Example sentences of "[det] [verb] at the [noun sg] " 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 goes at the front , right ? |
| 4 | But there was little understanding at the time of how much work was required to develop high-quality screenplays . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | It is this contract , which Mr Morton inherited when he joined Eurotunnel , that lies at the heart of present difficulties . |
| 9 | This looks at the way in which exchanges manage technology with particular reference to the Deutsche Terminborse and London 's Liffe . |
| 10 | Step one the open , this looks at the introduction and the purpose of the appointment . |
| 11 | This lies at the heart of the citizen 's charter and the Government 's programme for public services in the 1990s . |
| 12 | 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 ! |
| 13 | You both need to do this to work at the principle of conciliation . |
| 14 | Susan had no sooner sat down than there was another knocking at the door . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | This establishes at the outset for both parties the criterion for evaluation of work done . |
| 17 | This steepens at the bottom and involves some moderately difficult scrambling . |
| 18 | You want this added at the end of roman numeral four . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , some baulked at the idea of having to take on what was perceived as a statutory audit role . |
| 20 | This occurs at the melting point . |
| 21 | The maximum phase of Venus in the Ptolemaic model is when the angle SVE is a minimum , and this occurs at the position shown in Figure 4.1(a) . |
| 22 | Dickens also makes good use of symbolism and the most obvious example of this occurs at the end of the first chapter with the convict walking towards the gibbet and the beacon which are symbols of death and life . |
| 23 | This occurs at the transition between sectors , at the barriers put up by subject boundaries in secondary schools , and at the ability barriers erected by streaming and banding . |
| 24 | if this happens at the beginning of an utterance , a left-to-right strategy may consume a great amount of time examining interpretations which look good initially , but can not be completed . |
| 25 | Half the population die at the end of the third period , leaving no wealth ; the other half die at the end of the second period , leaving an ‘ unplanned ’ bequest . |
| 26 | A half glance at the congregation , then back to eyeing the piece of paper . |
| 27 | However this happened at the end of a fraught week . |
| 28 | This happened at the time when the long bow was finally succeeded by the musket and pike . |
| 29 | Well er to me it does n't quite ring true , it 's always been the boys ' ploughing match and it always will be as far as I 'm concerned but I think this happened at the time post war I ca n't say exactly which year , when the date was changed from easter time to August . |
| 30 | And what was this squatting at the side of the road ? |