Example sentences of "at by [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those grades will be arrived at by a complex and outwardly objective system external to the school . |
| 2 | I was then to ask what people thought about being smiled at by a perfect stranger . |
| 3 | Then the sleeve of Dot 's coat was clawed at by a long briar . |
| 4 | Early starts and early finishes are arrived at by a forward pass through the network . |
| 5 | Early starts and early finishes are arrived at by a forward pass through the network . |
| 6 | Well camouflaged stick insects , whose concealment has for once failed to work and who are about to be snapped at by a hungry predator , will suddenly flick open their brightly coloured wings in a dramatically unexpected display that may shock the enemy into retreat . |
| 7 | If somebody who has been actually shot at by a nuclear weapon is so goddamned complacent about it all , and so pig ignorant of the implications of the happening , what hope have we got that public opinion ( the silent majority ) will be sufficiently stirred to stop our power intoxicated leaders from brandishing their nuclear swords ? |
| 8 | For the conclusion that the powers vested in directors are to be exercised exclusively by the directors is arrived at by a careful analysis of the wording of the article giving to the directors of the company general managerial powers which is found in the constitution of most companies . |
| 9 | In India , dowry deaths — the murder of a wife for a disappointing dowry — are not uncommon and almost invariably connived at by the legal system . |
| 10 | The results are fabulous , as already hinted at by the current 45 ‘ Drive That Fast ’ , a grippingly gentle , coolly frantic , scarily mellow passage that fittingly knocks 'em over at CBGB 's . |
| 11 | And they suddenly began to laugh , the joke toppling over them like a wave , until they wept tears of laughter , stared at by the loud , powdered woman , and by the waitresses newly attired . |
| 12 | They were all sniffed at by the uniformed nannies , who wheeled old-fashioned perambulators rather than the canvas collapsibles . |
| 13 | People were tiring of old-style ‘ workerist ’ ultra-left politics and standing at factory gates being laughed at by the very workers they were supposed to be leading to the new Jerusalem . |
| 14 | Haverford asked on the children 's behalf , but they had already found it , scampering away through the display of giant dolls , plastic picnic tables , local cheese and wine , and returned resentful at having been glowered at by the resident guardian because they had n't understood the purpose of her saucer of lire . |
| 15 | American ( and , to a lesser extent , British ) criticism has tended in the past to be less hierarchical than Italian and at the same time more alert to very minute differences in the type of product and the type of consumer being aimed at by the literary market . |
| 16 | So an interval of 10 years will have gone by without his situation being looked at by the local review committee or the parole board . |
| 17 | Declining mine output in Anglesey , opposition by Birmingham consumers , and an improving international copper market prevented the monopoly persisting , but Williams continued to influence the industry strongly till his death , and his activities were looked at by the select committee on the copper trade of 1799 . |
| 18 | Jabbed by elbows , trodden on , even spat at by an old man , Constance slowly pushed through the crowd , cleaved for her by her unknown protector . |