with due regard to the concept of materiality in accordance with : |
| 23 | The completion accounts shall consist of [ a statement of net assets of the business drawn up at the transfer date and a profit and loss account for the xx months then ended and such additional notes as the Vendor 's accountants shall deem reasonable ] and shall be prepared , in order of descending priority , with due regard to the concept of materiality in accordance with : |
| 24 | It would n't improve my chances of pleasing the God-King if more ceptors phased out at the wrong moment so that the ship set down on top of something valuable — like the royal palace , the Divine Sanctum . |
| 25 | There is also a collection of Wycliff 's writings brought over at the time of England 's Queen Anne . |
| 26 | like Jimmy next door , he 's always dropping off and he got a vent put in at the bottom of his door , they took the pipe out and behind you had a big open |
| 27 | And then , terribly pleased with that demonstration , the anthropologist goes on to try to fit in everything : and a good anthropologist is one who completes the picture and appears to have no pieces left over at the end . |
| 28 | I wanted the sleeves to be semi-full , with the ease taken in at the wrist . |
| 29 | Nerina called in at the office to see her mother . |
| 30 | It all started early this morning , when a rather anxious mum called in at the office . |