Example sentences of "[noun] [that] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were large animals that lived at the same time as the forerunners of the dinosaurs , the petrolacosaurs . |
| 2 | Through this relationship , they can also be a record of the life force that exists at a certain site . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | His strong face , lined by age and illness , framed a pair of kindly eyes that softened at the sight of her . |
| 6 | They achieved this by combining two different methods : a longitudinal study , following the same children for four years from before they were able in read until they had been at school for two or three years ; and a training programme that looked at the effect of giving pre-school children specific training in categorising sounds . |
| 7 | The plateau we crossed before the final pyramid was hostile , the snow wind-beaten to a hard , glittering crust that squeaked at the approach of our boots and then gave a satisfying crunch as we went through it . |
| 8 | Marian made a bed of dry bracken for Hugh while Allen lit a fire and fetched water from a brook that ran at the foot of the bank on its way to swell the nightmare of the Swamp . |
| 9 | Marian made a bed of dry bracken for Hugh while Allen lit a fire and fetched water from a brook that ran at the foot of the bank on its way to swell the nightmare of the Swamp . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | We all the lads that left at the same time , said , we 've got four weeks ' holiday before we look for work . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Although the computer has a hyphenation dictionary ( it knows how to split words that come at the end of a line ) , a skilled composer can usually do a better job . |
| 14 | Stone House is the silent grave of an active industry that died at the turn of the present century . |
| 15 | The innocence that prevailed at the School concerning sexual matters was symbolised by the fig leaves which had been attached to the plaster casts of male nudes and which eventually the girls removed . |
| 16 | Robert James Waller Love in Black and White ( Mandarin ) A soaring love story that pulls at the heart-strings . |
| 17 | Slowly the stillness rose in a tide that lapped at the rage within her ; her breathing steadied . |
| 18 | I thought that maybe Elsie went under finally sickened and stifled by the righteous attitudes that prevailed at the time . |
| 19 | PONCE : The bit that goes at the end of ‘ Res ’ to make up the word ‘ Response ’ . |
| 20 | But she had a better way of relaxing the tightness that started at the back of her neck and spread across the crown of her head than attempting sleep . |
| 21 | Their movements were deliberate and careful and Wycliffe had the impression of figures in slow motion , indeed of a whole existence that proceeded at a slower pace , muted , subdued , and infinitely depressing . |
| 22 | Although programs such as PageMaker and Ventura continue to steal the headlines as being the driving force behind desktop publishing there is a whole raft of alternative products that operate at a much lower level . |
| 23 | Rich hauls of lead weights also come from beneath the matted seaweed that grows at the foot of harbour walls and breakwaters . |
| 24 | It produces an ice quite Ben Nicholson in the uniformity of colour , and there is an almost Rodinesque sumptuousness about the lumps and knobs that accumulate at the ends of the shelves . |
| 25 | Keynes summarized the fallacy that lay at the heart of the classical theory of labour market adjustment : |
| 26 | Here , in the natural sciences , despite the complex patterns that exist at the research level , it still seems appropriate to use the broad categories identified by Comte and embodied in the nomenclature of undergraduate degrees — the physical , the chemical , the biological — while recognizing that there are gradations between these ( physical chemistry , biochemistry ) and foci and links within and across them ( geology , biophysics , physiology or ecology ) . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Sir Leon was defending the compromise proposal that emerged at a meeting of the Community 's industry ministers this week , whereby the Commission might grant temporary exemptions to countries facing problems in opening their markets . |
| 29 | Under their new paymasters , filmmakers were no longer interested in the sort of inner tensions that work at the heart of the more intense and exciting British films . |
| 30 | The gall bladder is a reservoir that empties at a slow pace . |