Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] at a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The corresponding 1991 figure showed 500 buy-outs completed at a cost of £2.6 billion . |
| 2 | Roughly speaking , the quality is determined by location in the vineyard , which can be divided into bands : the most northerly band , elevated at a height of between 180 and 220 metres , comprises some of the finest grand cru slopes in all Champagne and represents about a third of Bouzy 's hectarage ; below this is a wide strip situated at a height of between 160 and 180 metres which , in my estimation , should hold the rank of a top premier cru ; the lowest band , at about 170 metres , runs around the flat northern edge of the village and produces vines of a markedly inferior quality . |
| 3 | Fire fighters from Stockton put out a fire in a potting shed at a house in Bishopton Road , Stockton . |
| 4 | The jeep stopped at a caravan that was situated just off the path and under two trees . |
| 5 | But whereas General Franco 's rapid and decisive action resolved at a stroke the problem of order and the underlying political question , the use of force to suppress anarchists and revolutionary communists in Barcelona only exacerbated the Republic 's political difficulties and thereby seriously undermined its capacity to offer united resistance to its attackers . |
| 6 | His features were strong and rather austere , and his high cheekbones gave him a distinction that was all his own , though the line of his well-cut mouth hinted at a sensuality that disturbed her without her knowing why . |
| 7 | Her mouth hinted at a passion Claudia had never known , and the curve of her breasts above the green silk promised the fulfilment of every man 's dream . |
| 8 | The existing passenger lifts operated at a contract speed of 2.5m/s , employing a gearless DC motor drive system and the baggage lift employed a gearless DC motor drive system with a contract speed of 2 . |
| 9 | On Oct. 1 the East and West German Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ) parties merged at a congress in Hamburg . |
| 10 | He was so moved by the sufferings of the wounded at the battle of Solferino ( the Lombard village where the French and Sardinians defeated the Austrians in June 1859 ) that he published a book urging the formation of permanent voluntary aid societies to succour the wounded in time of war , and this so caught international imagination that in 1863 , sixteen European nations met at a conference in Geneva to launch the plan . |
| 11 | They assert that the payments to Anser were transactions at an undervalue made at a time when the company was unable to pay its debts and within the relevant period of time stipulated in section 240 . |
| 12 | For example , the question may state that the defendant shot at a burglar when a bystander was standing dangerously close , and hit the bystander . |
| 13 | For Merrill the marriage service was a kaleidoscope of images seen at a distance because of her acute consciousness of Luke 's presence . |
| 14 | It would seem to be inappropriate for the criminal law to remove a whole category of persons from its protection on the basis of words spoken at a ceremony of marriage which have no binding force . |
| 15 | By the time it had been carefully re-written , my feature described in glowing terms the ‘ Hollywood film-set scenery ’ ( but no mention of The Good , The Bad and The Ugly and ‘ exotic cuisine ’ ( on the strength of a passable chicken tikka masala eaten at a restaurant some distance from the hotel ) . |
| 16 | A home movie taken at a party just before the earthquake showed her dancing , a pretty young woman , a little overweight , a little overdressed . |
| 17 | The red of the blood drunk at a feast . |
| 18 | Dilsworth H. Brown , the AAM 's outgoing president stated at a news conference that money , or , as he put it , a ‘ financial base ’ for museums was the main issue facing them right now . |
| 19 | ILPs in one notable respect , namely it permits the possibility of the same solution being feasible for both branches created at a node . |
| 20 | Drugs charities and authorities met at a conference this week to try and speed up assessments , with a proposal for other agencies to be vetted for carrying them out . |
| 21 | This was followed by pamidronate in 500 mL 5% dextrose infused at a rate of 15 mg/h . |
| 22 | Oakey Park built at a cost of one point five million and named after club president Aubrey Oakey was packed out … |
| 23 | The first Atlantic cable operated at a speed of around 3 words/min , equating to a bandwidth of about 1.5Hz/s . |
| 24 | In most ERCP patients , hypoxia can be avoided by intranasal oxygen given at a rate of 4–5 litres per minute . |
| 25 | HUNDREDS of Communists gathered at a resort near Moscow at the weekend and elected a hard-line nationalist to lead their revived party . |
| 26 | They had not gone far before the leading vehicle halted at a metal pole stretched across the road , and the rest of the convoy bunched up behind . |
| 27 | About a month later the buyer had the clutch repaired at a cost of £45 and claimed this sum from the seller , alleging that the car was not of merchantable quality and not reasonably fit for the purpose of being driven on the road . |
| 28 | The convenience and exclusivity come at a price , though : £1.75 per metre , ex-VAT per day , and electricity costs £2 per day extra . |
| 29 | Published in cooperation with the International Association for Mass Communication Research ( IAMCR ) , the issue is based on research and articles presented at a seminar on ‘ Reporting the Gulf War ’ which was organised by the IAMCR in Istanbul , Turkey , last June . |
| 30 | She had never known that her parents met at a tennis party in a county far away . |