Example sentences of "at [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Dec. 27 government spokesperson Yuan Mu was hissed at during a packed meeting with Beijing University students on current events when he said that China would not deviate from the socialist road , despite current events in Romania [ see pp. 37104-05 ] . |
| 2 | SHOT AT during an armed hold-up , THREATENED by a violent drug gang and BEATEN UP at a party in posh Beverly Hills . |
| 3 | An abacus uses human gall-stones on taut human sinew , the rocking horse has a semi-skeletal head , a set of wooden toy soldiers all have subtle mutations when looked at for a second time , and so on . |
| 4 | Cleveland Outlook social activities group meet at for an eight mile circular walk , lunch at Abbey Inn , Byland Abbey , 10.20am . |
| 5 | Among the men already entered are The women 's event will see such names at For an official entry form contact |
| 6 | The new variable values become for forward x i j , for reverse x i j and remain at for the remaining variables . |
| 7 | part of the area that we would be looking at for the new settlement . |
| 8 | It 's what we 've been working at for the last three years . |
| 9 | As I understand the Leeds position , they want what they call a lev a level playing field , or to be aiming at the same goalposts that they 've been aiming at for the last number of years . |
| 10 | ‘ I ca n't abide things you have to peer at through a magnifying glass before you can see them , ’ he said , and pulled open the bottom drawer . |
| 11 | That is in itself a problem , for nothing in the arguments to explain the decline suggests why the fall in fertility should stop at about a two-child family , rather than ‘ overshoot ’ and decline still further ( Chapter 4 ) . |
| 12 | ‘ Most wells in the Gulf produce at about a 35 percent completion efficiency , ’ says Ed Park , senior completions engineer . |
| 13 | The whole playground was surrounded by a four foot high brick wall with buttresses at about every ten feet . |
| 14 | But Preston found he was scanning the crowd at about the right height for an eight-year-old child , and it was only after a while that he realised he was looking for Uncle Titch . |
| 15 | there was general consensus among Scottish drivers that current speed limits are set at about the right level . |
| 16 | Although numbers in our main sample were hardly sufficient to show differences between people of different ethnic groups , West Indians and Asians both seemed to use credit at about the average level . |
| 17 | At about the second hour of day I was told that Kenamun would be leading the investigation . |
| 18 | Next it cut the steep mountainside between Great and Little How Crags , where , at about the 2,100 ft. contour , the 17th Century miners had — by means of open-cut and tunnel — opened their Black Scar Workings . |
| 19 | At about the halfway point the Luggage leapt from its bed of splinters , gaped briefly in mid-air , and snapped shut . |
| 20 | There would , therefore be this degree of uncertainty At about the actual time at which the radiation was released . |
| 21 | When the temperature peak was at about the normal time , the patient showed a temporary remission of symptoms ; when the temperature was timed too early she tended to feel depressed ; and when it was timed too late she tended to experience mania . |
| 22 | The small study of children developing reading reported by Kyle ( 1981b ) confirms the general view , but shows up the gap between vocabulary development , where progress is made throughout schooling , and sentence comprehension , where deaf children frequently reach a plateau at about the 8-year-old level . |
| 23 | The middle sister discovered the body when she came home at about the sixth hour of night . ’ |
| 24 | There were plenty of pumpkins at about the British record weight of 444lbs , or about a third the weight of a hatchback car , into which not one of them could have fitted . |
| 25 | But I think , looking back in history , there has always been a erm strong erm religious motivation behind many of the past great scientists , like Newton , erm Boyle , Maxwell , Calvin — these are all people who had a very strong religious motivation erm behind their investigations , and if you look back in history still further , there is a strong case to be made that the reason why science was so dramatically successful in the west was because there was a strong belief in monotheistic religion , that people believe that the world had been created in an ordered way by a deity and so there really were laws of nature to be discovered , whereas if you study what happened in the Far East , for example , in China , the Chinese , you remember , were well ahead of the west in science at about the tenth century . |
| 26 | At about the same time , 1926 to be exact , Walter Cocking produced what became known as Everyman Four receiver , originally called Everyman 's Four-valve , one of which is now in the Science Museum . |
| 27 | I first saw him in a supporting role at the Croydon Rep in 1936 , where another young actor , seven years his junior , by the name of William Devlin , who dared to tackle King Lear at about the same time . |
| 28 | At about the same time , British Telecom are also hoping to introduce a formal code of practice . |
| 29 | patients recover from their depression at about the same time that their body clock , as measured by the melatonin rhythm , adjusts its phase to match the sleep/wake rhythm . |
| 30 | At about the same time an advance party from the RMP detachment of ten volunteer ‘ redcaps ’ leave for a short journey to Thorey Island , where their company has planned a military skills training weekend . |