Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [noun sg] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bernard , if we have any time to spare , better to stand and gaze at the name of the very street we live in , ‘ Mafeking ’ , and contemplate its significance . |
| 2 | Most people are keen for their children to be educated but despair at the kind of education they receive . |
| 3 | Everybody could see that safety at the factory was getting worse . |
| 4 | Howell , Labour MP for Small Heath , claimed that violence at the weekend was caused by groups of Birmingham City followers — totalling at least 300 - arriving in Blackpool without tickets for the Third Division match . |
| 5 | The main effect of wind is probably to be seen in undercutting and fluting at the base of upstanding rock masses , while such things as wooden telegraph poles and stone monuments may be undercut at the base and even worn through . |
| 6 | Sir Michael Clapham himself retired as Chairman at the end of 1977 having served on the Council from its beginning in 1964 ( and he was at this point the only remaining member from the original Council ) , and been its Chairman for seven years . |
| 7 | It was presided over by Ernest Ayliffe who had retired as President at the beginning of Congress , but had accepted the honour of becoming one of the BDDA 's first " Grand Councillors " . |
| 8 | On that occasion , although one of them only was present , both counsel and solicitor were in court acting on their behalf , and I find it very difficult to accept that neither counsel nor solicitor at the conclusion of the hearing explained in the clearest terms to the second appellant precisely what it was that she and the first appellant were to be restrained from doing . |
| 9 | Kenneth is an atheist and Uncle Hamish , who has a reflecting telescope cast and ground at the glass works but never uses his private observatory , espouses a brand of condemnationist Christianity that replaces caritas with anathemata . |
| 10 | An odd memorial , a seat where people could rest and gaze at the castle ; perhaps S. G. Sutherland had spent much of his life in the gardens watching others getting on with theirs . |
| 11 | A self-confessed socialist , Cipriani duly supported all types of social reform , the mention of which was viewed as subversion at the time , and his record as a fighter against all forms of injustice is impressive : |
| 12 | Similarly , where bending takes place , the restrictions on rotation of one chain link relative to its neighbour imply a coupling of bending and rotation at the level of the chain link . |
| 13 | Now sit , quite naturally , just as you would , alone on a beach in order to dream and gaze at the sea . ’ |
| 14 | Of course , there was mourning and grief at the abbe 's sudden death and his funeral caused disruption in the normal tedium of our lives . ’ |
| 15 | In both , ‘ irrationality ’ — in the form of authorial personality , unconscious contradiction or excess — is discovered as negation at the heart of the commercial and purposeful rationality of capitalist production and bourgeois ideology . |
| 16 | The County and Borough authorities had been informed that accommodation at the workhouse was too limited for it to be used as a place of detention under the Children 's Act of 1909 . |
| 17 | The bids confirmed that they were best to hang on to them and they will now be refurbished and pole-mounted at the entrance to the Museum . |