Example sentences of "[verb] at a [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Congress-ruled Gujarat , on the west coast , the state Health Minister , Mr Vallabhbhai was attacked at a meeting on Tuesday and died yesterday in hospital . |
| 2 | On March 27 , 1991 , the Communist Party of Great Britain , which had voted at a congress on Dec. 9 , 1990 , to abandon the principles of Marxism-Leninism and the policy of democratic socialism , published a draft constitution for the party which was to be renamed the Democratic Left . |
| 3 | Two Teesside men are likely to appear before a special court today after being arrested and questioned in connection with an armed attempted raid at Eves Garage and a cigarettes snatch at a supermarket on The Parade in Whitby on Wednesday . |
| 4 | He finally told them when they stopped at a restaurant on their return from London on Sunday afternoon . |
| 5 | Jim stopped at a café on the road side . |
| 6 | In other words , if we choose coordinates so that the linearised flow near the origin takes the form we can use these equations to work out the point on the side of B where a trajectory emerges from B if it starts at a point on the top face of B. ( We assume that the box B is a cube with faces which are part of the planes . |
| 7 | Published in cooperation with the International Association for Mass Communication Research ( IAMCR ) , the issue is based on research and articles presented at a seminar on ‘ Reporting the Gulf War ’ which was organised by the IAMCR in Istanbul , Turkey , last June . |
| 8 | The research results will be presented at a conference on social policy in Eastern Europe with participants from Hungary , Poland , Bulgaria , Yugoslavia , USA , Canada , Norway , Australia and New Zealand . |
| 9 | In the second method , the apices of the two veins may approximate , and ultimately fuse at a point on the wing-margin : coalescence of this type takes place inwardly towards the base of the wing . |
| 10 | The Soyuz ( " Union " ) group of deputies , formed on Feb. 16 in the USSR Supreme Soviet with the aim of resisting " the destruction of the USSR " by separatist , nationalist and chauvinist forces ( and described by commentators as a largely conservative bloc seeking to counterbalance the radical Inter-Regional Group of deputies formed in July 1989 — see p. 36824 ) , had decided at a meeting on March 11 to nominate other candidates to preserve democratic principle . |
| 11 | The Defence Ministry Collegium decided at a meeting on the morning of Aug. 21 to withdraw the troops . |
| 12 | Although occasionally Dutch finance companies with Antillean parents ( taxed at a turn on the interest in the Netherlands ) are still seen , for the past few years the perceived wisdom has been that the Swiss finance branch structure is superior . |
| 13 | We have both , ’ said this extraordinary old man , looking at a hamper on the seat beside him . |
| 14 | Looking at a lecture on video is not the same as being present at it . |
| 15 | So when you 're looking at a file on the screen , what you 're looking at is the file as it is in the , in the memory of the computer , and if you change your spreadsheet , then all you 're doing is changing what 's in the memory . |
| 16 | I opened the door and saw Charlotte and Branwell with a candle , looking at a picture on my wall . |
| 17 | ‘ No , ’ replied Jamie , looking at a fly on the table as if it was a long-lost brother . |
| 18 | He squinted at a car on the road as it hurried north . |
| 19 | The point ( compared with cooperative acquisition ) is that all the purchased items are centralized at a site on the University of Chicago , rather than scattered amongst the participating libraries . |
| 20 | Although the disagreements had been resolved in early March , continuing dissatisfaction in some quarters of the FKgP had been highlighted by the passage on March 18 of a vote of no confidence in FKgP parliamentary group leader Jozsef Torgyan , because of a speech he had made at a rally on March 9 attacking the voucher scheme . |
| 21 | Appointments will be made at a point on the Lecturer A scale ( £ to £ per annum ) with promotion to the B scale ( £17 455 to £ per annum ) as appropriate . |
| 22 | The blow came at a meeting on Saturday when members voted not to let him stand as an election candidate — despite a recommendation to accept him by the executive committee . |
| 23 | But suppose I look at a clock on the ground floor — through binoculars , say . |
| 24 | The CHP ( the party of Kemal Atatürk ) was officially reconstituted at a congress on Sept. 9 and Deniz Baykal was elected as its new leader . |
| 25 | It was agreed at a meeting on May 5 between Russian Federation President Boris Yeltsin and Gen. Vladimir Kryuchkov , the head of the USSR State Security Committee ( KGB ) , to create a separate Russian KGB . |
| 26 | The money-saving plans were agreed at a meeting on Wednesday between Social Security Secretary Peter Lilley and Treasury Chief Secretary Michael Portillo . |
| 27 | This point was reiterated at a meeting on Jan. 22 in New York between US Under-Secretary of State for Political Affairs , Arnold Kanter , and Kim Young Sun , secretary for international affairs in the ruling Korean Workers ' Party . |
| 28 | An agreement on the release of the prisoners had been reached at a meeting on Jan. 14 between the Cambodian factions , Fresard and representatives of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council . |
| 29 | The matter of through running to Mitcham was raised at a meeting on 8 June , attended by Messrs. Spencer and Mason , for the Companies and Messrs. Bruce , Croom-Johnson and F. Scothorne for the L.C.C . |
| 30 | We were in a hurry , and did n't even stop at a motel on the Friday night , driving 1,400 miles at a stretch . |