Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [noun] at " in BNC.
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1 | If there are relative differences in the extent to which labour is mobile between jobs , in the extent of provision for retraining and in the ability and willingness to engage in retraining , in the provision of entrepreneurs to seize new opportunities , and in any other of the factors which influence the rate at which a region or country can innovate , then those regions/nations which are slow are likely to import unemployment from faster-innovating areas . |
2 | Not only does the Junior School influence the children at their most receptive , and indeed their most vulnerable age , but , within the time spent in the Junior School , the child lays down the basis of all future learning . |
3 | In December 1895 , they met the Company at Euston with a list of objections and suggestions in lieu of the Company 's offer . |
4 | Mountfield , prising himself away momentarily from the Tipton Terror , met the ball at the far post to score the kind of goal that was his trademark at Everton . |
5 | I met the promoter at a party and he was looking for an opening act and I said that I had this dance band which would be a perfect opener for Gary Glitter and he took us on . |
6 | The mega-rich sheik , who met the Queen at Claridges in July 1989 , has spared no expense on the island , 11 miles long and five miles wide . |
7 | Before she met the Minister at a party , through her Private Eye journalist friend Paul Halloran , the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art graduate was leading an uncertain lifestyle bouncing from one boyfriend to the next and one downmarket job to another . |
8 | The knights met the Council at Lincoln in July 1316 , and the king 's officers drew up for them a list of ‘ divers errors ’ contained in the perambulations of 1300 . |
9 | When he first met the Yorks at a dinner party in London two years ago , not even we had heard of him . |
10 | Bryan 's name first surfaced in London 's snob society two years ago when he met the Yorks at a dinner party . |
11 | Sir Geoffrey met the Commissioner at a Lord Mayor 's Banquet , and when he became worried he naturally went to him . |
12 | CHRISTINE Elliott enjoyed every minute working for her Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award — and when she met the Duke at the presentation ceremony she told him so . |
13 | That evening , they met the men at eight o'clock , all parties quite well oiled from the off . |
14 | Hengist 's army met the Scots at Stamford , which was now in a ruinous state ; |
15 | I thought I was a serious fan , that was until I met the fans at this game . |
16 | The King 's army was dispatched and met the rebels at a site now known as ‘ Bloody Oaks ’ , about five miles north-west of the town near Empingham . |
17 | By the 1120s and 1130s Abbot Peter the Venerable was visiting Rome on several occasions , and undertaking , in the year 1130 , journeys to England and Provence , where he met the pope at Saint-Gilles ; and in 1135 to Pisa as well as about France . |
18 | It is evident from this and other comments , several describing treachery , that he often thought little of the English resistance , and on at least one occasion he did it injustice , saying under 1001 that an immense levy from Somerset and Devon met the raiders at Pinhoe , but fled immediately battle was joined , whereas an independent entry in the A text reports that the English fought with such forces as they could gather , which gives a rather different impression . |
19 | He thought of sitting down to wait for a break in the storm but that could have been all night so he struggled on downhill , angling a little to the left , until he met the treeline at the bottom of the meadow . |
20 | The Ulster Unionists yesterday met the group at its Glengall Street headquarters . |
21 | There were minor differences in the arrangement of the hand-rails , they lacked the loop at the end of the dash top rail and there were typical Brush brackets supporting the stair landings . |
22 | They took a bus to Regent Street and posted the letter at the Heddon Street post office . |
23 | SWOOP : IAN CROOK fits the bill at Roker Park |
24 | Rather than pursuing the discussion at an abstract level , it seems sensible to give here a brief synopsis of a selection of French fabliaux which can be regarded as highly typical of the genre , and which represent a range of subtypes within the genre : tales of sensual appetite or greed , adultery and fornication , sexual naivety and sexual fetishism ; a tale of robbers , the macabre joke of the corpse that apparently either can not or will not lie still , and a lavatorial tale of turds . |
25 | We 're not asking people to cut down , we 're taking a balanced approach towards alcohol consumption in the whole community , so we 're not er angling the strategy at people who are already very severe , heavy drinkers , or those who are alcohol dependent . |
26 | We swayed down the long baggage car , which was half empty of freight and very noisy , and George , having told me to remove and lay aside my waistcoat in case I got oil on it , unlocked the door at the far end . |
27 | Drago unlocked the door at the top of the stairs , and led the way into a high narrow storeroom . |
28 | ‘ We are determined to uphold the law at Wellington and to keep it a drug-free zone , ’ said Mr Bone . |
29 | Stephen seemed unperturbed , and she felt stupid for allowing the scene at the airport to upset her so much . |
30 | Injunctions were issued against The Observer and The Guardian newspapers to prevent them from publishing extracts from Peter Wright 's book and the Court of Appeal , overruling the judge at first instance , held that although publication by The Independent newspaper and others could not be a breach of those injunctions nevertheless , since they knew of their issue , they could be guilty of contempt of court if their publication interfered with the course of justice . |