Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [v-ing] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As his appointment preceded the 1932 Adult Education Regulations , Lee was not an Article 11 tutor but represented the new regional policy for provision developing at the Cambridge Board , which included the 1930 appointment of Harold Shearman as its tutor in Bedfordshire , and W. P. Baker in Cambridgeshire the following year . |
| 2 | Also during this year Captain H.M. Williams was selected to command the 1 st Bucks team of sixty men , to compete for a prize offered by Lord Wantage for field firing at the Home Counties Brigade Camp at Churn , and of this team ( which won the competition ) thirty-two were Wolverton men . |
| 3 | Through Easter coaching at The oval during the 1930s , at the hands of Alan Peach , and winter attendance at the Sandham-Gover indoor school , he improved his game , and first played for Surrey II when 20 . |
| 4 | Police have said there was evidence of drug taking at the £17-a-head event , including discarded packets of white powder and some cannabis resin , but there were no arrests for drugs . |
| 5 | More familiar than detailed critical self-reflection on the level of individual courses are the corporate processes of decision making at the institutional level . |
| 6 | 1.3 ‘ Net receipts ’ means payments due and actually paid and received by the Publisher arising from the sale or exploitation of the Video and converted into sterling at the current rate of exchange existing at the date of receipt in the United Kingdom |
| 7 | 1.3 ‘ Net receipts ’ means payments due and actually paid and received by the Publisher arising from the sale or exploitation of the Video and converted into sterling at the current rate of exchange existing at the date of receipt in the United Kingdom |
| 8 | Shigeru Tokinoya , who was in charge of textbook screening at the time Professor Ienaga 's book was banned , said : ‘ All of our corrections should have been upheld … |
| 9 | It would be misleading to imply that there were only three strata of funeral existing at the end of the sixteenth century — monarchial , noble and guild ; what one had depended entirely on one 's status . |
| 10 | Not a bad experience , because there was an Englishman with Erlich 's name on a sheet of cardboard waiting at the entrance to Immigration . |
| 11 | In Cardiff a team from the Department of Town Planning at the University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology under the direction of Professors Michael Batty and Neil Wrigley will work together with colleagues from the statistics group at the University of Bath and the South West Universities Computer Centre to develop demonstration projects for Wales and South West England . |
| 12 | Although BL did attempt to operate a modified and simplified system of group working at the Metro plant , they did not , despite the visit to Trollhatten , either use the line-out system or make extensive use of carousels . |
| 13 | There was a lot of evidence accumulating at the time about lateralization of function in bird brains — for instance , it appears that chicks respond behaviourally in different ways when they view things with left and right eyes , while in song birds like canaries and zebra finches , the ‘ song centre ’ is located in a left-hemisphere region , rather close to our IMHV . |
| 14 | The requirement to take ‘ all practicable measures ’ involves more than taking reasonable care : it means doing what is feasible in the light of the state of knowledge existing at the time of the alleged breach of duty , thus knowledge as to the availability of abatement methods and the likelihood of the dust or fumes to cause injury or offence is relevant.l |
| 15 | The other caught up round the corner and there were two shadowy forms , skimming silently along together , two waverings of light bouncing and jolting to the fore , and two points of red winking at the same level behind , travelling on . |
| 16 | For those judgements , the reader must consult either the entries in the exhibition catalogue written by Sarah Whitfield and discussing nearly 170 works of art showing at the Hayward Gallery and the participating museums in the United States , or David Sylvester 's monograph , the result of many years of rumination on his subject . |
| 17 | It is also recorded that in the early 18th century ‘ Edwin Calvert , gentleman , apparently died of alcohol poisoning at the age of 17 ’ . |
| 18 | She walked into the kitchen , humming tunelessly under her breath , only to stop in her tracks at the sight of Dane standing at the cooker . |
| 19 | In climbing down from Mount Olympus and passing over these concentric circles , you can imagine you are tracing the path of magma rising at the mid ocean ridges , eventually to spew through vents , producing large quantities of mineral ore . |
| 20 | This project aims to carry out a study of policy thinking at the elite level in Britain and America . |
| 21 | Every consignment of beef arriving at the meat plant is subject to a total of 36 separate quality control checks , carried out by a team of qualified technologists . |
| 22 | The purpose of the research project is to examine the effects of profit sharing at the microeconomic level . |
| 23 | This is particularly the case for a Conservative government aiming at privatisation and the reduction in controls , an ample supply of land for private development , and the retention of land-use planning at the local level . |
| 24 | The essence of the matter was stated in the first sentence of Article 613 : ‘ when an enterprise or a part of an enterprise is transferred to another owner ( sic ) as a result of a legal transaction , the latter shall succeed to the rights and obligations under the contracts of employment existing at the date of the transfer ’ ( my translation ) . |
| 25 | In effect , the Bank is making available that quantity of monetary base necessary to support the flow of bank lending at the rate of interest of its own choosing . |
| 26 | An outbreak of food poisoning at the Stanley Royd Hospital near Wakefield affected over half the 800 elderly patients and caused nineteen deaths . |
| 27 | The job of perceptual systems is to take these fluctuating patterns of activity occurring at the receptors and interpret them in terms of what is going on in the outside world . |
| 28 | The block of paranoia sitting at the other end of the table minutely shifted shape . |
| 29 | I wake to see a scrap of sunlight pushing at the curtains . |
| 30 | I stay in bed and pluck at the counterpane and listen to the winds of solitude roaring at the edge of infinity and the wolves of evil baying down the void , and I look into the darkness . ’ |