Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [noun pl] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remembered my own boyhood watching cavalrymen sticking tent pegs at the gymkhanas , and tried knights on shining white chargers , complete with shining white bascinets , breastplates , leg armour and gauntlets doing the same thing to my inside , but they never really filled the role . |
| 2 | The accounting policy favoured by Kerrington Developments , another BES assured tenancy company , is to value completed investment properties at the end of each year on an open market basis assuming vacant possession , and transferring the group 's share of any resulting surplus or deficit to the revaluation reserve . |
| 3 | In the plan , British Telecom would install videodisc players at the point in a cable system which links up subscribers TV sets . |
| 4 | It is based on a study of flashing light and vibrating pad alarms at the Radcliffe Hospital and Infirmary , Oxford . |
| 5 | The provisions made by his executors to establish loan chests at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge after his death suggest that Gilbert may have received some sort of university education . |
| 6 | ( He has now retired from the Branch but remains active , instructing student investigators at the aircraft accident investigation course at Cranfield Institute of Technology . ) |
| 7 | In 1689 they defeated government forces at the Battle of Killiecrankie but Graham was killed and soon afterwards the rebel army was defeated at Dunkeld and the uprising ended . |
| 8 | In order to catch suspect goods at the ports , customs officers have power to seize and detain goods for up to two working days in order to enable local trading standards officers to examine them to determine whether they infringe legal safety requirements , section 31 . |
| 9 | Powys Health Care Trust announced two weeks ago its intention to concentrate hospital services at the Chest Hospital . |
| 10 | Michael attended Easter Mass in Bucharest , and visited family tombs at the monastery in Curtea de Arges in western Romania . |
| 11 | Curiously it is manageable only using SNMP protocols at the moment , although a NetView agent is being developed . |
| 12 | You all learned to swim and dive at the Kokine Swimming Club , and you and Mig became Girl Guides at the school . |
| 13 | The two men signed agreements to open liaison offices at the peace village of Panmunjom on May 18 and to form three joint commissions to encourage military , economic and cultural exchange and co-operation . |
| 14 | Wary troopers directed stun guns at the medley of bodies in case of disorder , for there were tensions and animosities . |
| 15 | How could these children possibly do undergraduate experiments at the age of thirteen ? |
| 16 | The Baseline Data sets are being processed to create data bases at the farm , family and individual levels ; core data are being merged to enable comparative analysis across Europe ; derived variables are being constructed , the Statistical aspects are being studies . |
| 17 | The president told aircraft workers at the company 's plant in Seattle that he believed a lot of the redundancies would not have been announced ‘ had it not been for the $26 billion that the US stood by and let Europe plough into Airbus over the last several years ’ . |
| 18 | The cellulose chains are always simple thread-like molecules and do not branch by forming oxygen linkages at the sides of the sugar rings , as do other , weaker , polysaccharides such as starch . |
| 19 | The aim of this project was to encourage girls to choose science subjects at the age of 14 ; to this end , the GIST researchers went into ten Manchester secondary schools and attempted to promote a more positive image of science that would appeal to girls , partly by helping science teachers develop a more ‘ girl-friendly ’ teaching style and partly by inviting female scientists to speak to pupils about their careers . |
| 20 | John Simpson says employment levels at the company are ‘ on the high side ’ compared to English electricity companies . |
| 21 | Throughout 1912 he test flew aeroplanes for Ducrocq and also instructed novice pilots at the Ducrocq-Lawford Flying School . |
| 22 | Field Marshal Sir Nigel Bagnall inspecting officer cadets at the RMA Sandhurst during a Passing-Out Parade . |
| 23 | Mayor Chirac 's environmental attachée , Jacqueline Nebout , has devised a scheme for city gardeners to create flower beds at the Rond Point after original cartoons by Botero . |
| 24 | Are the stewards asking to see membership cards at the turnstiles this year ? |
| 25 | Adam Smith 's famous dictum that we should not subsidise grape production in Scotland , does not extend to subsidising wine imports at the expense of the ‘ wine of the country ’ . |
| 26 | We simplify field changes at the core surface by shrinking the characteristic flux concentrations to points and writing the vertical field as where F i represents the strength of the i th pair of flux patches and their positions ( flux patches come in pairs in the absence of monopoles ) . |
| 27 | Martin who was directing pop videos at the time showed me the video just after leaving college . |
| 28 | This check is carried out when the name is first submitted : to avoid later problems over names clashing , it is recommended practice to reserve module names at the software planning stage . |
| 29 | Even so , Mills and White ( 1978 ) have proposed an ‘ effluent fee ’ for motor vehicle emissions calculated by measuring emission levels at the beginning and end of the year multiplied by the distance driven . |
| 30 | In Manchester , police were forced to evacuate the areas surrounding bus stations at the Arndale Centre , Chorlton Street , Piccadilly and Stephenson Square for up to three hours while searches were carried out . |