Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [vb pp] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only after that did Palestinians begin stoning the police and Jewish worshippers at the Wailing Wall situated at the foot of the Mount . |
| 2 | Singer introduced International Relations to a vexed topic , familiar to other social sciences , to do with relating explanation couched at the systemic level ( the international system ) to explanation couched at the unit level ( nation states ) . |
| 3 | An Asian man who was forced to wed a local girl in Pakistan had his arranged marriage annulled at the Court of Session in Edinburgh today . |
| 4 | Her rise to prominence was the culmination of a career which combined a feminist commitment to challenging male sexual behaviour , with traditional beliefs in moralizing philanthropy directed at the poor . |
| 5 | On the other hand , some of the freeholders seeking patronage demurred at the price expected . |
| 6 | It is of no consequence once it is accepted that the God to serve humanity originated at the moment that life first became manifest , and combined with the material of the universe to start the long process of producing living creatures with the capacity to enjoy life and all that that involves . |
| 7 | The subject of a very well attended meeting held at the Community College , Bishop 's Castle on Friday 4th January 1991 was a film/slide show given by Russell Mulford ( a society member ) with a very knowledgeable and humorous commentary . |
| 8 | It had twin Vickers K aircraft machine guns mounted at the rear and a single one in front . |
| 9 | Notice how the melody given in Example 8 , after four bars of ( almost ) adjacent notes , suddenly expands into more intense emotion with the octave leap and the temporary abandonment of stepwise motion : This shows leaps placed at the right psychological moment , when the intensity of a large leap is crucial to the emotional flow . |
| 10 | ( We can sometimes stop a crack by increasing its tip radius — it is fairly common to see holes drilled at the ends of cracks in glass and Perspex in the hope of preventing the crack from spreading any further . ) |
| 11 | On Aug. 30 the National Assembly passed a series of measures which ratified decisions taken at the Grand National Debate . |
| 12 | It interprets commands inserted at the beginning of document ( such as : AT FAX0716083283 ) before it interprets the ‘ Dear John ’ bit , so you can send faxes from any program on any PC , as long as it has a serial port . |
| 13 | Geophysical and borehole evidence for regarding the structure as the surface expression of movements on a Variscan thrust plane developed at the southern margin of the London Platform ( East Anglian — Brabant Massif ) has been summarised by Smalley and Westbrook ( 1982 ) . |
| 14 | Sensitivity to heparin challenge of open or initiated complexes formed at the φ29 P A2b and P A3 promoters . |
| 15 | Effect of the ionic strength on the stability of open or initiated complexes formed at the P A2b promoter . |
| 16 | A curtain of dripping water spat at the bonnet as the darkness of the tunnel engulfed us , the sound of the engine louder now and a sense of finality as the rock walls closed about us . |
| 17 | A duty , payable in meal for having grain ground at the local mill known as multure is listed in the earliest known rental of Islay , which is dated 1626 . |
| 18 | Perhaps because in future we will have a unified Budget , with tax and spending announcements made at the same time , Mr Lamont chose to look further ahead than the 1993–94 financial year . |
| 19 | The living , crackling lightning stabbed at the overhead strip lights and the office was suddenly filled with a hail of exploding , flying glass . |
| 20 | She sat at her ease on the sofa , with her long , booted and pantalooned legs crossed at the ankles , but the expression on her face was bored and haughty . |
| 21 | ( 2 ) Throughout your occupation you will pay rent calculated at the rate of £ per annum payable on demand in advance ( but periodic demands shall not convert this tenancy into a periodic tenancy ) . |
| 22 | In June 1988 the Torbay Herald Express ran a largely complimentary story on the DGH unit , the Edith Morgan Centre ( EMC ) , investigating why it had been ‘ thrust into the limelight … in a string of incidents involving patients treated at the much talked about psychiatric unit ’ . |
| 23 | Thus point stimuli located at the centre of the receptive field produce a large output while stimuli falling away from the centre produce a smaller output . |
| 24 | It is important that we do not altogether ignore videodiscs aimed at the consumer market . |
| 25 | Hundreds of wintering wigeon grazed at the water 's edge , tinted-pink breasts , yellow Mohican-hair-piece crowns glowing gold . |
| 26 | Some wore cloaks clasped at the neck with huge ornamental brooches . |
| 27 | This tied in with the time factor where the pressure to get things done at the end of the day could lead to dangerous short cuts and a consequent drop in efficiency . |
| 28 | With respect to the issue of subsidiarity , he emphasised that the British view of subsidiarity was to have decisions taken at the lowest effective level of authority . |
| 29 | It also mentions encouraging practices to offer services aimed at the primary prevention of mental illness ( for example , counselling services , self help groups , and stress and anxiety management groups ) . |
| 30 | The Court did not allow representatives elected at the " 29th Congress of the CPSU " ( held on July 4 outside Moscow by minority communist parties ) to replace the CPSU officials called as witnesses . |