Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | namely Thucydides ) , but voting techniques were not : there was no counting of votes at all ( something which would have taken several hours when the agenda was as crowded as that given at the beginning of Demosthenes ' fiftieth speech of 362 BC ) , and the ‘ consensus ’ was determined by a show of hands , which tellers then adjudicated , in a fashion no more precise than that of a modern shop-steward who ‘ counts ’ a sea of hands at a trade union mass meeting . |
| 2 | If you 've had office copy entries , the date from which to search is that given at the foot of each page , when the office copy entries were issued ; your search will then reveal any entries that may have been made since that date . |
| 3 | ‘ He was due to retire at the end of the year anyway . |
| 4 | The appended list gives names of all officers and members of Council currently serving , and indicates those due to retire at the close of the AGM . |
| 5 | While there are few hard and fast rules about what is precisely right to wear at the office this season , there are some pointers to keep you heading in the right direction . |
| 6 | While there are few hard and fast rules about what is precisely right to wear at the office this season , there are some pointers to keep you heading in the right direction . |
| 7 | That prowls at every door and barks in every headline . |
| 8 | That goes at the front , right ? |
| 9 | If I have , I can arrange the pattern so that I 've a complete repeat at the edge of the knitting . |
| 10 | The Chippendales were due to perform at the Leisure Centre two years ago . |
| 11 | Using this diagram , it is possible to see at a glance the relationship of one context to the rest of the site . |
| 12 | The idealised FAOR solutions , although impractical to implement at the time , nonetheless provided a goal that could be pursued via a strategy that would recognise the speed of technological developments , the availability of finance , and other priorities of the two departments . |
| 13 | And the TCCB disciplinary committee is due to meet at the weekend to decide whether to increase Lamb 's punishment for the awful crime of failing to get his comments cleared by Lord 's before they were published in the Mirror . |
| 14 | But there was little understanding at the time of how much work was required to develop high-quality screenplays . |
| 15 | I remember when I say John Bellany for the first time and he said , ‘ All that matters at the end of the day is the work ’ . |
| 16 | I remember when I say John Bellany for the first time and he said , ‘ All that matters at the end of the day is the work ’ . |
| 17 | It is above all the body , enveloped in sound , in dance , that stands at the cross-roads of popular music and leisure time ; here the word ‘ Love ’ that is omnipresent in the pop lexicon reads not so much as a romantic cliche but as a coded entry into the world of the private , into the world of pleasure and self-discovery . |
| 18 | The boy , who ca n't be named , was due to appear at a Youth Court in Swindon . |
| 19 | He had been selected from hundreds of applicants with stars in their eyes by producer Harry Adair , and was due to appear at the Broadcasting House auditions on Saturday . |
| 20 | A tantalising mixture of talent is due to appear at the Town Hall in Oxford on Friday . |
| 21 | It is untrue that there are six sets of morris dancers due to appear at the Spring Thing , the annual Darlington folk festival . |
| 22 | It is this contract , which Mr Morton inherited when he joined Eurotunnel , that lies at the heart of present difficulties . |
| 23 | Mm and I was just wondering if that is your girl who is due to come at a quarter past six then she erm |
| 24 | She found it strange and a trifle exciting to sit at the cafe tables , and watch Wehrmacht , Luftwaffe and Nazi naval personnel walking in the leafy boulevards . |
| 25 | Section 47 of the Criminal Law Act 1977 , was not brought into force for another five years until 1982 , Ministers of both parties having accepted the advice of Home Office officials that the provision was too risky to implement at a time of acute overcrowding in the prisons . |
| 26 | Remember to keep these screws well back , to be hidden by the frame , because although the Faithful kneeling at the altar are meant to have their minds on other things , this is professional woodwork and we do n't want them peering up the legs of our fixings . |
| 27 | This looks at the way in which exchanges manage technology with particular reference to the Deutsche Terminborse and London 's Liffe . |
| 28 | Step one the open , this looks at the introduction and the purpose of the appointment . |
| 29 | This lies at the heart of the citizen 's charter and the Government 's programme for public services in the 1990s . |
| 30 | Even in death he is willing to work at the vine ( the biblical symbol of the Chosen People ) , suggesting in ‘ Credo ’ that the work , however unlikely it appears , is going on ; ‘ the holy promised land ’ is being peopled : ‘ the feet of fierce or humble priests trample out the green ’ ; he among them , despite putative evidence to the contrary . |