Example sentences of "[v-ing] at [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Disembarking at certain points from a leisurely cruise , your guide , Bernie Dunn , arguably the best guide in Amsterdam will take you through Amsterdam 's most enchanting neighbourhoods by foot . |
| 2 | In October 1927 , the young missionary was steaming at 15–20 knots towards Rangoon . |
| 3 | Some of the many ways in which dolphins make signal gestures to humans are leaping at significant moments , deliberately splashing people on boats after first making close eye contact , vocalising or whistling through the blowhole after people have made communicative calls or whistles , defaecation and touching . |
| 4 | Another exodus began at 6.30 a.m. on 1 September 1939 , when Glasgow children began assembling at 57 schools , 70,000 weans scrubbed and labelled for a bewildering adventure . |
| 5 | The breakthrough , dubbed a ‘ quantum leap into the future ’ is opening at other cinemas throughout the US over the next few weeks . |
| 6 | Fuming at faulty goods ? |
| 7 | Suddenly the section of the audience that was laughing at Italian children flinging spaghetti realised that everyone else had fallen silent . |
| 8 | Fair enough , I plead guilty to telling & laughing at sick jokes too . |
| 9 | The transitions occurring at lower temperatures ( transitions are commonly labelled , , — , and so on , starting at the highest temperature ) have been assigned to the " freezing-in " of specific parts of the main or subsidiary chains such as the pendant phenyl groups in the polymer . |
| 10 | The second is that it unites psychology and biology since , in the early formulations , ‘ responses ’ were contractions of muscle groups , stimuli were physical events occurring at sensory receptors , and ‘ learning ’ was a real event occurring in the brain . |
| 11 | ago , the Outer Hebrides Thrust was reactivated , and the movements produced more crushing along the thrust plane , with the production of mylonites , which are pale coloured , very fine grained , schist-like bands of crush material occurring at irregular intervals along the line of the thrust . |
| 12 | Studies of experimentally induced influenza B in volunteers at the Medical Research Council Common Cold Unit showed that infection increased reaction times to stimuli occurring at varying intervals but that hand-eye coordination was unimpaired . |
| 13 | Brehmer had subjects attempt to estimate the number of road accidents occurring at various junctions and compared these estimates with the actual figures . |
| 14 | A mechanism which was proposed in Chapter 2 for explaining the inverted-U relationship was that of attention focusing occurring at higher levels of arousal in line with Easterbrook 's hypothesis . |
| 15 | Clearly therefore equator to pole heat transfer is occurring at greater depths in the atmosphere than those for which wind patterns have been established . |
| 16 | However , Ryzhkov on July 12 told the congress that production had been halted for 24 hours at 230 of the country 's 655 coalmines , with shorter stoppages occurring at many others . |
| 17 | Nine families of mainly long-legged , long-necked and ( except for the plovers , pp. 121–5 ) long-billed , gregarious marsh or waterside birds , breeding in marshy tundra , taiga , moorland , or grassland , and wintering on estuaries and muddy or sandy seashores , occurring at freshwater margins chiefly on migration . |
| 18 | The use of naturally occurring sugars in milk , honey and fruit resulted in cavities occurring at different positions to those in modern teeth ( Moore and Corbett 1971 ) . |
| 19 | It is also possible to make more subtle combinations of the oscillations in the x and y directions in which the components are " out of phase " , their crests occurring at different instants . |
| 20 | Although much more work needs to be done in this area , the impression gained by surveying a range of industries is one of foreign incursions occurring at different times with price being a significant element at certain stages . |
| 21 | Thus , it is to sectoral differences that we now turn , to illustrate how change has been occurring at different rates and with different implications for governments . |
| 22 | The three areas can be described as ones of political — religious mediation occurring at different levels of social process . |
| 23 | And Hugh Schonfield 's on-going series of studies of first-century Palestine was appearing at regular intervals throughout the 1970s . |
| 24 | We are retaining our Medau identity when appearing at prestigious events and thanks to the generosity of one of our Vice-Presidents ( ‘ Medau 's Grandmama ’ as she calls herself ) Peggy Secord , the Team will appear in new Medau Blue outfits at the CCPR Festival at the Royal Albert Hall in 1985 . |
| 25 | I had an instant picture of this docile boat now chugging at nine knots with a following wind on a choppy but inland loch , far out in the North Sea bucking and corkscrewing , the bow sickeningly below the waves as often as not . |
| 26 | I 'm keeping at 11 stones and am fitter than I 've ever been . |
| 27 | Or that on their first-ever real takeoff during base checks at Prestwick , most pilots have as much difficulty keeping at 1,500 feet circuit height as does a low-hour student in a Cessna 152 ? |
| 28 | The research students ' grants were ending at different points in the year , but were concentrated In the third quarter of 1984 . |
| 29 | The notion of rhythm involves some noticeable event happening at regular intervals of time ; one can detect the rhythm of a heart-beat , of a flashing light or of a piece of music . |
| 30 | Each table was cut off from the next by screens of greenery ; even so , from where he sat he had a view of what was happening at other tables and on other levels . |