Example sentences of "at [art] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pigs too were taken to sanctuaries to recover , as the RSPCA worked at the farms for days on end , work which eventually cost the RSPCA £15,000 . |
| 2 | The reasons for the brutality and racism which are displayed every day at the ports of entry in Britain and at the British High Commissions in the Indian subcontinent are the laws themselves — laws which are seen as essential to wider government policy and which though blatantly racist ( in fact they would not stand up before the Race Relations Act ) were each introduced as a contribution to good community relations . |
| 3 | These charges were collected at the ports by agents for the lighthouses . |
| 4 | As Folly exited from the changing-rooms , the sound came from behind her , and she swung round to see Luke leaning against the wall , looking across at the scenes of relaxation in the Seraglio with a look of malicious amusement on his face . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , however , the rich followed their king 's dictum ‘ Après moi , le déluge ’ , and gave themselves up to pleasure — balls , the opera ( where new works by Gluck , Grétry and Piccinni were finally displacing the heroic works of Lully and Rameau , beloved of the Ancien Régime ) , gambling and hunting ; the chattering middle classes were busy discussing politics and aesthetics ; writers such as Voltaire and Diderot were chipping away at the foundations of society with their radical ideas of universal fraternity in this ‘ Age of Enlightenment ’ ; and the poor were being told to ‘ eat cake ’ , if they had no bread . |
| 6 | There are various activities going on at the present , looking at the state of the rainforest , and what is happening , one of which is a project which we are involved in ourselves , which is looking at the incentives to people to erm manage the forest , for sustained yield , so it produces timber indefinitely . |
| 7 | Research sections have been set up at the Institutes of Education in Kenya and Sierra Leone and there have been important regional conferences on educational evaluation ( at Dar es Salaam in April 1975 ) and on the growth of scientific and mathematical concepts in East African children ( Nairobi , September 1974 ) . |
| 8 | Beveridge also recommended the establishment of ‘ special juvenile advisory committees ’ at the exchanges with representatives from education authorities ; or , alternatively , the exchanges could co-operate with the ASEA and similar agencies . |
| 9 | Her hands fell idle in her lap and she stared around her at the bits of leather on the floor , at the row of wooden lasts along her bench , at the boots that needed new soles and heels and , with a sigh of despair , she dropped her knife and rose to her feet . |
| 10 | She looks at the bits of paper on the floor , but she do n't say nothing . |
| 11 | The Duke of Wellington , both when ambassador in Paris and later as representative at the Congresses of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1818 and Verona in 1822 , was enlisted in the campaign and in 1814–15 Clarkson and Macaulay , in 1818 Clarkson and in 1822 William Allen all spent time at the congresses meeting political leaders and arguing for defining the slave trade as piracy under international law . |
| 12 | Some things needed to change , but some needed to remain the same and I usually found myself in this place pulling at the forces of change as a child might pull at the reins of a runaway horse . |
| 13 | Well these were the hottest place that you could work at the ovens of dough in the bread ovens . |
| 14 | Modern F&B managers would delight at the instructions to waitresses to ‘ only half fill the Cups with Coffee ( unless asked to fill them up ) and add Boiled Milk but do not quite fill the Cups ’ , or , for dinner , ‘ Begin at Right end of each Division and with a Bill of Fare held in front of each Person , at each course , ask , naming the article , what they will have . ’ |
| 15 | We now look more closely at the absentees in relation to two factors ; gender and school stage . |
| 16 | In the 1920s , when astronomers began to look at the spectra of stars in other galaxies , they found something most peculiar : there were the same characteristic sets of missing colours as for stars in our own galaxy , but they were all shifted by the same relative amount toward the red end of the spectrum . |
| 17 | Erm looking at the figures of migration between Cleveland and North Yorkshire , I received yesterday some figures which which are quite interesting in this respect . |
| 18 | It looks at the reasons for dissatisfaction at the ways in which complaints are handled , highlighting an example of an elderly couple who had waited two years for someone to come round with a colour chart , prior to decorating the outside of their house . |
| 19 | We 're going to be looking at the contrast between that and places like Rye , which did have a chartered corporation , and we 're going to be looking at sort of trade , at the effects of epidemics on the town , erm and so on . |
| 20 | We 're going to be looking at erm the contrast between and places like Rye , which did have a chartered corporation , and we 're going to be looking at sort of trade , at the effects of epidemics on the town erm and so on . |
| 21 | Looking at the effects of inheritance in a broader perspective , it is apparent that the laws and customs associated with it in any society have the effect of shaping kin relationships in ways other than the transmission of economic resources . |
| 22 | We have looked at the effects of stratification on boundary layers primarily in terms of data for stabilizing stratification . |
| 23 | If we look at the effects of corruption on program performance we can identify three broad categories . |
| 24 | Almost the first experiments I had made with the passive avoidance model after completing the work with Marie , and even before we had located IMHV and LPO as the sites of change , looked at the effects of training on protein synthesis in general , using the precursor techniques that have already been described in earlier chapters . |
| 25 | There is not enough room here to look at the differences of nuance within this approach , which analyses the crisis of the uniform legal system and the monolithic concept of the state . |
| 26 | He pointed at the boys in thrall to the film . |
| 27 | This chapter discusses the notion of planning , examines different approaches to planning and looks at the changes in attitudes to planning that have taken place . |
| 28 | Cast iron superseded lead as the main material used for gutters and downpipes but cast iron systems are now likely to be showing signs of leaking at the joints between lengths of guttering or at the joints in downpipes . |
| 29 | Kegan looked up from the paper he had been reading and looked a little hopefully at the faces in front of him . |
| 30 | Before the Digital Servo Interface is described it may be worth looking at the principles of operation of these model servos . |