Example sentences of "be [verb] at [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | Hundreds of people are queueing at cinemas across the region to see Hollywood 's new dinosaur blockbuster Jurassic Park . |
2 | Hundreds of people are queueing at cinemas across the region to see Hollywood 's new dinosaur blockbuster Jurassic Park . |
3 | Not surprisingly turquoise has frequently been excavated at sites on the Iranian plateau , notably at Hissar and Yahya . |
4 | ( 3 ) The P. wickerhamii introns are located at positions within the structural genes which can be considered as preferred intron insertion sites in homologous mitochondrial genes from fungi or liverwort . |
5 | Operations manager Siobhan Hunter , who is responsible for the Morgan Grenfell contract , says : ‘ We 've been looking at computers for the past 18 months , and we went for Caterdata , having seen it in action at BE Services , the in-house caterer at the Bank of England . ’ |
6 | Council officers have also been looking at playgrounds in the Witham area . |
7 | But we are looking at charities from the institutional end of the business , not the private client end ’ . |
8 | Nobody in marketing is looking at a plus or minus two per cent — they 're looking at trends in the longer term . ’ |
9 | But you 're looking at things on the top floor where they 're not squashed — not to the same extent at any rate-so … they would look … bigger than normal … yes ? ’ |
10 | The audience peers at U2 like they 're looking at animals in the zoo . |
11 | Police are warning elderly people to be on their guard against a bogus council worker who has been calling at homes in the Forest of Dean . |
12 | Commenting on warnings that East Anglia faces a fourth year of drought and restrictions on the use of water for irrigating crops , Mr Peter Ferguson , a director of Halcrow , a firm of consulting engineers , in Colchester , Essex , said : ‘ Farm ponds provide storage for surface or ground water sources and can be filled at times of the year when there is more water than the crops require . ’ |
13 | Others such as George Cadbury , who initiated Bournville Village in 1897 , and Joseph Rowntree who started New Earswick Village , York , in 1904 , experimented in creating model communities of houses built at prices which would enable them to be let at rents within the reach of working-class incomes . |
14 | But if I was studying the daisy family here , I 'd be looking at plants from the size of daisies as we know them , to plants the size of trees . |
15 | For travellers to the United States in the last few decades of the nineteenth century the immigrants to be seen at stations in the West , particularly in Omaha , were one of the most striking images of their visits . |
16 | The actual content of the book itself consists of a series of spells and invocations designed to be used at meetings of the club , just as similar books were used at meetings of The Hell Fire Club all over Britain and Ireland . |
17 | While working from the Billingham gallery , some of his work , such as those items exhibited at Kirkleatham , may be found at venues in the area . |
18 | He was seldom to be found at meetings of the BPI , the industry 's body , or glad-handing at functions among bow-tie- and cumberbund-wearers . |
19 | The matter was due to be reviewed at meetings of the Competition Committee and the Management Committee , where any ban would be ratified . |
20 | In remarks understood to be directed at members of the European Communities ( EC ) and the United States , whose differences over farm subsidies had contributed to the breakdown of the talks in December 1990 [ see pp. 37796 ; 37930 ] , Dunkel called for " political rhetoric " to " be complemented by political courage " . |
21 | They will still be leaning at times on the accuracy of left-arm Yorkshireman Paul Booth or , for the one-days , maybe on Neil Smith . |
22 | Keith Evans ' charge that some American school media centres actually undermined the morale of teachers ( a charge he did not , incidentally , document ) was not one which could be levelled at centres on the Madeley and Codsall model , and their influence was such that many examples existed , at least for periods of time . |
23 | ‘ This will be aimed at sectors of the economy which have been hit hardest by the recession , helping to rebuild confidence and so foster recovery , ’ the Chancellor claimed . |
24 | The LEA inspector , having been involved at intervals throughout the year , should not , in Bill Laar 's ( 1989 ) phrase provide ‘ awkward surprises ’ in comments made . |
25 | Staff are protesting at cuts in the education budget which will cost jobs and increase class sizes . |
26 | Its bombs almost invariably devastate towns and property where Protestants are in the majority and its shootings are directed at members of the security forces , who are mainly Protestant . |
27 | ‘ In the United Kingdom ’ shall include investment advertisements issued outside the UK if they are directed at persons in the UK otherwise than in a newspaper etc published and principally circulated outside the UK or broadcast on a media primarily aimed outside the UK . |
28 | Our return to the Duomo is by way of Corso Vittorio Emanuele , a pedestrian-only street that is used as an outdoor art gallery , works by contemporary sculptors being erected at intervals along the length and changed regularly . |
29 | Rollers for the pump flat-rods or chains , and the winding chain , were positioned at intervals up the incline to a pivot and a wheel at the tunnel mouth , then along the tunnel to a balance-bob which stood on a platform cut out specially , and the winding chain over a heavy sheaved wheel above the shaft . |
30 | The miners leader Arthur Scargill has condemned the import of five thousands tons of cheap Russian coal being unloaded at docks in the region . |