Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun pl] [to-vb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These situations may be characterised not by the actual risk felt in the situation but by the potential for risky situations to occur at the junction . |
| 2 | The men from the lorry picked their way through a graveyard of broken stones to pray at a sheikh 's white-domed tomb , while we made our way across a wide flood plain of gravel and cracked mud to the river . |
| 3 | IVAN Lendl joined the long list of seeded players to fall at the US Open when he was forced to retire because of tendinitis in his left knee . |
| 4 | After all , she had signed Sting in the first place ( she had even given him a list of music-business lawyers to consult at the time , but he had used the Newcastle lawyer because he was cheaper ) . |
| 5 | Sometimes it appears that the mere act of measuring them in order to manufacture a candle of corresponding dimensions to burn at the tomb was sufficient to effect the cure . |
| 6 | Perhaps , with its powerful jaws , it also routinely crunched up bones of dead carcasses to get at the marrow , a scavenger-cum-predator like today 's lion or hyaena . |
| 7 | Other specific provision includes an ESL ( English as a Second Language ) initiative which seeks to help unwaged individuals from ethnic minorities to look at the skills involved in setting up small businesses or entering self-employment . |
| 8 | Smallfry walked with him all the way to the playground , where the other children bunched together in little groups to stare at the absentee and his beautiful mother . |
| 9 | There was a short silence now in which anyone with good enough hearing to detect a pin-drop would have detected the sound of hundreds of little grey cells jostling and barging each other in frantic efforts to arrive at a perfect understanding of the day 's events . |
| 10 | Italy was in many ways at the heart of musical activities during the eighteenth century ; composers came from other countries to study at the various centres and Italian music was exported the world over . |
| 11 | In the interval there would be pressure on Scottish MPs to abstain at the second vote on the ground that their constituents were not affected . |
| 12 | He said that it might take two to three years to arrive at the complete version of the social audit , which will be sent to all shareholders with the financial statements . |
| 13 | Erm , resolution that Synod appoints Jo , John as Synod clerk for a period of up to three years to commence at a date mutually convenient to him and the present Synod clerk . |
| 14 | Unfolding the notice , she found it was a call to Italian women to demonstrate at the NATO base where the camp had been set up . |
| 15 | William Symons must have been a wild one for in July of the same year he and Elizabeth Cole also of Halling , were both bound over for twenty shillings to appear at the next gaol delivery . |
| 16 | Hong Kong casts a spell over the visitor almost as soon as your aircraft weaves its way between high-rise blocks to land at the chaotic airport . |