Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [verb] at the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In 1980 when Allan Wells won a Gold Medal at the Olympics I looked at the British tracksuits and thought : well , nothing much has changed in 56 years !
2 Many candidates who start at the bottom skip grades on the way up , or , perhaps because of pressure of other work , take more than a year between adjoining grades .
3 Any partial hypotheses which end at the same node are equivalent as far as further right context is concerned , and only the highest scoring need be kept .
4 This hotel was at that time a sort of private dwelling crammed with the owner 's collection of Catalan works of art and pastel portraits of the great singers who appeared at the nearby Opera .
5 All necessary and desirable directions for disposing of the proceedings should be given at the pre-trial review , and the parties should as far as practicable ask for all the directions they need at the pre-trial review , giving prior notice to all interested parties ( Ord 17 , rr 1 and 3 ) .
6 My hon. Friend will be aware of the concern of my constituents who work at the Royal Navy workshop at Almondbank because of the present review of helicopter servicing .
7 His poetry tells a different story : there was wide and profound sentience — of man and nature , of beauty and the beast , of times and seasons , of perception and tactility , of hearing and tasting , and smelling ; at the bottom of which remains an unresolved questing , a whole gamut of unanswered questions which drove at the very heart of what he most wished to believe .
8 Following this was the rodeo World Championships on the Bitches which decided at the last minute to include a ladies ' competition .
9 Two more birdies coming home compensated for the bogeys she had at the fourteenth and sixteenth holes .
10 The diagonal constructions employed in the paintings she selected at the National Gallery and their use as a formal agent aiding and abetting the organisation of colour is what Riley emphasises and announces in her own work of this period .
11 Tabkay , as they call him , is one of 35 Buddhists who live at the 30-room Kilnwick Percy Hall , otherwise known as the Madhyamaka Buddhist Centre , just outside Pocklington .
12 Two of the daughters , Annie and Rose , were painters who exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1887 and 1885 .
13 Unfortunately , the JMP-1 has no input on the back and so in some ways it falls at the final fence , because I ca n't really see how you can set it up to work in a neat and user-friendly rack ; you 'd have to wire the thing up every time you gigged it .
14 Ditto those helpless Englishmen he skittled at the same venue two years earlier .
15 The enormous increase in the demand for lace was largely due to the fashion for lace curtains which came at the same time as a huge house-building programme , and buyers came from home and abroad to negotiate their deals in the Lace Market .
16 I know , too , that my mother valued the people she met here , from the smiles of the young folk to the friends she made at the Senior Citizens ' Lunch Club and Meeting .
17 Mr Stafford Smith is one of four lawyers who work at the Southern Centre for Human Rights in Atlanta , Georgia , which is the only office of defence lawyers funded solely by private contributions .
18 Due to a recent rule change , players who fail at the pre-qualifying stage can now return to amateur competition .
19 The goals must be debated and discussed until their true implications are appreciated , then their application worked out in terms of the curriculum planning and development decisions they imply at the various stages of the educational process .
20 And they then say well right , cos every time an accountant does your books at the front of your , the actual like er the booklet what you get on your accounts it says at the front something like these accounts have erm have been audited but only erm we have taken the word of Mr that what he said is right .
21 We ask that you will guide the electors in their voting , not just for the president , but in all the other elections which happen at the same time , that Your will may be done there .
22 So the spring flowers which bloom at the same time each year , and the swifts and swallows which return so precisely to their nest sites , are clearly responding to a more dependable guide .
23 They are Sekers Fabrics , David Evans and Vanners Silks , all of which manufacture fabrics which sell at the top end of their markets .
24 Their heroes reflect their psychological needs ; disappointed by the weak father , they not only look for a strong one but try to identify with men who fulfil at the same time infantile and sadistic fantasies , such as Che Guevara or Mao Tsetung …
25 It also calls on the government to act on the relevant commitments it made at the UNCED summit [ see ED 59/60 ] , and on the major supermarket chains to provide information on the biodiversity of the foods they stock .
26 For a few moments she stared at the tawny eagle and then at Mr Wolski , and he looked at her .
27 Following some other reasonable sections you arrive at the final part , a big up-scroller containing the credits , thank and usual stuff .
28 Held to coincide with May Day ( celebrated elsewhere in the capital by some 5,000 people ) , the 2,000-strong congress met the violent opposition of left-wingers who protested at the various anti-Semitic , nationalist , conservative Catholic , and free-market views of the participants .
29 Artai could not have declared any public intent to marry Jehana , Alexei realised , or it would have been the talk of Kinsai. probably there were rumours — nothing was ever entirely a secret at court — and he glanced again at the women who clustered at the other end of the pool .
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