Example sentences of "of [v-ing] at [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1894 he became teacher of singing at the Royal Academy of Music , and many famous singers were his pupils . |
| 2 | Following her sister 's death in early infancy , her parents ' divorce when she was three years old , and her mother 's remarriage , Marguerite was brought up at the Earls Court residence of her mother and her mother 's third husband , Albert Visetti , a professor of singing at the Royal College of Music in London . |
| 3 | If there is no wool available to them , cats with an urge to re-create the pleasures of sucking at the maternal nipple have been known to suck their own fur , sometimes their feet and sometimes the tips of their tails ; or they occasionally develop a fixation on their owner 's hair and make repeated attempts to suck on that , if they are given half a chance . |
| 4 | Then , instead of shaping at the extreme neck edge , or within a few stitches of a fully fashioned neck shaping , work the cable pattern , with two or so stitches between it and the neck edge and work the neck shaping within the cable pattern and the remaining stocking stitch of the shoulder edge . |
| 5 | He is confident that given five years and more know-how , Russia will have international companies capable of competing at a global level . |
| 6 | Yes , well obviously we erm we hope that we 've put the team together that 's going to do the job , but having said that , there 's some handy looking teams around , I think the League is going to be pretty evened out erm at the end of the day , I do n't think erm you 're going to see too many people sort of struggling at the bottom end . |
| 7 | So his lack of faith was not a matter of failing to straddle an impossible credibility gap , but of baulking at a simple step of trust on the evidence of inescapable reasons . |
| 8 | In conclusion , Jones notes the potential value of explicit instruction on the nature of writing at the preschool level for subsequent success in school . |
| 9 | In the quantum mechanical way of looking at the gravitational field , the force between two matter particles is pictured as being carried by a particle of spin 2 called the graviton . |
| 10 | I do n't think anybody can agree , there is , there is perhaps a better way of looking at the current formula , but I 'm just a little bit concerned having read this report and seen the purpose , about the way that er , the A C C are , are pressing for the |
| 11 | ANOTHER way of looking at the magnetic quantisation of Figure 3 is shown in the energy band diagram ( a ) . |
| 12 | On page five , those of you who were at the last council meeting will know that the City Centre Management Working Party were charged with the responsibility of looking at the whole issue of street trading . |
| 13 | Tired of looking at the blank wall at the side of the house , he asked students from the Cheltenham Art College to submit ideas on decoration . |
| 14 | In our near-sighted way of looking at the stratigraphical column , we tend to forget that these recent events , if considered on the normal geological time-scale , were virtually instantaneous and certainly catastrophic . |
| 15 | Their way of looking at the exterior world , the means they used of recording their ideas about it , even their concept of what a painting was , all these things were different from anything that had gone before them . |
| 16 | Thus the swing towards maintaining primary schools today is evidence of a change of heart although this conflicts with the Government 's policy of economising at the Regional level . |
| 17 | And what we 've done now , and with colleagues from Germany , is to take cores off north west Africa , say about twenty metres down into the sediment , we sample them in the lab here and took the small amounts of sediment and examined them for these long chain compounds and we were extremely excited to see that as we went down this core , back through the last few hundred thousand years , we could see our signal on sea surface temperature oscillating about roughly in the same way that er has been found with other methods of getting at the past history of the climate . |
| 18 | It is n't a graphics accelerator , but it 's capable of moving at a decent lick when put on a fast bus . |
| 19 | One of the first results could be a speeding-up of drilling at the huge oilfield it recently discovered west of Shetland , according to John Browne , chief executive for worldwide exploration operations . |
| 20 | Those who were not hard pressed and in no immediate danger of running at a considerable loss might have no strong incentive to vote in favour of a course which threatened them with heavy losses in the immediate future . |
| 21 | The ‘ great and the good in serried ranks ’ at the Royal College of Physicians heard clinicians from different specialties confront managers with the problems of rationing at the clinical interface . |
| 22 | ‘ Believe me , I 've done the trip half a dozen times , and the novelty of arriving at a new port never wears off . ’ |
| 23 | We said in the chapter that this was done through the medium of arriving at a written-down cost or value . |
| 24 | By long history the Bishop of Durham had the privilege of standing at the right hand of the sovereign throughout the coronation as her chief supporter . |
| 25 | In Chapter 3 we discussed briefly employee theft , and , in particular , Ditton 's study of fiddling at a factory-production bakery . |
| 26 | According to a correspondent of The Graphic , these 19th-century visitors must have been little different from today's-instead of gasping at the 70-kilometre vista spread before them , their first reaction on arrival at the top was to write commemorative postcards . |
| 27 | He drew back immediately , only to stifle another low sound of longing at the wondering expression in her eyes . |
| 28 | Camcorders vary in their ability to produce a good picture in low light , but any model capable of working at a light level of 10 lux or less will enable you to record in most interiors without the need for additional lighting . |
| 29 | Editor , — Reviewing our book , Emily Grundy wrote : ‘ They … contend that there are no grounds for speaking of aging at the cellular level . ’ |
| 30 | Instead , our precise conclusion was that ‘ the probability of cell death does not increase with the age of the culture ; ie , there are no grounds for speaking of aging at the cellular level ’ ( p 216 ) . |