Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Banks will thus acquire £1 billion of extra call notes and bills , but their cash or balances at the Bank of England will be reduced by £1 billion . |
| 2 | On a purely practical note , all this added up to quite a bit in value and Ivy Cottage did not appear to have any extra locks or catches at the windows . |
| 3 | These contain a spinning mechanism that turns at a gentle 15 to 30 revolutions per minute — just enough to ensure convection and prevent cells from adhering to the glass walls of the bottle . |
| 4 | PONCE : The bit that goes at the end of ‘ Res ’ to make up the word ‘ Response ’ . |
| 5 | The ministers denied that de Klerk knew about the payments , arguing that prodecures at the time had not required him to know . |
| 6 | It is this tension between the grandiose themes of cosmology and its mundane workings that sits at the heart of Dennis Overbye 's superb book . |
| 7 | Their first single ‘ Mystery Train ’ is restructured with bleeps and beats to sound altogether moodier , while ‘ Senses ’ is one of those emotional anthems that sits at the end of the set . |
| 8 | The chance has come in a review conducted by Andrew Large , chairman of the Securities and Investments Board ( SIB ) , the body that sits at the apex of Britain 's regulatory structure . |
| 9 | Bob , the old bum that sleeps at the bus station , just stared . |
| 10 | What the maker has done has been to start with a 12-fret guitar design ( not a guitar with only twelve frets , but a guitar with a neck that joins at the 12th as opposed to the 14th fret ) and then he 's combined this with a deep cutaway on the treble side to open up the whole fingerboard for exploration . |
| 11 | In delayed release preparations ( Asacol , Claversal ) , 5-ASA is coated with an acrylic based resin that dissolves at a pH greater than 6 . |
| 12 | On the positive side , it says that the company 's financial condition remains strong , with about $150m of cash and long-term investments at 1992 year end , and $112m of debt , and a debt-to-equity ratio that stands at a conservative 13% . |
| 13 | If the sense of the magnetic field is irrelevant , but the same physics applies as for the first reversal , the pole that starts at the North Geographic Pole must once again pass through the Americas . |
| 14 | Enthusiastic supporters claimed that the movement gave to ‘ the Free Churches a unity they have never had before ’ although this same observer recognized that it was ‘ the Establishment that lies at the foundation of our contention ’ . |
| 15 | I suspect that if we were to take a sensate tension structure such as the love-hate paradox that lies at the heart of Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet theme , we would be able to transpose it into different forms each appropriate to a particular culture , and , provided we had the necessary skill of course , we would be able to do this for all cultures in the world . |
| 16 | The other school of thought on hypnosis emphasises the special social situation that lies at the core of hypnosis . |
| 17 | It is the attempt to examine some of these interdisciplinary intersections that lies at the heart of this text . |
| 18 | It is this conundrum that lies at the very heart of the Section 28 debate — not to mention Labour 's problems with it . |
| 19 | Associativity provides a cellular analogue of classical conditioning , and is an implicit property of the Hebb synapse , the computing element that lies at the heart of the current interest in neural computation . |
| 20 | Although the campaigns in which Mrs Whitehouse and her associates have been involved during this period may , on the surface , seem particularly disparate and eclectic , if one looks below the surface — as Tracey and Morrison have done particularly thoroughly — then it is the diminishing influence of the Church in moral issues that lies at the heart of NVALA action and concern . |
| 21 | For us now , I think , the desolation that lies at the heart of this music needs no additional dissonance or atonalism to guarantee its creativity , and the grim joviality of ‘ King Pest ’ , in the Rondo Burlesca , is savage farce of a particularly modern ( as well as Elizabethan ) kind : compare for instance , the fiercely jaunty ‘ Out there , we 've walked quite friendly up to Death ’ in Britten 's War Requiem . |
| 22 | It is this concept that lies at the back of R. P. A. Edwards ' attack on dial-access retrieval systems : |
| 23 | He might try to justify the principle by appealing to logic , a recourse that we freely grant him , or he might attempt to justify the principle by appealing to experience , a recourse that lies at the basis of his whole approach to science . |
| 24 | The temple illustrates the animal fetishism that lies at the dark roots of Egyptian religion and which it never really outgrew . |
| 25 | He must think in terms of thousand upon thousand of repetitions when practising a particular kata , for only through constant repetition will he be able to master the basic fighting movements and to achieve the physical and spiritual sensitivity that lies at the heart of the martial arts . |
| 26 | The plasterwork has peeled to reveal the red sandstone underneath ; and in places that sandstone has in turn crumbled away to reveal the intricate brickwork that lies at the core of the structure . |
| 27 | One can forget for a while the rigours faced everyday and appreciate wholeheartedly the kind of escapism that lies at the root of ‘ The Passionate Shepherd to his love ’ and ‘ The Garden ’ and all other poems which make up the pastoral garden . |
| 28 | The administration 's strongest criticism to date of Mobutu came in testimony to the Senate foreign relations committee on Nov. 7 by Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Herman Cohen , who accused Mobutu of " an apparent unwillingness to distinguish between state finances and his own , a failing that lies at the heart of Zaïre 's dismal economic record " . |
| 29 | To design a means of navigating effectively amongst thousands of images , video sequences , sound , text and numerics , all seamlessly combined as a single information resource , is a challenging problem and one that lies at the heart of successful multimedia applications . |
| 30 | The theory that lies at the core of Layard 's analysis is the ‘ real wage resistance ’ hypothesis : workers have a target real wage which they strive to achieve and defend through the wage bargaining process . |