Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [n mass] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The appellants , who each made repeated sales at the shop , pleaded not guilty to indictments charging burglary and handling stolen goods as alternatives . |
| 2 | But I think that the greatest tribute of all that can be paid to Peggy , and I feel sure it would come from her members and it 's this , and it 's basically what the trade union movement is all about and it 's about representing ordinary people at the shop floor because whenever anybody asks Peggy to do anything for them , to represent them , she 's always the first one there . |
| 3 | If it is still more important to you to enjoy your fishing , using methods and approaches more akin to your liking , than it is to catch big fish at the cost of a great deal of enjoyment , then there are still a few waters where you can use ‘ classic ’ tactics . |
| 4 | In most cases , they have produced social class scales which put professional people at the top , then other non-manual workers , then various grades of manual worker . |
| 5 | Perhaps this was because of the dull routine nature of their job , servicing and re-fuelling incoming aircraft at the rate of about one flight every hour that day . |
| 6 | Given a slight change in the conditions favouring one species at the expense of its rivals , the balance of power would be shifted and the disadvantaged species might be driven to extinction . |
| 7 | Boccioni , Carrà and Russolo showed recent works at the Esposizione d'Arte Libera in Milan in the Spring of 1911 , and owing to the polemics already aroused by Futurist propaganda their work attracted great interest . |
| 8 | A policeman , James Allen Moore , killed three people at the west Belfast offices of Sinn Féin on Feb. 4 and later apparently committed suicide . |
| 9 | In one incident on Oct. 7 , unknown assailants killed 18 people at the funeral of a murdered ANC member , in an attack similar to that on Inkatha supporters on Sept. 8 [ see p. 38422 ] . |
| 10 | A gunman wearing a hunting outfit killed 13 people at the University of Montreal yesterday before committing suicide . |
| 11 | An inquest by New York newspapers into a subway fire in Brooklyn that killed two people at the turn of the year is making plain the consequences of all this neglect . |
| 12 | The complex project , which employed 7,500 people at the height of construction , will continue to provide substantial numbers of jobs to contractors , in support of commissioning , for the rest of 1992 . |
| 13 | successful in doing these schemes and because resources on we are hard pressed , resources on the ground are thin then when people ring up with these schemes that we get it off the ground they meet this negative sort of answer when they ring in , that 's the only sort of er liaison with themselves and the police and they 're met with that , and their reaction then is down the pub tell their mates do n't ring in cos its a reaction , and that 's the trouble with us being , as it were too successful before , better to be less successful , but we 'd have more staff at the centre like Lincolnshire etc to actually get the difference from when somebody does the odd person does ring in they get a response to it |
| 14 | Alistair McNeilage , whose parents live in Kilmacolm , Renfrewshire , was part of a research team working on a project to save endangered species at the 10,000ft high Karisoke Research Centre , made famous in the film Gorillas in the Mist . |
| 15 | What I 've said is that I 'd like to see the existing C P O's become divisional staff at the division that they are working now so that the divisional commander can allow them to stay there holding hands with the new civilian C P O for up to six months if necessary because it then becomes a local decision as to when the when the two have that umbilical cut . |
| 16 | But do these people at the moment receive a meal , in the course of their attendance at whichever day centre they attend ? |
| 17 | The safest way to do this is to move HIMEM down and store common data at the top of memory . |
| 18 | She presented two works at the Purcell Room ( South Bank Centre against an impressive set of three long , transparent cloth strips in vibrant red , yellow and blue . |
| 19 | Among other works of note purchased during the year were a copy of Richard Westall 's Victories of the Duke of Wellington ( London , 1819 ) , comprising twelve coloured aquatints of British battle scenes , including one of Highland troops of the 91st Regiment ( the Argyllshire Highlanders ) repulsing French cavalry at the Battle of Vimiera ; a copy , in extremely fine condition , of R. R. McIan 's Picturesque Gatherings of the Scottish Highlanders at Home , on the Heath , the River , and the Loch ( London , 1848 ) , published by Ackermann and Company ; and a copy of Angus McLean 's Lindigo , the White Woman ; or , The Highland Girl 's Captivity among the Australian Blacks ( Melbourne , 1866 ) . |
| 20 | Capt Adams said some people at the base were confident the event could go ahead as planned . |
| 21 | Although Georgian architecture is now so popular and so familiar , its introduction must have shocked some people at the time . |
| 22 | In early November Abilio José Osorio Soares , the ( Timorese ) governor of East Timor , reportedly told the Indonesian legal magazine Forum Keadilan that Indonesian troops should have killed more people at the Santa Cruz cemetery in November 1991 . |
| 23 | SINCE I joined the Company at the beginning of October I 've visited several locations and met most people at the Key Street office . |
| 24 | He had paid three pence at the booking office for his ticket and , after waiting ten minutes or so on the cold and draughty platform for the next London-bound train , he had arrived at Christchurch some ten minutes later to run through torrential rain toward the group of cottages which flanked the open park in the town centre . |
| 25 | The cruise missile , 6.4 m long and weighing 1207 kg at the start of its flight , steadily drones at 880 km/hr toward what is called the initial timing control point . |