Example sentences of "at [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 On Dec. 27 government spokesperson Yuan Mu was hissed at during a packed meeting with Beijing University students on current events when he said that China would not deviate from the socialist road , despite current events in Romania [ see pp. 37104-05 ] .
2 Your Big Mac index , and William Burke 's letter in the same issue about the yen-dollar exchange rate , brought to mind an explanation , which may be apocryphal , of how the exchange rate of ¥360 to $1 was arrived at during the occupation of Japan .
3 She began showing up at whatever hotel he was working at during the day , claiming to have been just passing .
4 SHOT AT during an armed hold-up , THREATENED by a violent drug gang and BEATEN UP at a party in posh Beverly Hills .
5 At Worth the supervisor was the sole full-timer .
6 McKim said : ‘ I can take a punch or a kick but to be spat at for no reason is disgusting .
7 The smaller bits we 'd look at for a time and then he 'd throw them on the fire .
8 An abacus uses human gall-stones on taut human sinew , the rocking horse has a semi-skeletal head , a set of wooden toy soldiers all have subtle mutations when looked at for a second time , and so on .
9 Now that idea was to get everybody together and erm because there have been certain members of the staff which have n't been looked at for a period of time they 've escaped the net as it were in the last couple of times and it seems that we 've had the same guys for the last three years and some have erm
10 , how did you did you find it , going back to a heavy engineering plant like after having been at for a while ?
11 This last was to acknowledge Charles , whom she looked at for a moment with suspicion .
12 It took eight minutes , outside of the three minutes aimed at for a wait at ticket offices , but the charter makes no distinction or offer of compensation for that delay .
13 ‘ Mr Nichol has a lot of knowledge in the fields of mental health and this is one area we have wanted to look at for a while . ’
14 Because , although it 's before nine erm , the next morning erm you 're actually giving them now more lead time , you 've given them another day because an , sometime tomorrow you know , if it gets there at two o'clock and it 's off-loading in in in at the bay and someone checks that it 's been received and then someone makes a phone call to tell them it 's there , and then they 're doing something else , and then they come down and have a look at it , how many boxes do you think are sitting on loading bays that do n't get looked at for a day or two , or three , or four , five when they 've had a next day service ?
15 Among the men already entered are The women 's event will see such names at For an official entry form contact
16 Cleveland Outlook social activities group meet at for an eight mile circular walk , lunch at Abbey Inn , Byland Abbey , 10.20am .
17 The new variable values become for forward x i j , for reverse x i j and remain at for the remaining variables .
18 What we are staring at for the moment is a ‘ permanent ’ Conservative ascendancy , rooted in the Thatcher ‘ revolution ’ and the sea-change in the political culture that has been in progress throughout the eighties .
19 ‘ The Managers ' Association have written to the FA suggesting this is an area that needs to be looked at for the good of football .
20 The optimal pairing of β and is found at for the KW record and at for the FCL record .
21 The optimal pairing of β and is found at for the KW record and at for the FCL record .
22 This rule has now been relaxed so as to permit reports of commissioners , including law commissioners , and white papers to be looked at for the purpose solely of ascertaining the mischief which the statute is intended to cure but not for the purpose of discovering the meaning of the words used by Parliament to effect such cure : Eastman Photographic Materials Co . Ltd. v. Comptroller-General of Patents , Designs and Trademarks [ 1898 ] A.C. 571 and Assam Railways and Trading Co . Ltd. v. Commissioners of Inland Revenue [ 1935 ] A.C. 445 , 457–458 .
23 In hollow-casting by the direct lost wax method , a core is modelled in clay on a metal armature , the surface finished in wax to the thickness aimed at for the bronze .
24 It 's what we 've been working at for the last three years .
25 As I understand the Leeds position , they want what they call a lev a level playing field , or to be aiming at the same goalposts that they 've been aiming at for the last number of years .
26 part of the area that we would be looking at for the new settlement .
27 That 's probably all we would want to look at for the time being .
28 Thus the Globigerina ooze on the floor of the Indian Ocean seems to be accumulating at between a and I centimetre per thousand years .
29 ‘ I ca n't abide things you have to peer at through a magnifying glass before you can see them , ’ he said , and pulled open the bottom drawer .
30 The eighteenth-century oil of Wicken Fen by an artist whose indecipherable signature , peered at through a microscope , had provided so many shared moments of happy conjecture .
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