Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , at moments of crisis — notably in 1881 , 1903 , and October 1905 — the authorities connived at vicious pogroms against them . |
| 2 | Aggersborg , the largest , contained forty-eight houses , arranged in blocks of four grouped in threes in each of the quadrants formed by two internal roads intersecting at right angles . |
| 3 | There were cargo bays and airlocks situated at random among the folds and spirals , but all of them remained closed . |
| 4 | To back this up we provide subsidised nurseries and a dependent care allowance to those whose hours change at short notice . |
| 5 | SIGNS OF THE TIMES looks at generational conflict re furnishing and pictures of Jesus . |
| 6 | The introduction of Teds , a bear-shaped burger-type product , under the specially created ‘ My Favourite ’ trademark is only one of a new range of products targeted at new customers . |
| 7 | Farr calculated the contribution of workers to economic growth by estimating the future net earnings of labourers dying at different ages . |
| 8 | They were standing against the light , and their profiles overlapped at close quarters , and haloed them ; they made a vivid show of cock-of-the-roost virility , and she chuckled to herself with pleasure . |
| 9 | television are obviously having trouble rousing experts to appear at ungodly hours to comment on the morning 's news . |
| 10 | Tone clusters are created by voices singing at various pitches around certain zones ( medium , low , or high ) or around certain notes . |
| 11 | There were flowers everywhere in tubs and window-boxes , and music played softly over speakers placed at strategic points . |
| 12 | Deacon 's structure involves two complementary shapes joined at right angles ; shapes that one has never seen before but one recognises as familiar . |
| 13 | The measurement is derived from the very small difference in the time of arrival of signals received at different telescopes from a distant radio source ( usually a quasar ) . |
| 14 | Hens pecked at unwanted rouble notes from piles of sacks dumped on the railway lines for no clear reason . |
| 15 | It would be interesting to see if DNA supercoiling can stabilize the open complexes formed at other B.subtilis promoters known to form unstable complexes , such as the tms and citB promoters . |
| 16 | The use of naturally occurring sugars in milk , honey and fruit resulted in cavities occurring at different positions to those in modern teeth ( Moore and Corbett 1971 ) . |
| 17 | Table 5.7 The leading 20 job losers in the UK : losses reported at known locations , October 1976 — September 1981 |
| 18 | Cal-Volair did the work at both its shops located at Long Beach and Oxnard , California . |
| 19 | Whilst this will allow a degree of variation in applying the Partial Indemnity Clause , nevertheless it is the intention that the Clause should apply in respect of a ) risks underwritten at non-schedule rates , or b ) if at schedule rates solely on account of experience or c ) where the main features of the risk is the number of vehicles rather than the related experience . |
| 20 | These could test and modify units designed at international workshops ( or by other centres ) or initiate work of their own and present it for international criticism , modification and subsequent diffusion to other countries . |
| 21 | But it is not as bad as it seems , and it is fairly typical for any dozen books selected at random . |
| 22 | The figure can be an estimate or a calculation based on the specification of the media unit ; it is used to balance the workload between units operating at different speeds . |
| 23 | It is used by LIFESPAN to balance the workload between units operating at different speeds . |
| 24 | You can spend hours browsing through shops looking at different fabrics , but as well as considering rolls of material do n't forget to sort through remnants . |
| 25 | PARTIES WELCOME AT SPECIAL RATES — PLEASE NOTE SCHOOL VISITS IN PROGRESS DURING ALL WEEKDAYS EXCEPT SCHOOL HOLIDAYS . |
| 26 | Boulton & Watt 's beam engines employed large cylinders operating at low steam pressures , and McNaught 's expedient consisted of the addition of a small higher-pressure cylinder acting on the other half of the beam about midway along its length , with an appropriately shorter stroke , exhausting its steam into the original low-pressure cylinder . |
| 27 | Five different subjects were asked to write 100 test words selected at random from the dictionary . |
| 28 | About 60 Somali fighters shot at Belgian positions on the southern edge of Kismayu 's airport on Monday evening and the Belgians fired back . |
| 29 | The term programming is used for long term changes in the body 's structure , physiology , or metabolism brought about by environmental influences acting at critical stages of early life . |
| 30 | At its height , the organization claimed 90,000 national members and 250,000 additional supporters organized at local level . |