Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The old Eagle Warehouse had the appearance of a curve at the west end of Bothwell Street , though in fact it was made up of four straight sections each placed at a shallow angle . |
| 2 | A practical circus consists of a series of tasks each placed at a different position in the room . |
| 3 | Mr Horn , of Hurworth Moor , resigned from his £34,000-a-year job as education officer in charge of forward planning before he was due to appear at a disciplinary hearing at the council 's headquarters in Matlock last week . |
| 4 | The cow , worth thousands of pounds , had been champion of several shows and was due to appear at the National Dairy Event in Warwickshire next weekend . |
| 5 | Figure 2.3 looks at a similar period for Europe . |
| 6 | However , the audience this year was below its normal pitch of receptiveness and Nobby and company might have found it easier to perform at the old Glasgow Empire … ‘ . |
| 7 | Years later , long after Tam was " deed " , I did some research at the Black Watch archives in Perth and was assured that no such thing could ever have happened . |
| 8 | If there are any area display teams willing to perform at the Annual Reunion on Saturday 19th November to be held at Warwick Park School , please contact at , , |
| 9 | So what forces impeded the real wage rate from falling so as to bring into employment those willing to work at the going wage rate ? |
| 10 | This occurred at an end-of-season game where a large crowd was gathered to celebrate the team 's promotion to the second division . |
| 11 | This occurred at the main dispensing chemist in Wirral 's largest township : |
| 12 | But even though what was being contemplated was regionally restricted , it nevertheless went far beyond what these states , following the British line , had been willing to accept at the European level . |
| 13 | Television is at least one escape and just like all the other trivial pastimes , should allow the unemployed to participate at a reduced rate . |
| 14 | The dry slope was dotted with rabbits — some nibbling at the thin grass near their holes , others pushing farther down to look for dandelions or perhaps a cowslip that the rest had missed . |
| 15 | ‘ I would hope a club of the stature of Nottingham Forest might have been more willing to look at the domestic market if they wanted a young keeper . ’ |
| 16 | Where firms maximise profits in uncompetitive conditions the effect is that consumers are denied goods which they would have been willing to buy at the competitive market price . |
| 17 | Few biologists have not at one time or another marvelled at the exquisite fit that can be found between the characteristics of an organism and the characteristics of its environment . |
| 18 | This can make it easier to arrive at the correct spot by varying the radius and steepness of the turn . |
| 19 | Ahmed liked to be laughed at , but he was a peasant and Nour was , in his own estimation , a prince and I was of an English generation which would have felt free to laugh at the Grand Turk if it had been so inclined . |
| 20 | Last night 's meeting , involving banking advisers for both GM and Jaguar , was to examine whether GM was prepared to bid at the inflated share price . |
| 21 | But this struck at the very heart of what Laura was hoping to achieve and she quashed the suggestion with ferocity . |
| 22 | Some halted at the right time and others did n't , resulting in a bit of a rugger scrum . |
| 23 | The Non-Proliferation Treaty , however , was the last occasion when the British sat at the top table to discuss nuclear questions with the superpowers . |
| 24 | This hits at the established doctrine that the courts recognise no legal limits to Parliament 's legislative power . |
| 25 | That looking at a bald head , a stupid girl , and something else . |
| 26 | Ranges will be offered up to three Greens for virtually the same price as one , with each installed at the required distance . |
| 27 | Scientists working in a team , each looking at a separate facet of a problem , may well throw light on details , but they are no more likely to make fundamental discoveries than monkeys with typewriters . |
| 28 | It is easy to sneer at the credulous pilgrims . |
| 29 | But that Triple Crown and Championship of ‘ 85 came at a terrible price . |
| 30 | After observing the industrious building of castles in the air in the past few days , I thought it would be appropriate to look at an odd phenomenon that has puzzled meteorologists for the past ten years : the series of giant mushroom-shaped cloud formations round the periphery of the Siberian land-mass . |