Example sentences of "[verb] at [adj] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | The disturbance of setts will only be permitted at certain locations and for specific reasons . |
| 2 | These all fly at similar speeds and have rather light stick forces like a glider . |
| 3 | We were wined and dined at great expense and the next time I met Tommy he thanked me profusely for assisting him on that evening . |
| 4 | Besides laughing with a comforting or gratifying sense of superiority when confronted with pictures of the incompetence of figures who the readers may recognize as representing their fellow men , the readers may also be regarded , she suggests , as laughing at common humankind and thus also ( unconsciously ) at themselves . |
| 5 | It is also clear that the prices of different commodities rose at varying rates and at different times . |
| 6 | Brehmer had subjects attempt to estimate the number of road accidents occurring at various junctions and compared these estimates with the actual figures . |
| 7 | Thus , it is to sectoral differences that we now turn , to illustrate how change has been occurring at different rates and with different implications for governments . |
| 8 | When the relevant Finance Act was being discussed in 1976 , the then Financial Secretary to the Treasury , Robert Sheldon , referred to teachers ' children educated at fee-paying schools and said that the benefit would be ‘ assessed on the cost to the employer , which would be very small indeed ’ . |
| 9 | Just 15 of the new faces attended Oxbridge , half ( 57 ) were educated at other universities and a mere seven at those traditional breeding grounds , the polytechnics . |
| 10 | The typical appellate judge will be at least 60 years of age , white , male and educated at public school and at Oxford or Cambridge and have lived in the insular world of the Bar for more than 30 years . |
| 11 | About three-quarters of the judges are educated at public schools and Oxford or Cambridge , but there are also other factors that reinforce their exclusiveness : their socialization into the legal life via their training as barristers ( that is those entitled to appear in the higher courts ) and the need to demonstrate professional competence in order to ‘ take silk ’ , that is become a Queen 's Counsel and thus gain themselves a place among the elite of barristers from whom judges are chosen . |
| 12 | They adopted French Christian names , often spoke French as a first language , were educated at French schools and frequently sent their children to French universities . |
| 13 | He was educated at local schools and at the Leeds Mechanics ' Institution and Literary Society , where he was a diligent student in drawing and mathematics . |
| 14 | Cal-Volair did the work at both its shops located at Long Beach and Oxnard , California . |
| 15 | We are retaining our Medau identity when appearing at prestigious events and thanks to the generosity of one of our Vice-Presidents ( ‘ Medau 's Grandmama ’ as she calls herself ) Peggy Secord , the Team will appear in new Medau Blue outfits at the CCPR Festival at the Royal Albert Hall in 1985 . |
| 16 | Each table was cut off from the next by screens of greenery ; even so , from where he sat he had a view of what was happening at other tables and on other levels . |
| 17 | It may look to some extent like the original , it may even retain traces of the original , but the many pieces that make the whole were added at different times and have been the subject of change and much repair work . |
| 18 | ‘ Mr and Mrs Gould are now in the Colony ’ proclaimed the Hobart Town Courier , ‘ to which they have come at great expense and sacrifice of comfort , purely with the view of making this work [ Birds of Australia ] still more valuable by taking their drawings from living specimens . |
| 19 | During the reproductive life of a woman , one egg — rarely two or more — matures at monthly intervals and is discharged at ovulation , which brings the total number of eggs that are ovulated to barely 500 . |
| 20 | Presumably , after carrying out their assignments , they had been returning at irregular intervals and were now preparing their reports for the final session of the afternoon . |
| 21 | The tranquil white-washed villages were a welcome relief and they stopped at small bars and quenched their thirst with local wine and spring water . |
| 22 | He had done well that day — almost performed miracles — having located Mrs McLaren 's Scottish relations ; persuaded a most excellent and locally well-known lady to come at short notice and be in the house to stay with her ; and had seen to it that the house itself was tidied , and cleaned ready , and supplied with food . |
| 23 | Graham Rice looks at new introductions and some revived favourites |
| 24 | The Execution Dock , Wapping , east London , where , until the eighteenth century , pirates were hanged at low-water mark and their bodies left dangling in chains until three tides had flowed over them . |
| 25 | In this chapter we have looked at specific aspects and illustrations of crime and the study of it . |
| 26 | Erm but I think it 's we 've looked at historical trends and you find that the quality newspapers , the up-market newspapers , they 're actually not particularly price sensitive . |
| 27 | We have looked at social problems and services mainly as they exist at the present . |
| 28 | It would be naive to expect every fragment surveyed to fall neatly into a pattern in which terraces occurred at certain heights and were completely absent from the other heights . |
| 29 | Like the R4000 , the 2.3m-transistor 4400 comes in three iterations : the 179-pin PC , supporting only primary on-chip cache , aimed at the low-end desktops and embedded controls ; the 447-pin SC , built with two primary 16Kb caches and supporting an optional off-chip secondary cache of 4Mb , targeted at high-performance desktops and servers , and the MC for multi-processor configurations . |
| 30 | A news-sheet targeted at unemployed nurses and distributed free of charge can be used as a vehicle for publicising vacancies , educational events and the work facilities currently available . |