Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] [vb pp] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Subsequent legislation and regulation have only supplemented the 1974 Act that made directors , managers and other officers liable to prosecution where they have consented to or have connived at the committing of any offence or where an offence has been caused by neglect on their part . |
| 2 | After that you wear paper overalls that get combusted at every stage . ’ |
| 3 | For companies that have kept at a specified size over the years , working to budgets that they know and understand , are forced to expand to deal with the increased flow . |
| 4 | Partners and competitors of IBM Corp that have suffered at the company 's hands will feel a sense of schadenfreude that the company is brought so low , and will reflect on how right they were when they said back in the late 1970s and early 1980s that if the US Justice Department split the company up as it was then threatening to do , they would have four or six IBMs to compete with rather than just one . |
| 5 | Alarmed , they drop quickly and remain suspended at the end of fine silk-like threads . |
| 6 | This chapter will follow up this theme , and remain focused at the local level . |
| 7 | ‘ If you can spend five weeks having the time of your life and get paid at the end of it — why not ? ’ he asks . |
| 8 | For one thing he was an impatient sort of eagle , inclined to get angry and feel insulted at the smallest thing ; for another — and this took Creggan a while to realize — he was preoccupied with thinking about what had happened to Minch , not daring to hope that what Creggan had so boldly said about her coming back was true . |
| 9 | Ever enthusiastic , a similar report followed the following week speaking of the untiring energy of the Committee and so on , and including the following paragraph — ‘ Of course , there have been those pessimistic folk about who have done all in their power to discourage those who have been endeavouring to bring about this deserved end , and have scoffed at the idea of ever raising the amount of money necessary . |
| 10 | Does not that show that , despite all the promises and pledges , in the past five years the Government have carried out a sorry and tragic charade and have connived at every stage with Black Bob Scholey to sell off the Scottish steel industry ? |
| 11 | Others are said to be re-examining their positions in light of the latest industry consolidations and have baulked at a large scale media event to mark the signing of a common Unix document . |
| 12 | I have made as accurate an estimate as I am able of the value of my own estate , and have arrived at a total of about £580,000 . |
| 13 | They have moved on from Elim , the oasis of the twelve springs , and have camped at a place called Rephidim . |
| 14 | ( iv ) As autumn progresses and temperatures fall an increasing proportion ( up to 80% ) of the L3 ingested do not mature but become inhibited at the early fourth larval stage ( EL4 ) . |