Example sentences of "['s] [noun] [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AFHQ 's response came at 1857 hrs that afternoon [ KP 228 ] : " Agree all Yugoslav nationals in Eighth Army Area to be returned unless involves use of force , otherwise evacuation to Distone ( Italy ) in accordance with FX 77268 of 17 May . " |
| 2 | A recent ad for follow-on milk , quoting from an article in the British Medical Journal , stated that cow 's milk given at six months caused ‘ subclinical but appreciable gastro-intestinal bleeding in about a third of children . ’ |
| 3 | Recent opinion polls show Mr Mulroney 's support hovering at 17 per cent , while the opposition Liberals have a comfortable lead with the backing of about 46 per cent of Canadians . |
| 4 | Locke 's contemporaries marvelled at this human creation just as they marvelled at nature as seen through the microscope . |
| 5 | Reminder , the coming season 's meetings start at 7.30 sharp . |
| 6 | Albert Piggott 's cottage stood at seven o'clock . |
| 7 | Are we to jump to the unlikely conclusion that John 's heart has at last been melted by the love of a good woman ? |
| 8 | ’ Despite her anxiety , Melissa 's lips twitched at this description of Rodney Shergold , ‘ and one she called ‘ Eddie ’ . |
| 9 | Scholastic children 's books shine at first half of year |
| 10 | Fernando 's eyes narrowed at that and his finely defined lips thinned . |
| 11 | Pensioner 's car hit at eighty miles an hour . |
| 12 | Swiss researchers , who lost access to millions of dollars from the European Communities ( EC ) when voters decided in December to delay the process of joining the EC , are waiting for the reaction to their government 's attempt to participate at some level in the EC 's fourth Framework Programme , which begins next year . |
| 13 | The ferry 's flag flew at half mast as the probe went on at Cork 's Ringaskiddy port . |
| 14 | The Marquis has been in tip top form again this week with Tuesday 's selection Lyphard 's Delta winning at 4/6 and Ajdayt following up yesterday at 5/4 . |
| 15 | With turnover down 27 p.c. to £27.1m , reflecting both the tough trading climate and the group 's reluctance to compete at uneconomic margins in the construction market , profits slumped from £1.83m to £410,000 before providing £775,000 ( £1.2m ) for the fall in land values and reorgnisation costs of £325,000 . |
| 16 | These diverging tendencies in Nizan 's life-style , on the one hand a genuine aspiration towards a communist future , on the other hand a residual implication in a bourgeois past , were symptomatic of a " tension " in Nizan 's life and work at this time , a " tension " that was resolved only in late 1932 and early 1933 , when he became a permanent official entrusted with the task of compiling the weekly " notes de lecture " in L'Humanite and of supervising the party newspaper 's bookshop located at 120 rue Lafayette . |
| 17 | For only THREE members of England 's team beaten at Old Trafford by Australia are sure-fire certainties to play at Lord 's when the Ashes battle resumes next week . |
| 18 | In this sense , all the themes discussed so far contain ‘ women 's issues ’ and have to be treated from women 's perspectives to arrive at true and complete reality . |
| 19 | Irwin , of course , refused , and Gandhi , whose reaction to Irwin 's initiative had at first been positive , announced that a campaign of civil disobedience would begin . |
| 20 | It is 0300 hours in Munster , and the Workshop Duty Officer 's phone rings at 6 Armoured Workshop Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers ' base in West Germany . |
| 21 | The red-brown tentacles of London 's suburbs had at last been shaken off , and the chequered autumn landscape , multi-textured as a cloth collage , unrolled before them in a changing pattern of brown , green and gold , leading them on to Cambridge . |
| 22 | Bus designer 's wife dies at 88 |
| 23 | Thus it was with a certain amount of relief that I acceded to our editor 's request to look at FloorPlan Plus , ( FP from hereon ) which promises to make this kind of thing much easier to sort out . |
| 24 | Young bowler 's head slumps at last . |
| 25 | Clarke 's strategy set at secret talks |
| 26 | As soon as these arrangements had been made , manufacture of engines began , the first one being a pumping engine for Bloomfield Colliery in Staffordshire followed by a blowing engine for blast furnaces at John Wilkinson 's iron works at New Willey Staffs . |
| 27 | L2 held the reversion at the time of the breach and therefore was liable , under section 142 , for any breach of the landlord 's covenant occurring at that time . |
| 28 | The interruption is so violent that we are led to infer other reasons for such a display besides his annoyance with McKendrick himself and , significantly , Stoppard 's comments hint at this in the words " uncharacteristic " and surprising " . |
| 29 | After a slow initial response in the Paisley area , yesterday 's total stood at 146 knives . |
| 30 | Crews from all over the world were competing at Henley this weekend … for women rowers this is the big event of the year … but times are a changing … there 'll be a women 's single sculls at this years main Henley Regatta … they 've been there before in invitation races or coxing in men 's crews but competing in international competition is quite a breakthrough |