Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun pl] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her attempts to promote sales of the book by signing copies at a Long Island store ended abruptly when , following the bomb threat , police evacuated the store until closing time . |
| 2 | After signing copies at the official launch on Saturday , Bob , who lives on the edge of Hartburn , said : ‘ The initial print-run was 1,000 and more than 500 have been sold already . ’ |
| 3 | There 's usually some , some mums who are meeting the school and and walking dogs at the same time . |
| 4 | The emphasis on the desirability of academic detachment — however rarely achieved in practice — has had the effect of disengaging pupils at a personal level from what they are studying . |
| 5 | Royal Doulton and Wedgwood are to produce the tableware for the restaurant and banqueting facilities at the new Queens Moat House ( QMH ) hotel in Stoke-on-Trent , Staffordshire . |
| 6 | I look forward to meeting shareholders at the Annual General Meeting on 25 May . |
| 7 | But , needing something to do after being ditched from pop show The Word , she has signed up for acting lessons at the famous Lee Strasbourg School . |
| 8 | In Pakistan : ‘ The wholesale exemption of EPZ enterprises from the provisions of so many labour laws leaves many issues to the mercy of the individual contract of employment ’ ( p.709 ) , while in the Philippines : ‘ The Bataan administrator said that some EPZ employees were paying 75 per cent of the minimum wage for six months , then dismissing the workers and hiring others at the 75 per cent rate ’ ( p.711 ) . |
| 9 | A figure garbed in black , a white devil 's mask on its face , was jumping amongst the stalls , shouting imprecations at the rich and the avaricious . |
| 10 | Reynolds was here addressing students at the Royal Academy of Arts in London in 1772 . |
| 11 | For example the extended arithmetic element on the DEC PDP-8 has a " normalize " instruction which shifts the accumulator and MQ register left ( inserting zeros at the right-hand end ) , until the most and next most significant bits of the accumulator are different . |
| 12 | Involuntary unemployment can be defined as all those persons who are not in paid employment , but are actually seeking jobs at the prevailing rate of real wages . |
| 13 | Voluntary unemployment can be defined as consisting of all those persons who are not in paid employment and are receiving some form of social security benefit , but are not actually seeking jobs at the prevailing rate of real wages . |
| 14 | As the patents had run out on many ICI fibre Products , so competitors had jumped on the bandwagon and started building plants at a frenzied pace . |
| 15 | UK airlines are not sponsoring pilots at the present time , but the school is attracting an increasing number of young people , both from this country and abroad , who are prepared to invest something in the order of £50,000 to train as professional pilots … |
| 16 | My right hon. Friend is presenting awards at an important lunch . |
| 17 | ANNADALE Striders dominated the senior men 's event at the NIAAF Road Racing Championships at a rain-lashed Ormeay Park , Belfast . |
| 18 | After all , if you can borrow ( or exchange your existing UK mortgage where you are paying rates at the highest level in real terms for over a century ) for a Swiss franc mortgage at around 9.5 per cent , a mark mortgage at just under 10 per cent , an Ecu mortgage ( Ecu is the European currency unit which is made up of a ‘ basket ’ of 10 currencies including sterling ) at about 10 per cent or a Japanese yen mortgage at just under 8 per cent , why not do so ? |
| 19 | In the East End of London , the BNP has dared to re-emerge , selling newspapers at a weekly meeting in Brick Lane , a location made notorious for battles between the NF and anti-fascists in the late 1970s . |
| 20 | Selling houses to the poor may not be compatible with minimising the losses to taxpayers , which requires selling assets at the best price available . |
| 21 | We can congratulate ourselves on the forecasts which led to fixing fees at the right levels , but commercial criteria are not the only means of judging the fortunes of professional institutes . |
| 22 | A DARLINGTON teenager was selling drugs at an open-air party , a Teesside Crown Court jury decided yesterday . |
| 23 | The Declaration 's organizational framework committed parties to " co-ordinate and co-operate … by holding meetings at the foreign ministers ' level " . |
| 24 | The application of the recommendations is already showing drilling improvements at the Cupiagua-2 and Cupiagua-3 wells , Fear says , adding that these results also need to be transferred to people who will drill wells yet to be started . |
| 25 | Breaking into and stealing cars at every available opportunity . |
| 26 | He sat and squinted through watering eyes at a coloured , enlarged picture of himself on the wall ahead of him . |
| 27 | The Satanic Verses author spent an hour buying presents at the famous Bloomingdale 's store in New York . |
| 28 | AEA has also developed a novel system for sterilising medical equipment and this is undergoing trials at a major UK teaching hospital . |
| 29 | ‘ I can still remember the feeling of intense shock , but also a feeling of superiority that we had heard the news before many other people , ’ says E. Walker , who was teaching infants at a primary school in North Yorkshire when Music and Movement was interrupted to bring the news . |
| 30 | The key features review referred to above is devised to identify potential deal breaking problems at an early stage , so as to limit the possibility of Big accumulating large professional fees on ultimately abortive deals . |