Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb past] at a " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Behind the glass an official from the Political Branch scowled at a worried-looking black . |
| 2 | Despite similar appeals by government officials , public discontent remained at a high level , and most workers continued their strike . |
| 3 | The idea was that light waves traveled at a speed of 186,000 miles a second through the ether , which meant that an observer who was at rest relative to the ether would measure the speed of light to be about 186,000 miles a second , but an observer who was moving through the ether would measure a higher or lower speed . |
| 4 | In the United States government support for organised labour came at a later date than in Europe ( only in the mid-1930s ) , and even then it still remained open to employers to try to persuade their own workers ( short of using overt coercion ) not to vote for union bargaining rights ( i.e. they still maintained ‘ an ethical mandate to continue with their belligerent behaviour towards unions ’ ( Adams , 1981 , p. 287 ) ) . |
| 5 | On Oct. 8 the German Bundestag approved at a first reading the ratification of the Maastricht Treaty on condition that it be given the final say over the introduction of a single European currency in the final stage of European monetary union ( EMU ) . |
| 6 | A TEENAGE student appeared at a special youth court yesterday charged with murdering his 38-year-old mother and 67-year-old grandmother . |
| 7 | A TEENAGE student appeared at a special youth court yesterday charged with murdering his 38-year-old mother and 67-year-old grandmother . |
| 8 | Delighted civic leaders said at a champagne celebration in the city that the decision was a vital boost to Manchester 's challenge to stage the Olympic Games in the year 2000 . |
| 9 | The patriot had already locked itself on to an Iraqi scud aimed at a Saudi airbase . |
| 10 | And so , drawing together the threads of this obsessive preoccupation with the civility of ‘ Old England ’ which had been ripped apart by a new strain of hot-blooded and un-English violence , the Old Thunderer arrived at a truly horrific conclusion : ‘ Our streets are actually not as safe as they were in the days of our grandfathers . |
| 11 | Even as he spoke , a similar glow appeared at a window farther along on the same floor . |
| 12 | In other areas where similar changes occurred at a slightly later date , the rise of mass material culture and retailing was the subject of some incisive commentary . |
| 13 | The fourth-round replay began at a frantic pace and burst into life after 12 minutes . |
| 14 | Suddenly a small single-decker bus appeared at a corner not far away . |
| 15 | Billions were needed to improve the urban infrastructure , a black mayor said at a Clinton-Brown debate , $6 billion , for a start , for a project in New Jersey . |
| 16 | An elderly man sat at a table beside an open fire , a large pint of beer and a small glass of whisky on the table , an alsatian stretched out asleep at his feet . |
| 17 | Second , demand overload and intractable and complicated problems came at a time of decreased government capacity , effectiveness , and authority . |
| 18 | ANGRY scenes erupted at a meeting in Darlington last night as the British National Party tried to gatecrash an environmental debate . |
| 19 | The first major accident in an American nuclear reactor occurred at a small prototype military plant in Idaho in 1961 . |
| 20 | Adam pointed to a framed cartoon , which he had given her the previous Christmas : a startled businessman gazed at a ghost ; rising from his desk drawer , it said , ‘ I am the spirit of old notes to yourself . ’ |
| 21 | The political will came at a critical time when it was very necessary to keep the food costs component of the total wage bill ( including the foreign exchange component ) as low as possible to allow rapid and profitable industrialisation . |
| 22 | The alleged incident happened at a house in Railway Street , on Saturday evening , two hours before the two were arrested . |
| 23 | Her job had been made a little easier by the price-fixing agreement reached at a recent meeting for European farm ministers . |
| 24 | Second , we examined bcl-2- transfected and untransfected parental ( pt ) and cells for their rates of oxygen consumption ( as previously described ) and found that the and /bcl-2 cells respired at a rate less than 3% of that of the pt cells . |
| 25 | As many wartime evacuees found to their alarm , rural housing remained at a lower standard than that to be found in most urban areas , with only slow progress having been made in the provision of piped water , sewerage and electricity . |
| 26 | In the 1960s a man with an American accent arrived at a coastal resort in South Wales and announced that he represented an American corporation which wished to purchase a leisure and amusement arcade in the town . |
| 27 | Lijn 's desire to merge or melt the difference between the visual and aural senses came at a time when many artists were wishing to anticipate a more holistic view of art . |
| 28 | The watching nomes gazed at a pack of sandwiches bigger than they were , and a Thermos flask that steamed when it was opened and filled the hut with the smell of soup . |
| 29 | Rhyming letters occurred at a frequency of 1 in 6 . |
| 30 | The first official and public indication that the Soviet Union was seeking large-scale Western aid came at a press conference between Gorbachev and Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti on May 22 , when Gorbachev made plain his desire to attend the July G-7 meeting . |