Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [noun pl] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the constant clock frequency is set too high the motor is unable to accelerate the load inertia to the corresponding stepping rate and the system either fails to operate at all or loses steps at the start of its travel . |
| 2 | The absence of reference to exchange rates and the EMS was presumably because there was nothing he could say without exciting renewed speculation or reopening divisions at the top of the Government . |
| 3 | I often see people who look about my own age working in shops or making appointments at the optician 's even sitting at desks in estate agency showrooms . |
| 4 | Mr Bland said last night : ‘ Our scheme is designed to ensure that LWT is in a position to make and broadcast programmes at the weekend from 1993 onwards . ’ |
| 5 | Amy had screamed for him to stop and , scooping up the kittens , had thrown back her head and howled obscenities at the cruelty of human beings . |
| 6 | It was after nine o'clock , however , by the time he got there , since his route was complicated , and involved calls at the mortuary of the General Hospital , at police headquarters , and a telephone call to the forensic laboratory . |
| 7 | Among its other demands are : i ) that manufacturers should be obliged to take back and recycle products at the end of their useful life ; ii ) that the EC should take steps to set up a comprehensive system of environmental liability ; and iii ) that environmental impact assessments on construction projects and other EC-funded programmes be strictly enforced both within and outside Europe . |
| 8 | It is a place to be warm , a place to be dry , a place to hang up my jacket and to pull faces at the storm outside . |
| 9 | Just as the introduction of spinning and weaving machines at the time of the Industrial Revolution in Britain destroyed craft jobs and created fragmented tasks which were performed by unskilled workers , will the new technology also be used to de-skill work ? |
| 10 | The clinical approach to family planning in which medical staff advised upon and provided services at the hospital was replaced by an extension approach in which a vast array of extension agents and network of services in the countryside was set up , using many techniques of marketing and advertising adapted to the Indian context . |
| 11 | Stopping and searching vehicles at the roadside . |
| 12 | THE FA have agreed to let managers climb Wembley 's 39 steps and receive momentoes at the end of this season 's FA Cup Final . |
| 13 | He met new-born babies , and said prayers in the rooms of the dying , and consoled families at the cemetery , and struggled to communicate with teenagers who did not know how to read . |
| 14 | Worried local residents still come to the Advice Centre for help with their legal problems , children still play safely in the refurbished Adventure playground , the Work Centre still sells Christmas cards , rugs and wooden toys , adults still learn to read and use computers at the Education Centre , and the clubs for the blind and the elderly still meet at 44 , Nelson Square . |
| 15 | The sum was raised in various ways : by donations from members of the public and exhibiting retailers at the Company 's ‘ Craft , Embroidery & Fashion ’ event held at Harrogate in November 1991 ; from advance ticket sales through Needlecraft magazine and from the raffle held at the show , which was generously supported by large numbers of people . |
| 16 | Several hundred in the crowd appeared to be in support of the rebels , and threw stones at the security forces . |
| 17 | And so on , in a potentially infinite regress of grandadology , wailing and gnashing teeth at the decline of family life , parental irresponsibility , declining national character , and the need for a firm reassertion of authority . |
| 18 | As a true Scottish non-conformer , he had no exaggerated respect for placemen in high office , and enjoyed jokes at the expense of the mighty . |
| 19 | Both federal and state leaders at the conference warned , however , that the reforms would face stiff opposition from vested interests in state governments , public service , trade unions and the business community . |
| 20 | A judicial investigation had opened on July 7 , 1989 , into the possible involvement of Blecha , Gratz and a former Federal Chancellor , Alfred ( Fred ) Sinowatz , and the court dealing with the affair began preliminary inquiries in September into the role played by the SPÖ Finance Minister , Ferdinand Lacina ( Minister for Transport and State Industries at the time ) ; similar inquiries were also initiated into the former Defence Minister , Friedhelm Frischenschläger ( FPÖ ) , and a former Minister of the Interior and of Foreign Minister , Erwin Lanc ( SPÖ ) . |
| 21 | While most students not in receipt of a job offer were making applications and attending interviews at the time they completed the Initial destinations questionnaires , the fact that one third of students would be looking for employment at the end of the courses can only be regarded as a disappointing , and rather unexpected , finding . |
| 22 | A defensive tool need be little more than a pointed stick , or hands could pick and hurl rocks at the animal predators . |
| 23 | Cut out about a quarter of the old bare wood from established trees by shortening some branches back to suitable side branches and severing others at the base . |
| 24 | He breaks off from his wine-bibbing and sewing activities at the back of the stage to step forward and talk directly to the audience , as do the four others involved in his life . |
| 25 | The policy implications of this view of the problem are spread across a continuum from agricultural extension to educate farmers into new and more modern farming practices at the one end , to compulsory erosion works and outlawing practices at the other . |
| 26 | Meanwhile new markets are being explored , principally by extending the acceptance of acetate yarn for suit and dress linings at the expense of viscose filament . |
| 27 | He was educated at Edinburgh High School , was a pupil in a firm of civil engineers , and attended lectures at the university in mathematics , physics , and other subjects . |
| 28 | Weber scurried to the ship 's blower , and shouted down it in fury , while Katze knelt below the shattered windowpane and took potshots at the dock with his Luger . |
| 29 | In an effort to create more atmosphere at Longchamp , Horse Racing Abroad , the chief transporter of Britons to French tracks , has its own grandstands , bars ( stocking drinks the British are used to ) , restaurants and betting facilities at the course to make its clients feel at home . |
| 30 | It did n't , I did and clad in my cagoule , glasses steamed up , and mouthing curses at the weather , I walked through the grey rain to Attermire and back to Malham . |