Example sentences of "[vb pp] at the [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Airtours document asks why a £6.5 million contingent liability was not disclosed at the time Owners unveiled its preliminary results , and draws attention to its rival 's low distributable reserves as a possible reason . |
| 2 | This was an heirloom from the time of King Alexander 1 ‘ Philhellene ’ as he was later called ; it was a prize won at the Argive Games to Hera ( SEG xxix 652 , cp. xi 330 = xxx 52 ) . |
| 3 | His pockets bulged with the prizes he had won at the plastic ducks : a packet of fruit gums , a monkey on a stick that broke the first time he made it jump and three engagement rings with glass stones in them . |
| 4 | He was educated at the grammar schools of Lostwithiel and Plymouth , and tutored by the Revd Thomas Byrth [ q.v. ] of Diptford , before matriculating at Oxford in 1824 . |
| 5 | And just to make sure that everything was fair and above-board , the computer , like the facilities for tapping phones , would be located at the law courts , safely out of the hands of the police . |
| 6 | In January 1991 a Fourier transform infrared spectrometer ( FTIR ) was installed at the Arrival Heights laboratory to measure HNO 3 in absorption , and in particular to observe the behaviour of the nitric acid column in autumn as the Sun left the polar cap . |
| 7 | You were n't expected at the tennis courts at all , were you ? ’ |
| 8 | I flew down and looked at the computer screens to see what was written on them , and they all said in huge letters … |
| 9 | Your work so far has looked at the case studies of three kinds of activities primary , secondary , and tertiary . |
| 10 | Can you sort of have you looked at the federation videos that we 've got now . |
| 11 | We 've looked at the travel cots currently in the shops , from baby-sized cots to full-sized cots-cum-playpens , and tested them for portability , sturdiness when under attack from energetic toddler , and over all quality and value for money . |
| 12 | St Paul would have walked the streets of Exeter ; he would have come into our schools and offices and shops ; he would have visited the cinemas and sports clubs and night spots ; he would have looked at the news programmes and the daily press and would have used what he saw and heard as fuel for prayer . |
| 13 | This year 's Santhome awards were recently presented at the Santhome Arts Festival in Madras . |
| 14 | Although the rated pole winding current depends only on the acceptable temperature rise , the corresponding rated phase current also depends 01 , the inter-connection , as shown in Table 1.1 : The rated phase voltage is the voltage which must be applied at the phase terminals to circulate the rated current in the windings . |
| 15 | It may be that this goddess was worshipped at the peak sanctuaries , where it is known that pyres were lit ; the later Artemis cult also involved mountain-top bonfires . |
| 16 | Further endorsement will be sought at the Commonwealth heads of government conference in Kuala Lumpur next week , and at the General Assembly of the United Nations . |
| 17 | Even Association football has grown at the grass roots with a further 2,000 clubs affiliating to the FA in the second half of the 1970s to make up a total of almost 40,000 . |
| 18 | He recognised that there was general resentment of the oppressive conduct of the Forest officers , and made provision for regular inquiries into it , and for presentment of Forest offences to be made at the attachment courts , as a procedure preliminary to the Forest Eyre . |
| 19 | Yet another industry consortium has been born in the shape of SGML Open , which brings together electronic distribution , authoring and database software companies to educate the commercial market about the advantages of the language and provide information to help organisations to implement the standard ; and to provide a forum where vendors can resolve issues in applying the standard to real-world application by providing guidelines : the announcement of the formal founding , organisational structure and proposed programme will be made at the Seybold Seminars in Boston in April ; the backers believe that the language has the potential to do for document-based information what SQL has done for databases . |
| 20 | Yet for all her passionate dedication to public service she also knew how to enjoy herself and as an elderly lady was often seen at the gaming tables of Monte Carlo in the late 1920s , savouring to the full the social pleasures made possible by her unique commercial success . |
| 21 | With superb collections of biblical archaeology and ancient artefacts on view at the Israel Museum and the oldest biblical manuscripts on show at the Shrine of the Book , a visitor might well ask : what then is there to be seen at the Bible Lands Museum ? |
| 22 | By this method the speed discriminator settings are positioned at the crossover points of the torque/speed/switching angle characteristic ( Fig. 7.7 ) . |
| 23 | For the past week or so Dora has been getting steadily more frustrated at the way things are going between Rose and Dieter . |
| 24 | Nice clothes can also be had at the dollar stores run by the Cubans and the Bulgarians , whose recent low price sales have angered Angolan higher-ups . |
| 25 | MV Oh , pornography can already be bought at the news stands . |
| 26 | Modern commercial shipping docks downriver from the city at Portishead and Avonmouth , but much of interest remains preserved at the City Docks . |
| 27 | In 1755 Kitchin engraved the great John Mitchell [ q.v. ] map of North America , used at the peace treaties of Paris and Versailles . |
| 28 | He had smiled at the frontier guards and kept walking with his rucksack slung over one shoulder … until the hand had clamped on his collar , and the boots had pitched him into a cell . |
| 29 | This is Part 2 of a list of documents deposited at the County Records Office , Shirehall , Shrewsbury . |
| 30 | This is Part 3 of a list of documents deposited at the County Records Office , Shirehall , Shrewsbury . |