Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed the Director of Kenya 's Institute of Education looks forward to a time when a syllabus may be devised which , in addition to a national ‘ core ’ , has specific defined areas where programmes devised at district or local levels will be developed and implemented . |
| 2 | Research projects undertaken at OIES are initiated internally in a fully autonomous manner . |
| 3 | Forty-five coaches stopped at checkpoints on the A2 in Kent exceeded permitted weight restrictions and passengers were ordered to unload duty-frees before being allowed to continue their journeys . |
| 4 | It was , therefore , necessary to carry out a complete validation check of the listing against the manual records kept by the Personnel Branch at Gatwick Airport . |
| 5 | Erm , she actually traced back calls on the station log and it was done from the first of October nineteen ninety two to the thirtieth of September nineteen ninety three and during that time we had over five thousand three hundred and thirty calls , of which one thousand one hundred and sixty six originated from , so that is erm twenty point three percent of the calls received at police station and were held on came from , which is quite a lot . |
| 6 | Thousands went on the rampage , ripping up paving slabs , trees and street signs to hurl at riot police who responded with teargas . |
| 7 | In Strasbourg , thousands of protesting farmers ripped up paving slabs , trees and street signs to hurl at riot police who responded with teargas . |
| 8 | It is certainly a long way from the crowds cheering at John F. Kennedy 's ‘ Ich bin ein Berliner ’ speech in front of the Berlin Wall in 1962 to the communiqué issued after Honecker 's visit to West Germany in 1987 : ‘ both states agreed to respect the sovereignty and independence of each other in both domestic and foreign matters ’ . |
| 9 | The background to the above was set out in a letter from the Operations branch at MEHQ dated 22 February , in which they proposed the use of L Detachment as parachutists in a tactical role , for seizing and holding ground in co-operation with other forces landing by sea or advancing across the desert . |
| 10 | A few days later , Colonel Airey of Middle East Commando wrote angrily to the Operations branch at MEHQ concerning the above . |
| 11 | This was received , but was addressed to Warr at Kabrit via the operations branch at MEHQ . |
| 12 | Earning a very large salary , Laura was quite used to buying expensive clothes — primarily , of course , smart and severely cut suits to wear at work . |
| 13 | The stock of 168 houses situated at Harwell and in neighbouring towns are being offered to existing tenants at discounts of up to 60 per cent . |
| 14 | The FRED does not deal with accounting for warrants and options issued to employees under employee share schemes for the reasons explained at paragraphs ix xiv above . |
| 15 | Harris ( Meyers , 1984 personal communication ) has found that high amplitude stylolites formed at burial depths of less than 1,000 m in the Burlington Formation ( Mississippian ) . |
| 16 | By any standard the industry was not extensive : Berkshire was bracketed with Herefordshire at the bottom of a list of clothiers fined at Blackwell Hall in 1561 — 2 for marketing substandard cloth , with just one offender , a Reading man ; unless Berkshire workmanship in general was above average , production was clearly small in volume . |
| 17 | It can be shown that electrons and ions co-rotating at distances from Jupiter greater than the Keplerian orbit of co-rotation ( section 6.1.1 ) tend to move away from the planet . |
| 18 | In the initial fervour of war , the Opera and the theatres had closed their doors , but both had opened again shortly before the Germans attacked at Verdun . |
| 19 | BILLIARDS : David Causier , 18 , of Middlesbrough , became the new English amateur billiards champion at Leamington Spa tonight . |
| 20 | Blackwell Retail wins lease at Sheffield Hallam University |
| 21 | Such prevention includes : educational approaches concerned mainly with child sexual abuse ; programmes targeted at adults and the community which focus on developing appropriate child care and thus lessening the possibility of neglect , emotional abuse , and potential loss of parental control resulting in over-chastisement ; services using volunteers and parent aides rather than professionally trained staff ; antenatal and postnatal services ; and finally other programmes aimed at children older than infants . |
| 22 | The sequence of pictures in Figs. 22.3–22.8 shows convection patterns occurring at Rayleigh numbers ranging upwards from the critical value . |
| 23 | Ian Stringer , offices partner at GJRE , said although falling rents in the capital could tempt some companies to stay , cost is not the only factor behind relocation . |
| 24 | On one side of the ancient north-south coastal highway linking Saigon and Hanoi steep cliffs fell away to a dazzling beach of white sand fringed with coconut palms , and on the mirror-flat surface of the South China Sea far below , bat-winged Chinese junks floated at rest like toys on a turquoise pond . |
| 25 | Today , lobbyists gathered at Westminster warning thousands of section eleven jobs are threatened nationally , but the Home Office says painful decisions are necessary in the current public spending round . |
| 26 | The two parties remain at loggerheads on traditional issues of great principle . |
| 27 | At this , one of the captives spat at Springfield 's feet . |
| 28 | For a long while seven or eight pairs of lidless eyes gazed at Flaubert . |
| 29 | Dismantling two of the last Conway engines in the return-to-products contract at Earby ( right ) . |
| 30 | There was an instant when both parties halted at gaze , no more than a quarter of a mile apart ; and though they were so far from him across the valley , he felt the shock of confrontation and recognition quiver through his own body as they measured each other . |