Example sentences of "of [noun] [vb past] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More training of young members should be provided as well as distribution of literature aimed at young people . |
| 2 | By 1736 the population of the town of Sheffield stood at 10,121 , which was about three and a half times higher than it had been a couple of generations earlier in 1672 . |
| 3 | British companies had to build their lines between revolutions and had to be prepared to accept the damage to bridges , track , and stations caused by civil war and insurgency , but the opportunities presented in the wheat-growing and stock-rearing of Argentina , the coffee , rubber , and minerals of Brazil , the gold , silver , copper , nitrates , and sheep-farming of Chile , the cattle of Uruguay , and the sugar , coffee , cocoa , tobacco , cotton , and cattle of Venezuela seemed at that time limitless . |
| 4 | In Clwyd , the terminal at Point of Ayr promised at most 132 jobs for the duration of the drilling process , she said . |
| 5 | Many simply went in and out of the factory without showing any emotion at all , relieved that weeks of uncertainty had at last come to an end . |
| 6 | To create a sense of occasion that is in keeping with the depth of emotion felt at such times is very difficult without recognized formalities and strong ritualistic content . |
| 7 | RIVAS OF BLOOD STEMMED AT LAST |
| 8 | The gentleman on the other side of Artemis laughed at that , but also into his napkin , adding ‘ bravo ’ in a low voice . |
| 9 | But when the action of splash and spray is considered , there arises the possibility of the rock bench extending above this , or , if the rocks are suitably stratified , of subsidiary benched at higher elevations . |
| 10 | The experiment , known as the Isotropic Lead Experiment , involved substituting a special isotope of lead mined at Broken Hill in New south Wales , Australia for the normal additive in all petrol sold in the area . |
| 11 | The problem is that for many centuries there were a number of variant systems in which the year of grace began at different times — 1 January , Christmas Day , the Annunciation , Easter Day , and 1 , 24 and 29 September . |
| 12 | ( h ) Octavian , later Augustus , heir to Julius Caesar , portrayed on a coin minted in 36–31 BC. ( c ) Antiochus III , King of Syria ( 223–187 BC ) , Is thought to have been the model for the portraits of Octavian made at this period . |
| 13 | Orders to the end of August stood at 1,423 : 708 in the UK , 325 in Europe and 390 elsewhere — whilst the total number of DRS6000 installations will stand at 6,000 by the end of the year , according to the company . |
| 14 | The centre of gravity had at last moved away from Berwick . |
| 15 | The abbot of Cîteaux enjoyed at first a patriarchal , supervisory role like his brother of Cluny ; but in the course of the 1120s and 1130s the machinery of the Order was perfected , and in principle every abbot of the Order went to Cîteaux every year for general chapter , and every abbot visited his abbey 's daughter houses every year . |
| 16 | Obviously the modern sophisticated reader will know that one can use the highest points in each square of a fine grid or take the heights of points picked at random to provide data . |
| 17 | Since many kinds of trilobites co-existed at any one time they were probably occupying different ecological niches , behaving in different ways , corresponding with the wide variation in shape that they show . |
| 18 | Analysing the 1966 data , at a time when the average level of unemployment stood at 2.6 per cent , he found that the rate for professional workers and those in supervisory grades was 0.6 and 1.3 per cent , respectively ( ‘ Is there a dual labour market in Great Britain ? ’ , |
| 19 | To the extent that freedom of expression figured at all , it was no more than as an implicit principle sitting silently in the gaps between the words . |
| 20 | When he sought to appeal , a preliminary objection was raised that an appeal did not lies , as the appeal was in a ‘ criminal cause or matter ’ in respect of which the Court of Appeal had at that time no jurisdiction . |
| 21 | The number of European households connected at the end of June stood at 24.4 million . |
| 22 | When Paul Devereux took over The Ley Hunter in 1976 , it was widely assumed that some form of energy existed at ancient sites , but there had been virtually no research to back these ideas up . |