Example sentences of "[vb pp] at the [noun] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besides building an 18-hole golf course , and charging trainers to exercise their horses on the track , he is instigating another new concept in this country by constructing American-style barns so that training can be done at the track as it is in the United States . |
| 2 | Future versions of the Alpha will be made at the plant as well as at the one in South Queensferry , Scotland . |
| 3 | It has , of course , been a continuous feature of Britain 's involvement in Europe that each new step , seen at the time as ‘ technical ’ , ‘ consequential ’ , ‘ of no real account ’ , is later declared to be the point at which the pass was sold . |
| 4 | Displays of Horse Drawn Drays and Harness can be seen at the stables as well as daily demonstrations of grooming , driving harnessing . |
| 5 | The local trading standards officer says Mrs Rees could be prosecuted if her mouse novelties or toys are sold at the fete as usual . |
| 6 | We 're , working on an hotel project I think and we 're up to week thirteen on the programme and I think you might be able to see on week thirteen and given the information we 've got at the moment as well , it means we 're gon na be working on three floors at once so it was the first thing to identify . |
| 7 | ( Mitterrand was widely interpreted at the conference as having warned that francophone African states which did not adopt multiparty democracy would be less favourably considered in France 's future allocation of aid . ) |
| 8 | Berowne could n't both have held the razor in his right hand and clutched at the blanket as he fell . |
| 9 | Unaware of her scrutiny , Penry lay full length , guernsey and shoes discarded , his long , bare feet crossed at the ankles as they hung over the arm of the sofa . |
| 10 | It might well be that some of them had work as servants , or in agriculture — but there would be strong competition for the latter , for quite apart from the regular farm labourers there were a considerable number of workmen not as fully employed at the mine as perhaps they would have wished . |
| 11 | SBC Securities Ltd , known at the time as SBCI Savory Milln Ltd agreed to underwrite the cash alternative and rights issue , a potential liability of £56m . |
| 12 | He had been employed in the 1960s by the firm , which was known at the time as Maranite Ltd , when asbestos fibre was used to make boards for doors for the shipbuilding industry . |
| 13 | David Linighan , known at the club as Linny and in the town simply as Skipper , talks above the commotion as amiable as he is unaffected . |
| 14 | A great tradition of the Tour is the family picnic , eaten at the roadside as the riders go by . |
| 15 | The vessel was probably made in the East Celtic area during the second or first century B.C. The representations give some insight into the deities imagined at the time as well as into some of the rituals involved in their worship . |
| 16 | This decision was criticised at the time as unnecessarily ambitious , both by visiting American engineers ( who were unused to Britain 's highly integrated planning approach ) and by the press , but the BEA 's experience was to prove the critics wrong . |
| 17 | That and the rain , which stained the concrete a dirty brown , gave the place a deserted look even during term-time , but the fact that it was so close to London meant that it really was deserted at the weekends as students and staff headed for the bright lights . |
| 18 | Er do n't forget the Crawley strikers , the bucket collection will be taken at the door as you go out every pound is worth two as the General Secretary has generously said . |
| 19 | And the 25-year-old Hampshire player folded at the death as Castle , serving for the match , delivered a love game to book a semi-final date with Chris Bailey or Nick Adams . |
| 20 | Greece was criticized at the conference as having the worst record among participating countries . |
| 21 | He wound his way through us as we sat fascinated at the sight as Geordie tiptoed down the beach towards the sea , his top part a deep tan , from the waist down a dirty white colour . |
| 22 | The nine thirty six London Kings Cross service that one is delayed at the moment as is the nine forty two Bournemouth service out of platform five . |
| 23 | The libretto was regarded at the radio as something of a masterpiece of translation and from time to time suitable composers had been sought . |
| 24 | A curtain of dripping water spat at the bonnet as the darkness of the tunnel engulfed us , the sound of the engine louder now and a sense of finality as the rock walls closed about us . |
| 25 | This type of butterfly eye-spot should not be confused with the much larger eyes that occur on some species — eye-spots that are suddenly flashed at the enemy as it draws close . |
| 26 | It was a series which left viewers as baffled at the end as they were at the beginning . |
| 27 | With repeated practice the interference between heard and spoken messages becomes much less and the information channelled through the response buffer should be lost at the filter as it re-enters the system . |
| 28 | Pattenden is an especially fine example of this Kentish style because its upper floors are jettied at the back as well , a rare refinement . |
| 29 | The Commander-in-Chief in Scotland was Lieutenant-General Sir John Cope , later the subject of a derisory song ‘ Hey , Johnny Cope ’ , and unkindly described at the time as ‘ a little , dressy , finical [ i.e. fussy ] man ’ . |
| 30 | Although hailed at the time as ‘ the most important discovery in England [ and perhaps ] … of greater importance than any other yet made at home or abroad ’ , during the next forty years it became increasingly difficult to reconcile this hominid with the burgeoning human fossil record from Asia and Africa . |