Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [v-ing] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was less interest in the possibility of home delivery , although mobile shops calling at the door would be an obvious service to housebound consumes . |
| 2 | They brought their turbans , their pride and their brown eyes twinkling at the prospect of business . |
| 3 | Billy Sullivan suddenly shaped up to his friend , his clenched fists pawing at the air and his shoulders moving from side to side . |
| 4 | The ideal network station comes with a variety of access controls to prevent other network users blundering around the files on your local hard disk and to prevent unauthorized users getting at the network . |
| 5 | In Leeds United they were facing one of the top three English sides playing at the pinnacle of their powers . |
| 6 | Fatherly , distinguished men scoffing at the hero 's genius in smoke-filled clubs , plotting his come-uppance , but ultimately being swept away by the rollercoaster force of his obsessive talent . |
| 7 | In the suburbs and , especially in rural areas , the frequency of public transport can make all the difference between attending an activity that you enjoy and spending cold , wet afternoons waiting at the bus stops . |
| 8 | The colour rushed back into her face , her back arched still further , she whimpered and thrashed , her outstretched hands clutching at the edge of the mattress . |
| 9 | Last Wednesday we invited the 4 British students studying at the University to visit us at the hotel for dinner . |
| 10 | Around the same time , he saw a boy or young man wearing light clothes running at the side of the road . |
| 11 | The main right-wing opposition party , National Renewal ( RN ) , criticized the description of the political circumstances existing at the time of the coup , but otherwise gave the report a favourable reception , as did the parties of Aylwin 's centre-left government and the mainstream left . |
| 12 | Hence the vocabulary of the system is effectively unlimited , unlike models working at the word level where the size of the model increases very rapidly with the size of the vocabulary . |
| 13 | I listened to attendant noises coming on gradually — the scuffles and grunts and curses of men near at hand , a more distant din of shod feet moving at the double , shouted commands . |
| 14 | In my own survey of visitors to the British Museum in which teams of five interviewers worked for four separate weeks interviewing at the museum entrances I made sure that I was present for at least the first day of each survey and was available by phone during the rest of the time . |
| 15 | It is justified as ‘ an important and essential part of a publicly funded legal aided system to prevent unreasonable conduct of legally aided litigation and to prevent assisted persons profiting at the expense of public funds . ’ |
| 16 | if there was any obvious possibility of separate role-mappings predominating at the level of sentence-based case , the material was not used . |
| 17 | In 1851 the Ridge family monopolised the manufacture of brace bits and gimlets in the south Yorkshire village of Ecclesfield , with nine separate households working at the craft . |
| 18 | Other Council 's like Harlow do have central policy units which is what we would be described as , because people recognition that it 's important that you need to have people who are outside departments looking at the organisation as a whole , what it 's doing , where it 's going , how it 's being influenced by external organisation 's , i.e. what the Health Service are doing locally , or what the Government 's doing more significantly , erm , I think you need people looking around to see how the Council 's affected and what , what were doing in and taking an overall view and responding in that way and that 's the kind of thing that we do and that 's why were here . |
| 19 | After they have gone there would be financial chaos with severely or perhaps mortally wounded airlines remaining at the City — it might take years for a network of routes to be soundly re-established . |
| 20 | When it comes to silver-plated cutlery there are just as many confusing statements coming at the caterer . |
| 21 | ‘ Lots of reasons , the main one being that he was basically a crook with a number of little operations going at the factory . |
| 22 | The government 's ambitious reforms aiming at the revitalization of the national economy and the introduction of a fully operating free-market mechanism , outlined by Antall in May 1990 [ see p. 37465 ] , incorporated privatization , together with efforts to increase exports , to enter the world economy and to attract foreign investment . |
| 23 | ‘ See the pretty bubbles winking at the brim and forget it . ’ |
| 24 | The trend since then has been confirmed , with England 's corporate raiders prospering at the expense of the Picts . |
| 25 | ( 3 ) All other estates , interests , and charges in or over land take effect as equitable interests ; ( 4 ) The estates , interests , and charges which under this section are authorised to subsist or be conveyed or created at law are ( when subsisting or conveyed or created at law ) in this Act referred to as " legal estates , " and have the same incidents as legal estates subsisting at the commencement of this Act ; and the owner of a legal estate is referred to as " an estate owner " and his legal estate is referred to as his estate . |
| 26 | Sometimes when in the evening I lie down with half closed eyes looking at the sunset , I see the screen of the eyelashes and its wonders . |
| 27 | Lord Ennals will be joined by a variety of eminent speakers looking at the role of the law , and of lawyers in finding legal remedies for people in need of community care services . |
| 28 | He walked along the beach , past rows of low cedar huts , his bare feet kicking at the surf which swept in from the north , enjoying the cool water and the tickling sensation of sand being swept between his toes and around his ankles . |
| 29 | However , major defects existing at the time of the sale are another matter . |
| 30 | Thus in SIAT di del Ferro v Tradax Overseas SA [ 1978 ] 2 Lloyd 's Rep 470 Donaldson J explained that a court should ask the question " Would the parties have agreed that a particular term formed part of the contract if they were reasonable men looking at the matter objectively in the knowledge that no adverse consequences could flow from the answer ? " |