Example sentences of "[det] [verb] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | namely Thucydides ) , but voting techniques were not : there was no counting of votes at all ( something which would have taken several hours when the agenda was as crowded as that given at the beginning of Demosthenes ' fiftieth speech of 362 BC ) , and the ‘ consensus ’ was determined by a show of hands , which tellers then adjudicated , in a fashion no more precise than that of a modern shop-steward who ‘ counts ’ a sea of hands at a trade union mass meeting . |
| 2 | If you 've had office copy entries , the date from which to search is that given at the foot of each page , when the office copy entries were issued ; your search will then reveal any entries that may have been made since that date . |
| 3 | That prowls at every door and barks in every headline . |
| 4 | That goes at the front , right ? |
| 5 | But there was little understanding at the time of how much work was required to develop high-quality screenplays . |
| 6 | I remember when I say John Bellany for the first time and he said , ‘ All that matters at the end of the day is the work ’ . |
| 7 | I remember when I say John Bellany for the first time and he said , ‘ All that matters at the end of the day is the work ’ . |
| 8 | The head deals with the first , class teachers with the second , and there is little blurring at the edges . |
| 9 | It is above all the body , enveloped in sound , in dance , that stands at the cross-roads of popular music and leisure time ; here the word ‘ Love ’ that is omnipresent in the pop lexicon reads not so much as a romantic cliche but as a coded entry into the world of the private , into the world of pleasure and self-discovery . |
| 10 | The research aims to find out whether there is a specifically Scottish corporatism that can be distinguished from that found at the UK level . |
| 11 | It is this contract , which Mr Morton inherited when he joined Eurotunnel , that lies at the heart of present difficulties . |
| 12 | Actually if you 've a complete number of repeats , it does n't matter too much whether it a full repeat or a half repeat at the edges , as both can be mattress stitched to give a continuous unbroken pattern effect . |
| 13 | This looks at the way in which exchanges manage technology with particular reference to the Deutsche Terminborse and London 's Liffe . |
| 14 | Step one the open , this looks at the introduction and the purpose of the appointment . |
| 15 | This lies at the heart of the citizen 's charter and the Government 's programme for public services in the 1990s . |
| 16 | This occurred at a time when the militancy of rank-and-file officers increased . |
| 17 | This occurred at a time when the Government support in the opinion polls was at one of its lowest ebbs and seemed a desperate attempt to create an atmosphere in which opposition to the Poll Tax became synonymous with criminality . |
| 18 | This occurred at a time when the future of the Harwell Laboratory , AEA 's main research establishment , had come under review . |
| 19 | For example , this occurred at the start of the new Vineyard churches in England , but there is of course biblical precedent in the case of the tent making Paul ! |
| 20 | You both need to do this to work at the principle of conciliation . |
| 21 | Susan had no sooner sat down than there was another knocking at the door . |
| 22 | One has to ask whether different pressure groups within the Roman Church became equally hostile to Galileo , or whether , as some believed at the time , he was a victim of a Jesuit plot — of an act of revenge for insults he had meted out to prominent members of that order . |
| 23 | This establishes at the outset for both parties the criterion for evaluation of work done . |
| 24 | This steepens at the bottom and involves some moderately difficult scrambling . |
| 25 | You want this added at the end of roman numeral four . |
| 26 | It was ironic that 1989 saw the centenary celebration of the Fabian Essays of Webb , Shaw , and their comrades ; this came at a time when Britain seemed in more complete reaction against the imperatives of Fabian rationalism than at any time for a century . |
| 27 | This came at a time when all Latin American countries had adopted policies of export-orientated growth , economic liberalization , financial deregulation and the dismantling of investment restrictions and trade barriers . |
| 28 | This came at a time when several years of large oil-revenue increases had created an exceptionally propitious atmosphere for reaching some kind of understanding . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , some baulked at the idea of having to take on what was perceived as a statutory audit role . |
| 30 | This occurs at a potential of +50mV inside that part of the axon with respect to the outside . |