Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the rules change at this stage . |
| 2 | The syllables heard at the two ears differed only in the initial consonant or only in the middle vowel . |
| 3 | Send your legal questions to Roger Peters at Hospitality , . |
| 4 | ‘ Idiot ! ’ she laughed , her heart thudding at his compliments . |
| 5 | ‘ She 's had a blood leakage into the vitreous humour , ’ Belinda explained unnecessarily , her heart thudding at the sight of him . |
| 6 | The British authorities argued at the time that the way to tackle this problem of falling competitiveness , far from being to allow the pound to devalue , was to maintain a rigid exchange rate for sterling and so through the resulting high interest rates and tight money ‘ to squeeze inflation out of the system ’ . |
| 7 | Reader 's interest coincide generally with the news values listed at the start of the chapter . |
| 8 | Spontaneity was given organised form on 11 October when antislavery delegates from Bath , Bristol , Exeter , Gloucester , Taunton , Devizes and Westbury met at Bath and resolved to work for the end of apprenticeship by August 1838 . |
| 9 | South Uist in sunshine in March is not common but the visual beauty is hard to beat and Lochboisdale Branch situated at the waters edge looked in as good fettle as I have ever seen it . |
| 10 | And indeed the little creature merely sighed before lying motionless , the fateful twitching stilled at last . |
| 11 | He has proposed that the civil list be abolished and that the Royal family live off the proceeds of the crown estate , whose income goes at present direct to the Exchequer . |
| 12 | A recent ad for follow-on milk , quoting from an article in the British Medical Journal , stated that cow 's milk given at six months caused ‘ subclinical but appreciable gastro-intestinal bleeding in about a third of children . ’ |
| 13 | The gastritis patients were given 50 mL of platelet concentrate at gastroscopy . |
| 14 | The purchase of a call option on a futures contract gives the owner the right to acquire a long position in the futures contract at a set price ( the exercise or striking price ) during ( or at the end of ) a specified time period . |
| 15 | It is also possible to unwind a futures contract at any time by performing a reversing trade , so futures contracts are generally extremely liquid ( at least for the near maturing contracts ) . |
| 16 | When the long originally bought the June futures contract at 90.50 , he was expecting to lock in a three-month sterling interest rate of 9.50 per cent . |
| 17 | If an individual buys a futures contract at this price and later sells a contract at 91–23 , then he will have made a loss of 328.13 ( i.e. 21 ticks x 15.625 per tick ) . |
| 18 | Alternatively , he could sell a futures contract at the current futures price and , at the end of T years , buy the asset in the cash market to deliver it into the futures market to fulfil the contract . |
| 19 | Throughout the Johannesburg commuter system , all station platforms were divided in half , for Whites and non-Whites respectively , and the trains were similarly divided so that the appropriate part stopped at the relevant stretch of platform . |
| 20 | The role will involve providing economic back-up analysis and feasibility studies for planning activities undertaken at all levels by the Physical Planning Directorate . |
| 21 | As the mother of two small children , the youngest hardly a month old , her eventual decision to remain at Stowey was clearly sensible . |
| 22 | His interest in physics developed at high school in Washington State where his family moved in 1953 . |
| 23 | Paige said quickly , heart thumping at the very idea . |
| 24 | Given basic ability , equality of opportunity to borrow at the market rate of interest to invest in your human capital so as to secure a future return makes observed income inequality a matter of individual choice . |
| 25 | The Middle East peace talks continued during May with a series of multilateral meetings arranged at the Moscow round in January [ see p. 38740 ; see p. 38885 for fifth round of bilateral talks held in Washington in late April ] . |
| 26 | Her hair parted at the centre and scraped back in a pony tail , Mara was there as usual , fussing over her regulars , but still the very soul of discretion . |
| 27 | Indeed the Director of Kenya 's Institute of Education looks forward to a time when a syllabus may be devised which , in addition to a national ‘ core ’ , has specific defined areas where programmes devised at district or local levels will be developed and implemented . |
| 28 | Produced in six bi-monthly parts it gives an up-to-date , comprehensive summary of all decisions on human rights cases heard at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg . |
| 29 | We got votes against our proposals with no reasons given at all , you 've now got down to the point of having no reasons at all for opposing what we want to do . |
| 30 | Moreover , at moments of crisis — notably in 1881 , 1903 , and October 1905 — the authorities connived at vicious pogroms against them . |