Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [v-ing] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remembering that impulses arriving at a synapse can be either stimulatory or inhibitory , it is easy to imagine wiring diagrams that would have this effect . |
| 2 | This service provides delivery by a Post Office messenger for letters and packets arriving at a delivery office on the next working day after posting but too late for normal delivery on that day . |
| 3 | They have started a petition which has already gathered 450 signatures from residents of Ferryhill and drivers calling at the garage . |
| 4 | A journey to the heartland of today 's Ireland , Jiving at the Crossroads cuts to the core of the unresolved struggles that haunt the Irish psyche — between the past and the present , between the urban and the rural — creating a unique insight into the dilemmas faced by a whole generation born since de Valera 's vision of comely lads and lasses dancing at the crossroads . |
| 5 | This could result in the blind and pleats falling at an angle to the window . |
| 6 | Whatever they may have told the pollsters , there must have been countless voters who , as they finally confronted their choice , saw in their mind 's eye the image of a beaming Neil and Glenys standing at the door of Number 10 , and thought , dammit — prompting them to switch back to that decent , straightforward , reliable Mr Major . |
| 7 | The temperatures in the holds of ships in the tropics can be very high and goods standing at the dockside in tropical ports may be subjected to very high temperatures . |
| 8 | Myra Breckenridge , the sizzling exposure of sex in Hollywood by Gore Vidal had just made its appearance in London , along with Norman Mailer 's The Armies of the Night , about the invasion of the White House the previous October of pacifists and hippies protesting at the war . |
| 9 | The families and friends waiting at the airport saw the plane break from a cloud at about 700 feet and make its final descent . |
| 10 | The seminar brought together thirty personnel from all over the country for discussions and presentations looking at the challenge the new millennium will bring . |
| 11 | Twenty years later the population had risen by 478 but the proportion of the workforce employed in footwear had grown more dramatically , so that not only were 301 men and boys working at the trade but also 123 women and 118 girls . |
| 12 | Probes for the body and others probing at the mind . |
| 13 | This is an important area for wildfowl during the winter months , and if the tide is coming in it 's worth finding a comfy place to sit and watch the geese , ducks and waders feeding at the water 's edge , gradually being pushed closer by the tide . |
| 14 | The Department operates a Sports Bursary Scheme offering an educational programme , conditioning , medical and other support services and financial assistance to selected outstanding sportsman and women studying at the university . |
| 15 | Then some grass , and a dark green van , and doors opening at the back of it , and grey flat people moving in a white square . |
| 16 | No more did they do so in the Black Country 's nail-making trade , where the family 's output depended upon women as well as men working at the anvil . |