Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] at [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | namely Thucydides ) , but voting techniques were not : there was no counting of votes at all ( something which would have taken several hours when the agenda was as crowded as that given at the beginning of Demosthenes ' fiftieth speech of 362 BC ) , and the ‘ consensus ’ was determined by a show of hands , which tellers then adjudicated , in a fashion no more precise than that of a modern shop-steward who ‘ counts ’ a sea of hands at a trade union mass meeting . |
| 2 | If you 've had office copy entries , the date from which to search is that given at the foot of each page , when the office copy entries were issued ; your search will then reveal any entries that may have been made since that date . |
| 3 | ‘ He was due to retire at the end of the year anyway . |
| 4 | The appended list gives names of all officers and members of Council currently serving , and indicates those due to retire at the close of the AGM . |
| 5 | If I have , I can arrange the pattern so that I 've a complete repeat at the edge of the knitting . |
| 6 | But there was little understanding at the time of how much work was required to develop high-quality screenplays . |
| 7 | I remember when I say John Bellany for the first time and he said , ‘ All that matters at the end of the day is the work ’ . |
| 8 | I remember when I say John Bellany for the first time and he said , ‘ All that matters at the end of the day is the work ’ . |
| 9 | It is above all the body , enveloped in sound , in dance , that stands at the cross-roads of popular music and leisure time ; here the word ‘ Love ’ that is omnipresent in the pop lexicon reads not so much as a romantic cliche but as a coded entry into the world of the private , into the world of pleasure and self-discovery . |
| 10 | The eerie stillness of a town asleep caught at the edges of her already stretched nerves , and she shivered with apprehension as well as from the biting wind . |
| 11 | It is this contract , which Mr Morton inherited when he joined Eurotunnel , that lies at the heart of present difficulties . |
| 12 | Mm and I was just wondering if that is your girl who is due to come at a quarter past six then she erm |
| 13 | Section 47 of the Criminal Law Act 1977 , was not brought into force for another five years until 1982 , Ministers of both parties having accepted the advice of Home Office officials that the provision was too risky to implement at a time of acute overcrowding in the prisons . |
| 14 | This looks at the way in which exchanges manage technology with particular reference to the Deutsche Terminborse and London 's Liffe . |
| 15 | This lies at the heart of the citizen 's charter and the Government 's programme for public services in the 1990s . |
| 16 | Figure 8.7 looks at the way in which all religions have available within them certain fault-resistant features which is why their demise , so confidently predicted by many who see their grave faults and failures , rarely seems to happen ! |
| 17 | For example , this occurred at the start of the new Vineyard churches in England , but there is of course biblical precedent in the case of the tent making Paul ! |
| 18 | Chapter 11 considers appropriate procedures for conducting a reference and Chapter 12 looks at the means of enforcing experts ' decisions . |
| 19 | You both need to do this to work at the principle of conciliation . |
| 20 | In the Court of Appeal Lord Justice Scott said that the set-off under Rule 4.90 operated at the date of the winding-up so as to leave the net amount claimable by a company in a liquidation from the other party or provable as a debt in the liquidation . |
| 21 | This establishes at the outset for both parties the criterion for evaluation of work done . |
| 22 | You want this added at the end of roman numeral four . |
| 23 | Actually it must be quite interesting looking at the development of language as time goes on . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , some baulked at the idea of having to take on what was perceived as a statutory audit role . |
| 25 | This occurs at a potential of +50mV inside that part of the axon with respect to the outside . |
| 26 | Dickens also makes good use of symbolism and the most obvious example of this occurs at the end of the first chapter with the convict walking towards the gibbet and the beacon which are symbols of death and life . |
| 27 | This occurs at the transition between sectors , at the barriers put up by subject boundaries in secondary schools , and at the ability barriers erected by streaming and banding . |
| 28 | if this happens at the beginning of an utterance , a left-to-right strategy may consume a great amount of time examining interpretations which look good initially , but can not be completed . |
| 29 | Half the population die at the end of the third period , leaving no wealth ; the other half die at the end of the second period , leaving an ‘ unplanned ’ bequest . |
| 30 | With this explanation in mind , it is interesting to look at the accuracy of recall of clause ( 1 ) in the two conditions . |