Example sentences of "[vb pp] at [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The drop down from Meall Corranaich and back up to Beinn Ghlas was a great deal more substantial than I would have wished at this point in the walk , keeping in mind that I was hallucinating from the effort of the chase and the subsequent lack of oxygen managing to get anywhere near my lungs via a mouth full of clenched teeth . |
| 2 | Members agreed that no smoking be permitted at future meetings of the Society . |
| 3 | Whereas a bottom-up or data-driven system such as HWIM can hypothesize any of the 1,000 or so items in its lexicon at the beginning of the utterance , HARPY can only hypothesize those words permitted at that point by the grammar . |
| 4 | But , although the business generally had to be won at lower margins in the face of stiffer competition , our performance should have been very much better , and would have been had we responded more promptly to market fluctuations . |
| 5 | But it was this battle , won at huge cost by both Tyne Tees and Yorkshire , which finally propelled the companies into each others arms . |
| 6 | The only fault which can be levelled at this production is its brevity in comparison with its cinema counterpart Shirley 's Greek idyll is compressed at break-neck speed into a second half which lasts less than 45 minutes . |
| 7 | The entire German Army attacked at first light on 28 August . |
| 8 | My first reaction to the resignations was that they were tantamount to an admission of guilt when , in fact , the Argentinians could have attacked at any time in the previous fifteen years . |
| 9 | Gambling , football pools , fun-fairs , dog tracks , amusement arcades , dance halls , popular songs , street betting and speed-tracks were all attacked at different times in the interwar years for their demoralising influence , particularly on the young . |
| 10 | planning is more difficult because it must be organised at more levels in the organisation . |
| 11 | Numbers of Hurricanes were scrambled at various times during the mid-morning . |
| 12 | Although it was stressed at this meeting by one speaker that the school should make the appraisal a valuable exercise , other teachers expressed concern over whether their reports would actually be read . |
| 13 | Deep , small holes were drilled at appropriate points in the leaf and stem decoration . |
| 14 | It will be fished with 2AAA and 1BB bulk locking shot with three No.6s grouped at half depth with a No.6 and a No.8 spread equally between the bulk and the hook . |
| 15 | Clearly , the mill was largely rebuilt at some point in the 19th century , the brick-built section tying into the much older stone range . |
| 16 | he was educated at Quaker schools in Penkelt , Cheshire ; Bootham School , York ; and Glasgow High School . |
| 17 | He was educated at private schools in London , then served his apprenticeship from 1879 to 1882 in the locomotive works in Bow . |
| 18 | He was educated at private schools in England , the Athénée Royal in Brussels , and in Paris . |
| 19 | He was educated at private schools in Kew and Maida Vale , and in 1866 entered the Royal College of Chemistry , presided over by Dr Edward Frankland . |
| 20 | Educated at Northern College in Barnsley , he has a diploma in trade union and industrial studies . |
| 21 | He was educated at secondary school in Vienna and at the University of Vienna , where he graduated in medicine in 1927 . |
| 22 | His uncle , sister , and brother can all be described as nationalists and although Ho seems to have been attracted at one point to the China of the 1911 Revolution , he chose instead to make his way to France where , having led an intellectually enriched but materially impoverished existence in Paris , he achieved some fame , or notoriety , among his fellow expatriates by attempting to present a list of Vietnamese grievances to Woodrow Wilson and the European statesmen who had gathered in 1919 at Versailles . |
| 23 | It represents Padmapani holding a blue lotus , and is located at one side of a cell entrance . |
| 24 | In general , it is probably fair to say that the Philadelphia neighbourhood studies provide a better general model for the in-depth study of communities located at various points in the class continuum . |
| 25 | In the SF field , much of the work of Brian Aldiss , with its postmodern subversion of language by fragmentation of form , would be located at this node for these reasons . |
| 26 | He always seemed to know exactly where Sergeant Charles Trumper of the Royal Fusiliers could be located at any time of the day or night . |
| 27 | Cropmarks and pottery scatters of the prehistoric and Romano-British settlements contemporary with these early land divisions have been located at several points within the later village complex at Wharram Percy : each appears to represent a farmstead site . |
| 28 | Even if introns from different species are located at identical sites within genes , there may or may not be an intronic ORF present . |
| 29 | What we see today are mere shadows of their former selves and I shall be discussing later a number of these — Hull Fair which is now purely a funfair , the revived Masham Sheep Fair , the dying horse fairs at Lee Gap and Boroughbridge , and Yarm which is still proclaimed and has its high street occupied at one end by the showmen and the other by the gipsies . |
| 30 | The Romans were certainly prime movers , but not that quick , and without introducing a pettifogging intimacy with dates , names , and trifling matters of fact , might it be mentioned that the legions were desperately occupied at that time around the Medway and not Melrose ? |