Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] at [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Turkish Foreign Minister Hikmet Cetin announced at official talks later on March 4 that Turkey would extend loans and would help with Uzbekistan 's conversion from Cyrillic to Roman script , and that Uzbek banknotes would be printed in Turkey . |
| 2 | Wright looked at 255 rapes or attempted rapes investigated by the police as ‘ genuine ’ offences during 1972–1976 in six English police areas . |
| 3 | The PLO struck at Israeli soldiers and civilians alike , and by 1970 the Israelis were retaliating deep into Lebanon , usually against civilian targets and always with results quite out of proportion to the original Palestinian attack . |
| 4 | The fifteen months Eva spent at social services were all too short . |
| 5 | Late last month , Boeing hinted at deep cuts in staff because of big cutbacks by its most important customers — the big US and foreign airlines wounded by the weak global economy . |
| 6 | In a paper that was published in nineteen eighty five , Journal of Urology , Shipley looked at prognostic factors in invasive cancer . |
| 7 | A systematic search for the pair of NTPs that led to the formation of stable initiated complexes ( to be shown and discussed below ) indicated that only the simultaneous presence of GTP and UTP could give rise to stable complexes , indicating that these were the first two NTPs incorporated at both promoters . |
| 8 | In an effort to clarify the direction of the causality between education and economic development , Peaslee looked at historical trends in education for developed countries . |
| 9 | Crime Prevention Officer , PC Farleigh looked at all aspects of security : doors and window locks , provision for burglar alarms and security lights . |
| 10 | The Commons asked at various times that the perambulations should be observed , that new perambulations should be made , and that charters should be granted defining the forest limits . |
| 11 | The local interests of the duke and the Woodvilles coincided at several points , notably in Wales and East Anglia , but also ( briefly ) in Richmondshire , where the queen 's mother , the dowager duchess of Bedford , held one third of the honour until 1472 . |
| 12 | The local interests of the duke and the Woodvilles coincided at several points , notably in Wales and East Anglia , but also ( briefly ) in Richmondshire , where the queen 's mother , the dowager duchess of Bedford , held one third of the honour until 1472 . |
| 13 | Walsh sneered at such suggestions as ‘ traditional left ’ , old-hat and boring . |
| 14 | Figure 3.1 shows a time-series of actual gross domestic product in the UK measured at 1975 prices since 1960 . |
| 15 | Lindsey looked at nicotine-stained fingers and said nothing . |
| 16 | Will Fyffe , Wee Georgie Wood and Mai Bacon appeared at annual pantomimes before the Second World War and the Carl Rosa Opera and stars like Sybil Thorndike , Harry Lauder and the Pavlova Ballet played there . |
| 17 | Davout waved at some papers on his desk . |
| 18 | The IFM looked at similar systems in Germany and Czechoslovakia before making the suggestions which would also see the launch of a mjor training scheme for new anglers . |
| 19 | Britain had at all costs to avoid being engulfed in a war of succession between Muslims and Hindus , and the only way to do this was to hand over , while there was still time , not to one but to two successor states . |
| 20 | Tim looked at old pictures of the River Wye coracles to work out how to build them . |
| 21 | Sir , you have heard the virtues of various villages around York extolled at earlier hearings in this enquiry . |
| 22 | ‘ It was incredible the way Jimmy played at key points in his matches ’ , recalls Segura . |
| 23 | While Sir Henry worked at some papers , I walked to the post office . |