Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [vb pp] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Visitors to PAS are known to have been totally ‘ bowled over ’ by the amount of stock contained at the South Benfleet facility . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | About 30 tons of turf and top soil , and several tons of burned tarmac , were removed from the area over which the aircraft had broken up and come to rest ; the tyres of vehicles , footwear of personnel , and all items of equipment used at the site , were taken to the hanger and cleaned of mud and grass . |
| 13 | Completing our coverage of the Laboratory exhibition , held at Earls Court in November , below are some further items of equipment launched at the exhibition . |
| 14 | Regular exercise helps to strengthen and thicken bones , especially the amounts and types of exercise discussed at the beginning of this chapter ; and for those less agile , there are exercises recommended for the prevention of osteoporosis . |
| 15 | The state of siege imposed at the same time was , however , extended by 30 days by a vote of the legislative assembly on Feb. 8 . |
| 16 | On the Havana seafront several thousand citizens fired blank cartridges , arrows and catapults out to sea in a symbolic gesture of defiance aimed at the USA . |
| 17 | One of the major achievements of the journeymen in the nineteenth century had been to succeed in having both kinds of work paid at the same rate . |
| 18 | If we go back to the criterion of incompetence described at the outset , their actions are incompetent in the sense that they produce what they do not intend , and they do so repeatedly , even though no one is forcing them to do so . |
| 19 | He is being buffeted from all corners — a victim of circumstance trapped at the centre of a party more divided even than in the final days of Lady Thatcher . |
| 20 | Was the vexed question of extradition discussed at the Council ? |
| 21 | Shrimp cultivation , an important source of foreign exchange , was washed away and vast quantities of fuel stored at the oil refinery in Chittagong were contaminated by sea water . |
| 22 | Competitively superior varieties of RNA produced at the end of several test-tube ‘ generations ’ can be bottled and named for future use . |
| 23 | What is more , when inflation is taken into account , the present middle-income earners have relatively less disposable income under the present higher tax rate of 60% than they did under the old regime of tax charged at the highest rate of 83% such is the falling-behind effect of tax allowances granted in recent years . |
| 24 | Good evidence of the use and meaning of the term is contained in a report , in the second issue of The Veterinarian , of a meeting held on 22 July 1829 to consider the method of examination adopted at the College . |
| 25 | Condition : ‘ The types and quantities of waste accepted at the site shall not exceed the limits of its operational and storage capacity ’ . |
| 26 | Nonetheless , the same uncertainties that caused a slowdown in licence sales brought about a record increase in the volume of business processed at the London data centre as customers speculated on currencies in the futures and options market . |
| 27 | A place could become holy through some historical event , a memory of a work of God done at the site at a particular time . |
| 28 | The artist for this year was Helen Chadwick whose exhibition Of Mutability held at the ICA in 1986 led to her nomination for the Turner Prize in 1987/ The critic selector was Marjorie Allthorpe-Guyton , formerly editor of Artscribe International . |
| 29 | The gap between provision and need is too great to be bridged rapidly and many shortcomings have continued to be revealed by the considerable glare of publicity directed at the local authority services for the handicapped . |
| 30 | The famous names of this generation include Robert Rauschenberg , Jasper Johns , Jim Dine , Roy Lichtenstein , Andy Warhol , Claes Oldenberg , James Rosenquist and Ed Ruscha , all of whom are prominently featured in Schimmel 's selection by works of art created at the beginning of their careers . |