Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [vb pp] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The leaflet was launched at an event for employers held at the end of June 1993 . |
| 2 | In this environment the production team will be looking for skills directed at the various processes used by the organization . |
| 3 | These can take the form of explanatory words of comfort agreed between governments , as for instance discussed at the Birmingham meeting of Heads of Government on 16 October 1992 ; or they can be formal ‘ Declarations ’ appended to the Treaties . |
| 4 | A statement on Sept. 27 referred to " broad agreement " on the creation of an executive committee " of between 21 and 25 people " ; a three-man presidency comprising a Kurd , a Shia and a Sunni ; and a 174-member assembly equally divided between parties represented at the Vienna opposition and those which had boycotted it . |
| 5 | Her hair had been freshly done , after hours spent at the Brighton branch of ‘ Back and Sides ’ . |
| 6 | The Woodcliffe , New Jersey-based Ascom Timeplex Inc subsidiary of Ascom Holding AG , Berne , Switzerland , last week launched a series of products aimed at the corporate networking market . |
| 7 | Some like to work from a diagram where there is a brief description of technique used at the start , then the remainder of the pattern consists of the diagram of the various garment parts , with figures that relate to stitches , rows and sizes . |
| 8 | This was not of course found at the scene , but it was probably a flat plastic box pack , smaller than a crush-proof cigarette-packet , with a single flush button depressed by the ball of the thumb to effect detonation . |
| 9 | The fruits of Barclays ' policy are clearly visible in Cambridge , one of the leading centres for small firms , many of which started as a result of technologies developed at the city 's university . |
| 10 | For an accountant in practice who is keen on a secondment to the regulatory sector , the range of experience offered at the DTI would make it time well spent . |
| 11 | She often told me of the nightly air-raids , her parents worn out from fire-watching , houses in the familiar streets suddenly plunged into dust , people suddenly gone , news of sons lost at the Front . |
| 12 | At the present time , it is not possible to distinguish between the other alternative explanations , though it may be that both factors operate to modulate the pattern of frequencies recorded at the body surface . |
| 13 | There is a diverse range of talents based at the Selborne farm — from confectioners to builders — and the NFU vice-chairman was given a brief tour before having to rush off to his next appointment . |
| 14 | As has been shown above , blood was perceived to be the life-giving force of the universe — an obvious conclusion on empirical grounds , but one which was elevated from the pragmatic to the sacred in Hebrew thought by the belief that in humans it was also the seat of the soul , hence the choice of terminology noted at the outset of this essay for murder and death in the Old Testament . |
| 15 | A programme of ballets created at the workshop . |
| 16 | TAIF , Saudi Arabia — Lebanese members of parliament clutched at the threads of a peace plan yesterday after a brief period when agreement to end 14 years of civil war seemed within their grasp . |
| 17 | Visitors to PAS are known to have been totally ‘ bowled over ’ by the amount of stock contained at the South Benfleet facility . |
| 18 | If the company 's business involves dealing in goods the records must also contain a statement of stock held at the end of the financial year and statements of stocktakings from which that was prepared , and , except in the case of goods sold in the ordinary course of retail trade , statements of all goods sold or purchased , in sufficient detail to enable the other party to be identified . |
| 19 | There is a selection of books listed at the end of this book , but this is just the tip of the iceberg . |
| 20 | Officers from the RSPCA say hundreds of animals suffered at the hands of a callous and inept man . |
| 21 | There were further difficulties when one began thinking about the numbers of animals required at the Creation . |
| 22 | The sign ( - ) used to join two words together , to join separated syllables of words broken at the end of a line of writing and to divide a word into parts or to represent hesitant speech , eg b-b-but . |
| 23 | Currently dedicated to microgravity flight experiments , but also used for atmospheric studies and pressure standards calibrations , the CT-133 is one of a small fleet of aircraft based at the NRC Headquarters at Ottawa International Airport . |
| 24 | Hundreds of supporters gathered at the Blackbird Leys Leisure Centre to hear Deputy Leader , Roy Hattersley and Industry Spokesman , Gordon Brown . |
| 25 | Indeed the Department of the Environment issued in 1976 a code of practice aimed at the prevention and abatement of smells from animal wastes which states that ‘ in any proceedings brought because of an alleged odour nuisance it may be a relevant consideration if the company has adhered to the code of practice to the best of its ability ’ . |
| 26 | She sat behind a stream of cars stopped at the traffic intersections till they surged onwards and then stopped again . |
| 27 | The Committee of Directors of Polytechnics decided at the end of 1982 to discuss plans to deal with applications for the 1985 intake , involving the appointment of staff and the compilation of application forms and a polytechnic equivalent of the UCCA booklet . |
| 28 | Compared with a supplemental dose of OPV , one dose of IPV administered at the time of measles vaccination at 6 or 9 months of age induced significantly higher seroconversion to one or more serotypes at the time of vaccination . |
| 29 | The Leningrad city and regional Communist Party first secretary and leading conservative , Boris Gidaspov , had been the most prominent local party leader to ignore party recommendations and had refrained from standing in the elections to the Russian Supreme Soviet , having apparently anticipated the kind of defeat inflicted at the polls on March 4 and 18 on many other Russian city and regional party secretaries . |
| 30 | For a trial distance of 50 steps the number of steps executed at the maximum is obtained by subtracting the steps executed during acceleration and deceleration . |