Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under harder acceleration it intrudes , finishing up as a deep , rough-edged sounding beat at full throttle . |
| 2 | Potter 's bid for martyrdom came at twenty-five-foot Waimea in the winter of '86‐7 when the early rounds of the Billabong Pro were held at the Bay . |
| 3 | Our research looked at mental health services in three areas and how they were affected by the introduction of care programming . |
| 4 | Twenty years was a long time to bear dependence if your spirit craved something stronger and your intelligence rebelled at continual submission to powers who neither , Anna felt , knew or cared how she and Peter lived . |
| 5 | The Home Affairs Select Committee report , when the Committee looked at sick leave , for example , found that some progress could be made in improving on the sick absence record of police officers . |
| 6 | The motion asks the C E C to initiate a campaign aimed at changing legislation , giving workers the right to refuse to accept changes to previous agreed contracts . |
| 7 | Nonetheless , Niki soon built on an overwhelming lead in the championship , though a first crisis came at Long Beach when Audetto suggested that Clay Regazzoni ought to have his day in the sun . |
| 8 | The experiment , known as the Isotropic Lead Experiment , involved substituting a special isotope of lead mined at Broken Hill in New south Wales , Australia for the normal additive in all petrol sold in the area . |
| 9 | The grounds of the appeal were that ( 1 ) the judge had erred in law in holding that the plaintiff had at common law a cause of action in negligence against the defendants arising out of physical injury suffered by her before her birth and whilst still an embryo of about six weeks ' gestation en ventre sa mère and ( 2 ) the judge ought to have held that no cause of action was recognised at common law in favour of a living plaintiff in respect of physical injury suffered antenatally . |
| 10 | ‘ She and her husband stayed at Carinish Court . ’ |
| 11 | The minutes of the annual general meeting held at Labour Club on Monday the seventh of December nineteen ninety two . |
| 12 | For a few years the child population remained at pre-war size and existing facilities could match demand . |
| 13 | Held , dismissing the appeals , ( 1 ) that , in considering the discretion to exclude evidence on the ground of unfairness , it could not sensibly be judged by different standards depending on the source of the discretion , for the criteria of unfairness were the same whether the discretion arose at common law or under section 78 of the Act of 1984 ; and that , since the judge had considered the operation including obtaining the fingerprints as a whole , the exercise of his discretion was not only not unreasonable but was correct ( post , pp. 234H — 235A , 236A ) . |
| 14 | The heroine of the day sat at Top Table between Allan Davis and Sir Peter Saunders . |
| 15 | Penzance has fine views of St Michael 's Mount , a fairytale castle built on an island reached at high tide by boat and at low tide by a causeway , which is owned by the National Trust . |
| 16 | She pressed a button and one of the hit songs of the season emerged at full volume , the tough , shallow lyrics gloatingly declaimed by a star of the mid-sixties who had traded in her artless looks and girlish lispings for a street-wise manner and a voice laden with designer cynicism . |
| 17 | It is said that as he left , blood flowed from the nostrils of the dead king , a fact which some took as a sign since the body of a murdered man will bleed in the presence of his murderer ; but Henry 's death was the outcome of a life lived at full tilt . |
| 18 | The Attlee government baulked at local government reform by boundary revision , the Local Government Boundary Commission which it had set up , proving to be of short-lived duration . |
| 19 | The row flared at Prime Minister 's Question Time , with Mr Smith alleging that over £1.5m had been donated to the party by Nadir , whose counsel yesterday told Old Bailey judges he was ‘ most unlikely ’ to return to Britain to stand trial this September . |
| 20 | Unlike the stag , the tape-recorder did not get tired and when the tape-recorder roared at high rate , the stag roared less . |
| 21 | Mute miffed at new chart |