Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] at [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The distinction between policy making and implementation seems to need to rest upon the identification of decision points at which a policy is deemed to be made and ready for implementations like a commodity that is manufactured and ready for selling . |
| 2 | ‘ Just imagine him standing by the side of you , with his hands crossed before him in a Miss Mollyish style , his intended bow half a courtsey , his fat arms and legs assisting , as in duty bound ; his side glances at you every ten seconds , while he softly , sweetly and insinuatingly informs you — that he has made the arts his peculiar study for the last eight years , and that he flatters himself , by his unremitting study he has greatly contributed to their improvement ; that he came to Ambleside for that purpose ( 't is a great big lie — he came solely to get a living for himself and family , but he is too proud to acknowledge this ) and hopes that the time has been employed with equal advantage to the arts and to himself . ’ |
| 3 | Every year after I became chairman of British Steel we set aside one board meeting at which the objectives of the organisation were raised . |
| 4 | In the case of a buy-out , disclosure should be made at the first board meeting at which the proposed buy-out is considered , and should be made to the full board and not to a committee of it . |
| 5 | precisely Mr Chairman if I could answer that the , the , the once the inspector comes back to the Fire Service and reports again and he is due back in June , we will then look at the matters he raises at that time and he will look at the progress report er what , what has happened since his last inspection and then we will have the opportunity to look at what the Inspector has , has to say after his visits , not very far away er , their Chief Officer will go on with this programme |
| 6 | This curious conclusion set at nought the work on distribution done by Brown , Humboldt , Darwin and Wallace , and by the botanists Joseph Hooker of Kew and Asa Gray of Harvard ; they had found all sorts of curious patterns , of which it seemed possible to make sense in terms of migrations , barriers and ice ages . |
| 7 | When he turned his head to look at her the flesh folded underneath the jawbone into the beginnings of a double chin . |
| 8 | That being the price fixed at which the was presented . |
| 9 | I took the trouble to look at what the hon. Gentleman said last time , when Swan 's was successful . |
| 10 | In some of the odes , this compositional method has a wayward look , perhaps leaving the modern reader with the suspicion that the poem is structurally flawed.1 It is not particularly troublesome in " Diffugere nives " ; even so , there are throughout the poem points at which a reader needs to take connections on trust , or ventures to read them into the text , because they are not foregrounded or overtly articulated . |
| 11 | I say it again and the man looks at me a bit angry like . |
| 12 | The sea cook looked at what the man had given him . |
| 13 | The old man stared at him a moment , then nodded . |
| 14 | Occasionally a thin savage streak of wiry blue hinted at what the storm could really do if it tried . |
| 15 | The ship drifted in the sea of lost souls as the occupants of that bubble of reality stared at what the warp-scope showed . |
| 16 | The young man behind the desk at the hotel looked at me a little strangely . |
| 17 | The attack in the forest was attempted murder and he now drew the same conclusion about the dagger thrown at him the previous day . |
| 18 | By making the assumption that one orientation of a link in a chain relative to its neighbour is energetically preferred over all others they show that a temperature exists at which the configurational entropy vanishes , giving a true second-order transition at this point . |