Example sentences of "['s] [noun] [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With turnover down 27 p.c. to £27.1m , reflecting both the tough trading climate and the group 's reluctance to compete at uneconomic margins in the construction market , profits slumped from £1.83m to £410,000 before providing £775,000 ( £1.2m ) for the fall in land values and reorgnisation costs of £325,000 . |
| 2 | For only THREE members of England 's team beaten at Old Trafford by Australia are sure-fire certainties to play at Lord 's when the Ashes battle resumes next week . |
| 3 | In this sense , all the themes discussed so far contain ‘ women 's issues ’ and have to be treated from women 's perspectives to arrive at true and complete reality . |
| 4 | Thus it was with a certain amount of relief that I acceded to our editor 's request to look at FloorPlan Plus , ( FP from hereon ) which promises to make this kind of thing much easier to sort out . |
| 5 | Clarke 's strategy set at secret talks |
| 6 | As soon as these arrangements had been made , manufacture of engines began , the first one being a pumping engine for Bloomfield Colliery in Staffordshire followed by a blowing engine for blast furnaces at John Wilkinson 's iron works at New Willey Staffs . |
| 7 | It was ironical that he should have made a magical 153 against Notts , while England 's batsmen floundered at Old Trafford . |
| 8 | When the relevant Finance Act was being discussed in 1976 , the then Financial Secretary to the Treasury , Robert Sheldon , referred to teachers ' children educated at fee-paying schools and said that the benefit would be ‘ assessed on the cost to the employer , which would be very small indeed ’ . |