Example sentences of "[vb pp] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The disturbance of setts will only be permitted at certain locations and for specific reasons . |
| 2 | Members agreed that no smoking be permitted at future meetings of the Society . |
| 3 | The women 's champion , Paula Newby-Fraser , from Zimbabwe , who set a course record of 9hr 1min 1sec last year , is in good shape , having won at Nice in May . |
| 4 | They 're the only sweetpea growers in the country asked to show at Chelsea ; the high standard of their flowers reflected in the 3 gold medals they 've won at past shows . |
| 5 | Do n't forget I 've won at Old Trafford before and at Anfield three times . |
| 6 | But it was this battle , won at huge cost by both Tyne Tees and Yorkshire , which finally propelled the companies into each others arms . |
| 7 | The only fault which can be levelled at this production is its brevity in comparison with its cinema counterpart Shirley 's Greek idyll is compressed at break-neck speed into a second half which lasts less than 45 minutes . |
| 8 | They were attacked at random by hundreds of armed men . |
| 9 | Gambling , football pools , fun-fairs , dog tracks , amusement arcades , dance halls , popular songs , street betting and speed-tracks were all attacked at different times in the interwar years for their demoralising influence , particularly on the young . |
| 10 | The principle of Speedlink is that train sections are exchanged at specified groups of sidings on the network , rather than individual wagons sorted at full-scale marshalling yards . |
| 11 | Every quarterly club meeting turns into a very pleasant ‘ social event ’ with wine and nibbles and subsidised trips are organised at frequent intervals ( but not always to do with knitting ) for added interest . |
| 12 | When a march is organised at short notice , as much notice as practicable must be given . |
| 13 | Health care professionals have a vital role to play in accident prevention , though the problem needs to be tackled by multidisciplinary effort , organised at national and international levels . |
| 14 | Events are organised at national , regional and local level and cater for people at all levels of ability . |
| 15 | These could test and modify units designed at international workshops ( or by other centres ) or initiate work of their own and present it for international criticism , modification and subsequent diffusion to other countries . |
| 16 | Numbers of Hurricanes were scrambled at various times during the mid-morning . |
| 17 | Deep , small holes were drilled at appropriate points in the leaf and stem decoration . |
| 18 | VHS hi-fi stereo sound , unlike VHS mono , is encoded at high speed along with the picture signals in the same way as Video 8 hi-fi , and hence has the same high standard of audio quality . |
| 19 | Only when they have been roasted at high temperature do the beans turn from green to brown . |
| 20 | he was educated at Quaker schools in Penkelt , Cheshire ; Bootham School , York ; and Glasgow High School . |
| 21 | He was educated at Quaker institutions : Sidcot School and Woodbrooke College , Birmingham , where he took the social studies course . |
| 22 | They behaved towards each other like boys who had been educated at rival private schools . |
| 23 | When the relevant Finance Act was being discussed in 1976 , the then Financial Secretary to the Treasury , Robert Sheldon , referred to teachers ' children educated at fee-paying schools and said that the benefit would be ‘ assessed on the cost to the employer , which would be very small indeed ’ . |
| 24 | He was educated at private schools in London , then served his apprenticeship from 1879 to 1882 in the locomotive works in Bow . |
| 25 | He was educated at private schools in England , the Athénée Royal in Brussels , and in Paris . |
| 26 | He was educated at private schools in Kew and Maida Vale , and in 1866 entered the Royal College of Chemistry , presided over by Dr Edward Frankland . |
| 27 | For children receiving education at private schools , the structure is less pyramidal : A greater proportion of those educated at private schools proceed to university than those attending state schools . |
| 28 | Just 15 of the new faces attended Oxbridge , half ( 57 ) were educated at other universities and a mere seven at those traditional breeding grounds , the polytechnics . |
| 29 | He was educated at New College , Oxford , as one of a small band of mature students sponsored in 1937 by the Oxford Delegacy for Extra-mural Studies , got a soccer Blue , and became a lifelong worker for the WEA . |
| 30 | He was educated at New College , Oxford , and proceeded to the degree of BCL in 1599 , having become MA and studied civil law for three years . |