Example sentences of "[subord] [v-ing] at [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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31 This can be put to good use in soaring conditions as a means of getting into the lift when cruising at a high speed .
32 One group was quoted as ranting at a young police woman : ‘ We 're going to cut your belly open .
33 Either way , this section looks at some of the things you should think about when arriving at a new location .
34 To illustrate the conceptual basis of her thinking when arriving at a public relations platform on which to build a campaign for a consumer client , no better example could be found than her approach to the problem of one international manufacturing giant .
35 When arriving at the foreign post , will he or she be in a less senior capacity than in the home country because of unfamiliarity with local customs and methods of working ?
36 Foinavon had been trained by Tom Dreaper in Ireland for Arkle 's owner Anne , Duchess of Westminster , but while in Dreaper 's charge had been notable mainly for his extraordinarily laid-back demeanour : in a chase at Baldoyle he was in the lead when falling at the third fence , throwing Pat Taaffe well clear , but Foinavon did not bother to scramble to his feet , preferring to remain on the ground and pick quietly at the grass beside him .
37 When presiding at the photographic convention held in Oxford in 1901 , Herschel described developments by F. E. Ives and G. J. Lippmann .
38 An anomaly will be regarded as particularly serious if it is seen as striking at the very fundamentals of a paradigm and yet persistently resists attempts by the members of the normal scientific community to remove it .
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