Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [verb] [to-vb] at [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In May 1960 the EEC began to look at ways of liberalising the movement of capital , and the following year issued the first regulations governing the existence of cartels .
2 The artists began to hint at change ; Japanese prints were re-educating the European eye and African masks attracted the attention of the sculptor and painter .
3 In WORDWISE + , the command ( f1 ) PN12(f2) could be input for a file which the user wished to start at PAGE 12 .
4 The Dalisons continued to live at Halling Palace until 1656 , when the grandson of Sir Maximilian , also named Maximilian , married Frances Stanley of West Peckham , heir to Thomas Stanley .
5 Once a deal was struck between matchmaker and the parents , the girl had to stay at home until her marriage .
6 After one or two walks over the hills together the girl preferred to stay at home so the mother went on her own ; on one of these occasions Peony had actually tidied up and got tea ready and gone a little way along the track to meet her mother when she saw her coming up the hill .
7 The Indians refused to testify at Findley 's trial , and he was freed .
8 Another concern is that it can also promote compulsive night-time wetting as the child learns to urinate at night rather than inhibit urination ( Doleys 1978 ) .
9 The plan to abandon reprocessing for the oxide fuels used in PWRs , such as the CEGB wants to build at Sizewell , is backed by Britain 's biggest engineering firm , GEC .
10 Then the children start to arrive and the husband has to stay at home at nights with the wife and help look after them .
11 Sometimes some of the sheep and goats are hidden , and when the flock comes to rest at midday the boy is given a few minutes in which to inspect gothorima and report .
12 Every year when the Nile began to rise at Cairo , a young virgin was dressed in bright apparel and thrown into the river .
13 Later on , when Lewis and his wife and the baby went to stay at Wyvis Hall , Hilbert 's only comment on his great-nephew 's name was :
14 The half-stepping scheme is therefore a useful compromise , since the Vo/V1 ratio is not too high and reasonable damping can be achieved by arranging for the motor to come to rest at positions where two phases are excited .
15 But , although the headmaster turned to frown at Mahmud , Robert did n't yet feel he had any justification for leaving the neat line of boys and tracking down Maisie .
16 An unplanned twenty-minute hold prior to the display further reduced his fuel reserves , and the pilot intended to refuel at Denham before returning to a private strip at Pangbourne .
17 The Firm arrange to meet at John 's place at nine that night .
18 This is not to say that there are not many households where there is peace and contentment , when the old person is fortunate enough to keep well in mind and body even when she becomes frail , and where the daughter prefers to remain at home , and is able to make a satisfying life for herself .
19 To add to their misery , the flight was delayed when the plane had to land at Belfast because of bad weather .
20 Webs without stabilimenta are more delicate ; the spider tends to build at night and take the web down before dawn , recycling the silk next evening .
21 They 're the only sweetpea growers in the country asked to show at Chelsea ; the high standard of their flowers reflected in the 3 gold medals they 've won at past shows .
22 Nithard puts them in 839 : Charles 's mother , and the magnates who had worked on the will of his father to promote Charles 's cause , fearing that if Louis were to die before matters were settled , they would risk incurring the hatred of Charles 's brothers to their own ruin , advised that the father should choose one of those sons to be his helper so that , even if the others refused to remain at peace after their father 's death , these two at least would have been so firmly united that they would be able to withstand the hostility of their rivals .
23 She graduated from Smith summa cum laude , was awarded a Fulbright grant to study at Newnham College , Cambridge , and arrived there in October 1955 .
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