Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AT the age of 80 the Rev. Anthony Cunningham has jumped at the chance of a new job . |
| 2 | For four days the slimmer knows that all he or she has consumed at the end of each day is the 1,000 calories contained in the meals . |
| 3 | To the east , in Wollo , the Save the Children Fund is intensively feeding 700 out of the 3000 children it has registered at the Korem camp . |
| 4 | The £4 million scheme to build 97 one to three bedroom homes for shared ownership is the second contract Wimpey has undertaken at the site for the North British Housing Association . |
| 5 | It is imperative that you do not disturb the meat layer which has formed at the top of the soup . |
| 6 | And the tutor 's impressions of one student are unlikely to remain vivid after he/she has looked at the work of a few more students . |
| 7 | Your work so far has looked at the case studies of three kinds of activities primary , secondary , and tertiary . |
| 8 | Woodward ( 1958 ) has looked at the relationship between technology and organisational performance in the manufacturing industry |
| 9 | Nordhaus has looked at the evidence in nine countries over the period 1947–72 . |
| 10 | This chapter has looked at the importance of temporary jobs as a source of flows both from unemployment into employment and from employment into unemployment . |
| 11 | East Devon District Council has looked at the paperwork and has realized that the Community Council is going to match anything that they give , so I 've spoken to their recycling officer and he thinks that the way the budget is , we 're very likely to get one of the containers from them , which would be matched by another from the Community Council . |
| 12 | The physical and analytical chemistry department at DSM has looked at the distribution and migration of salts in limestone . |
| 13 | A large number of studies has looked at the geography of those spending patterns , and attempted to account for the spatial variation in how much is spent , where ( for example , Johnston , 1980 ; Archer , 1983 ) . |
| 14 | Even Association football has grown at the grass roots with a further 2,000 clubs affiliating to the FA in the second half of the 1970s to make up a total of almost 40,000 . |
| 15 | In Britain and America , for example , wine has grown at the expense of beer and spirits whilst in Spain and Italy , it is beer that has grown at the expense of wine and spirits . |
| 16 | In Britain and America , for example , wine has grown at the expense of beer and spirits whilst in Spain and Italy , it is beer that has grown at the expense of wine and spirits . |
| 17 | A character wearing the Talisman of Ulric automatically recovers wounds he has suffered at the start of his turn . |
| 18 | Although the USSR has hinted at the possibility of cooperation with the GCC over issues of Gulf security , its attitude to this body , especially over GCC plans for coordinated security arrangements , remained negative in the early 1980s . |
| 19 | By the way , despite what Dove is quoted as saying in the note , there is a direct quotation from his ‘ assigned ’ opera , Figaro : in No. 5 , ‘ The Countess Interrupts a Quarrel ’ , after the clarinet has hinted at the Count 's ‘ Contessa , perdono ! ’ , there is his spouse 's ‘ Più docile io sono … ‘ , the second phrase warmly harmonized à la Steve Reich — a little too sweet for my taste I 'm afraid . |
| 20 | The more the star has moved at the end of the Earth 's journey of 186 million miles , the closer it must be to the solar system . |
| 21 | The plight of the country 's refugees has tugged at the nation 's heart . |
| 22 | Wood , whose company is now owned by the Mallett group , has shown at the Shepherd Gallery housed in an entirely appropriate nineteenth-century building with period interiors on numerous occasions . |
| 23 | It has advanced at the pace of its peoples and must continue to do so . |
| 24 | Even when the miraculous promise of steadily falling costs has faltered at the point of delivery , a further cast-iron prediction has been installed , and the search for the nuclear philosophers ' stone has continued with a renewed and fiery zeal . |
| 25 | There were early setbacks — the first hostel to open in Britain , Pennant Hall , closed almost immediately because its water supply was contaminated with manure , and Derwent Hall , first of the YHA 's fine old mansions , now lies drowned at the bottom of the Ladybower Reservoir . |
| 26 | Olive Booth , lieutenant Colonel in the Salvation Army and a grand-daughter of its founder , has died at the age of 98 . |
| 27 | Alexander Camaro , the Berlin artist , has died at the age of ninety-one . |
| 28 | OLIVIER MESSIAEN has died at the age of 83 . |
| 29 | The contralto Alfreda Hodgson has died at the age of 51 . |
| 30 | The ballet dancer , Rudolf Nureyev , has died at the age of fifty-four following a long illness . |