Example sentences of "[vb past] at [art] [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She peered at the smaller typewriter 's message : |
| 2 | ‘ Pardon ? ’ as he peered at the smaller hump . |
| 3 | This enabled them once again to draw up a profile of those high-risk subjects who developed schizophrenia , which turned out to be similar to that reported at an earlier stage of the research . |
| 4 | Subjective awareness ( a positive answer to the question ‘ Do you feel low ? ’ ) occurred at a lower blood glucose concentration than the initial adrenaline response but the threshold was identical for the two insulins ( 2.5 ( 0.1 ) mmol/l ) . |
| 5 | The most serious of the disorders occurred at the Broadwater Farm Estate , in Tottenham , London . |
| 6 | In the United States government support for organised labour came at a later date than in Europe ( only in the mid-1930s ) , and even then it still remained open to employers to try to persuade their own workers ( short of using overt coercion ) not to vote for union bargaining rights ( i.e. they still maintained ‘ an ethical mandate to continue with their belligerent behaviour towards unions ’ ( Adams , 1981 , p. 287 ) ) . |
| 7 | Er he , the family , must have came at a later date into Galashiels . |
| 8 | " … over backwards to accommodate you , but it really does look , I 'm afraid , as though this incident with the canal and the cat has to be just about the last straw , ah Steve , I understand from Mr Ashton here — " Smith nodded at the older man , who pursed his lips and nodded back , " — that Mr ah … |
| 9 | Lord Edmund-Davies similarly arrived at a narrower conclusion than Lord Diplock . |
| 10 | While the country 's heritage vanished at an ever-faster rate , our town centres would sprout cosmeticized precincts and flower boxes and hold congratulatory receptions . |
| 11 | were in effect suggesting that the inner psychological motivations for racism existed at a deeper level of social reality than the socially shared norms of tolerance . |
| 12 | Marler followed at a slower pace . |
| 13 | He glanced at the older man striding so purposefully beside him . |
| 14 | Similarly , 4414 West Ham residents worked at Tate & Lyle 's sugar refineries , 4171 ( 94.5 per cent ) of whom lived in Canning Town or Plaistow , while of the 3880 employed at the LNER locomotive works , 3444 ( 88.8 per cent ) lived in Stratford or Forest Gate . |
| 15 | It is probably significant that manufacturing employment fell at a slower rate in the North than in the South from 1984 to 1987 , and was estimated to have increased from 1987 to 1989 . |
| 16 | The hammer fell at the lower estimate of DM250,000 ( £625,000 ; $1 million ) for El Lissitzky 's mixed media work from the ‘ Proun ’ series ; it fell at DM110,000 ( £44,000 ; $70,400 ) , exceeding the reserve , for Sandor Bortnyik 's Cubist watercolour of a newspaper reader . |
| 17 | This Air-Cooled door is ‘ air-washed , ’ which means that it si kept at a lower temperature than many other cookers . |
| 18 | She said : " I felt at an earlier stage there were enough moderate Africans who could have taken their place alongside whites in government and there would have been much more evolution towards African leadership than the revolution that came about in the end . |
| 19 | Breathing heavily Emilia stared at the younger woman as though bereft of all hope that she might be understood . |
| 20 | Foreign investors looked at the higher yield of gilts over German government bonds without worrying about exchange risk . |
| 21 | Dorian looked at the older man , and wondered about him . |
| 22 | Jessamy allowed her voice to become deliberately sympathetic as she looked at the older woman . |
| 23 | Their movements were deliberate and careful and Wycliffe had the impression of figures in slow motion , indeed of a whole existence that proceeded at a slower pace , muted , subdued , and infinitely depressing . |
| 24 | This proceeded at a faster pace in services than in industry . |
| 25 | George smiled at the younger man . |
| 26 | Water can applied at a lower application rate in a much faster time or heavier rate if required simply by adjusting the travel speed . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Ageing machinery that opens or teases wool , a ‘ fearnought ’ , has also been moved away from the blend bins and a new one inserted at an earlier stage of production . |
| 29 | Luckily I lived at the higher end of the village so my house was not affected . |
| 30 | You said at an earlier stage in this conversation erm that it 's always the defeated parties who are blamed for starting wars . |