Example sentences of "staff [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That and the rain , which stained the concrete a dirty brown , gave the place a deserted look even during term-time , but the fact that it was so close to London meant that it really was deserted at the weekends as students and staff headed for the bright lights . |
| 2 | In the same ways the author has elsewhere suggested that some of the difficult ‘ value ’ problems faced by the former National Assistance Board ( NAB ) staff stemmed from the ambivalence of legislation . |
| 3 | This remained the office until 1879 when the staff moved across the George IV Bridge to accommodation in the Sheriff Court Buildings . |
| 4 | CCG staff rose to the challenge and baked hundreds of scones and cream teas for the Weir Paper Products fete held in Falkirk . |
| 5 | In Palace 's early days , and at least until the end of the 1920s , almost all the playing staff came from the North of England or the Midlands but Bateman was a popular and welcome exception . |
| 6 | Our training staff came from the 3rd Squadron , which had returned from the war in Chad three months before . |
| 7 | 2.3 The current figures of full time staff graded on the GS grades are : = |
| 8 | The staff consisted of the Professor ( Vial ) secretary ( Mounsher ) collector ( Reuben Smith ) an assistant to the Professor ( Prosser , engaged in November 1792 ) a porter , three smiths and five grooms . |
| 9 | The discovery was made at 11.30am after staff arrived at the pub and found they could not get in . |
| 10 | Earlier Mr Garber told the tribunal : ‘ If a male member of staff belonged to the Chippendales and brought in photos I would have done the same . ’ |
| 11 | yeah , we 've lost an enormous amount of staff probably a third of our staff disappeared in the last twelve months , and I think y you we must recognise it 's bound to make an impact and here we are sitting here feeling a bit shell shocked and that 's no doubt one of the contributory factors . |
| 12 | The station 's 240 remaining staff saw off the last of the nuclear fuel elements . |
| 13 | Some 571 staff went with the sale of Sofres , bringing Sema 's total headcount to 6,920 worldwide . |
| 14 | Quick action by staff resulted in the rescue of a number of carriages before the fire took hold of the entire building . |
| 15 | The next day the Imperial Naval Staff looked at the plans once again and decided to accept Operation Z . |
| 16 | Orchard House old peoples home in Sandford won a major safety award five months ago for the way staff looked after the residents . |
| 17 | The difficulty of convincing the rest of the staff lay in the fact that Alice did not have a particular admirer or male friend , as most of the girls did . |
| 18 | The scale of the opposition to the health secretary became clear as the staff crowded round the lunchtime television news . |
| 19 | However , the only disaster occurred inside the Tower , where the duty staff dived to the floor when it looked as if the port wing was going to come through the window and a bottle of red ink emptied itself down the right sleeve of Flt Lt Dunlop , the Officer in Charge . |