Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , one couple are so determined that as many people as possible should at least have the CHANCE to read it that they 're producing copies at a quarter of the official price . |
| 2 | SOME Northern Ireland construction companies are so desperate for business they are building houses at a loss , a report reveals today . |
| 3 | SOME Northern Ireland construction companies are so desperate for business they are building houses at a loss , a report reveals today . |
| 4 | Even more significant , perhaps , was an intensification of the philosophy which promoted wealth generating activities at the expense of social programmes . |
| 5 | Why did n't we do the foul deed there , rather than risk facing a rugby team of accusing fingers at the inquest ? |
| 6 | When he returned to Danzig Greisser was treated as a conquering hero , and was greeted by cheering crowds at the railway station . |
| 7 | Possibly the first Inn was the Five Bells , which was probably the ale house mentioned in 1586 , when William Cokar of Halling was sent to gaol for keeping an ale house and allowing gambling i.e. maintaining play at the dice of his own authority as a result of which he was bound , over to the next Sessions . |
| 8 | It came to me as a gift , a little black-faced lamb sent to me by the Batesons who were farming Briscoe at the time . |
| 9 | Doctors ' desires to advance specialisms that they find intellectually exciting , university lecturers pursuing research at the expense of their teaching commitments , engineers wishing to develop technologically advanced products such as Concorde , are just a few examples of the kind of professional aspirations that lead to the misallocation of resources from the clients ' or taxpayers ' point of view . |
| 10 | Before Christine or Ann or any of the other girls playing realised what was happening , the pram began to run down the steep bank , gathering speed at every turn of its wheels . |
| 11 | Ever since first encountering Gavrilov at the Touraine Music Festival in the mid-1970s , I 've thought him a player of infinite potential , with a technique of which legends are made . |
| 12 | For Ashcroft Noble had never forbidden his study to children , and Helen later recalled seeing Edward at the end of a visit still standing by a bookcase and reluctant to leave . |
| 13 | When his trial opened on May 26 he had been charged with complicity in genocide , and the presiding judge had only substituted the lesser charge of instigating murder at the moment of reaching a verdict . |
| 14 | Civil engineers were checking damage at the site yesterday . |
| 15 | The commander had reminded him only the day before of the need to use manpower more efficiently : the government was no longer inclined to keep tossing money at the police force without seeing results . |
| 16 | In The Quarry Man ( 1908 ) a workman is blinded during blasting operations at a quarry ; later his wife becomes unfaithful and he is driven to suicide ; just in time his wife pulls him out of the river and she now abandons ‘ the downward path ’ . |
| 17 | Cooling comforts at the Cambridge |
| 18 | Arantxa Sanchez Vicario , 17 , made a late charge into the hearts of the fans by putting the frighteners on Martina Navratilova , to race through the first set 6-0 , in just 25 minutes , cracking winners at every opportunity . |
| 19 | McRae 's Subaru coughed like a grizzly bear , went sideways into the first of a thousand bends , spitting grit in lacerating force at a lot of spectators , as brave as the men they had come to admire then disappeared into the foreboding conifers of Grizedale Forest . |
| 20 | So begin along these lines : With respect , Minister , it 's to do with explaining action at a distance . |
| 21 | Lorry wheels had dug furrows in it , uncovering rock at the bottom . |
| 22 | Che Guevara , representing Cuba at the OAS conference at punta del Este in Uruguay , instigated a meeting with the US delegate Richard Goodwin , who gave a full account of the conversation in a memo for president Kennedy dated 22 August 1961 ( ( US Declassified , 1978 , 303A ) . |
| 23 | But trail rides also mean facing long climbs , often dismounting and walking , aching limbs at the end of a long day , and in the case of Argyllshire sufficient jumping ability to take your horse over the occasional stone wall . |
| 24 | Shrewd and observant , the Rat is the perfect aide-de-camp , keeping guard at a theatre in Munich where Marco is in danger from kidnappers , watching in the rain under a bush in the garden where a certain prince sympathetic to the cause is to be given the sign . |
| 25 | Exactly 3.7 nanoseconds after play commences , I 'm usually hurling abuse at the game , the C64 , my fellow ZZAP ! reviewers and anything that moves within a ten-yard radius . |
| 26 | ‘ If they ever have a cowards ’ trade union , I 'll be the man representing England at the World Congress . ’ |
| 27 | I did no work that I can remember — I know I was considered hopeless by my teachers and I was quite ready to believe I was hopeless — I can quite well remember keeping mice at the back of the classroom and I can remember the smell . |
| 28 | Miss Fran Bennett , the group 's director , said the report showed the ‘ scale of deprivation among claimants ’ and challenged the main political parties to put tackling poverty at the top of their agendas . |
| 29 | Compton has also concluded that decentralization has continued despite the energy crisis , the south is still gaining population at the expense of the north ; East Anglia , the South West and the East Midlands continue to be the fastest growing regions ; and that Wales is about to join them . |
| 30 | Welcomed by women of almost all ages as comfortable and a declaration of female sexuality , the short skirt suit with power dressing shoulder-padded jacket was simply the best for oozing confidence at the office . |