Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | These were also powerfully promoted by domestic service at a time when even the meanest clerk expected to employ at least a resident maid-of-all-work . |
| 2 | The crucial events around which the case centred occurred at a dinner party given by the General , when Aitken and some others were present . |
| 3 | As it is , your Council has effectively decided to challenge Structure Plan 1985 , policies HP8 and EP5 , since your decision to support housing at Colt Hill was made with no reference to timing . |
| 4 | The Scotsman reported on I September that " members of the Women Compositors " , Readers " and Monotype Operators " Union intend to remain at work in the event of a strike " . |
| 5 | It had been one of those deep , deep sleeps ; the kind when you do n't know a thing until your mum starts yelling at you for the umpteenth time that you 're going to be late for school if you do n't get up . |
| 6 | The exuberance that Minton helped generate at Camberwell was related to a deeper excitement animating the whole school . |
| 7 | Between 1985 and 1990 , however , the number of people aged over 85 supported in residential care by local authorities has declined at a slower rate than that for all people aged 65+ . |
| 8 | The physical and analytical chemistry department at DSM has looked at the distribution and migration of salts in limestone . |
| 9 | One afternoon a flying fortress which had come off worse on the mission over Germany tried to land at Walsall , which was much too small to take an aircraft of this size , and the girl in the control box had to find , fire a warning vary light and radio to send him off to Castle Bromwich which was much bigger in those days er it was an airport to take an aircraft the size of the Flying Fortress that 's about it up until here I 've written |
| 10 | The Londoner has starred at the Upper Malone arena for the past three meetings and his clashes with arch rival Colin Jackson have been something special . |
| 11 | In the thymuses of the wild-type and TCR -β ( as well as TCR -α ) heterozygous mice , rearrangement has occurred at nearly half of the TCR- α alleles ( see Fig. 4 legend for definition of the rearrangement index , RI ( α ) ) . |
| 12 | Provenance work on the turbidite sandstones has indicated at least two sources for heavy minerals . |
| 13 | Suppose we get 204 , giving herd B ; the second of the systematic sample will be 204 + 293 = 497 which gives herd F. By this means we always obtain two different primaries unless one of the primaries accounts for more than half the secondaries , in which case that primary has to appear at least once . |
| 14 | The gang has struck at several homes in Monaghan , Cavan and Armagh stealing money from pensioners . |
| 15 | ‘ He is a world class player with all the attributes a striker needs to play at the top , ’ added Allison . |
| 16 | A weekly routine of inspection has to begin at about the end of February . |
| 17 | The JAA has stipulated at least ten medicals a year . |
| 18 | Over the years , the proportion of family cases has settled at just over 40 per cent. ; crime at around 22 per cent. ; landlord and tenant and housing , and hire purchase and debt , at around 6 per cent . |
| 19 | ‘ What happened , ’ says an attendant parent , ‘ is that our defence stopped to look at the train . |
| 20 | It is , of course , a PWR that the Central Electricity Generating Board wants to build at Sizewell in Suffolk . |
| 21 | Over this period the stock of such investments has expanded at an average annual compound rate of just under 19% . |
| 22 | A coherent strategy for retrospective conversion has not been attempted for the UK ( although it is known that there are stirrings of such an initiative in a European context , involving the British Library ) and lack of institutional funding for such unglamorous activities has ensured at best a piecemeal approach . |
| 23 | For now the point is that the drafter needs to know at the outset whether any of the business 's customers will fall within the definition of " consumer " : if so , care must be taken in drafting clauses excluding or limiting liability . |
| 24 | The importance of these statutory provisions appears to me to be that Parliament has considered at various times and in various contexts the need for recovery of imposts paid but not due and has legislated in a manner which suggests that no such general principle as the Woolwich contends for was thought to be in existence . |
| 25 | ‘ It may be that Parliament has to look at this issue of excluding people from property when they 've got property rights , ’ he said . |
| 26 | Britain 's reported current-account deficit has run at an annual rate of £20 billion ( $34 billion ) in the first two months of this year , equivalent to 4% of GDP — even bigger than America 's . |
| 27 | Fission-track age determinations on apatites from undeformed granodiorite indicate that the South Mountains MCC has resided at temperatures of less than 100°C since 17Myr ( termination of major deformation ) . |
| 28 | A turning point may be reached if income starts to rise at a decreasing rate ; investment will start to fall and as soon as the fall in investment exceeds the rise in consumption , income will start to fall . |
| 29 | Vernon , 18 , hero of non-League Bath City 's FA Cup win over Cardiff , is on trial with Saints and manager Ian Branfoot wants to look at him in a reserve game . |
| 30 | The mass is apparently about right , and the Z o has appeared at just the right frequency . |