Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [pron] [noun pl] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ninety people are to lose their jobs at a bleach factory . |
| 2 | It 's just been announced that three hundred and thirty workers are to lose their jobs at an oil and gas extraction equipment factory . |
| 3 | MORE than 50 workers are to lose their jobs at two Highland oil rig yards . |
| 4 | The trend towards milder winters is beginning to concern horticulturists. many trees need lengthy cold spells if they are to open their buds at the right time in spring , and research on the Continent confirms that apple trees will be confused by the changing climate . |
| 5 | Writing later , in 1937 , J. B. Priestley 's main concern was to stress the Englishness of Chaplin ( though he did concede that the Chaplin symbol was half-French in inspiration ) and he talked of him as being ‘ the greatest humourist since Dickens ’ and of belonging above all to London 's East End and to ‘ the swarms of bright-eyed urchins who are thumbing their noses at the nearest policemen ’ . |
| 6 | I wonder if on some distant planet there are creatures who are holding their sides at the prospect of us hurling plates at each other . ’ |
| 7 | The pair are to leave their families at their Wirral homes and motor hundreds of miles in a race to bring back the first bottles of Beaujolais to Liverpool . |
| 8 | He 'd been buying his clothes at Acme Attractions up the road — a stall which generally did exactly the same as Malcolm only six months later , and were quite open about it . |
| 9 | Some schools auction off the gifts at the end of the service but if the bid for the produce does n't equal the cost price parents can become upset when other , possibly more prosperous , families are buying their gifts at a discount ! |
| 10 | Bazille was killed a few months before his twenty-ninth birthday in the Franco-Prussian war , and since then scholars have been wringing their hands at the loss of a potential ‘ great Impressionist ’ , discounting the possibility that he could equally have evolved into a third-rate artist like Sisley or Morisot . |
| 11 | The difference is that more and more are having their babies at home with their own mothers and not with their men . |
| 12 | ‘ The way retailers are running their businesses at the moment means that they are never overstaffed . |
| 13 | But the lawyer said that earlier one of them told ten-year-old Christopher : ‘ It looks like we 'll not be seeing our children at Christmas but you 're going to have your daddy after all . ’ |
| 14 | He 'll be explaining his views at a meeting on the crisis at Oxford Town Hall this evening . |
| 15 | CHARITIES in Ellesmere Port will be promoting their services at Ellesmere Port Civic Hall tomorrow . |
| 16 | Now in Oxford erm we actually do n't have any land like that , and the problem was that , even if we had self-build houses on the land which is available at the moment , on which we want to build council houses but we have n't got the money to build council houses , if we were to allow self- build to go ahead on those sites because of the value of the land then the sorts of people who would actually be able to afford them would not be people on low incomes , or even sort of low to medium incomes , they would actually be people who were fairly well off and therefore not the people that we would want to be directing our resources at . |
| 17 | In fact I do n't think I will be requiring your services at all . ’ |
| 18 | The rock-hard defender had expected to be kicking his heels at the start of next season after picking up a lengthy suspension a month ago . |
| 19 | Ron and Julia are the last couple to be married in the 160-year-old church , which will be closing its doors at the end of June . |
| 20 | Gosforth still have to play their Northumberland Cup semi-final against Tynedale on April 14 , and if they win Johnson will be rubbing his hands at the prospect of a big score in the final against Novos or Seghill . |
| 21 | Michael Fallon ( Con ) and Peter Bergg ( Lib Dem ) yesterday met the young men who will be arguing their policies at the school hustings . |
| 22 | FASHION designer Christian Lacroix will not be showing his designs at this spring 's prestigious ready-to-wear shows in Paris . |
| 23 | Elderly people who worry that they ca n't afford VAT on fuel are putting their lives at risk by buying second hand paraffin heaters . |
| 24 | We were given our books at Milton but we got back . |
| 25 | He argued that teenagers were wasting their opportunities at Dovercourt , keeping the futile hope alive that they would be adopted by rich families and lead a fine life , when they could have been using their time to constructive purpose . |
| 26 | However , Fleischmann and Pons were announcing their results at the press conference before they had told any of their scientific colleagues . |
| 27 | On the contrary , they were risking their lives at the forefront of discovery in a new branch of science . |
| 28 | It began one morning at breakfast in the days when I was still a bachelor and Tristan and I were taking our places at the mahogany dining table . |
| 29 | ‘ People came out of the theatre and were shaking their fists at us , ’ said Ken . |
| 30 | Andy did some earlier work for Palm and Palm were showing their products at the ISPO exhibition . |