Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] [adv] at the " in BNC.

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1 Is it really necessary for you to have no claim if you are indeed made redundant or treated unjustly at the time when the contract finishes ?
2 But much of what they buy ends up being returned or hidden away at the back of a drawer .
3 They may have been open-fronted , the borders of the open seam being either fastened together or pinned back at the breast , again with brooches and pins .
4 This in turn led to the arm and gun junction boxes being redesigned horizontally next to each other rather than grouped centrally at the front .
5 Manchuria was known to be rich in raw materials , notably coal and iron ore , and capable of supporting a far larger population than dwelt there at the time .
6 The work reported in this thesis was sponsored by General Accident Fire and Life Assurance Corporation plc and carried out at the Medical Research Council 's Applied Psychology Unit in Cambridge and I thank Alan Baddeley and all at the unit for making the work possible .
7 Born deaf , and educated partly at the Langside Institution , Glasgow and partly at William Van Praagh 's Oral School in London , George Edward was a fine designer of silver cups , challenge shields and the like , and also a fine yachtsman who won many trophies in his racing yachts Osprey and Majel .
8 Session 1992 — 3 A programme of events will be discussed and drawn up at the June meeting .
9 Session 1992–3 A programme of events will be discussed and drawn up at the June meeting .
10 Now , on Saturday morning , she thumped on the cottage door and at the same time leaned back from her ample waist and called up at the casement window .
11 They strolled back home down the tunnelled lane and called in at the Littles ' cottage and the Vicarage on the way .
12 supplementary material additional to the main body of a book and printed separately at the start or end of the text .
13 They had the latches closed , the headsets on and plugged in at the console .
14 Some 60 out of 90 antarctic genera are crustose , producing a flat thallus closely appressed to the substrate ; only 17 genera are foliose ( i.e. with a divided , leaf-like thallus ) , and only 15 genera , occupying the least exposed positions , are fructicose — short , cylindrical , erect or recumbent , and attached only at the base ( Dodge , 1973 ) .
15 Deano had a good chance about 5 minutes from time , but headed straight at the keeper .
16 As pointed out at the beginning of this section , some of the interesting responses that arise on applying somewhat larger sinusoidal e.m.f.s to nonlinear resistive circuits such that the signal behaviour is governed by the nonlinear relation have been considered in section 5.9 .
17 An unopened pod taken from the tree will keep for at least three weeks , and when opened back at the nursery it is usual to obtain 100 per cent germination of the seed .
18 A cohort of children , originally seen aged 2 to 4 with severe effusions and mostly treated with grommets , had structural damage of the eardrum ( 87% of cases ) , abnormal tympanograms ( 45% ) , and a mean hearing loss of 13 dB when followed up at the age of 8 .
19 Typically flies low over water , with shrill ‘ twee-wee-wee ’ call and flickering wings , appearing distinctly bowed when held momentarily at the downward stroke .
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