Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no record of John having been apprehended and/or fined at that time , but it is almost certain that he would be dealt with in some way . |
| 2 | For example , business liability for death and personal injury resulting from negligence can not be excluded or limited at all by section 2(1) and , in the case of other loss or damage , liability can only be excluded or restricted where the term or notice purporting to do this satisfies a test of reasonableness ; section 2(2) . |
| 3 | Moreover , the inside of walls and ceilings must either be washed or painted at regular intervals . |
| 4 | This is because , at appropriately applied voltages , many organic compounds are reduced or oxidised at the electrode surface , thus producing a current . |
| 5 | Thus modern British coinage has a die axis of twelve o'clock : when the coin is held above and below the Queen 's head and then rotated , the design on the back appears upright or aligned at twelve o'clock . |
| 6 | But Llewellyn denied his players had grabbed testicles or spat at the world champions . |
| 7 | Often they are recruited or assigned at short notice to an unfamiliar school and are expected to instantly mould themselves to its systems of operating and style . |
| 8 | Even the research listed by the ‘ independent ’ Police Foundation or undertaken at the University Centres for Criminological Research ( and largely dependent on government grants and funding by such bodies as the Economic and Social Research Council ) often comes up against the anti — intellectual bias which permeates all levels in police thinking ( Lewis 1976 ) . |
| 9 | The tentacle scales may be distinct from the oral papillae being either separated by a gap or placed at a higher level as viewed from the ventral side as in the genera Ophiotoma and Ophioblenn . |
| 10 | Trent could n't see whether the track ran on to the quarry or stopped at the cabin . |
| 11 | Interestingly , almost a third of those exhibiting in the contemporary section , have either studied or taught at Goldsmiths ' College . |
| 12 | Brian , a cabbie for 25 years , could now face having his licence suspended or withdrawn at a tribunal . |
| 13 | The ‘ Effective Intervention ’ document says : ’ Parents should be informed or consulted at every stage of an investigation . |
| 14 | There was nothing in the cast of her features to suggest that she had been alarmed or frightened at the moment of her death . |
| 15 | Further , many females who are alienated or marginalised at one stage of their lives are included at another , and vice versa . |
| 16 | Verderers might also be removed from office on a report by the Justice of the Forest to the Chancery that they were incapacitated by old age or sickness , or occupied with other duties , or were insufficiently qualified in that they held no land within the forest and did not dwell there , or had committed or connived at trespasses of vert or venison , or had become a paid officer of the forest , or , in one case , had ‘ entered the priestly order ’ . |
| 17 | Several thousand kilometres of fish netting is lost or discarded at sea annually . |
| 18 | Newens 's views were perhaps influenced by his contacts with Ceauşescu and he had written or edited at least three books about Ceauşescu : Nicolae Ceauşescu — the Man , His Ideas and the Achievements on the Road to Socialism ( which appeared in at least three editions between 1972 and 1978 to satisfy popular demand ) , Talking with Nicolae Ceauşescu , and Nicolae Ceauşescu — The Effort to Create a Modern Romania . |
| 19 | In my desperate fear and danger , I was like a pain-maddened animal , ready to kill or wound at any moment . |
| 20 | In patients with oesophagitis Grade 0 , I , and II , this mucosal junction is very close or located at the proximal limit of the lower oesophageal sphincter . |
| 21 | The Hungarian Foreign Minister , Mr Gyula Horn , broke his country 's silence on the crisis to say that several hundred people had been killed or wounded at the weekend . |
| 22 | Instead , the amendment simply deleted the proviso excluding cinema films from the range of publications caught by the 1959 Act , which already extended to anything ‘ containing or embodying material to be read or looked at or both , any sound record , and any film or other record of a picture or pictures ’ . |
| 23 | Sixty-eight per cent of the population have read or looked at it in the past year . |
| 24 | Lives have been ruined because people have read the wrong books or looked at the wrong pictures . |
| 25 | For decades women have agonized over their breasts — either too big or too small ; their overall body shape — no waist , bum too big , legs too short ; and the various component parts of face and hair , all of which have to be altered , enhanced or de-emphasized at regular intervals . |
| 26 | When you have finished with the artwork , it can be stored in a stiff envelope or a file , along with the component layout diagram , so that it can be modified or re-used at a later date . |
| 27 | A descent upon England was long looked upon as an impracticable chimera in face of the countless and invincible naval forces that encircle this island-empire with a line of floating citadels , collected or dispersed at will at any threatened points around the coast … |
| 28 | Then , where δ is the fraction so that the Goldbach–Rehage formula above becomes or This can be written in terms of , the relaxation time at the glass temperature , since where is a shift factor and Hence or , if the material is being heated or cooled at a rate we have where is the decrement of the expansion coefficient of the glass and , as before . |
| 29 | Vast fortunes and vast debts exist only in green digits displayed on a video screen , to be wiped out or distorted at will . |
| 30 | On stylistic grounds other northern castles built or rebuilt at this time may be attributed to him , notably Raby and Sheriff Hutton ( 1382 ) , and perhaps also Lumley in county Durham and Wressle , Yorkshire . |