Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun] [noun pl] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remembered my own boyhood watching cavalrymen sticking tent pegs at the gymkhanas , and tried knights on shining white chargers , complete with shining white bascinets , breastplates , leg armour and gauntlets doing the same thing to my inside , but they never really filled the role . |
| 2 | It is based on a study of flashing light and vibrating pad alarms at the Radcliffe Hospital and Infirmary , Oxford . |
| 3 | ( He has now retired from the Branch but remains active , instructing student investigators at the aircraft accident investigation course at Cranfield Institute of Technology . ) |
| 4 | Curiously it is manageable only using SNMP protocols at the moment , although a NetView agent is being developed . |
| 5 | The cellulose chains are always simple thread-like molecules and do not branch by forming oxygen linkages at the sides of the sugar rings , as do other , weaker , polysaccharides such as starch . |
| 6 | Field Marshal Sir Nigel Bagnall inspecting officer cadets at the RMA Sandhurst during a Passing-Out Parade . |
| 7 | Adam Smith 's famous dictum that we should not subsidise grape production in Scotland , does not extend to subsidising wine imports at the expense of the ‘ wine of the country ’ . |
| 8 | Martin who was directing pop videos at the time showed me the video just after leaving college . |
| 9 | Even so , Mills and White ( 1978 ) have proposed an ‘ effluent fee ’ for motor vehicle emissions calculated by measuring emission levels at the beginning and end of the year multiplied by the distance driven . |
| 10 | In Manchester , police were forced to evacuate the areas surrounding bus stations at the Arndale Centre , Chorlton Street , Piccadilly and Stephenson Square for up to three hours while searches were carried out . |
| 11 | Nonetheless , the majority ( 70% ) of rear seat car passenger casualties in this age group were not wearing seat belts at the time of the accident . |
| 12 | Middle-class Edinburgh lads like myself are discouraged from an early age from being physical unless they 're wearing rugby shorts at the time . |
| 13 | Even so , with at least two American tournaments lacking name sponsors at the time of writing and the LTA 's anxious search for a company willing to take over the men 's autumn indoor event in Birmingham , are we , I wonder , starting to see the icy blow of reality infiltrating a sport which , for so long , has seemed immune from the impact of any recession ? |
| 14 | The FC are also considering installing leaflet dispensers at the start of some of the routes . |
| 15 | With Kuwait 's Ahmadi refinery once again operational at 130,000 b/d , the emirate was looking forward to being able to stop importing petroleum products at the end of that month . |
| 16 | My mum and dad bought me a piano when I started having piano lessons at the age of four and three quarters . |
| 17 | Andrew Clements is spending summer evenings at the opera |
| 18 | This envisaged , among other things , the connection of the two countries ' electricity grids , giving priority to providing direct telecommunications links , joining railway lines at the border , and joint agricultural and water conservation projects . |
| 19 | A further consideration when measuring protein synthesis by taking liver biopsies at the time of surgery has been what effect , if any , the anaesthetic agents themselves would have on protein synthesis . |
| 20 | Altogether , in round figures , there are about three thousand students taking education awards at the moment . |
| 21 | If your Night Goblins have bows they can add further insult by taking pot shots at the enemy while he squirms . |
| 22 | Investigation showed that failures and many of the ambiguities resulted from combining phrase groupings at the clause level . |
| 23 | COUNTY councillor David Clark warned of significant changes to bus services affecting Liss residents at the parish council annual general meeting last week , saying that there was bound to be some confusion for a time . |
| 24 | By identifying cash deficits at the planning stage a firm will be in a good position to arrange financing for the deficit . |
| 25 | Whilst poor Millie , far from playing cello concertos at the Festival Hall , or leading archaeological expeditions to Asia Minor , or whatever she was expected to be doing by this time , is … |
| 26 | This in turn will be supplemented by other key decisions last night : for a law — unprecedented here placing emergency powers at the government 's disposal by the end of October , and for another Bill within a month to regulate rail traffic . |
| 27 | Many companies are making software announcements at the Supercomputing ‘ 92 : nCube reports that off-the-shelf software packages will be available on its massively parallel systems for applications ranging from molecular modelling to design pharmaceuticals and for oil exploration . |
| 28 | Police are hunting arsonists who 're targeting hay barns at the height of the harvest . |
| 29 | Rave kids should be throwing petrol bombs at the Houses Of Parliament over the way their right to party has been thrown in the proverbial dumper , but they are n't . |
| 30 | Being the only Leeds fan in a London inner city school with Alan Clarks famous speach about bring Success to Leeds in 3 Years , is causing me to go into cold shivers and giving me a pessimistic mood about the new season , I can still remember the years of telling school friends at the end of each season that we are rebuilding and that we would come up the next season . |