Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [verb] [noun sg] at [art] " in BNC.

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1 Anyway , keen to cash in on this burgeoning demand , the car manufacturers are offering a range of pick-ups aimed smack at the jugular of America 's youth .
2 This suggests that this counting on of steps takes place at an unconscious , neural level .
3 When you are catching pond animals , take some of the pondweed and the stems of plants growing half-submerged at the water 's edge too .
4 It gave Scottish athletics one of its biggest boosts since the same pair of athletes won gold at the European Championships in Split two years ago .
5 There are a variety of exercises to check understanding at the back of each book and all the readers contain a picture dictionary , illustrating the words that appear in the stories .
6 The first instance most commonly occurs when a group of students complete training at the same time .
7 In one example of biological origami , two flaps of tissue fuse to form the palate in the mouth ; mass suicide of cells takes place at the join .
8 The statement follows a claim by Sinn Fein councillor Fra McCann who said he had received complaints about dealers selling ecstasy at the council-owned concert hall .
9 When Queen Victoria died at the beginning of 1901 , Britain entered into the Edwardian Era with changes taking place at an ever increasing pace .
10 By contrast , R. H. B. Conacher of Upjohn Ltd has stated that in clinical trials various behavioural side-effects such as nervousness ‘ occurred in patients receiving placebo at a rate indistinguishable from that in patients receiving Halcion ’ .
11 Without pilots gaining experience at the lowest level , we will be shaping up for another chronic pilots shortage in a few years ' time .
12 The registration of the Hammonds as proprietors took place at the same time as the registration of the legal charge .
13 In Ceylon , stations ranged from those which served the elegant bungalow coastal suburbs of Colombo and those used by Europeans seeking refreshment at the hill stations or at Mount Lavinia to special ‘ coolie ’ stations , where the Tamil labour migrants introduced from South India to the tea plantations could be detrained and kept in quarantine until health requirements could be met .
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