Example sentences of "[v-ing] [n mass] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To get round the fact that the CSMA/CD carrier-sense multiple access with collision detection protocol prevents two nodes from transmitting data at the same time , so that video signals could get interrupted , isochronous Ethernet time-stamps the packets so they can be guaranteed to arrive at the recipient 's computer at the same time . |
| 2 | When accused of promoting sales at a time when they were incapable of supplying the electricity , the Board chairmen were robustly defensive . |
| 3 | JEALOUS Jerry Hall is quizzing staff at the chateau Mick Jagger bought for her — about claims he spent secret nights there with Carla Bruni . |
| 4 | Everett , who had been ordered to take a rest at 98 trips , was testing aircraft at the Group Maintenance Unit when he heard that there was a spare aircraft going a-begging at his old squadron . |
| 5 | Everyone presenting data at the conference was careful to point out that they were not saying that lead is safe , even at low levels , but the ‘ do n't knows ’ do not form a powerful lobby . |
| 6 | The winners of the Kraszna-Krausz awards for the best books on photography were presented with prizes totalling £23,000 at the British Library on 28th January . |
| 7 | Technical advice on classroom observation was to be sought from various advisory bodies , and agreement to the principle and procedures of the research was to be sought from teaching staff at a staff meeting . |
| 8 | ‘ The sort of judgmental work that the study suggests the external assessor will do will be of a much higher standard requiring people at no less than partner or senior manager level . |
| 9 | Bingo player Bob Gladstone is hoping to start his own business after scooping £3,279 at the game . |
| 10 | First , he has enormous debts totalling $7.9bn at the last year end , which are an obvious burden in a period of rising interest rates , even higher in Australia than the UK . |
| 11 | Flexible working is an added opportunity to provide even more refinement by allowing staff at the sharp end to make their own judgements about staffing levels on a day-to-day basis . |
| 12 | A further £1,224 was raised for the appeal by CCG catering staff at the KG Ethylene Project , Grangemouth . |
| 13 | The company says catering for first time buyers is boosting sales at a time when other builders are reporting big losses . |
| 14 | Inbound rate of descent is based on the assumption of reaching 0ft at the threshold . |
| 15 | Despite grossing $100m at the box office , the film , which cost $30m to make , has lost $10m . |
| 16 | After all , it was one of the aims of the quota legislation to foster an industry that could promote Britain just as American films promoted America and , with only ten British films a year grossing £100,000 at the local box office , the financiers backing British film companies began to push for expansion . |
| 17 | The care which bereaved Minoans sometimes lavished on their dead suggests a belief in the AFTERLIFE , and the idea of an Elysium , a pleasant Heaven awaiting people at the end of their earthly lives , is thought to have been a Minoan creation . |
| 18 | By 1800 the new Shorthorn was Britain 's tallest breed , the bulls standing 152cm at the withers ; the famous Durham Ox was 165cm tall and weighed 3,024 pounds as a five-year-old in 1801 when it was exhibited all over the country , remaining a star travelling showpiece until it dislocated its hip in 1807 . |
| 19 | At that time it was very similar to the modern Devon in conformation and colour : Garrard 's engraving in 1800 showed a dark red Devon ox standing 152cm at the withers , but the bull was 135cm and the cow 119cm — similar to the ‘ Suffolk Polled ’ of the time but smaller than the Hereford and Sussex ( each about 142cm/130cm ) . |
| 20 | Halliwell was cooking haddock at the time . |
| 21 | Will my right hon. Friend join me in congratulating staff at the university of Kent and the two commercial pharmaceutical companies with whom the university is combining in a venture called ’ Viridian ’ , which is a programme of environmental biotechnology based entirely on bacteria that are naturally available ? |
| 22 | He was pestering people at the bar , trying to butt into their conversations or sit down at their tables and behaving — as far as people who did not know he was ill were concerned — like an archetypal northern wally . |
| 23 | She lost her sight following smallpox at the age of eighteen months . |