Example sentences of "[vb pp] at [noun sg] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In late 1990 a paperback appeared but priced at double the cost in the pre-publication announcement , placing the volume outside the price range for a course text . |
| 2 | Indeed , the visitor could be forgiven for being a little disappointed , although when it is floodlit at night the theatre very much comes to life . |
| 3 | Obviously where frequent attempts are made at reconciliation the cost accounts may be reasonably accurate . |
| 4 | Anyone who has seen the martins and swallows in September , assembling on the telephone wires , twittering , making short flights singly and in groups over the open , stubbly fields , returning to form longer and even longer lines above the yellowing verges of the lanes — the hundreds of individual birds merging and blending , in a mounting excitement , into swarms , and these swarms coming loosely and untidily together to create a great , unorganized flock , thick at the centre and ragged at the edges , which breaks and re-forms continually like clouds or waves — until that moment when the greater part ( but not all ) of them know that the time has come : they are off and have begun once more that great southward flight which many will not survive ; anyone seeing this has seen at work the current that flows ( among creatures who think of themselves primarily as part of a group and only secondarily , if at all , as individuals ) to fuse them together and impel them into action without conscious thought or will : has seen at work the angel which drove the First Crusade into Antioch and drives the lemmings into the sea . |
| 5 | I think I 'm not promised at present the lorry ban as it is resulting parking on |
| 6 | Whilst it would have been sensible for the remit to have been reviewed at time the organisation was created , we acknowledge the political realities that existed . |
| 7 | The site has been shown to have regularly put at risk the health , and often the lives , of those who work or live in its shadow . |