Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A coherent strategy for retrospective conversion has not been attempted for the UK ( although it is known that there are stirrings of such an initiative in a European context , involving the British Library ) and lack of institutional funding for such unglamorous activities has ensured at best a piecemeal approach . |
| 2 | The majority of information on coffin types comes as a result of the recent introduction of funerary studies in archaeology and vault examinations — much from work carried out in the 1980s at such places as Christchurch , Spitalfields , at Hinton St George , Somerset , and Withyham , Sussex — where opportunities arose to study at first hand coffins dating from the sixteenth century to the present day . |
| 3 | Many relationships begin to fail at this stage , and are often allowed to do so by default because the difficulties of living through this stage of life are insufficiently understood . |
| 4 | All the animals began shouting at poor Anabelle . |
| 5 | I mean th the f the funds having dropped at all . |
| 6 | In this arrangement at least two 11–18 schools agree to combine at sixth form level , ideally with a common timetable . |
| 7 | In comparison , our ears start to hurt at 150 decibels . |
| 8 | Poland restored relations on Feb. 27 , calling the rift a mistake , apologising for an anti-Semitic purge in March 1968 and offering to restore citizenship to about 30,000 Jews forced to emigrate at that time . |
| 9 | Naturally , the manager had more details to offer : the car hired had been a red Cavalier , Registration H 106 XMT ; it had been hired at 1.45 p.m. and returned at some time after the offices had closed at 6.30 p.m. , with the keys pushed through the special letter-box , as requested . |
| 10 | IN AN entry of over 1,000 cattle at McClelland 's Mart , Ballyclare , animals continued to sell at exceptional rates although prices slightly eased on the previous week . |
| 11 | After a letter to the Home Secretary in 1934 complaining that the IFL speakers had stated at these meetings that they would clear all Jews out of the country , and if this was not possible they would starve them and murder them , Special Branch reported that a Mr Pipkin and a Mr Smith of the IFL , both about twenty-one years of age , had made reckless and rash statements at such occasions . |
| 12 | Although authors have arrived at different figures , thus reflecting the inherent difficulty and speculative nature of the task involved , they have been unanimous in one conclusion : persons are deprived of far more money by corporate crimes than they are by ordinary economic crimes , such as robbery , theft , larceny , and auto-theft . |
| 13 | Indian companies tend to allocate at most two per cent of turnover to R&D as against 15 per cent by US firms . |
| 14 | But most cancers failed to respond at all to the largest doses which were tolerated by healthy tissues . |
| 15 | Analyses tend to stop at higher education ; they note that few working-class pupils or few black people or few women go on to university or polytechnic ; they fail to look at what happens to those who do . |
| 16 | We suggest you find out where your newly-acquired friends and acquaintances tend to gather at different times of the day . |
| 17 | Mr Croydon was right , she must open her own shop , have shoes made to order at first and then perhaps import goods from the English shoemakers such as Mr Clark of Somerset . |
| 18 | In fact those two countries fail to feature at all . |
| 19 | He added that imports had to continue at competitive levels to safeguard jobs in the processing industry . |
| 20 | In this particular case , however , there was no such conformity ; the attacks seemed to occur at random intervals and in many differing situations . |
| 21 | These ‘ eclectic ’ economists prefer to look at each element of the debate and assess it as dispassionately as possible in the light |
| 22 | Health costs in the previous four years had risen at 15 per cent per annum and the President instituted a requirement for certificates of need for any hospital expenditure over $150 000 . |
| 23 | It was reported on March 13 that a Bulgarian seaman had died in hospital following an incident in which two Bulgarian patrol boats had fired at eight Turkish fishing boats , one of which had responded by ramming a Bulgarian boat . |
| 24 | It is sometimes possible to find a few rare or special examples of an artist 's work that dealers have sold at rising prices , but this is no basis for saying prices for that artist 's work in general have risen . |
| 25 | Loaded down with non-performing assets , the banks have balked at new lending , which grew by just 1.1% over the 12 months to April , its slowest ever . |
| 26 | It could limit or remove altogether certain rights presumed to exist at common law . |
| 27 | Rottweilers seem to excel at this work . |
| 28 | Again we discussed in the first chapter a little of why such questions get asked at this stage . |
| 29 | Under McLaren 's tutelage , the Pistols began playing at private parties and the occasional pub , then regularly at the 100 Club in Oxford Street , building up an excitable following and a reputation for contrived mayhem . |
| 30 | ‘ The fact that these tapes and stories keep reappearing at regular intervals suggests that someone is behind this attempt to hurt him . |