Example sentences of "[verb] at [adj] [noun] [conj] " 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 | Studies of experimentally induced influenza B in volunteers at the Medical Research Council Common Cold Unit showed that infection increased reaction times to stimuli occurring at varying intervals but that hand-eye coordination was unimpaired . |
| 7 | Brehmer had subjects attempt to estimate the number of road accidents occurring at various junctions and compared these estimates with the actual figures . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Cal-Volair did the work at both its shops located at Long Beach and Oxnard , California . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The problem , however , is turning phrases that are warmly applauded at rotary club or chamber of commerce lunches into serious investment . |
| 18 | Is property and plant at net book value or are they included at current valuation or depreciated replacement cost ? |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Business Technology : Treating Aids with a trick gene Christine McGourty looks at long-term therapy that could prevent the HIV virus reproducing |
| 27 | Graham Rice looks at new introductions and some revived favourites |
| 28 | On the other hand , for a task such as fault diagnosis he will be thinking about it in various structured ways which he can reveal by talking about it and exploring verbally why he looks at particular indications or takes particular actions . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In this chapter we have looked at specific aspects and illustrations of crime and the study of it . |