Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [vb -s] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Through this relationship , they can also be a record of the life force that exists at a certain site . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In sharp contrast to Blauner , who argues that this ‘ objective integration ’ will lead to social integration of workers and management , Mallet argues that this objective integration has the opposite effect , leading to a new form of revolutionary consciousness that aims at the overthrow of the existing pattern of social relations in the enterprise . |
| 4 | Nor does it make much sense for the book to be on offer soon afterwards through a paperback book club that screams at it potential customers , ‘ You write the rules ’ . |
| 5 | It is a real moral aberration that leaves at liberty those who violated human dignity and those who rose up against the constitutional order . ’ |
| 6 | Why do n't you do a programme that looks at ‘ the story so far ’ . |
| 7 | Well that 's it , it ca n't be right , it ca n't be right , because what you would expect in there , is another sort of perspex piece that comes at an angle like that . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | There 's a rift that grows at that stage in your schooling between , not only white people , but the actual teachers as well . |
| 10 | Marriage is an earthly institution that ends at death . |
| 11 | the player takes the first card and looks at it , if it is a question card ask the next player , one of the two questions |
| 12 | This violent thoroughfare , with its fumes , speed and bandits at the traffic lights , is like a medieval allegory of the pathway to hell . |
| 13 | This involves reconstruing the situation so that it looks more straightforward and easy to handle , thus allowing sides to be taken or a stance adopted which reduces the confusion and allows at least some action to be taken — a villain to be defeated , a wrong to be righted , a battle to be fought . |
| 14 | She sits on the roof and smirks at our fears , |
| 15 | He sips some tea and glances at George , who 's dressed like him , in a stiff tweed suit , cut from a pattern last popular during the austerity years of the post-Wear era . |
| 16 | Parked somewhere nearby would be a couple of police vans with sniffer dogs and cordoning off parts of the street had become so commonplace that the cops had left reels of white tape and tripods at strategic points just in case . |
| 17 | It only starts counting from the first row of an entry and stops at the last . |
| 18 | American Nigel Calder is the author of several books on boat maintenance and repairs at sea . |
| 19 | High-tech raids Davy Jones 's locker and sells at auction |
| 20 | Among names that immediately spring to mind are those of Sydney Schanberg , the former New York Times correspondent who was in Phnom Penh at the time of the fall , and whose subsequent search for his Cambodian assistant , Dith Pran , was documented in Roland Joffé 's film The Killing Fields , who arrived in Indo- China at the age of 21 and was there from 1970 to mid-1975 , first with Agence France Presse , then as a stringer for The Sunday Times — when all the other journalists were getting out , Swain was either brave or foolhardy enough to fly back into Phnom Penh in time for its fall ; William Shawcross who , along with many others , covered the Vietnam war for The Sunday Times and who subsequently became obsessed with the fate of Cambodia , an obsession that resulted first in Sideshow , which exposed the role of Nixon and Kissinger , and then in The Quality of Mercy , a study of the work of the Red Cross in Cambodia ; John Pilger , the British-based Australian journalist whose work on Cambodia may have had little concrete effect but has at least helped to ensure that the tragic country will never disappear into oblivion ; Philip Caputo , who went initially to Vietnam in March 1965 as a 23-year-old Marine officer with the first US combat group sent to Indo-China and returned in 1975 as a correspondent to report on what was left of the war . |
| 21 | Robert James Waller Love in Black and White ( Mandarin ) A soaring love story that pulls at the heart-strings . |
| 22 | Excavation has proved impossible but there is a story that hints at great finds . |
| 23 | PONCE : The bit that goes at the end of ‘ Res ’ to make up the word ‘ Response ’ . |
| 24 | Other graphics enhancements include a second Power Gt3 two-dimensional adaptor that performs at 650,000 vectors per second . |
| 25 | In very recent years holy war has been fought between Iran and Iraq , and with a ruthlessness that has at times , with the use of chemical weapons for example , offended international codes of conduct . |
| 26 | Rich hauls of lead weights also come from beneath the matted seaweed that grows at the foot of harbour walls and breakwaters . |
| 27 | Also , the normal deglutitive response is generally considered to consist of a contraction wave that appears at manometry as a single or M shaped peak . |
| 28 | In view of this irksome journey to Keswick , not surprisingly , regard was given to the possibility of setting up smelt houses at Coniston : " … if the Mynes hereafter should hereafter prove so rich as to countervale the charges of erecting any worke houses , there is more there about but water sufficient to make some competent buildings and good store both a wood & peets at more easy rates than at Keswick if the said wood may be preserved for those uses … " |
| 29 | It was as if nothing special had happened the night before — no more than a bad dream that stays at the back of your mind long after you have woken up . |
| 30 | It is disappointing , therefore , to experience an arrow that points at nothing and nowhere . |