Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] at [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The structuralists looked at meaningful systems within their social context and analysed meaning as structured in a way analogous to language . |
| 2 | It is also clear that the prices of different commodities rose at varying rates and at different times . |
| 3 | The 1334 tax assessments and the 1377 poll-tax returns show which communities existed at those dates ( the latter also showing how few had disappeared between them ) , and make it clear that a high proportion of those which eventually disappeared were markedly below the average size ( 58 , pp.162–3 , 207 ) . |
| 4 | Raddled nets trailed at grey window-panes , flakes of plaster flecked the bare boards , newsprint , piss-yellow with age , scrunched at her feet . |
| 5 | The table shows the number of mornings and afternoons that winds blew at various strengths over a 14 day period . |
| 6 | Nurse-maids with their children were a common sight but as yet there were a few hotels and most visitors took ‘ rooms ’ with the local inhabitants who cooked the food which their guests bought at local shops . |
| 7 | In total no more than a few dozen local groups existed at different times in the 1840s and 1850s . |
| 8 | It would be naive to expect every fragment surveyed to fall neatly into a pattern in which terraces occurred at certain heights and were completely absent from the other heights . |
| 9 | No lights showed at any windows . |
| 10 | First , the studies looked at local councillors themselves - at their attitudes and perceptions , at their organization and relationship with their political party , and at their political activity . |
| 11 | Most military personnel were members of the CPSU or Komsomol , and military figures appeared at high levels in party organizations . |
| 12 | Tongues licked leaves into mouths where teeth grew at all angles . |
| 13 | Overall , the annual sales of the top performers grew at 4.5 times the rate of the underperformers ; their returns on those sales were 2.5 times higher . |
| 14 | The establishment of the Central American Parliament ( Parlacén ) [ see p. 38528 ] was welcomed , as was the signing at the summit of the Protocol of Reforms to the Organization of Central American States ( ODECA ) Charter and the establishment of the System for Central American Integration to ensure that decisions reached at presidential meetings were implemented . |
| 15 | The discussions got stuck on the question whether agreements reached at these meetings should remain purely informal or should be translated into Euro-directives . |
| 16 | The difficult task for the historian is to get the balance right for each General Election , and to assess the various ways in which local and national issues interacted at different times in different constituencies . |
| 17 | She was too young , too soft and new , to come to terms with these wild beings whose minds veered at crazy angles from the short , straight , smooth lines of her own experience . |
| 18 | As the family kept vigil , the children saw at close quarters the stubborn determination of their stepmother . |
| 19 | Kestrels hovered at regular intervals down our motorway route . |
| 20 | Featureless blocks as big as warehouses jutted at crazy angles from a bald hemisphere . |
| 21 | A more recent summary of profit trends arrived at similar conclusions and also showed that the decline in profitability in the UK was sharper than that in other countries , as Table 5.3 indicates . |
| 22 | Kangaroos and horses arrived at different endpoints in " animal space " , probably because of some accidental difference in their starting points . |
| 23 | Play began to get scrappy , but chances went at both ends until Cully and Martin provided the late excitement ; Wantage Town two , Bicester Town two . |
| 24 | Magmas erupted at mid-ocean ridges are derived from the upper mantle . |
| 25 | Competitors started at staggered times but with the leaders all setting off within three minutes of each other , the competition benefited from an added edge . |