Example sentences of "[adj] [art] [noun pl] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost half the colleges made at least some form of provision for a group of young people who up until 1971 had been considered ‘ ineducable ’ . |
| 2 | Nicola 's husband was after all , thought Dexter , the second suspect they had seen that day who had decided to dry-clean the clothes worn at the farewell party . |
| 3 | Finance manager and his accounts/administration staff make sure the numbers tally at Burston and across the region . |
| 4 | ( 1 ) The names of all the directors of a recognised body shall be stated either on the body 's stationery or in a list of the names of all the directors maintained at the body 's registered office provided that in the latter case the body 's stationery must state that such a list of all the directors ' names is open to inspection at the body 's registered office and must state the address of that office . |
| 5 | Trees along the road — some of the old people still remembered which particular trees — marked the starting points ; and all the races finished at the inn . |
| 6 | Because the spores are viable for a short time , Laboulbeniales are effectively restricted to arthropod hosts that have overlapping generations , especially in temperate regions ; that is they can not easily establish relations with those insects in which all the adults die at the end of the summer , with the species surviving in the form of larvae or pupae . |
| 7 | Vasilissa went stony cold with fear , for the eyes in all the skulls glared at her , but she walked forward to the hut and called out , " Hut ! |
| 8 | I lit up and stood there trying to answer all the questions coming at me in French and English . |
| 9 | Erm and another idea that I had , the conference office , there I was getting a little down about al all the students knock at the door , excuse me . |
| 10 | Of all the challenges thrown at Mr Gorbachev by Boris Yeltsin , the president of the Russian republic , this is easily the greatest . |
| 11 | All the women exclaimed at the sight of the red , pink and white azaleas massed on the steps , but each thought privately that only she could appreciate the true beauty and significance of the flowers — Sophia feeling that here was the essence of the Italy she knew and loved , Penelope experiencing a lift of the heart as if the flowers held a promise of future romantic adventures , Ianthe knowing as she looked at the flower what she had only suspected before — that she was in love with John . |
| 12 | Addressed to the archbishop and all the prelates assembled at Lambeth , it commanded them , on their oaths of fealty , to do all that they could for the defence and conservation of the king 's rights and of his realm ; it then continued : |
| 13 | ‘ Three cheers for the hedgehog ! ’ cried the ducks , and all the creatures shouted at once : ‘ Hip , hip , hooray ! |
| 14 | What I would like is for all the Councillors to look at this , to advise me which other seats they think are indeed the responsibility of and then I 'll go back and go to battle but er I 'd like everybody 's views on which ones they believe they are so that I can do it firmly . |
| 15 | Alyssia ignored his remark and concentrated on trying to cut her steak without sending all the vegetables flying at the same time . |
| 16 | Based on immunoreactivity , all the carcinomas expressed at least one enzyme , and six tumours expressed all six enzymes ( Table II ) . |
| 17 | All the reindeers looked at Randolph , disbelievingly . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , production amidst all the changes continues at full tilt . |
| 19 | All the boys grinned at her . |
| 20 | All the reels retail at £49.95 : have a look at them next time you 're in a tackle shop — if there 's not one to suit , you 'll never be satisfied . |
| 21 | There must , however , be some central point , some " nerve centre " , which will contain : ( a ) Some form of index to all the resources distributed at strategic points throughout the school . |
| 22 | Have you ever wondered why , when all the lights fuse at your hotel , there 's always a blushing British female , standing at the reception , clutching a burned-out hairdryer ? |
| 23 | But , more than the muddlers , the embusqués , the profiteers and the defeatists , of all the excrescences growing at the rear , the fighting men probably resented most of all the so-called bourreurs de crâne . |
| 24 | All the mothers died at once . |
| 25 | He wanted more money to be spent on broadcasting and a separate Ministry to be set up to direct and coordinate all information policy : this was the only way a minister would be able to deal with all the criticisms levelled at the broadcasters . |
| 26 | Annie Garnett had no formal training in design , but her natural ability , love of flowers and colour enabled her to design all the textiles produced at The Spinnery . |
| 27 | To ensure that all the pleats lie at one level when the blind is raised , the top pleat section should be slightly deeper than those below it in order to cover the front of the batten and to allow for the depth of lath and rings which accumulate at the top of the blind when it is raised . |
| 28 | Although all the words have at least one sense bearing the property for which the root was originally selected , it must be noted that to locate all words bearing a particular semantic feature must involve the careful selection of several roots ( e.g. to find nouns with a [ +female ] feature , sprouts should begin from ’ female ’ , ’ woman ’ , ’ girl ’ and possibly ’ wife ’ ) . |
| 29 | 1 Why did all the children laugh at Julie on the first day she went to her new school ? 2 How do you think Julie felt that day ? 3 Did you feel sorry for her then ? 4 Did you feel sorry for her later in the story ? 5 When Julie was left tied to the lamp post was it fair , unfair , cruel … or what ? 6 Whose fault was it that Julie and Bee stopped seeing each other ? 7 Why did Julie get hurts and what effect did it have on Bee ? 8 What were your feelings at the end ? |
| 30 | Note that if you take Kugelbaum 's football and let all the pentagons expand at the same rate and at the expense of the Ts until every T has shrunk to a point you will be left with a regular dodecahedron , having 12 pentagonal faces . |