Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adj] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Possibly his mother had fallen asleep at the wheel . |
| 2 | AN RAF man told a court yesterday how he had fallen asleep at the wheel of a Land-Rover before his friend died in a head-on crash with a lorry on the A1 . |
| 3 | In contract or tort , for example , the first question to be asked is whether the plaintiff has suffered some legally recognized wrong at the hands of the defendant . |
| 4 | None of the ZETA team had claimed this at the press conference or in the Nature article ; though , hedging bets , the paper also said this is ‘ not inconsistent with … a thermonuclear process ’ . |
| 5 | SCOTLAND 'S squad will be let loose at the wedding of their truculent ex-colleague Mo Johnston four days before the vital World Cup qualifier against Italy at Ibrox . |
| 6 | This was considered revolutionary at the time it was written ( 1955 ) , but case study after case study elsewhere in the country now suggest the same basic pattern of large estates . |
| 7 | Durie was occasionally caught flat-footed at the net , but Lake 's winning lobs and passing shots were few and far between . |
| 8 | The implications of these terms are considered later but the use of terminology in this study text needs to be made clear at the outset . |
| 9 | It was always part of the process whose importance was made clear at the outset . |
| 10 | This had , of course , been made clear at the Salon des Indépendants by Delaunay 's L'Equipe de Cardiff which , compared to his more abstract works , appeared simply as a highly coloured and more mouvementé Cubist painting . |
| 11 | If your product is such that it is normally only loaned out , this must be made clear at the start . |
| 12 | The relationship was made manifest at the life crisis ceremonials of partner lineages . |
| 13 | Er and it was felt appropriate at the time that that should be indicated on the T the key diagram to be to be helpful more than nothing else . |
| 14 | In May 1985 , over 2,000 workers were made redundant at the Michelin Tyre factory at Stoke-on-Trent . |
| 15 | This has enabled DCM to eradicate duplicated overheads — 38 staff were made redundant at the time , although DCM has since taken on another 15 . |
| 16 | He was made redundant at the end of last year but before going out of the door for the final time , he had been offered a job as employee communications manager with Eastern Electricity in Ipswich . |
| 17 | But the rest will be made redundant at the end of next week . |
| 18 | Up to 450 of the 500 staff will be made redundant at the laboratory in Leatherhead , Surrey , one of the country 's leading research centres on acid rain , and the remainder will be transferred . |
| 19 | He 's eighteen ; he 's turned fundamental at the moment . |
| 20 | As Gabriel trailed behind her boss 's resolute stride she ought to have felt angry at the words of abuse , but she knew that they represented Rose 's own fury and fear and she felt sympathy . |
| 21 | Shortly after the abolition of the CPRS , Professor George Jones noted : ‘ While she has been strengthening her own personal staff resources , she has weakened those at the disposal of her Cabinet colleagues for the performances of their collective deliberations by abolishing the CPRS . |
| 22 | Both documents must be given freely to parents of pupils on request and must be made available at the school for reference by parents and others . |
| 23 | The Pavlova Works will carry on for the next three months and some jobs will be made available at the group 's other centres . |
| 24 | The second point is that the separate leaflet on , say , the inter-library loan service , the catalogues , or the reserved book collection , can be made available at the point of use or point of need . |
| 25 | The lease required a proportion of one-twelfth of " waste ore " to be made available at the end of every three years and made saleable — failure to do so resulting in forfeiture of all such material . |
| 26 | In mentioning the directive er can I er pause very briefly er Mr Deputy Speaker to apologise to the house that this document was not made available at the draft stage er an unfortunate combination of human error and several failures of communications meant that the select committee was deprived of the opportunity to consider the directive at its draft stage , er I 've noticed the select committee 's report which has been put in the vote office in the usual way and acknowledge the government did not meet its scrutiny obligations with regard to this document in the normal means . |
| 27 | However , that this is not so is made apparent at the end of the judgment . |
| 28 | It led to no permanent transfers of territory , though some islands were made neutral at the end of the war , and the half-dozen years after the war ended in 1749 were one of the peaks of eighteenth-century prosperity in the sugar trades . |
| 29 | His face had grown pale at the harshness of the rebuke and he drew a long breath before replying . |
| 30 | It came from a scene set in a bar not unlike ours , and was said just after everyone in the bar had turned pale at the sight of a particular young man , a regular , entering the bar after a week 's absence ; the thing was , they were all wondering how they were going to break the news to him that there 'd been a terrible suicide , they were all wondering who was going to be the one to take this boy to one side and tell him what had happened to his friend , and why . |