Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [v-ing] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among those noting Xu 's habit of using just one board ( ingredients are so fresh and so quickly prepared that food poisoning is not considered a threat ) is Keith Mitchell , team captain of the British chefs competing at the culinary Olympics in Frankfurt next year , and head chef at the Grand Hotel , Eastbourne , East Sussex . |
| 2 | There have been few studies looking at the sexual risk of HIV infection for women who have sex with women and so there are few reported cases of women infected in this way . |
| 3 | He saw two German troopers spurring at the second Frenchman . |
| 4 | His unsuccessful serious plays had drawn on the Harold Pinter trick of having two different conversations continuing at the same time , and they were often returned with the comment that he had copied the playwright . |
| 5 | The different frequencies of light are what the human eye sees as different colors , with the lowest frequencies appearing at the red end of the spectrum and the highest frequencies at the blue end . |
| 6 | Luther Reynolds clenched the sides of the chair , his large fists curling and uncurling , and his fiery dark eyes glaring at the determined face of David Miller , the stepson he had come to resent with such bitterness that he could taste it . |
| 7 | Symptoms were regarded as mere signposts pointing at the real target . |
| 8 | CACI are also able to build more advanced studies looking at the specific market sectors that a client may be interested in . |
| 9 | But if it 's a world problem , if there are international dimensions to our problems in Britain , or to Kenya 's problems in Kenya , or to Mexico 's Mexican problems in Mexico , then somehow we 've got to have international groups looking at the international aspects of those problems . |
| 10 | In court , address all judges from the High Court upwards ( including both circuit judges and recorders when acting as High Court judges , and including also all judges sitting at the Central Criminal Courts ) as ‘ my Lord/Lady . ’ |
| 11 | Classes help the actor to gain confidence in dealing with many things happening at the same time , and this is an important part of student work . |
| 12 | However , some skins had long side-burns terminating at the lower jaw . |
| 13 | In view of the stringent financial requirements imposed on BR by the government this may be a little unfair but it does neatly encapsulate the views of many commentators looking at the likely impact of the Tunnel on the South East after 1993 . |
| 14 | the stratigraphic units subcropping at the top Carboniferous under a cover of younger sediments , |
| 15 | Nuclear Scientists working at the Joint European Torus project in Oxfordshire will be going on strike for the second time . |
| 16 | Bending , he feathered a kiss along her cheek , his cool lips pausing at the delicate curve of her ear . |
| 17 | The Commission helps to create around five thousand new jobs a year.And all the small firms exhibiting at the Three Counties are hoping the orders will keep flowing in . |
| 18 | It sounded like twelve machines running at the same time . |
| 19 | On the Dabs board the sockets are oriented with the number one pins pointing at the other socket . |
| 20 | Clearly there is so much ground to be covered , particularly on the engineering and operational sides , when a large transport aircraft is involved that you will need several investigators working at the same time . |
| 21 | During a trade dispute in 1960 , a police officer found two pickets standing at the front entrance of a factory , four standing at the back entrance and ten or twelve outside the back entrance . |
| 22 | At the same time , there are other groups operating at the second level of influence on norms . |
| 23 | Flinging it wide , she made to thrust the other woman from the house , only to be brought up short by the sight of two gentlemen standing at the other end of the long covered porch . |
| 24 | Two lawnmowers going at the same time the neighbours must be annoyed . |
| 25 | Such as the fact that it is not really possible to have two adjacent needles tucking at the same time in any part of the pattern . |
| 26 | Although there is no physical limit in the number of tucking stitches , in practice most patterns do not have more than 20 or so adjacent needles tucking at the same time . |
| 27 | The Scottish Panel on Inter-Library Lending met three times in the course of the year , with several new members joining at the latest meeting as part of an arrangement to rotate membership to bring in as wide a representation of Scottish libraries as possible . |
| 28 | When they reached it , they spied two men standing at the ready as they had expected : the passage through the palisade over the water was always manned by a guard or two . |
| 29 | Esther Ward was clearly agitated , her bony fingers plucking at the frayed leather of the desk-top , and a nervous look in her unusually penetrating blue eyes that sent a shiver through the man standing before her . |
| 30 | Today it is one of the best automated factories in the world , with computer-controlled parts arriving at the right instant at each work station to churn out reliable personal computers ( ‘ PCs ’ ) for a market that is still growing . |