Example sentences of "[vb past] at [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Otherwise , who else would subject themselves to being square-bashed , shouted at by petty officers , and made to do ghastly things in force ten gales ? |
| 2 | In March 1913 , profiting from Wilson 's 1911 victory , Larking embarked on a fifteen week dispute with the City of Dublin Steamship Packet Company , bringing this to a successful conclusion and becoming in his biographer 's words , " the virtual dictator of the port of Dublin " , and the possessor of a profitable joint agreement with the shipowners arrived at on 26 May which included a no-strike clause . |
| 3 | In three cases of clear-cut discrepancy between the social class classification arrived at in this way and the wife 's previous occupation , education or general life-style , social class was upgraded or downgraded to take account of the contradiction . |
| 4 | Somebody had been reading a paper there , which apparently happened quite often , Penelope learned , and they usually finished at about this time . |
| 5 | Science was being taught in public schools and in grammar schools , and there were courses in universities , which in Britain began at about this time to catch on — this was the era when the great municipal universities started to flourish , though it was to be some time before they received government grants . |
| 6 | Chief among them , and born of the group 's increasing feeling that they stood far something , embattled against a hostile world , was their tendency not only to see merit where none existed ( in the poetry of Fox , for example ) , but actually to think that belonging to the group — which began at around this period to be known as the Inklings — was in itself a sort of merit . |
| 7 | The third member of the team is production supervisor , who previously worked at for 34 years . |
| 8 | Oh no , my father stand aboard there when we have been dredging , you know , and they come up there at speed and he stood there and he swore at at that part of if , call them all the crazy buggers my father . |
| 9 | The maid of all work also died at about this time and was not replaced . |
| 10 | Remote rural counties , such as those of mid and north Wales and Cornwall grew at below average rates over both periods until the middle 1970s , since when they have had above average growth . |
| 11 | She comments also on the ambiguous fascination these theorists exhibit with regard to their own practice : ‘ it is all a beautiful , theoretical game , that they themselves do n't perhaps really believe in , but indulge in it as one indulges in a passion , overwhelming at the time then looked at with mild amusement , a passion for beautiful systems ’ ( 614 ) . |
| 12 | However , looked at from another point of view , all externalizations of psychological conflict , be they morphologically neurotic , manic-depressive or psychotic , bring the ego into a disturbed , conflict-ridden relation to reality which renders all externalized psychopathology psychotic to that extent . |
| 13 | Or , looked at from another point of view , it was most abnormal . |
| 14 | Plowman J stated at p596 : The arrangement in my view must be looked at as a whole , and looked at in this way , I find it impossible to say that the Respondent did not provide the trustee with an income … in the sense in which the word " provided " is used in [ what is now TA 1988 , s663 ] ; that is to say , as importing an element of bounty . |
| 15 | Virtually none of the people looked at in this demonstration have gone into an informal care setting where they are relying to a large degree on informal caring . |
| 16 | So , looked at in some lights , theory becomes literature . |
| 17 | When his father died in April 1617 he was living in Braintree , Essex , probably working in the shop of John Lawrence , grocer and apothecary , and one of the leading townsmen , whose daughter Mary he married at about this time . |
| 18 | Within a generally low level , there were short-run increases in listening hours , from 7.5 per week in 1966 to 9.2 in 1972 , for instance , and the amount stayed at about that level . |
| 19 | Set in the first instance at 17.5 million b/d , the ceiling remained at about this level , subject to variations ( sometimes just for a specific quarter ) , for most of the decade . |