Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the rules change at this stage . |
| 2 | If an individual buys a futures contract at this price and later sells a contract at 91–23 , then he will have made a loss of 328.13 ( i.e. 21 ticks x 15.625 per tick ) . |
| 3 | It is also possible to unwind a futures contract at any time by performing a reversing trade , so futures contracts are generally extremely liquid ( at least for the near maturing contracts ) . |
| 4 | Many of the operations undertaken at this stage would be similar to those carried out at the integration stage ( 4.2 ) . |
| 5 | And I think it would be a good time now to , to point out to the to s to er to say that we 'd like to have our views heard at that time . |
| 6 | To back this up we provide subsidised nurseries and a dependent care allowance to those whose hours change at short notice . |
| 7 | ‘ I have absolutely no plans to retire at any time . ’ |
| 8 | SIGNS OF THE TIMES looks at generational conflict re furnishing and pictures of Jesus . |
| 9 | Many people are struggling to get their hunters fit at this time of the year . |
| 10 | On St Kilda solifluction and the formation of pro-talus ramparts occurred at this time ( Sutherland et al. , 1984 ) . |
| 11 | When he announced he would retire from the game at the end of Biarritz 's run in the Championship it was the signal for scores of journalists to gather at each match to report on his ‘ funeral ’ … but we kept postponing it ’ . |
| 12 | Hens pecked at unwanted rouble notes from piles of sacks dumped on the railway lines for no clear reason . |
| 13 | In the linen-panelled dining chamber , the table had been specially laid , covered by a white cloth of lawn with gold embossed candlesticks placed at either end . |
| 14 | A conference of central committee secretaries of communist and workers ' parties aligned at that time to the Soviet bloc was held in Varna , Bulgaria , on Sept. 26-28 , 1989 . |
| 15 | First , despite a brave attempt to encourage candidates to stand at last week 's annual general meeting , the council remains grossly under-represented . |
| 16 | A taxi driver told Gloucester Crown Court that he saw two drivers laughing at each other as they roared past him nose-to-tail just before the crash . |
| 17 | Cal-Volair did the work at both its shops located at Long Beach and Oxnard , California . |
| 18 | Whereas a bottom-up or data-driven system such as HWIM can hypothesize any of the 1,000 or so items in its lexicon at the beginning of the utterance , HARPY can only hypothesize those words permitted at that point by the grammar . |
| 19 | She turned away , shutting her eyes to adjust them to the darkness , and then with no further hesitation she was going down the rope hand over hand , her feet and knees checking at each knot . |
| 20 | The mouse and human sequences differed at two restriction sites corresponding to amino acids 43 ( HindIII ) and 221 ( EcoRI ) . |
| 21 | The UN closed Sarajevo airport , a vital aid lifeline for the Bosnian capital 's 380,000 population , after shells exploded at either end of the runway during fighting yesterday . |
| 22 | The branch is still reeling from the losses suffered at last year 's polls . |
| 23 | ( The SPIES die at some length , rather well . |
| 24 | There were three poor brothers living at that time who owned nothing in the world but one pear tree . |
| 25 | Boulton & Watt 's beam engines employed large cylinders operating at low steam pressures , and McNaught 's expedient consisted of the addition of a small higher-pressure cylinder acting on the other half of the beam about midway along its length , with an appropriately shorter stroke , exhausting its steam into the original low-pressure cylinder . |
| 26 | At its height , the organization claimed 90,000 national members and 250,000 additional supporters organized at local level . |
| 27 | So as the 48 assorted classic cars arrived at Scotch Corner around 3pm Steve and Graham 's Jaguar XK150 was not among them . |
| 28 | The curriculum provides many opportunities to look at current work and organisational problems . |
| 29 | There was a silence , Jack watched his brothers look at each other in alarm , and saw his mother frown slightly down the table at his father . |
| 30 | Many schools preferred at that time to have two paymasters rather than one , but in 1926 they were obliged to choose : those which thereafter received grants from the Board of Education in London , and not through the Local Education Authority , were reasonably enough known as direct-grant schools . |