Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [noun pl] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The world itself is God 's greatest miracle ’ , he wrote , defending God 's freedom to work miracles at the cost of dissolving the idea of a nature which is subject to its own laws in the freedom of the divine will . |
| 2 | TAURUS You are going to have to put your mind to solve problems at the moment . |
| 3 | THE Government was under pressure last night to re-enter negotiations over the ambulance dispute as unions stripped away all but three elements of their pay and conditions claim in an attempt to force talks at the conciliation service , Acas . |
| 4 | He has had plenty of flirtations with European directors and writers and claims to be a great fan of Louis Malle and Alain Resnais , but when it comes right down to it , he does n't believe that a European sensibility sells tickets at the box office . |
| 5 | Initially , used the effect to entertain children at the Leukaemia unit in St Bartholomew 's hospital , but when he found that scientists also were taking interest , he founded the Magic Penny Society , partly because he sees the new pennies as an excellent educational toy to excite children 's interest in science . |
| 6 | Legislative changes in benefit regulations of course cause difficulties at the Department of Social Security which is already unable to cope . |
| 7 | Even more significant , perhaps , was an intensification of the philosophy which promoted wealth generating activities at the expense of social programmes . |
| 8 | A BOOZY L-driver in a motorway crash told police at the scene : ‘ I really AM Nigel Mansell . ’ |
| 9 | The pub offered snacks at the bar , and as my lunch had been a sandwich I was quite hungry . |
| 10 | Chief among these , I would argue , are a too heavy reliance on language , particularly descriptive terminology , a constant preoccupation with classroom and textbook centred examples at the expense of using the rich mathematical resources in an environment , and a sense of rigid , logical class by-class progression resulting probably from the original division into year-based writing groups . |
| 11 | If one regards the benefit in this light I can not see that the cost incurred in , or in connection with , the provision of the benefit , can properly be held to include the cost incurred , in any event , in providing education to fee paying pupils at the school who were there as a right in return for the fees paid in respect of them . |
| 12 | Closure of cash collecting paypoints at the end of this month will mean poll tax payers at Loftus , Saltburn and Skelton having to pay by post , through an arrangement with their bank , or by travelling to one of the other cash offices at Guisborough , Redcar and Eston . |
| 13 | The vilification of Arthur Scargill , the unbalanced emphasis on picket-line violence and intimidation , the failure to explain issues at the heart of the strike , the criminalization of striking miners , the unquestioned assumptions of police neutrality and the fundamental contradiction between the reality experienced by striking communities and the distorted presentation of that reality through the mass media — these were the key components of the media 's ideological policing of the strike . |
| 14 | Likewise , they expressed a desire to involve parents at the centre of decision-making . |
| 15 | The original idea of running Day Driving Courses at the Museum has proved enormously successful , well beyond the bounds of belief , with substantial bookings already well in to 1993 . |
| 16 | Meanwhile students at the lecture got the chance to pitch questions at the minister on a range of subjects from Maastricht to the loss of his private life . |
| 17 | While referring to the Treasury waggon which had been taken near Quatre Bras , von Keller 's counsel omitted to say anything about one particular carriage grouped with other captured vehicles at the village of Villers Perwin situated at a short distance from the Charleroi road near Quatre Bras . |
| 18 | ‘ It is an achievement to play games at the moment , as we are literally living from hand to mouth . |
| 19 | A substantial body of evidence implicates events at the EGF receptor as the start of hepatocyte proliferation after partial hepatectomy . |
| 20 | But Mr Jones signalled Mr Redwood was ready to make one compromise following protests at the decision to retain Powys . |
| 21 | One player is chosen to call out , ‘ Horns , horns , bull 's horns , ’ and everyone taps their knees and puts their fingers to their forehead to make horns at the animal 's name . |
| 22 | When I asked the headmistress of a junior school my daughter had been attending about the racist remarks children at the school had been making her answer was well-meaning and typical : ‘ Asking them to say thank you and please or asking them not to swear is one thing but asking them not to say ‘ nigger ’ or ‘ wog ’ or ‘ black people stink ’ is quite another . |
| 23 | It was in 1842 that the Kinnaird Commission , appointed to enquire into children 's employment , reported that 97 children and young persons were engaged in mineral dressing activities at the Church Coniston Mine . |
| 24 | The rod that I eventually settled with was made from an AFTM 10 reservoir fly rod blank , after an interesting morning inspecting blanks at the Horizon factory at Redditch . |
| 25 | Though he 's handed down management of the firm to his daughter Margaret , Cyril still spends each morning making sandwiches at the back of the shop … then it 's off to the bakery in nearby Wanborough in the afternoon . |
| 26 | Psychological writing generates ambiguities at the level of theory , and associative feminist psychologies stress these uncertainties , too . |
| 27 | The big-shot 's unlikely to leave time for the interviewee to ask questions at the end . |
| 28 | On the back er table there there 's a brochure called Women at the Wheel , it 's a Vauxhall er application please do take a good copy , very good application . |
| 29 | Additionally , if it is found that feelings of risk in the simulator are similar to those experienced when actually driving , and there is reasonable consistency between subjects in assessments , it is possible to infer the feelings of risk a subject is likely to experience when confronted with a particular situation without actually asking the subject to give ratings at the time . |
| 30 | Even when a picture is used , it is not complete , it takes the form of an icon which contains what the perceiver considers matters at the time . |