Example sentences of "[vb pp] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt something of the same awe and excitement I had experienced four years before when tramping round and round Warwick Gardens with Chesterton , debating the execution of Charles I. Here was someone who ought to have been a member of the Society that G. K. C. had dominated at St. Paul 's from 1891 to 1893 . |
| 2 | Reversing its gains of Thursday , the FT-SE slipped back 28.9 to 2697.5 as profit taking dominated at the end of the account . |
| 3 | In rejecting traditional theory as a ‘ mathematical knowledge of nature which claims to be the eternal logos ’ he suggests that the self-knowledge of present-day man is ‘ a critical theory of society as it is , a theory dominated at every turn by a concern for reasonable conditions of life ’ ( Horkheimer 1972 : 199 ) . |
| 4 | The dale is dominated at its lower end by two scars , Great Coum and Combe Scar , both carved out by the passing glaciers , while the sweeping fells of Barbondale mark the point at which the Dent fault has thrust the older Silurian gritstones thousands of feet above their original bed . |
| 5 | Curative , hospital-based medicine dominated at the expense of prevention , health promotion and community services , and high priority was given to the treatment of short-term episodes of acute illness to the detriment of the care and rehabilitation of the chronically ill . |
| 6 | I see , I mean it 's good to see really that er test match has been dom well almost dominated at the moment , by , by a slow bowler , it 's an ideal situation for in England , batsmen done their job , England are in command , got lots of runs to play with , but it 's definitely the left arm spinner who 's causing the , the greatest problem out there , he 's , he 's landing it in the right place , he likes variation in that over , confident enough looks very tempted , always very difficult to come in at first twenty minutes as a batsman , when you 've come in on a turning wicket , a very , very , difficult . |
| 7 | This genetic cohesion of a population arises because , while the very slow processes of homogenisation are at work ( among copies of a family on the same and different chromosomes ) , the chromosomes in a population are being mixed at each generation . |
| 8 | In the reptilian heart most of the blood gets round the body on the first circuit , but with the four-chambered heart — in mammals , birds and ( imperfectly ) in crocodiles — the blood from the two circuits is not mixed at all . |
| 9 | Charles Laubscher recalls : ‘ My feelings were mixed at this news ( of the move to Malta ) . |
| 10 | The new mortar should be mixed at one part cement to four parts sand . |
| 11 | DNA and protein were mixed at an approximate ratio of 2:1 . |
| 12 | Those available are Impatiens Accent Mixed ( Busy Lizzie ) at £6.75 per pack , Pansy Universal Mixed at £6.55 per pack and Polyanthus F1 Crescendo at £7.45 per pack . |
| 13 | In any plausible way of forming Jupiter the hydrogen and helium are initially well mixed at a molecular level . |
| 14 | The tape has been mixed at a Gloucester recording studio , using Steve 's voice . |
| 15 | Discarded and shredded by the Bank of England and banknote manufacturer Thomas De La Rue , the paper money has been mixed at the Botanic Centre with sludge from a KP crisp factory on Teesside to form a peat-free compost . |
| 16 | Objectively the chances of reaching the Chancellor 's 3 per cent growth target in 1994 are mixed at best . |
| 17 | " Oh I get it , I 've twigged at last . |
| 18 | The original price to subscribers was four guineas unbound , but it did not sell well and was remaindered at 36s. a copy . |
| 19 | There are two chief types of tombs which date from the seventh to first century B.C. One type consists of a tumulus , or burial mound , of earth , circular in plan and surrounded at the base by a stone wall . |
| 20 | Dazzling lights knifed at her vision from the docking bay . |
| 21 | Cold winds knifed at them but the baby was snug in its portable bed , the blue and pink rabbits bobbling between its face and the real world . |
| 22 | NURSE IS KNIFED AT HOSPITAL |
| 23 | The drop down from Meall Corranaich and back up to Beinn Ghlas was a great deal more substantial than I would have wished at this point in the walk , keeping in mind that I was hallucinating from the effort of the chase and the subsequent lack of oxygen managing to get anywhere near my lungs via a mouth full of clenched teeth . |
| 24 | There was 110 possible reason why he should have wished at that stage to foreclose his options between December and January , or January and the spring . |
| 25 | In Britain , one has already been struck off and three others are facing disciplinary hearings for improper sexual conduct with patients , the British Psychological Society disclosed at its annual conference in Scarborough yesterday . |
| 26 | Despite the fact that the explanation or defence could , if true , have been disclosed at the outset and despite the advantage which the defendant has gained by these tactics , no comment may be made to the jury to that effect . |
| 27 | At the time of writing , it has been disclosed at the trial of the former military junta in Buenos Aires that on 5 January 1982 it ‘ set up a working group to analyse the possibility of taking the islands ’ . |
| 28 | Until that late date , the Cecils successfully opposed any move to enclose the fields , for reasons which were never fully disclosed at the time . |
| 29 | Held , allowing the appeals , that the Secretary of State was required to afford to a prisoner serving a mandatory life sentence the opportunity to submit in writing representations as to the period that prisoner should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence before the Secretary of State in the exercise of his power under section 61 of the Act of 1967 set the date of the first review of the prisoner 's sentence ; that , before giving the prisoner the opportunity to make representations , the Secretary of State was required to inform him of the period recommended by the judiciary as the period he should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence and of any other opinion expressed by the judiciary which had not been disclosed at the trial and would be relevant to the Secretary of State 's decision as to the appropriate period to be served for those purposes ; but that the Secretary of State was not obliged to adopt that judicial view or , if he departed from it , to give reasons for doing so , and that he was entitled to delegate his powers for that purpose to a junior minister within the Home Department ; and that , accordingly , the decisions made by the Secretary of State as to the length of the period each of the applicants should serve before the date of the first review of their sentences should be quashed and that each applicant should be given the opportunity to make written representations after he had been informed of the judicial opinion regarding the period he should serve before review ( post , pp. 963B–C , 969A–C , 973F–H , 974A–B , 977B–D , 979C–F , 980E–G , 981F–G , 983C–D , 984C–E , 985B–C , 986H — 987A , F–G , 988C–E , G–H , 989B–C , D–E , 991B–C , 992F–H , 993B–E , F–G ) . |
| 30 | If the offer or approach is not made by the ultimate offeror or potential offeror , then Rule 1(b) requires that his identity be disclosed at the outset . |