Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] at [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we are prepared to look at things in that light then the range of choice becomes much wider . |
| 2 | New doubt has been cast on the viability of the Thorp nuclear reprocessing plant due to open at Sellafield in 1992 . |
| 3 | In mid-1955 the foreign ministers of the Six met at Messina in Italy to launch ‘ a fresh advance towards the building of Europe ’ and to create a market ‘ free from all customs duties and all quantitative restrictions ’ . |
| 4 | The figures for deaths from leukaemia seem to back up the prediction from dose estimates that something very serious happened at Windscale in 1957 . |
| 5 | By name — Captain Don Bennett , the Operational Director and founder of the Atlantic Ferry who persuaded first Lord Beaverbrook ( and he in turn Churchill ) and finally a reluctant Air Council that delivery of aircraft by air from the USA was feasible ; and on 10 November 1940 Don Bennett delivered seven Lockheed Hudsons ; six landed at Aldergrove in Northern Ireland , and another nearby . |
| 6 | When the leaders of the Big Three met at Potsdam in July 1945 ( after again refusing to invite de Gaulle ) , they blocked de Gaulle 's plans for the Ruhr and Rhineland . |
| 7 | Zafonic was beaten on soft going at Maisons-Laffitte in April . |
| 8 | Sick with fear , she watched helplessly as , at a shouted signal , the three rushed at fitzAlan in a concerted attack that looked like succeeding through sheer weight of numbers . |
| 9 | Never , indeed , has one seen such shoddy workmanship in a Polish team as that displayed at Wembley in June , when they lost 3-0 , dismaying the folks back home . |
| 10 | We all look at things in different ways . |
| 11 | Where poor social acceptance does occur it can be useful to look at ways in which this problem has been tackled , possibly with children who have other educational disadvantages . |
| 12 | It is evident that although studies up until the 1970s looked at youth in terms of class divisions , it is now also important to bring in unemployment , gender and race as further dimensions of disadvantage — dimensions which affect young people in particular ways . |
| 13 | He was created one of Charles I 's first Baronets , and Charles II stayed at Borwick in 1651 en route for Worcester . |
| 14 | Some 17,000 in all assembled at Wark in Northumberland , and on their way into Scotland were joined by contingents supporting the Comyns or for other reasons opposed to the rule of Bruce . |
| 15 | Dr Linebaugh has discovered that around 40 per cent of those hanged at Tyburn in the middle years of the eighteenth century had completed apprenticeships and a further 20 per cent had at least begun one ( see pp. 230 – 1 ) Even in London , the greatest centre of artisan manufacture , not all apprenticeships led to a skilled trade — the unfortunate climbing chimney boys for example — but it would seem reasonable to suggest that around half of the working men of the capital were to some degree skilled , in the sense of selling specialised labour . |
| 16 | It was a relief to be able to look at objects in depth again after the hypnotic closeness of the walls and the limited view from my room . |
| 17 | They continued to feed , or stared out on the Zoo not looking in the direction of Minch at all ; while Creggan was so busy staring at Minch in delight and pleasure that he did not notice behind him , in the next-door cage , Slorne stare for the moment at Minch and then swing round and silently resume her vigil at the back top of her cage , looking at the trees and sky . |
| 18 | Coalmines were still largely individual undertakings and sometimes quite small , though the size of the occasional great mining disasters gives some idea of the scale on which they operated : 145 killed at Risca in 1860 , 178 at Ferndale ( also South Wales ) in 1867 , 140 at Swaithe ( Yorkshire ) and 110 at Mons ( Belgium ) in 1875 , 200 at High Blantyre ( Scotland ) in 1877 . |
| 19 | It says it is looking to provide a full range of products ranging from low end consumer devices through to those aimed at users in vertical markets such as insurance or medicine . |
| 20 | First shown at Photokina in October 1990 , and well received by professional photographers specialising in architectural and monumental photography , the Corfield WA67 is now available in a revised version incorporating a number of improved facilities suggested by users . |
| 21 | Er , I did n't have any idea er that I was going to start , obviously , er , but er , I first started at home in the backroom and had letters all over the floor . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , three edicts of Childebert survive , the first issued at Andernach in 594 , the second at Maastricht in 595 , and the third at Cologne in 596 . |
| 23 | Gannets were first recorded at Bempton in the 1920s and 1930s . |
| 24 | The hunger strike launched by Palestinian political prisoners on Sept. 27 to protest at conditions in Israeli prisons continued until mid-October [ see p. 39117 for start of hunger strike ] . |
| 25 | Curwen stated that larches were first planted at Unerigg in 1780 , at Workington in 1786 and on Belle Isle in 1787 . |
| 26 | Owing to the Maryan interlude Thomas Sternhold 's version , with a tune for each psalm , had to be first published at Geneva in 1556 . |
| 27 | The presence or severity of the lesions contributing to the anaemia was difficult to interpret at endoscopy in 43 of the patients as they had received a course of H 2 antagonists ( n=18 ) or had reduced or stopped aspirin or NSAIDs ( n=32 ) , or both , before the first hospital attendence . |
| 28 | Thus of 40 ringed at Aldershaw in April 1928 , six were recovered in Belgium , France and Spain between early June 1928 and 11 January 1929 . |
| 29 | To place a detailed analysis in context it is necessary to look at trends in key figures over a number of years and to make comparisons with other firms in the same industry . |
| 30 | With the impending publication of his Violin Sonatas ( K.301-K.306 — his first mature works to be printed ) which were dedicated to the Electress , Mozart was keen to stop at Munich in order to present them to her himself . |