Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb -s] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | This small-scale study aims to look at the impacts of deregulation of passenger transport in the United States and to examine the way that transport suppliers have responded to the new environment . |
| 2 | The British engineer tends to look at something and knock it down . |
| 3 | I had the opportunity to discuss the matter that the right hon. Gentleman has raised at the conference this week . |
| 4 | If the first two years of the Thatcher Government are excluded — when the Government managed to achieve a negative rate of growth — the British economy has grown at an average rate of 3 per cent . |
| 5 | The strong normative bias in the study of social policy has led at times to a greater preoccupation with criticism of policies than with attempts to discover why they take the forms they do . |
| 6 | The German government has approved at massive programme to clean up one of eastern Germany 's most polluted regions , the triangle linking Halle , Leipzig and Bitterfeld , formerly a major centre of lignite mining and chemical processing . |
| 7 | Okay on the er A one area that 's the er Bedale area , the earlier north bound lane closures have been lifted and the Leeming area the inside lane of the southbound carriageway 's closed at Holby Grange for emergency gas repair works and delays are likely as a result . |
| 8 | Whatever the British weather has thrown at them , flower growers up and down the country produce their best for the Chelsea Flower Show . |
| 9 | And if it turns out that the right mood has arrived at last , there are plenty of ideas waiting for attention . |
| 10 | If we now turn our attention to the hero-literature of ancient Greece , it is notable that just about every prominent hero does battle at one time or another , and sometimes repeatedly , with Amazon women . |
| 11 | When you have finished , add together the individual room totals to arrive at your grand total — the amount you should insure for . |
| 12 | ( c ) where a recognised body ceases to have at least one shareholder who is able to exercise voting rights in respect of at least one share . |
| 13 | The real business gets done at working lunches and small dinner parties . |
| 14 | A similar group has existed at the Met for years . |
| 15 | To maintain satisfactory progress , a part-time student has to pass at least one course each year . |
| 16 | And I think central government needs to look at the way in which inner cities are being constantly run down and erm problems highlighted and aggravated because of the circumstances . |
| 17 | ‘ A similar thing has happened at a school in Norfolk and a factory in Leeds . |
| 18 | The joint Royal College of Nursing and Nursing Standard survey has come at a time when Essex Rivers Healthcare is trying to save £2.2 million to cope with an overspend of £1.3 million last year , waiting lists are at a record high and the closure date of a Colchester hospital has been set . |
| 19 | Our company is exchanging greetings with the young soldiers when suddenly a white car refuses to stop at the next checkpoint up the street — braking only slightly and seeking to swerve past the two soldiers . |
| 20 | Revegetation is particularly limited where intensive erosion has occurred at altitudes above 2200 m above sea-level where harsh climatic factors , as well as disturbance by erosion , restrict revegetation . |
| 21 | THE world 's first museum to the humble sardine has opened at Grau-du-Roi on the coast of southern France — and is hoping to be tightly packed with thousands of visitors . |
| 22 | Though money may follow the patient , postoperative morbidity tends to stay at home . |
| 23 | While the arable area has increased at the expense of ornithologically more interesting permanent grassland , there has been a simultaneous reduction of the one-year ley , usually clover , within the arable system , combined with an increasing use of herbicides . |
| 24 | A cold fury has snatched at the little edges |
| 25 | The Bosnian government has protested at the UNHCR 's failure to reach the Muslims in the east by refusing to accept UN aid for the besieged capital , Sarajevo . |
| 26 | In the very early stages the white hole appears to expand at a rate several times the speed of light , as I explain in an article written with R. C. Kapoor in Astrophysics and Space Sciences ( vol 53 , p 155 ) . |
| 27 | As growing organisms incorporate radio-carbon and after death of the organism the trapped radio-carbon begins to decay at a known rate with half lost after 5730 years , it is possible to indicate when death occurred . |
| 28 | The extra-oral treatment requires processing at temperatures closer to the glass transition temperature where segmental mobility allows additional polymerisation . |
| 29 | This brief survey has provided at least a taste of current applications of mathematics and computers in the service of museums and archaeology . |
| 30 | Britain 's reported current-account deficit has run at an annual rate of £20 billion ( $34 billion ) in the first two months of this year , equivalent to 4% of GDP — even bigger than America 's . |