Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun pl] at [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her attempts to promote sales of the book by signing copies at a Long Island store ended abruptly when , following the bomb threat , police evacuated the store until closing time . |
| 2 | After signing copies at the official launch on Saturday , Bob , who lives on the edge of Hartburn , said : ‘ The initial print-run was 1,000 and more than 500 have been sold already . ’ |
| 3 | There 's usually some , some mums who are meeting the school and and walking dogs at the same time . |
| 4 | The emphasis on the desirability of academic detachment — however rarely achieved in practice — has had the effect of disengaging pupils at a personal level from what they are studying . |
| 5 | Royal Doulton and Wedgwood are to produce the tableware for the restaurant and banqueting facilities at the new Queens Moat House ( QMH ) hotel in Stoke-on-Trent , Staffordshire . |
| 6 | But , needing something to do after being ditched from pop show The Word , she has signed up for acting lessons at the famous Lee Strasbourg School . |
| 7 | Reynolds was here addressing students at the Royal Academy of Arts in London in 1772 . |
| 8 | For example the extended arithmetic element on the DEC PDP-8 has a " normalize " instruction which shifts the accumulator and MQ register left ( inserting zeros at the right-hand end ) , until the most and next most significant bits of the accumulator are different . |
| 9 | Involuntary unemployment can be defined as all those persons who are not in paid employment , but are actually seeking jobs at the prevailing rate of real wages . |
| 10 | Voluntary unemployment can be defined as consisting of all those persons who are not in paid employment and are receiving some form of social security benefit , but are not actually seeking jobs at the prevailing rate of real wages . |
| 11 | As the patents had run out on many ICI fibre Products , so competitors had jumped on the bandwagon and started building plants at a frenzied pace . |
| 12 | UK airlines are not sponsoring pilots at the present time , but the school is attracting an increasing number of young people , both from this country and abroad , who are prepared to invest something in the order of £50,000 to train as professional pilots … |
| 13 | My right hon. Friend is presenting awards at an important lunch . |
| 14 | ANNADALE Striders dominated the senior men 's event at the NIAAF Road Racing Championships at a rain-lashed Ormeay Park , Belfast . |
| 15 | After all , if you can borrow ( or exchange your existing UK mortgage where you are paying rates at the highest level in real terms for over a century ) for a Swiss franc mortgage at around 9.5 per cent , a mark mortgage at just under 10 per cent , an Ecu mortgage ( Ecu is the European currency unit which is made up of a ‘ basket ’ of 10 currencies including sterling ) at about 10 per cent or a Japanese yen mortgage at just under 8 per cent , why not do so ? |
| 16 | In the East End of London , the BNP has dared to re-emerge , selling newspapers at a weekly meeting in Brick Lane , a location made notorious for battles between the NF and anti-fascists in the late 1970s . |
| 17 | Selling houses to the poor may not be compatible with minimising the losses to taxpayers , which requires selling assets at the best price available . |
| 18 | We can congratulate ourselves on the forecasts which led to fixing fees at the right levels , but commercial criteria are not the only means of judging the fortunes of professional institutes . |
| 19 | A DARLINGTON teenager was selling drugs at an open-air party , a Teesside Crown Court jury decided yesterday . |
| 20 | The Declaration 's organizational framework committed parties to " co-ordinate and co-operate … by holding meetings at the foreign ministers ' level " . |
| 21 | Breaking into and stealing cars at every available opportunity . |
| 22 | The Satanic Verses author spent an hour buying presents at the famous Bloomingdale 's store in New York . |
| 23 | AEA has also developed a novel system for sterilising medical equipment and this is undergoing trials at a major UK teaching hospital . |
| 24 | ‘ I can still remember the feeling of intense shock , but also a feeling of superiority that we had heard the news before many other people , ’ says E. Walker , who was teaching infants at a primary school in North Yorkshire when Music and Movement was interrupted to bring the news . |
| 25 | The key features review referred to above is devised to identify potential deal breaking problems at an early stage , so as to limit the possibility of Big accumulating large professional fees on ultimately abortive deals . |
| 26 | In order to ensure the supply of food to these markets the government established buying agencies at a national level and prohibited the transport of agricultural products between different provinces without official authorisation . |
| 27 | SIR RAGHAVAN PILLAI , the eminent Indian civil servant , who has died aged 93 , achieved the distinction of holding positions at the highest levels both during the Raj and after Independence . |
| 28 | The successive north-east facing ridges at the southern end of the spit probably record phases in the evolution of the spit and are comparable with the laterals on Scolt Head Island and Blakeney Point . |
| 29 | However , in a letter addressed to Saddam on Aug. 8 , the Iranian had noted that " no substantial progress " had been made , and cast doubt on the usefulness of holding negotiations at a higher level . |
| 30 | And I think that whereas erm we would not necessarily argue with a case for providing criteria at a strategic plan at a structure plan level erm to put some flesh on what is meant and maybe clarify some of the explanatory memorandum in a more positive way , simply should ensure that the policy does not dilute , sorry that whatever changes emerge , does not dilute the mode intention of the policy . |