Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [v-ing] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sat for hours staring at the sea . |
| 2 | It is difficult for artists working at a time of crisis to achieve a rounded representation of reality . |
| 3 | Most current schemes of assessment for lower-attainers existing at the time the report was written , concentrated on computational skills . |
| 4 | By searching for flashes repeating at exactly the same rate as the radio pulses , they were able to investigate much fainter pulsations than if they had been looking for pulses occurring at an unknown rate . |
| 5 | Subjects were asked to make rhyme judgments about consonants appearing at a rate of one per second . |
| 6 | Even after legislative efforts to remove some of the anomalies , the complexity of the system was apparent in the number of authorities existing at a local level . |
| 7 | Some early maps of this type show , albeit crudely , the kinds of houses existing at the time of drafting , and it is possible to appreciate the difference between the houses of , say , the more well-to-do freeholder and the lowlier tenant . |
| 8 | I was recently filming there with the BBC 's Country File and we spoke to some local farmers who said there were often queues of cyclists waiting at the start of the route for 5pm to come . |
| 9 | Examples included too many groups of activities running at the same time and an emphasis on individual work which could not be sustained in sufficient depth for all the children in the class . |
| 10 | An enterprising firm of potters anywhere in the Province could supply batches of their wares , so crates of vessels arriving at the quartermasters ' stores could have come from any available source . |
| 11 | ‘ He once did a trial Castlemaine ad — a group of Australians standing at a bar , all one-legged after crossing an alligator-infested river to get there . |
| 12 | That 's the verdict of a European wide panel of judges looking at the entries to a special competition commemorating European Tourism Year . |
| 13 | This is the fourth in a series of articles looking at the forthcoming changes to community care |
| 14 | This is one of a series of articles looking at the forthcoming changes to community care |
| 15 | This is one of a series of articles looking at the forthcoming changes to community care |
| 16 | This is one of a series of articles looking at the forthcoming changes to community care |
| 17 | This is one of a series of articles looking at the forthcoming changes to community care |
| 18 | , Robert ( 1639–1720 ) , mason and architect , was baptized in June 1639 at Raunds , Northamptonshire , the son of Edward and Mary Grumbold , and was a member of a family of masons originating at the quarry villages of Raunds and Weldon which was active in the Northamptonshire area over several generations . |
| 19 | With the basket of stocks trading at a combined price of £12.70 yesterday , the puts , exercisable at a strike price of £14.09 and initially costing 117p apiece , carried a mid-price of 203p . |
| 20 | In the twentieth century official statistics showed the number of cattle rising at a slower rate than the number of people . |
| 21 | Looking down from a small window in the lodge house , the factor Robert Menzies was terrified to see the throngs of people , like herds of cattle milling at a tryst . |
| 22 | Finally , an extraordinary group of figures parading at a masked ball by Giovanni Antonio Guardi is estimated at £180,000–200,000 ( $275,000–306,000 ) . |
| 23 | Yeah well this is , th this is it I mean th th there are often a lot of things happening at the same time er er some of which as you just sort of hinted at are sort of er erm of a psychological er er have a psychological factor in them which all add to it do n't they ? |
| 24 | The number of patients waiting at the end of last year rose to 990 and the average waiting time had risen from 35 weeks to more than a year . |
| 25 | The number of patients waiting at the end of last year rose to 990 and the average waiting time had risen from 35 weeks to more than a year . |
| 26 | The measured settling velocities are converted into ‘ equivalent sedimentation diameters ’ , or the diameters of spheres settling at the same rate as the natural particles being tested ( Gibbs , Matthews & link , 1971 ) . |
| 27 | The ‘ pulsating cusp ’ model uses the fact that the spectra of particles arriving at the ionosphere on a given field line depend upon the time elapsed since that field line was reconnected . |
| 28 | There was the board of governors sitting at the back on this cold grey Monday and I got up and I did some Shakespeare and by the time I finished , dawn was breaking . |
| 29 | There will be a handful of players operating at an international or ‘ multilocal ’ level , exploiting the benefits of size through the transfer of knowledge and resources and the efficient use of capital . |
| 30 | The second measure of objective risk is that used by Watts and Quimby ( 1980 ) , the total number of accidents occurring at a junction divided by the average traffic flow at the junction . |