Example sentences of "[adj] [v-ing] at [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dry slope was dotted with rabbits — some nibbling at the thin grass near their holes , others pushing farther down to look for dandelions or perhaps a cowslip that the rest had missed . |
| 2 | That looking at a bald head , a stupid girl , and something else . |
| 3 | Scientists working in a team , each looking at a separate facet of a problem , may well throw light on details , but they are no more likely to make fundamental discoveries than monkeys with typewriters . |
| 4 | Implementation of this part of the Criminal Justice Act is not only a challenge to joint working at a local level , it also straddles two central government departments . |
| 5 | Some of those arguing for mixed-ability teaching did so on the narrowest professional grounds that it would improve teaching and learning , obliging teachers to treat pupils as individuals each proceeding at a different pace and in a different manner . |
| 6 | That has much to do with the bringing together of all participants in the one place — all staying in the same hotel , all competing at the same venue , all joining in the same events , culminating in the Barbarian Easter Tour-style tradition of each nation providing a ‘ cabaret ’ turn at the farewell banquet . |
| 7 | When speeches are made after seated dinners at lengthy , formal wedding receptions , they begin after all eating at the formal meal has finished , and are preceded by the announcement from the toastmaster , ‘ Ladies and Gentlemen , you may now smoke . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ There have been occasions when there were three different speakers all preaching at the same time , attempting to drown each other out . |
| 9 | In saying that an event c caused an event e , or that e was the effect of c , we typically have in mind but do not say that a set of things including c , but not necessarily all occurring at the same time , was required for e . |
| 10 | They are not necessarily all living at the same level on the shore . |
| 11 | Er another problem we had as well is we had all going at the same time in a very close area as well . |
| 12 | It is assumed that all trains are of equal length and are all moving at the same speed , so that they each take p seconds to pass the crossing . |
| 13 | Moreover it inevitably ran into difficulties and criticism in the early 1980s when the American economy was in serious trouble — with a steep rise in oil prices and no agreement on how to conserve energy , and with inflation , unemployment and interest rates all running at a high level . |
| 14 | They all came from similar backgrounds and , as like minds , they were all congregating at the same place for the same reasons . |
| 15 | But you 're all arriving at the one time . |
| 16 | They bubbled with enthusiasm , all talking at the same time while raving on about the beauty of the bush walk . |
| 17 | Unless your oven temperature is very even , it 's a good idea to swap the trays around ; the brandy snaps nearer the heat will spread better and become more lacy than those cooking at a lower temperature . |
| 18 | Only those acting at the second and third stages have been described in the present chapter , but the most important agents for small mammal bone accumulations are those operating at the first stage of taphonomic modification . |
| 19 | Honeymoon and silver anniversary couples staying at the Villa Paradiso , Excelsior Palace and the Miramare receive a bottle of sparkling wine and flowers or fruit , those staying at the Jolly Diodoro receive fruit on arrival . |
| 20 | Research people at Coventry providing a corporate service will be those concerned with wider or longer term projects , in fibres and performance materials , and those working at a strategic level . |
| 21 | When the technical skills of the big-budge filmmakers were combined with the ideas of those working at a lower level , the result was the possibility of a thriving national cinema . |
| 22 | Those working at the sharp end will be able to add from their own experience . |
| 23 | In an economic climate such as that obtaining at the current time , employers are even more likely than usual to wish to alter their employees ' terms and conditions of employment , whether relating to pay , overtime requirements or other matters . |
| 24 | Lot number twenty four Lot number twenty four there 's Lot number twenty four showing at a hundred pounds , one hundred pounds and ten , twenty one thirty to my right a hundred and thirty offered . |
| 25 | Alcohol and other drugs have direct sedative and stimulant effects on the brain , both acting at the same time but over different periods of time . |
| 26 | ‘ We only met walking round Aurae Phiala yesterday , and then found we were both staying at the same pub . |