Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [to-vb] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 COMMUTERS stood on tracks disrupting London-bound trains yesterday in protest at British Rail 's ‘ scorched earth ’ policy for eliminating the perennial problem of leaves on the line More than 50 people at Carshalton , Surrey , swapped season tickets for placards to protest at the transformation of leafy tracksides into what one called a ‘ scene from Apocalypse Now ’ , the film about the Vietnam war which showed the effects of mass defoliation with napalm .
2 Inevitably this assault had to mean trouble for some of their own folk , since they must drive through the outer ring of Scots to get at the enemy — the cost which had caused Ramsay momentarily to hesitate .
3 The first prizewinner will also receive £250 worth of vouchers to spend at a range of top high-street stores ; the 12 second prizewinners get £80 worth of vouchers .
4 Oh , why do n't you make what you 've got cos you 've got a lot of things to make at the moment , and then come back and choose another time , hm .
5 To force together two protons that are initially far apart , for example those in two separate hydrogen atoms , is like trying to encourage the two north poles of a pair of magnets to join at a distance of less than a billionth of a millimetre .
6 They function as a diversion to the eye , a focus for a view , a foretaste of grandeurs to come at the entrance to a park .
7 The Institute seems to be rather vaguely organized , as they still have n't been able to tell me what students I am teaching — my teaching , it turns out , does n't start until Monday , but I have heard that an abnormally large number of students have signed up for my course , so I shall have a lot of marking of papers to do at the end of four weeks .
8 Thus we are appealing for things to sell at the car boot sales , or maybe you would prefer to make a small donation to our funds .
9 The choice of wallpapers is enormous , with prices to match at every stage up and down the scale , but you do n't have to pay the earth to achieve a very luxurious look .
10 ISO has three detector systems for astronomers to position at the telescope 's focus to investigate different aspects of infrared sources .
11 With the Tunnel , you can commute to the City from France faster than from , say , Wiltshire or Dorset — which are the in places to live at the moment .
12 This effect causes impurities in solids to accumulate at the grain boundaries ( and also vacancies , that is , holes ) and this may cause the grain boundary to become a line of weakness .
13 Finally he took me in to his office and said he was looking for Girls to work at the Winter Gardens , Blackpool .
14 There is so much opportunity for children to look at the nature of the physical world around them which is n't taken advantage of , and which could be , and I think that may have something to do with the attitude of teachers as much as the attitude of children .
15 There is so much opportunity for children to look at the nature of the physical world around them which is n't taken advantage of , and which could be , and I think that may have something to do with the attitude of teachers as much as the attitude of children .
16 Blake has calculated that for speeds of up to 2 ½ metres per second , it is more efficient for dolphins to swim at the surface .
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