Example sentences of "[vb pp] at the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reversing its gains of Thursday , the FT-SE slipped back 28.9 to 2697.5 as profit taking dominated at the end of the account . |
| 2 | Curative , hospital-based medicine dominated at the expense of prevention , health promotion and community services , and high priority was given to the treatment of short-term episodes of acute illness to the detriment of the care and rehabilitation of the chronically ill . |
| 3 | There are two chief types of tombs which date from the seventh to first century B.C. One type consists of a tumulus , or burial mound , of earth , circular in plan and surrounded at the base by a stone wall . |
| 4 | At the time of writing , it has been disclosed at the trial of the former military junta in Buenos Aires that on 5 January 1982 it ‘ set up a working group to analyse the possibility of taking the islands ’ . |
| 5 | However , for all the splendours of the Monument Valley scenery and Fonda 's tight-lipped moral integrity , there is a downside to his crusade , which is only won at the cost of the lives of two of his brothers and involves the death of Doc Holliday ( Victor Mature ) , a noble outlaw who gets washed away by bullets and consumption along with the bad elements . |
| 6 | He has won the Tories a fourth consecutive term — unprecedented , won at the height of a recession — unprecedented too , and delivered the coup de grace to socialism . |
| 7 | As Doctor Who swung into production , envious eyes in the Children 's Department studied its apparently lavish costume and set provisions , distinctly convinced that the programme was being made with an inflated budget won at the expense of cutbacks in standard children 's output . |
| 8 | Although the JSP increased its representation in the lower chamber by 53 seats and its share of the vote by more than 7 per cent , much of its success was won at the expense of the other opposition parties , all of which suffered a loss of support . |
| 9 | Following extensive refurbishment , which includes shop floor reorganisation , a new lighting system and distinctive new green shelving , St George 's Gallery Books reopened at the beginning of the summer . |
| 10 | As you will have picked up , in my opinion fundamentalism is a dangerous enemy which has to be attacked at the level of the mind and of the heart . |
| 11 | The four , of Bangladeshi origin , were returning a video to a store when they were attacked at the junction of Commercial Road and Deancross Street . |
| 12 | I had one suitcase , containing my things plus the knitted samples and garments and on several occasions this had to be unpacked at the start of the workshop and repacked at the end ! |
| 13 | Each night the Falcons depart from over 130 major market areas , jetting packages to a computerised sorting centre at Memphis , where they are sorted at the rate of 10,000 per hour . |
| 14 | Valderrama is still their main inspiration and , as they showed in the play-off against Israel , their team is well organised at the back with the ability to strike quickly on the break . |
| 15 | A quiz organised at the launch by Delta Holidays , with a prize of a trip for two adults to Euro Disney , was won by Kevin Chambers , of Birkhall Road , Thorntree , Middlesbrough . |
| 16 | At the National Library of Medicine ( NLM ) an early CAI program was designed at the beginning of the seventies in conjunction with the George Washington University Medical Centre . |
| 17 | The gear was specially designed at the request of Prince 's recording company , Paisley Park . |
| 18 | The proclamation followed approval on Oct. 20-27 by the highest state body , the unicameral National Assembly ( Orzággyülés ) , elected for a five-year term , of a new transitional constitution and electoral law which introduced a multiparty democratic system ( hitherto the sole legal party had been the Hungarian Socialist Worker 's Party , reorganised at the beginning of October as the Hungarian Socialist Party ) . |
| 19 | The Union reorganised at the request of , and for the benefit of , its employees . |
| 20 | Yet two facts must be stressed at the outset with relation to this problem in inter-war Britain . |
| 21 | The strength which seemed to be stressed at the beginning of the campaign was his niceness . |
| 22 | The first of the themes I want to mention — a resolute opposition to the psychologism of Mill and others — is stressed at the beginning of each series of lectures . |
| 23 | We have already stressed at the end of Chapter 6 how important it is to record your daily weight and also to chart it and plot it on a monthly graph . |
| 24 | With all the work at home — cleaning , washing , mending , ironing — Janice too feels stressed at the end of the day . |
| 25 | There were , I believe , five main reasons why the national daily press was stressed at the expense of radio and local newspapers . |
| 26 | If a company does wish to use ROI to evaluate managers ' short-term performance and those managers are in a position to influence significant investment decisions , then , where the manager 's short-term performance is stressed at the expense of his investment performance , there is a danger that he will restrict investment to increase his ROI . |
| 27 | In addition , the physician made a personal assessment as to whether or not the patient seemed to be psychologically stressed at the time of the visit ; the physician 's evaluation of the patient 's status was recorded as ‘ stressed ’ or ‘ unstressed ’ . |
| 28 | This is because in the first case the interest earned at the end of the first month can be reinvested in the second month ; in the second case , the whole interest does not accrue until the end of the second month and so is not available for reinvestment until then . |
| 29 | The fourth way in which the underclass is immobilized at the bottom of our society has been through the spread of means-tested assistance , which has a devastating effect on the initiative of people on low incomes . |
| 30 | St Michael 's Church — ‘ a gem of Baroque Moravian architecture ’ — was firmly shut and St Wenceslas Cathedral , founded in 1109 and rebuilt at the end of the last century on a vast neo-Gothic scale , was dark , impressive and so cold inside it made your head ache . |