Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [vb past] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Nicosia that morning Andreas Panayiotou had warned us about snakes , and in particular , about the squat , dirt-coloured and venomous vipers that congregated at this time of year near water where they hunted birds . |
| 2 | I raised my eyes and stared at that mad , bad face , the fleshy nose , the neatly trimmed gold beard and moustache . |
| 3 | After London , the show moved to the provinces and appeared at most of the larger towns ; the show was to catch the imagination of audiences for a full three years . |
| 4 | Kate was sitting on one of the two deep sofas that stood at right angles to the fireplace . |
| 5 | In the event , wiser counsels prevailed ; the proposals that had emerged by the summer of 1989 from the subject working parties and the National Curriculum Council were far from being the national syllabuses that had at first seemed likely . |
| 6 | The USSR 's essential military needs are met by a network of bilateral treaties entered into years before the founding of the WTO : treaties which have been supplemented by similar agreements between the individual East European countries and renewed at periodic intervals over the years . |
| 7 | He got to his feet and looked at both of them in tem . |
| 8 | Dr Robert Runcie visited the Vatican archives and looked at original documents relating to the split between the the Anglican and Roman Catholic churches in the sixteenth century . |
| 9 | Cells were harvested by incubation with 1 mM EDTA in tris buffered saline for 20 minutes and centrifuged at 1000 rpm for 10 minutes . |
| 10 | In the forests of the Mesozoic there were large numbers of trees and shrubby plants that looked at first glance like palm trees , with leafless stems crowned with bouquets of stiff , large leaves , deeply divided into long , unbranched leaflets . |
| 11 | Blook ( 5 ml ) was layered above an 8 ml bilayer of hypaque 1017 and 1119 in equal volumes and centrifuged at 700 g for 25 minutes . |
| 12 | Cut 4cm ( 1½inches ) off the ends of two of the rectangular cakes and sandwich all four cakes together with some of the buttercream , the shorter ones on top , centred widthways but aligned at one end . |
| 13 | He sat , contemplating the few lights that showed at this hour . |
| 14 | However , as the torchlight danced ahead she gradually lost the worst of the fears that had at first threatened to turn her into a quivering jelly . |
| 15 | Well one of the , you see , one of the strange things that happened at that time , traditionally engineers , and I think I said this in my previous statements to you , for example in where there was no bonus ever adhered to , er our members looked at their , the daily production er er routine , that any interference as far as time was concerned , by the management you know , would be an intrusion on their sacrificial rites , and therefore it was n't tolerated . |
| 16 | ( We do n't know of many businesses that shut at 3.30 pm . ) |
| 17 | The would-be assassins missed their prey , and Phar Lap , unperturbed by the incident , duly won the Stakes and then ran one of his most brilliant races to lift the Cup , for which he carried nine stone twelve pounds and started at 11–8 on , the shortest-priced favourite in the history of the race . |
| 18 | This confirmed an earlier decision : as a general principle , we would not try to collect only those trees that seemed at first sight to be superior . |
| 19 | The first of France 's war pilots flew in Blériots that cruised at fifty m.p.h. and took an hour and a half to climb to 6,000 feet . |
| 20 | There is a fundamental difference between the behaviour of lithosphere capped with oceanic crust ( oceanic lithosphere ) and that covered with continental crust ( continental lithosphere ) since only oceanic lithosphere can be generated at mid-oceanic ridges and subducted at oceanic trenches . |
| 21 | In contrast , macerated stillbirths were underrepresented in the stillbirths that occurred at general practitioner units while deaths due to asphyxia in labour were overrepresented . |
| 22 | One of the reasons for believing that cross-species extrapolation is possible at all is that all living animals have evolved from common ancestors that existed at some time in the distant past . |
| 23 | This has been proved in several places : in some arctic localities it is found with trilobites that lived at great depths in the muds of the Ordovician ocean , while in Canada the same species occurs mixed with the inhabitants of the shallow-water seas , where limestones were accumulating . |
| 24 | She claimed photographers who took pictures of her as she walked the streets or appeared at public events were then making a fortune by selling their shots to companies ready to churn out posters , T-shirts and magazines by the million . |
| 25 | Serum samples were stored at -80°C without preservatives and centrifuged at 105000 g for 90 minutes before use . |
| 26 | In the case of cells that absorbed at short wavelengths , we checked that the pigment was photolabile by repeating the absorbance measurements after bleaching the cell with white light for 5min . |
| 27 | We then continued our journey , pushing on until we reached the city walls and lodged at one of the fine taverns on the Southwark side of the river . |
| 28 | There was a special edge to this match because they had beaten us easily in each of our past five encounters and had at first declined a fixture this year . |
| 29 | This growing discontent has been symbolized by Koreans refusing to comply with the stipulation that all aliens resident in Japan for any length of time have to be re-registered as aliens and fingerprinted at regular intervals , and carry alien registration cards with them at all times . |
| 30 | They drank their beers and smiled at each other and in the distance they heard a street procession wending its noisy way in their direction . |