Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They began filling in forms for security passes at the little reception desk while a faded old man in a messenger 's uniform rang number after number to find out where the meeting was being held . |
| 2 | But Henry III had no intention of surrendering the Forest rights of the Crown : demands for reform made at the Councils of 1254 , 1256 and 1257 were fobbed off by royal promises which were never carried out . |
| 3 | A climber jumps in his car , burns precious fossil fuels on a stretch of tarmac that has eaten acres of countryside to arrive at an undeveloped crag . |
| 4 | I have destroyed many pages and crossed out hundreds , no thousands , of words in order to arrive at an imaginative sympathy ( though not , of course , an explicit approval ) with Miller as he walks down this long , gently curving terrace of dilapidated Edwardian houses . |
| 5 | Habituation and dishabituation , which thus fulfil the criteria for the definitions of learning given at the beginning of Chapter 6 , can be regarded as very basic and simple forms of short-term memory , adaptive mechanisms which economize on unnecessary responses and hence help to avoid fatigue . |
| 6 | The essence of the matter was stated in the first sentence of Article 613 : ‘ when an enterprise or a part of an enterprise is transferred to another owner ( sic ) as a result of a legal transaction , the latter shall succeed to the rights and obligations under the contracts of employment existing at the date of the transfer ’ ( my translation ) . |
| 7 | It would be misleading to imply that there were only three strata of funeral existing at the end of the sixteenth century — monarchial , noble and guild ; what one had depended entirely on one 's status . |
| 8 | The job of perceptual systems is to take these fluctuating patterns of activity occurring at the receptors and interpret them in terms of what is going on in the outside world . |
| 9 | The purpose of the research project is to examine the effects of profit sharing at the microeconomic level . |
| 10 | I stay in bed and pluck at the counterpane and listen to the winds of solitude roaring at the edge of infinity and the wolves of evil baying down the void , and I look into the darkness . ’ |
| 11 | The sequence of modern physiotherapy treatment normally follows a pattern : the patient has to recover his ability to balance first and foremost ; then he has to recover his ability to transfer his weight from side to side ; standing balance is the next stage , accompanied by the ability to sit down from standing up , and to stand up from sitting ; selective movements using the affected arm and leg come next ; then he learns to make steps , followed by walking ; function in the upper limb ( arm ) and controlling it in order to make selective movements against gravity happens at a late stage ; the final rehabilitation task is to regain functional , detailed movements in the affected hand and foot . |
| 12 | Matters in fact agreed at the winter meeting were kept secret and brought before the summer one " as if nothing had been previously worked out concerning them " . |
| 13 | The children in each group are shown trying to escape from their parents in order to meet at the fortress ‘ den ’ . |
| 14 | On Wednesday December 9 , Maurice Davies and Robert Willer will re-enact selected moments from Turner 's public lectures on perspective given at the Royal Academy of Arts from 1811–27 . |
| 15 | Seeing no future in hearts West then found the club switch and East took the next six club tricks , leaving only six tricks for declarer to collect at the end . |
| 16 | Explosions and convulsions of heat clawed at the energy shields — an unending succession of ravenous monsters springing into existence just outside , only to die because they could not feed yet , yet being born again instantly . |
| 17 | Medieval historians followed the scheme devised by St Augustine for dividing world history into six ages corresponding to the six days of Creation described at the beginning of Genesis . |
| 18 | One of the major achievements of the journeymen in the nineteenth century had been to succeed in having both kinds of work paid at the same rate . |
| 19 | Competitively superior varieties of RNA produced at the end of several test-tube ‘ generations ’ can be bottled and named for future use . |
| 20 | Holists therefore face the pressing task of effecting a compromise : they must somehow overcome the opposition between their own view of the individual and that held by individualists in order to arrive at a coherent theory . |
| 21 | There is an urgent need for research to clarify whether socio-economic differentials in ill-health persist at the level of Health Authorities , once the SMRs have been controlled . |
| 22 | were in effect suggesting that the inner psychological motivations for racism existed at a deeper level of social reality than the socially shared norms of tolerance . |
| 23 | With water privatization looming large , and with prosecutions against farmers for pollution continuing at an arguably pitiful level , concern naturally focusses on the future accountability of water companies to keep water courses clean . |
| 24 | Designing , implementing and understanding a brand new architecture , such as the blackboard system , is complicated enough without trying to solve the problems of speech processing at the same time . |
| 25 | Shrimp cultivation , an important source of foreign exchange , was washed away and vast quantities of fuel stored at the oil refinery in Chittagong were contaminated by sea water . |
| 26 | Condition : ‘ The types and quantities of waste accepted at the site shall not exceed the limits of its operational and storage capacity ’ . |
| 27 | The Grampian Group , in which primary facies changes are concomitant with abrupt changes of thickness , is overstepped by pelites with quartzite wedges at the base of the Appin Group . |
| 28 | Moss Bros : Card clocks up discount points at the till |
| 29 | William Jackson and John Turner had a long discussion about exporting , as they were both inexperienced in such matters , and they listed the strengths and weaknesses of Quality Kraft Carpets in order to arrive at a decision as to which would be the most appropriate overseas market to enter . |
| 30 | The customers in return sneered at the clothing offered to them , and flung it on the ground . |