Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The old Eagle Warehouse had the appearance of a curve at the west end of Bothwell Street , though in fact it was made up of four straight sections each placed at a shallow angle .
2 A practical circus consists of a series of tasks each placed at a different position in the room .
3 Mr Horn , of Hurworth Moor , resigned from his £34,000-a-year job as education officer in charge of forward planning before he was due to appear at a disciplinary hearing at the council 's headquarters in Matlock last week .
4 The cow , worth thousands of pounds , had been champion of several shows and was due to appear at the National Dairy Event in Warwickshire next weekend .
5 Figure 2.3 looks at a similar period for Europe .
6 This enabled them once again to draw up a profile of those high-risk subjects who developed schizophrenia , which turned out to be similar to that reported at an earlier stage of the research .
7 Would the Secretary of State have been prepared to sit at the same table — I repeat , would the Secretary of State and his colleagues have been prepared to sit at the same table with that man , within the confines of the Anglo-Irish Agreement ?
8 Would the Secretary of State have been prepared to sit at the same table — I repeat , would the Secretary of State and his colleagues have been prepared to sit at the same table with that man , within the confines of the Anglo-Irish Agreement ?
9 However , the audience this year was below its normal pitch of receptiveness and Nobby and company might have found it easier to perform at the old Glasgow Empire … ‘ .
10 Years later , long after Tam was " deed " , I did some research at the Black Watch archives in Perth and was assured that no such thing could ever have happened .
11 If there are any area display teams willing to perform at the Annual Reunion on Saturday 19th November to be held at Warwick Park School , please contact at , ,
12 So what forces impeded the real wage rate from falling so as to bring into employment those willing to work at the going wage rate ?
13 This occurred at an end-of-season game where a large crowd was gathered to celebrate the team 's promotion to the second division .
14 This occurred at the main dispensing chemist in Wirral 's largest township :
15 But even though what was being contemplated was regionally restricted , it nevertheless went far beyond what these states , following the British line , had been willing to accept at the European level .
16 Television is at least one escape and just like all the other trivial pastimes , should allow the unemployed to participate at a reduced rate .
17 The dry slope was dotted with rabbits — some nibbling at the thin grass near their holes , others pushing farther down to look for dandelions or perhaps a cowslip that the rest had missed .
18 If this happens at the same time as the inevitable swing into wind , it can result in a very rapid rolling over on to the into-wind wing-tip .
19 Some die at the first hint of frost ; others , for example the damp-living larvae of chironomid midges , can be subjected repeatedly to temperatures of -20°C and below , with up to 90% of their body water frozen , and recover completely on thawing ( Scholander et al , 1953 ) .
20 This happened at the same time as parishes were being formed , and it seems to have resulted in the extinction of many churches , not only as private property but also as working churches .
21 ‘ I would hope a club of the stature of Nottingham Forest might have been more willing to look at the domestic market if they wanted a young keeper . ’
22 Where firms maximise profits in uncompetitive conditions the effect is that consumers are denied goods which they would have been willing to buy at the competitive market price .
23 Few biologists have not at one time or another marvelled at the exquisite fit that can be found between the characteristics of an organism and the characteristics of its environment .
24 This proceeded at a faster pace in services than in industry .
25 This can make it easier to arrive at the correct spot by varying the radius and steepness of the turn .
26 Ahmed liked to be laughed at , but he was a peasant and Nour was , in his own estimation , a prince and I was of an English generation which would have felt free to laugh at the Grand Turk if it had been so inclined .
27 Last night 's meeting , involving banking advisers for both GM and Jaguar , was to examine whether GM was prepared to bid at the inflated share price .
28 But this struck at the very heart of what Laura was hoping to achieve and she quashed the suggestion with ferocity .
29 Some halted at the right time and others did n't , resulting in a bit of a rugger scrum .
30 The Non-Proliferation Treaty , however , was the last occasion when the British sat at the top table to discuss nuclear questions with the superpowers .
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