Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] [adv] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | UN flies bodies home THE BODIES of 23 peacekeepers shot in weekend battles with Somali gunmen were flown home to Pakistan yesterday as the UN honed plans to hit back at the killers ‘ within days ’ . |
| 2 | BODIES of 23 peacekeepers shot in weekend battles with Somali gunmen in Mogadishu were flown home to Pakistan as the UN honed plans to hit back at the killers ‘ within days . ’ |
| 3 | Garry Whannel traced four main themes in the analysis of football hooliganism in the popular press in the 1970s : fans were ‘ mindless/senseless ’ ; they were ‘ maniacs/lunatics ’ ; ‘ foul/subhuman ’ ( which led some fans to chant back at the police and the respectable public ‘ We hate humans ’ ) ; finally that they were ‘ so-called supporters ’ and in a small minority , i.e. they made up only a very small percentage of the crowd and they had little interest in the game itself . |
| 4 | It may be questioned whether this change achieves very much of a practical nature since ( a ) one still needs to look back at the common law of detinue to determine what constitutes the new form of conversion and ( b ) there still survive two torts of interference with property which have a considerable overlap with conversion , i.e . |
| 5 | It has all necessary powers to look again at the problem it has created and decide whether it is in the overall interest of the locality to have a commercial port . |
| 6 | if the war was going badly for NATO , and the USSR was already using nuclear weapons , the West would turn to the cruise missiles to strike back at the Warsaw Pact . |
| 7 | The narrowness of Foxton was at least one of the arguments to come up at the end of the century in favour of the inclined plane . |
| 8 | The methods used will depart from classic class based analyses of inequalities in health by using age and cause specific mortality rates for both sexes to look historically at the relationship between patterns of disease , standards of living , eating , drinking and smoking habits , and health service inputs . |
| 9 | ‘ I am afraid I took pains to look out at the other side so as not to see him , ’ she had said . |
| 10 | You asked if it would be possible for certain material witnesses to stay on at the Lodge for an extra night while you continue your investigations on the spot . |
| 11 | Doctors who treat food intolerance have observed the mental symptoms to clear up at the same time as the physical ones during an elimination diet , and to reappear when the patient tests particular foods . |
| 12 | Kenneth Grayston introduces an opportunity for graduates to get together at the latest in a series of University concerts . |
| 13 | This objection can easily be overcome by allowing two students to work together at the terminal — a method which appears to facilitate learning . |
| 14 | When we reached the jetty we paused for a few moments to look across at the islet . |