Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] at [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I still remember that day in the war when , as a very junior subaltern , my CO left me a little hand-written note admonishing me for appearing at breakfast unshaven . |
| 2 | New rails ready for spiking at Quarry Siding . |
| 3 | Returns do come in , often just before the curtain , but it 's well worth checking at Festival House daily ( or even hourly if you are really keen ) for any of the sold-out shows . |
| 4 | On ascent to altitude after diving at sea level , the display automatically comes on , warning of DCS risks . |
| 5 | Two men charged after shooting at camp site |
| 6 | I would n't say it will die a natural death , but I think the current burst of enthusiasm for looking at job evaluation may cool significantly when managers actually get close to it and start to assess what they have to do to introduce it . ’ |
| 7 | It may be worth looking at Customer acquisition as a whole . |
| 8 | Mrs Weaver was a devoted horsewoman who dreamed of appearing at Badminton Horse Trials . |
| 9 | Another way of looking at tranquillizer use is to think of the following analogy : you are driving along the motorway and suddenly your car oil warning light comes on . |
| 10 | Apollo was the first ballet to display a fresh way of looking at class-room technique for the communication of an ancient Greek legend . |
| 11 | Here are just a few examples : notices ( pictorial or written ) on doors and cupboards and the use of different colours aid recognition within the house reduction of clutter , removal of locks on cupboards and good lighting simplify movement within the house , and a child 's safety gate on the stairs reduces the danger of wandering at night reminder notices eg " Do n't forget your key " inside the front door or " Remember to turn off the gas " over the cooker communication between helpers may be assisted by a diary beside the telephone and a list of important numbers is useful if gas is used , the Gas Advisory Service ( free to the elderly ) will check all appliances and recommend safety measures alarm systems may not be very appropriate for dementia sufferers ; they may be over- or under-used . |
| 12 | Instead of lobbying at City Hall , he liked to turn up early to civic events and leave , ostentatiously , just before the mayor arrived . |
| 13 | Richard Taffler is Professor of Accounting and Finance and Head of Accounting at City University Business School , London |
| 14 | I had managed to convince myself that , after a lifetime of teaching at university level , this was all going to be painfully easy . |
| 15 | The basic method of teaching at undergraduate level is by courses of lectures but considerable emphasis is also placed on teaching in small groups such as tutorials and seminars . |
| 16 | I mean if we just take a , a breather there maybe for , for some member comments , I mean I think there 's some , some elements that members might want to comment on , particularly to do with settle settlement excuse me , the sort of policy direction , and some of the suggestions that , that are going against our policy direction and we have these taken over several years now , and also the issue about the aging population and the , the demographic , graphic growth , and our , our consistency of spending at government standing spending assessment . |
| 17 | ‘ The police are very much in favour of biking at Brick Kiln because it takes a lot of lads off the streets . ’ |
| 18 | The interdisciplinary course offers a new and attractive way of studying at undergraduate level such subjects politics and history by focusing on the notion of conflict and the particular political and social problems arising from conflict , and in so doing seeks to identify ways of resolving them . |
| 19 | Having now examined the objectives and formal structural characteristics of trade unions in market-type economies , it is also necessary to consider their more informal organisation at workplace level since , in many Western European countries during the post-World War II period , there has been a notable growth of bargaining at plant level — often outside official union channels — along with a progressive enlargement of its scope ( see Chapter 4 ) . |
| 20 | but , but being honest you , you 've got ta look at life man . |
| 21 | Intellectual conviction is nothing like feeling at gut level . |
| 22 | Understandably , this has been a bone of contention with many of the staff of the polytechnics ever since , who maintain that for teaching at degree level to be lively and effective it needs to be supported within the institution by an active research programme . |
| 23 | For example , employees know where they stand with regard to compensation for moving at company request ; a clear policy aids employee relations . |
| 24 | As he told county councillors , the service had not been comprehensively reviewed since the Seventies and the job it is required to do has altered considerably with time notably , more of the work is to do with helping at road traffic accidents . |
| 25 | On the second baseline there is no reason in the definition why it should not be measured as the number of violent outbursts including shouting at baby sister to make her cry . |
| 26 | We at the Institute research into those disasters erm for which we currently have an expertise , as it were , but erm our group was founded actually at the beginning of erm the nineteen seventies and we have specialised quite a lot into looking at famine food erm emergencies and nutritional and medical engineering , sanitation aspects of famines , and lately we 've included in that erm quite of lot of , of work , research work into refugees , the cause of refugees , the prevention of refugees , the alleviation of suffering of refugees , particularly in developing countries . |
| 27 | You know , local authorities are n't expert in looking at company law , and the way that finances work . |
| 28 | Two important variables have been identified in looking at group behaviour : the social interaction of members ( the process ) and the group 's task ( content ) . |
| 29 | For we find , in looking at pupil resistance , that while sex roles may be transmitted , they are by no means always taken on board ; and furthermore , that one of the ‘ causes ’ of pupil disaffection may be the presence of contradictions in gender ideologies — even within one school . |
| 30 | ‘ The board are extending a long-standing by-law which prevents a player who has rejected an international invitation from performing at club level during the summer period , ’ said Ashby . |