Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( i mean the way he have sticked with specially dino shows us that — dino himself who expressed wishes for playing at the international level himself when he joined leeds — i guess he is a farther away now : the likes of Shearer , Wright ( a flop in the internationals ) , Cole ( hey there is one that puts them in the net ) and Ferdinand will have no problems keeping him out … ) |
| 2 | This strategy is particularly interesting in that it implies an awareness of a lack in the Oxfordshire scheme , which provides neither guidance on strategies for looking at the curriculum nor criteria for judging its appropriateness and adequacy , but merely requires teachers to do it . |
| 3 | Stewart Raynsford and Peter Kemp were found slumped in their unlocked cell just hours after arriving at the jail and it was assumed they had been attacked by fellow inmates . |
| 4 | When Geoffrey son of Sarah of Empingham resisted this illegal demand , the forester raised the hue and cry upon him , and distrained him until he gave him two shillings and found sureties for appearing at the attachment court . |
| 5 | In all our dealings with the head teacher we found that he consistently refused to accept that the methods of teaching at the school were failing our son . |
| 6 | And what we 've done now , and with colleagues from Germany , is to take cores off north west Africa , say about twenty metres down into the sediment , we sample them in the lab here and took the small amounts of sediment and examined them for these long chain compounds and we were extremely excited to see that as we went down this core , back through the last few hundred thousand years , we could see our signal on sea surface temperature oscillating about roughly in the same way that er has been found with other methods of getting at the past history of the climate . |
| 7 | ‘ Within five minutes of arriving at the office I have enough information to discuss any changes needed . ’ |
| 8 | On the most recent occasion , supervisor Melvyn Relly had his vehicle stolen within minutes of arriving at the office , and with faint hope of success , Nick Graham , surveyor , drove Melvyn out to where the last car was recovered along streets neighbouring the Nottingham office . |
| 9 | For practical reasons , fieldworkers adopted a policy in these cases of knocking at the door of the nearest house of a similar type ; since the survey was based on geographical area and housing type , this seemed a reasonable way of obtaining data from a range of addresses while conserving time and resources . |
| 10 | Cast iron superseded lead as the main material used for gutters and downpipes but cast iron systems are now likely to be showing signs of leaking at the joints between lengths of guttering or at the joints in downpipes . |
| 11 | Her nudity provided a carte blanche that hours of queuing at the press tent could never have done . |
| 12 | Einstein was unable to observe relativity , and was prevented from seeing the effects of travelling at the speed of light by the irritatingly inconvenient circumstance of its impossibility . |
| 13 | Following the lead of a municipal councillor and amateur photographer named Lampue , who had written an open letter to Monsieur Berard , Under-Secretary in the Ministry of Fine Arts , in the Mercure de France , a Socialist deputy , Monsieur Jean Louis Breton , demanded that measures be taken to prevent the Cubists from exhibiting at the Salon d'Automne : ‘ It is absolutely inadmissible that our national palaces should be used for manifestations of such an obviously anti-artistic and anti-national kind . ’ |
| 14 | When she left West Heath , Diana followed in sister Sarah 's footsteps by enrolling at the Institut Alpin Videmanette , an expensive finishing school near Gstaad in Switzerland , where Diana took classes in domestic science , dressmaking and cookery . |
| 15 | In nature , so to say , chicks soon learn — within the first three days after hatching at the latest — who their mother is , and follow her thereafter . |
| 16 | Within days of arriving at the club , were asked confused passers-by to name four players in the Premier League who were involved in gambling for cash . |
| 17 | Writing during the war , Basil recalls his days of working at the Euston Road Studio : |
| 18 | had had the opportunity for many years of looking at the question in its material phases , of appreciating its hygienic results … |
| 19 | Painter Nadezda Petrovic made one of her most significant paintings after volunteering at the military hospital during the first world war . |
| 20 | The ‘ great and the good in serried ranks ’ at the Royal College of Physicians heard clinicians from different specialties confront managers with the problems of rationing at the clinical interface . |
| 21 | I think we have got to sort out these problems of restructuring at the same time as those of market and state regulation . |
| 22 | Problems in prescribing at the interface present a strong case for commissioning agencies that would consider drug purchasing across both care sectors . |
| 23 | If your lounge is equipped with batteries of spot-lamps and other sophisticated facilities , you could spend an hour or so trying out all kinds of variations before arriving at the best effect . |
| 24 | One can begin to answer these questions by looking at the proportion of the population who live in households of different types . |
| 25 | This study attempts to address some of these questions by looking at the desirability of design as a career . |
| 26 | I always try solving problems by starting at the end — never the beginning . ’ |
| 27 | ( 3 ) Where a licensing board gives reasons in writing at the request of a party to the hearing , the board shall give copies of those reasons to all other parties to the hearing . |
| 28 | The two six man teams board a coach in the early hours of Sunday and can be driven around for hours before arriving at the venue of the referee 's choice . |
| 29 | Geoff took up Vet running at a serious level two or three years ago and has forged through the ranks until arriving at the top of the O50s this season . |
| 30 | Obviously the detailed nature of these checks depends on the material submitted , but we found it invaluable to look at the output from these checks before looking at the coursework itself . |