Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The leaflet was launched at an event for employers held at the end of June 1993 . |
| 2 | I sat for hours staring at the sea . |
| 3 | In this environment the production team will be looking for skills directed at the various processes used by the organization . |
| 4 | Most current schemes of assessment for lower-attainers existing at the time the report was written , concentrated on computational skills . |
| 5 | A statement on Sept. 27 referred to " broad agreement " on the creation of an executive committee " of between 21 and 25 people " ; a three-man presidency comprising a Kurd , a Shia and a Sunni ; and a 174-member assembly equally divided between parties represented at the Vienna opposition and those which had boycotted it . |
| 6 | Her hair had been freshly done , after hours spent at the Brighton branch of ‘ Back and Sides ’ . |
| 7 | A pathologist was called shortly after detectives arrived at the warehouse in Ashton-under-Lyne , Greater Manchester 15 miles from Kathryn 's home in Bolton . |
| 8 | Detectives seized eight kilos of coca leaves , the base for cocaine , which were to have been handed out for visitors to chew at the Bolivian Pavilion . |
| 9 | COMMUTERS stood on tracks disrupting London-bound trains yesterday in protest at British Rail 's ‘ scorched earth ’ policy for eliminating the perennial problem of leaves on the line More than 50 people at Carshalton , Surrey , swapped season tickets for placards to protest at the transformation of leafy tracksides into what one called a ‘ scene from Apocalypse Now ’ , the film about the Vietnam war which showed the effects of mass defoliation with napalm . |
| 10 | The systematic blurring of the lines between information , entertainment , and promotion of products lies at the heart of this practice . |
| 11 | The Woodcliffe , New Jersey-based Ascom Timeplex Inc subsidiary of Ascom Holding AG , Berne , Switzerland , last week launched a series of products aimed at the corporate networking market . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The fruits of Barclays ' policy are clearly visible in Cambridge , one of the leading centres for small firms , many of which started as a result of technologies developed at the city 's university . |
| 16 | A pair of researchers arrived at the extraordinary conclusion that fusion of deuterons could be achieved without the application of massive external energy , which had previously been thought to be an indispensable condition . |
| 17 | She often told me of the nightly air-raids , her parents worn out from fire-watching , houses in the familiar streets suddenly plunged into dust , people suddenly gone , news of sons lost at the Front . |
| 18 | At the present time , it is not possible to distinguish between the other alternative explanations , though it may be that both factors operate to modulate the pattern of frequencies recorded at the body surface . |
| 19 | There is a diverse range of talents based at the Selborne farm — from confectioners to builders — and the NFU vice-chairman was given a brief tour before having to rush off to his next appointment . |
| 20 | A programme of ballets created at the workshop . |
| 21 | There is a selection of books listed at the end of this book , but this is just the tip of the iceberg . |
| 22 | Officers from the RSPCA say hundreds of animals suffered at the hands of a callous and inept man . |
| 23 | There were further difficulties when one began thinking about the numbers of animals required at the Creation . |
| 24 | The sign ( - ) used to join two words together , to join separated syllables of words broken at the end of a line of writing and to divide a word into parts or to represent hesitant speech , eg b-b-but . |
| 25 | Hundreds of supporters gathered at the Blackbird Leys Leisure Centre to hear Deputy Leader , Roy Hattersley and Industry Spokesman , Gordon Brown . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | She sat behind a stream of cars stopped at the traffic intersections till they surged onwards and then stopped again . |
| 28 | The Committee of Directors of Polytechnics decided at the end of 1982 to discuss plans to deal with applications for the 1985 intake , involving the appointment of staff and the compilation of application forms and a polytechnic equivalent of the UCCA booklet . |
| 29 | For a trial distance of 50 steps the number of steps executed at the maximum is obtained by subtracting the steps executed during acceleration and deceleration . |
| 30 | Inevitably this assault had to mean trouble for some of their own folk , since they must drive through the outer ring of Scots to get at the enemy — the cost which had caused Ramsay momentarily to hesitate . |