Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [adj] [noun] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The FT-SE 100 index plunged 42 points at one stage before closing at 2,281.6 , down 30.5 . |
| 2 | The play drew standing-room-only crowds at Tokyo 's Nissay Theatre for the last part of its three-week run in January . |
| 3 | On the back of Wall Street 's overnight strength , the FT-SE 100 cash index rose 33 points at the outset and , with the futures index opening at a hefty premium , looked poised to turn in a record-setting performance . |
| 4 | Both sides were now preparing for war , but Norfolk and Rent made another attempt at mediation in mid-December when they wrote to all the prelates asking them to attend an assembly in London to discuss the king 's failure to abide by his coronation oath and Magna Carta . |
| 5 | The deal made vague attempts at curbing government deficits this year and next but delayed most of the pain until 1995 . |
| 6 | EVERTON match-winner Paul Rideout singled out comeback star Ian Snodin as the man who could spark an Everton revival after the Goodison side snatched three points at Nottingham Forest for the first time in ten years . |
| 7 | The announcement of the devaluation and the attendant massive fall in the standard of living caused total panic at every level of society . |
| 8 | With the first test against the West Indies just two days away , and after the humiliation suffered last summer at the hands of the Aussies , in regaining the ashes , the Test and County Cricket Board has launched a scheme of excellence so that the country 's test prospects can be spotted that much earlier . |
| 9 | The industrial action by the University and College lecturers union NATFHE caused some disruption at a number of colleges of higher education and Liverpool 's new university , John Moores . |
| 10 | Among the calculated biomechanical wall parameters only wall tension showed significant differences at the lowest distension pressures between men and women . |
| 11 | The family was poor and the young Quelch began full-time work at the age of ten , migrating to London when he was fourteen . |
| 12 | It 's all hands on deck for the most exciting show in London as the Royal Navy introduces this year 's action packed Royal Tournament at Earl 's Court . |
| 13 | 14 August : The Royal National Institute for the Blind 's action packed fun day at Court Place Farm , Marsh Lane , Marston , Oxford . |
| 14 | This level of performance is roughly three to four times greater than early gravel packed well completions at Amberjack , ’ he said . |
| 15 | ( e ) That on 9 January 1987 the defendant repeated that threat at the night-club in conversation with Zaidie and Paulette . |
| 16 | The 6ft 2in Cambridge hit-man took one look at Old Trafford , which could n't tempt Southampton 's Shearer , and decided : ‘ This is the place for me . ’ |
| 17 | Even younger hopefuls , like Nigel Williams and Paul Bryers ( whose recent The Adultery Department took inexplicable potshots at Seventies-style communal living ) , seem to borrow their stylistic and thematic ideas from Brian Rix rather than Evelyn Waugh . |
| 18 | Making their debut as a member of the elite 40-member Senior Clubs Association , Sudbury and the Kent side won 18–16 backing at the weekend for a proposal to adjust the ratio of the sponsorship money . |
| 19 | Each year the local fete has a different theme and this photograph won second prize at the village show some weeks later . |
| 20 | The ISIS-2 study gave similar results at 35 days . |
| 21 | I do not know , but the issue arose several times at Question Time . |
| 22 | achieved on a batsman 's pitch from which no other bowler got any response at all . |
| 23 | The business world seems distinctly unalarmed at this prospect ; the stock exchange rose five points at the news . |
| 24 | It was on the issue of party organization that the national question assumed most importance at this time . |
| 25 | But he was helpless as the Australian threw seven birdies at him . |
| 26 | The portiere barked some instructions at the boy and made Sandison to understand that Aldo would see to it that the letter got posted . |
| 27 | A GUNMAN fired four shots at a policeman last night — but was grabbed before anyone was hurt . |
| 28 | Yet the very study of mythology from a scientific attitude distanced modern man at the same time as it seemed to bring him closer . |
| 29 | ‘ My boss hinted this afternoon at asking me to work on another case . ’ |
| 30 | A fortnight ago the council decided that security at Castlemeads had been improved to such a degree that the women could start parking there again . |