Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] at a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The court heard one of the burglaries occurred at an old people 's home . |
| 2 | IF there was one occasion that summed up sporting attitudes in l992 , it was Carl Lewis 's bizarre attempt to set an Olympic record for the greatest number of journalists asphyxiated at a single press conference . |
| 3 | He was also a reformer and builder ; his reforms were far-reaching in administration and law while the arts flourished at a high level . |
| 4 | His shoulders sloped at an alarming angle so that he looked like a pyramid wearing a hat . |
| 5 | Both meetings came at an important time in Russia 's relationship with the rest of the world and at a critical time for world peace and stability . |
| 6 | Each of the poems looked at a different sort of love : that of parents and children , of friends , of lovers , of God … . |
| 7 | This would make it easy to disconnect them in case there was a need to make changes , or if problems arose at a later date . |
| 8 | The first machines looked at a few dozen positions a second ; the more recent , 1200–1500 a second . |
| 9 | Subsequently , an apparently very different kind of proarrhythmic response occurred : patients died at a constant rate during the 10-month treatment period with flecainide and encainide , and the mortality paralleled the number of observed ischaemic episodes . |
| 10 | Of the remaining 12 patients one died of acute renal failure during the initial investigation and treatment and the remaining 11 patients died at a median period of four months ( range one to 18 months ) because of progressive cahexia . |
| 11 | Prices rose at an annual rate of 4% last month , up from 3.8% in April and their quickest pace of increase since March last year . |
| 12 | Deviations from ancient routes appeared at an early date . |
| 13 | Similarly , the clock on the front of the American Bulletin of Atomic Scientists stood at a few minutes to midnight , but the American government did not heed it . |
| 14 | They had hardly digested the import of what they had seen when still more flames appeared at a third window . |
| 15 | Our afternoon lessons began at a quarter-to-two , and if the express did not run on time , I ran the risk of being late for roll call . |
| 16 | The bank 's deposits grew at an explosive rate from £8m in 1891 to £67m by 1908 . |
| 17 | Meanwhile , for Stan the basic business of discovering fossils proceeded at a dazzling pace . |
| 18 | Ecstasy , Cannabis , and LSD : The drugs siezed at a LEGAL rave . |
| 19 | One of the boatmen grinned at a green-faced Maltote . |
| 20 | Their gig attendances grew at an alarming rate and occasional support spots to The Fall were no longer a viable notion . |