Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun pl] at the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | There 's usually some , some mums who are meeting the school and and walking dogs at the same time . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Reynolds was here addressing students at the Royal Academy of Arts in London in 1772 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 … |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | Selling houses to the poor may not be compatible with minimising the losses to taxpayers , which requires selling assets at the best price available . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The Declaration 's organizational framework committed parties to " co-ordinate and co-operate … by holding meetings at the foreign ministers ' level " . |
| 14 | The Satanic Verses author spent an hour buying presents at the famous Bloomingdale 's store in New York . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Whether they be in mixed ability , banded , streamed or set groups , the teacher must cater for each pupil 's progress by providing tasks at the appropriate levels . |
| 18 | Experience , however , showed that employers have many priorities — such as making a profit , obtaining orders , producing orders at the right price — and that something which they are not compelled to do , particularly in circumstances where the economic climate is adverse , goes well down the list of priorities . |
| 19 | There was one of those churning , drowning pile-ups at the penultimate jump . |
| 20 | She had started attending classes at the Blind Club , and was being prepared for her further loss of sight . |
| 21 | He was apprenticed at the age of fourteen to Robert Napier [ q.v. ] at the Vulcan works in Glasgow , at the same time attending classes at the Andersonian Institution in the city . |
| 22 | This is due to so many processors running applications at the same time and the numerical methods used for rounding off figures . |
| 23 | I tend to snap up good second-hand equipment if I have the opportunity , and obtain new items by approaching stand-holders at the big shows 5 minutes before packing-up time on Sunday . |
| 24 | Paradoxically , attending courses at the Civil Service College often led to more dissatisfaction when contrasted with the reality of civil service life . |
| 25 | Acceptance of a proof of debt for voting purposes at the first meeting is not the same as acceptance by the trustee of a proof for dividend and the trustee is not bound by the earlier decision of the official receiver . |
| 26 | This has far reaching consequences at the cultural level not only for learning but also for the design of jobs and even for leisure pursuits which increasingly depend on the same kind of interface . |
| 27 | Finally , has the substantial expansion of educational provision increased the chances of working-class youth , relative to those of other young people , of obtaining positions at the top end of the occupational ladder ? |
| 28 | And he also sacrifices his dancefloor fun for DJing chores at the legendary Pushca parties , the Superstar Niteclub at Bar Industria and The Fruit Machine , Heaven 's new Wednesday night gay club . |
| 29 | Moving the suspension of standing orders at the next meeting of Cork County Council , Councillor Gene Fitzgerald TD complained that the first council members heard of the planning decision was when they read of it in the morning paper . |
| 30 | This means making representations at the initial draft stage , when public comment is sought , and going through what is effectively a planning appeal if the first comments are ignored and a formal objection has to be lodged . |