Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [verb] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crucial events around which the case centred occurred at a dinner party given by the General , when Aitken and some others were present . |
| 2 | The physical and analytical chemistry department at DSM has looked at the distribution and migration of salts in limestone . |
| 3 | ‘ He is a world class player with all the attributes a striker needs to play at the top , ’ added Allison . |
| 4 | ‘ What happened , ’ says an attendant parent , ‘ is that our defence stopped to look at the train . |
| 5 | For now the point is that the drafter needs to know at the outset whether any of the business 's customers will fall within the definition of " consumer " : if so , care must be taken in drafting clauses excluding or limiting liability . |
| 6 | Compulsory labour involves working at a site designated by the authorities , where prisoners are under surveillance and restricted in their movements . |
| 7 | The exceptional moment when the spirit of Brahms materialised came at the beginning of the andante where Pauline Dowse 's cello solo evoked the inner stillness of the composer — all moonlight , warmth and swaying tree tops . |
| 8 | The work was actually carried out in 1971–72 , although the lease did not take effect until February 1974 just two months before the old county borough ceased to exist at the time of local government reorganisation . |
| 9 | Ultimately the hind legs became strengthened at the expense of the front ones . |
| 10 | AT the age of 80 the Rev. Anthony Cunningham has jumped at the chance of a new job . |
| 11 | 22 year old Lebanese chauffuer Ali Choukeir has appeared at the Palais de Justice charged with involuntary manslaughter . |
| 12 | Application may be made only in default actions and where the claim exceeds £500 and the defendant has delivered at the court office a document purporting to be a defence ; the application is for judgment on the grounds that notwithstanding the delivery of that document , the defendant has no defence ( Ord 9 , r 14 ) . |
| 13 | Even Association football has grown at the grass roots with a further 2,000 clubs affiliating to the FA in the second half of the 1970s to make up a total of almost 40,000 . |
| 14 | A FORMER mayor has died at the age of 86 . |
| 15 | This chapter has looked at the importance of temporary jobs as a source of flows both from unemployment into employment and from employment into unemployment . |
| 16 | His is a fury fanned by insensitive press coverage of homosexuality and the Aids epidemic ; the director best known for films like Caravaggio has leapt at the opportunity of reacting against ‘ licensed queer bashing ’ . |
| 17 | For more weeks than I care to remember I have been working on a Panorama programme designed to look at the future of the Tory Party , even beyond Thatcherism . |
| 18 | Objectors and supporters wanting to speak at the inquiry were asked to complete forms listing the witnesses they intended calling and roughly how long each piece of evidence would take . |
| 19 | Bernice turned to rage at the woman . |
| 20 | When such a clear target has been voiced and accepted , ideas for units begin to flow at a rate which the technology and the programmer find difficult to cope with . |
| 21 | The samples go back over 30 000 years , and they show that after being constant for most of that time the methane concentration began to increase in 1580 ( Geophysical Research Letters , vol 9. p 1221 ) At the end of the 16th century , the methane concentration began increasing at a rate of 0.114 ppmv per century ( parts per million by volume ) and around 1915 the rate accelerated to the present figure of 2.5 ppmv per century — if the data can be taken at face value . |
| 22 | Well I think it 's very important Robert because , I mean as the charter for the arts indicated look at the money that local authorities are spending upstairs to us and really you know we , we are |
| 23 | In his Sonnets Shakespeare achieved the rather remarkable feat of turning to new and individual ends a genre that had flourished throughout Europe for several centuries and was in effect beginning to die at the time when he wrote , in the mid 1590s . |
| 24 | I mean Jason and Kylie getting married at the age of seventeen or something and then like two months later getting and one of them moving to Tasmania . |
| 25 | Eleanor started hinting at an affair . |
| 26 | When they had gone , Maisie started to pick at the grass with her fingers . |
| 27 | A product where the dosage must be finely calculated arithmetically from the instruction data provided to arrive at the quantity of product needed required more thought and more decisions than a product dispensed semi-automatically via a dispenser or one which is supplied ready for use . |
| 28 | Dig in when you can feel flower heads starting to form at the base . |
| 29 | Yesterday we won a vital victory in having Attorney General Sir Nicholas Lyell agree to look at the case . |
| 30 | Alison 's eyes had brightened at the word ‘ divorce ’ and she said that she would go on seeing him . |