Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [noun pl] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SOME Northern Ireland construction companies are so desperate for business they are building houses at a loss , a report reveals today . |
| 2 | SOME Northern Ireland construction companies are so desperate for business they are building houses at a loss , a report reveals today . |
| 3 | — MEMBERS of Winterton Hospital Social Club are helping colleagues at the South Cleveland Hospital to raise money for the hospital 's Renal Unit by organising a charity night at the club . |
| 4 | In later life he seems to have returned to his early interest in astronomy ( on which he had already been writing papers at the age of eighteen ) . |
| 5 | Well , one couple are so determined that as many people as possible should at least have the CHANCE to read it that they 're producing copies at a quarter of the official price . |
| 6 | You talk like a bloody Rhodes scholar , and you 're slinging drinks at a lounge . ’ |
| 7 | A group of white parents , each of whose children had been allocated places at a school ( Headfield ) where 83 per cent of the pupils were of Asian origin , challenged the LEA 's decisions both individually , through separate appeals ( some of which were successful ) , and subsequently through collective action . |
| 8 | THE flagship of the Midland Railway Trust headquarters at Butterley , near Ripley in Derbyshire , No. 6203 ‘ Princess Margaret Rose ’ , will be operating trains at the Centre during the weekend of June 27 and 28 . |
| 9 | They will be selling tickets at the beginning of March . |
| 10 | 250 workers are to be offered jobs at the company 's headquarters near Tewkesbury 15 miles away , but at least 67 will lose their jobs . |
| 11 | proposed that of Droitwich be appointed Auditors at a fee of £850 plus VAT . |
| 12 | He landed him invitations to society dances where Jack would normally have been lucky to be collecting coats at the door . |
| 13 | Airtours still retains its 8.2 per cent stake in Owners , and Mr Crossland said he would be watching events at the company closely . |
| 14 | Mick Brown , the Maldon captain , said : ‘ Our out cricket is really good ; we are bowling and fielding very well , which is where we are winning games at the moment . ’ |
| 15 | I could n't tell you what , but they collected quite a lot of money for us and er , and er , er , they were holding things there , er people were holding boxes at the bottom of the gate like and er |
| 16 | Five other FIS officials were to face charges at the trial , one of them in his absence , for threatening the functioning of the national economy . |
| 17 | Now unscrupulous logging companies assisted by corrupt officials are destroying forests at the rate of 50 million acres a year . |
| 18 | In the current term we are receiving requests at the rate of something like twenty five per week and of course that has the implications both in terms |
| 19 | If patients are receiving sulphonylureas at the time of admission there is no contraindication to their continuation , although one should be wary of the very long-acting chlorpropamide as hypoglycaemia is more likely . |
| 20 | The prime business of the eight members of the London Discount Market Association is to buy bills at a discount and hold them until redemption date , thereby taking a profit . |
| 21 | One usual method is to leave gaps at the end of each block so that records can be inserted into a block ( with only slight reorganisation of the records in that block to maintain the correct order ) . |
| 22 | The fact that Oslear has been stripped of his position as the umpires ' boss at their annual meeting , means that Palmer , Hampshire and the England team now fear Allan Lamb 's sensational Daily Mirror revelations may never be backed by cricket 's dithering chiefs at the Test and County Cricket Board . |
| 23 | When will he get together with the Secretary of State for the Environment to put an end to the nonsense of capping , which is squeezing resources at a time of rapidly rising crime ? |
| 24 | As it stands at the moment all we 've done is thrown numbers at the typing |
| 25 | Erm , gorilla is throwing bananas at the gorilla and you have to get that traj je trajectory right . |
| 26 | Lord Huntingdon is loading supplies at the appeal offices in Godstone , Surrey , this morning and is due to arrive in Bosnia on Boxing Day . |
| 27 | In the 1950s the redoubtable Eva Crackles , a Yorkshire teacher , was gathering grasses at the point where the Leven canal crosses the site of an ancient lake , now long vanished , but clearly just surviving when the canal was cut in 1802 . |
| 28 | Well I told you that man was trimming trees at the bottom , the other day . |
| 29 | He was serving drinks at the party when Olympia died . |
| 30 | He swung round to stare at the spot where the barrow of ‘ Trumper , the honest trader ’ had stood for nearly a century , only to find a gaggle of youths warming themselves round a charcoal fire where a man was selling chestnuts at a penny a bag . |