Example sentences of "[vb pp] at [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not everything was in ruins : rising through the rubble were banks of communications and control consoles , housed in cabinets with flowing , plastic lines that must have been designed at least a century previously . |
| 2 | If you look back to 1974 you 'll discover that our vote lifted at precisely the moment the Tories tried the same game . |
| 3 | He must have come at least a mile across the fields and climbed over a stock-proof fence . ’ |
| 4 | But what was the bottom income line above which recipients can be presumed to have enjoyed at least the modicum of comfort above subsistence and simple " decency " ? |
| 5 | They are used because of their alleged efficiency , the two main spectral lines of sodium being emitted at nearly the peak of the colour response curve for the human eye . |
| 6 | The irony is that the skins in trying to be ‘ authentic ’ have ended up reviving an idea of working class culture which is frozen at precisely the point when a ‘ real ’ , ‘ authentic ’ working class identity was being positively eaten away from outside . |
| 7 | yeah , no , not that we come back to that in a moment or to , I 'm just trying to see where this leads us though Mr , erm as a matter of legal analysis , erm y-y-y- your complaint , one particular one we 're talking about is that erm these standard , these are standard degrees which offend the competition rules now if it , if that 's right would not the consequence by erm across the ball , you 're saying you only , you only would render them invalid in so far as they happen to do any , happened to have done any particular name of , er that , I ca n't think , it did n't seem to be in any of the erm cases we 've looked at where the competition rules were applied , but that was a necessary condition if , if , if it 's that if it 's void , if people have suffered a loss as a result of it they can recover a lost , you do n't have to show a loss do you in order to , to , to be declared void |
| 8 | A command may also be cancelled at nearly every stage : |
| 9 | Please note that all events in the Festival which are bookable in advance can be booked at either the Festival Booking Office or the Grand Opera House Booking Office . |
| 10 | To offer such intercession is considered at least a presumption and at worst occultist , using the magic of candles . |
| 11 | The monitoring will be applied at either the commencement of the case or at the point where it becomes defended , and will require notice of the defendant 's intention to defend . |
| 12 | Anywhere that was obviously occupied he drove on past , as he did with any place that was exposed or too close to the main road , but deserted-looking buildings on village outskirts and elevated rows that were set back from the road generally rated at least a circling-around and a second look . |
| 13 | A Labour Party survey found that in the year up to August 1987 the price of a school meal in primary schools had risen at twice the rate of inflation , and this had resulted in a reduction in the number of children taking school meals . |
| 14 | Bush 's sequence of 35 consecutive vetoes , all upheld in Congress , ended on Oct. 5 in relation to a bill to re-regulate the cable television industry , where charges had risen at twice the rate of inflation since deregulation in 1984 . |
| 15 | He would have been happier if the Latin American had made at least a pretence at attempting to beat him down on the charter price . |
| 16 | In the past , many of those with a responsibility for encouraging good governance have shown at least an absence of discouragement to management excesses . |
| 17 | There are essays to be done , maths questions to answer and a still life to be drawn at almost every school across the country . |
| 18 | Shildon-born Mr Jackson said : ‘ To be a good instructor you must have had at least a season 's skiing on snow and if you want to get basic qualifications you would be charged around £3,000 . ’ |
| 19 | Good-quality collars can be bought at virtually every gunshop but do ensure that a top-quality swivel is located between the collar D and the line itself . |
| 20 | Erm , I would have to say that 's going to be in the range of five hundred to six hundred , and very much depends to some extent on what happens in the winter months , and I 'm sorry to keep stressing this point , but we have n't yet got twelve months ' experience of operating this particular change , and until we 've got at least a year 's experience , and I think one would have to say , that some of the figures need to be portioned , but equally , you ca n't afford to be too cavalier in terms of your assumptions about that demand might reduce to , and I 'll touch a little later on how you control expenditure in those terms . |
| 21 | He 's a good motivator , has endeared himself to the players and if they 're on your side as a manager you 've got at least a fighting chance . |
| 22 | I imagine we 've got at least an hour before any more humans come , and it 's not a lot different to a truck . ’ |
| 23 | Moreover , the ‘ transition to democracy ’ has occurred at exactly the time when the international economic crisis was making its presence felt with greatest intensity . |
| 24 | Any baby soother should be played at least a couple of feet away from her head . |
| 25 | It was an unsystematic syncretism which was particularly successful in Italy ( Etruria and Rome ) , left its mark on Garthage , Syria and Egypt , was unsuccessful in Judaea , rather insignificant in Mesopotamla , and affected at least the iconography , if not the substance , of Indian religion through Gandhara art . |
| 26 | In the modern world , sport has become at once a symbol of supposed supremacy , a means of keeping healthy , an opiate for the hopeless and the unemployed , an excuse for jingoism , and perhaps most of all , a source of considerable income . |
| 27 | This brief survey has provided at least a taste of current applications of mathematics and computers in the service of museums and archaeology . |
| 28 | Although she was two or three inches shorter than Charlie , she must have weighed at least a stone more than he did ; a genuine heavyweight . |
| 29 | 101 ; although a contrary decision was arrived at when the member concerned , although attending the court , took no part in the deliberation : R. v. London ) ) . |
| 30 | In the face of this varied sense of internal malaise , the return of the Thatcher government , with its young-Turk generation of monetarists and entrepreneurs , marked at least a change of gear , even if the privatization of publicly-owned enterprises was a very minor feature of the Conservative manifesto in 1979 . |