Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | namely Thucydides ) , but voting techniques were not : there was no counting of votes at all ( something which would have taken several hours when the agenda was as crowded as that given at the beginning of Demosthenes ' fiftieth speech of 362 BC ) , and the ‘ consensus ’ was determined by a show of hands , which tellers then adjudicated , in a fashion no more precise than that of a modern shop-steward who ‘ counts ’ a sea of hands at a trade union mass meeting . |
| 2 | If you 've had office copy entries , the date from which to search is that given at the foot of each page , when the office copy entries were issued ; your search will then reveal any entries that may have been made since that date . |
| 3 | The appended list gives names of all officers and members of Council currently serving , and indicates those due to retire at the close of the AGM . |
| 4 | ‘ He was due to retire at the end of the year anyway . |
| 5 | While there are few hard and fast rules about what is precisely right to wear at the office this season , there are some pointers to keep you heading in the right direction . |
| 6 | While there are few hard and fast rules about what is precisely right to wear at the office this season , there are some pointers to keep you heading in the right direction . |
| 7 | That prowls at every door and barks in every headline . |
| 8 | That goes at the front , right ? |
| 9 | A practical circus consists of a series of tasks each placed at a different position in the room . |
| 10 | The old Eagle Warehouse had the appearance of a curve at the west end of Bothwell Street , though in fact it was made up of four straight sections each placed at a shallow angle . |
| 11 | If I have , I can arrange the pattern so that I 've a complete repeat at the edge of the knitting . |
| 12 | The Chippendales were due to perform at the Leisure Centre two years ago . |
| 13 | Using this diagram , it is possible to see at a glance the relationship of one context to the rest of the site . |
| 14 | The idealised FAOR solutions , although impractical to implement at the time , nonetheless provided a goal that could be pursued via a strategy that would recognise the speed of technological developments , the availability of finance , and other priorities of the two departments . |
| 15 | And the TCCB disciplinary committee is due to meet at the weekend to decide whether to increase Lamb 's punishment for the awful crime of failing to get his comments cleared by Lord 's before they were published in the Mirror . |
| 16 | But there was little understanding at the time of how much work was required to develop high-quality screenplays . |
| 17 | I remember when I say John Bellany for the first time and he said , ‘ All that matters at the end of the day is the work ’ . |
| 18 | I remember when I say John Bellany for the first time and he said , ‘ All that matters at the end of the day is the work ’ . |
| 19 | The head deals with the first , class teachers with the second , and there is little blurring at the edges . |
| 20 | It is above all the body , enveloped in sound , in dance , that stands at the cross-roads of popular music and leisure time ; here the word ‘ Love ’ that is omnipresent in the pop lexicon reads not so much as a romantic cliche but as a coded entry into the world of the private , into the world of pleasure and self-discovery . |
| 21 | The boy , who ca n't be named , was due to appear at a Youth Court in Swindon . |
| 22 | Mr Horn , of Hurworth Moor , resigned from his £34,000-a-year job as education officer in charge of forward planning before he was due to appear at a disciplinary hearing at the council 's headquarters in Matlock last week . |
| 23 | He had been selected from hundreds of applicants with stars in their eyes by producer Harry Adair , and was due to appear at the Broadcasting House auditions on Saturday . |
| 24 | The cow , worth thousands of pounds , had been champion of several shows and was due to appear at the National Dairy Event in Warwickshire next weekend . |
| 25 | It is untrue that there are six sets of morris dancers due to appear at the Spring Thing , the annual Darlington folk festival . |
| 26 | A tantalising mixture of talent is due to appear at the Town Hall in Oxford on Friday . |
| 27 | The research aims to find out whether there is a specifically Scottish corporatism that can be distinguished from that found at the UK level . |
| 28 | The eerie stillness of a town asleep caught at the edges of her already stretched nerves , and she shivered with apprehension as well as from the biting wind . |
| 29 | Figure 2.3 looks at a similar period for Europe . |
| 30 | It is this contract , which Mr Morton inherited when he joined Eurotunnel , that lies at the heart of present difficulties . |