Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun pl] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even more significant , perhaps , was an intensification of the philosophy which promoted wealth generating activities at the expense of social programmes . |
| 2 | Why did n't we do the foul deed there , rather than risk facing a rugby team of accusing fingers at the inquest ? |
| 3 | When he returned to Danzig Greisser was treated as a conquering hero , and was greeted by cheering crowds at the railway station . |
| 4 | Cooling comforts at the Cambridge |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Just as the introduction of spinning and weaving machines at the time of the Industrial Revolution in Britain destroyed craft jobs and created fragmented tasks which were performed by unskilled workers , will the new technology also be used to de-skill work ? |
| 8 | Trading profits at the hotels halved to £75m and at the restaurants profits fell 15 p.c. to £63m . |
| 9 | Well I told you that man was trimming trees at the bottom , the other day . |
| 10 | Make yer mind up time : Laughing Hyenas at the Marquee or Mark Eitzel at the bleedin' Knitting Factory again ? |
| 11 | The terms can be drafted so as to provide that all contracts between the parties are to be governed by those terms , and a copy of the terms can be signed by trading partners at the commencement of a trading relationship . |
| 12 | Murray arrives in time to devise a programme for the forthcoming Festival and to supervise an ambitious campaign of refurbishment which includes opening windows at the front and on top of the building and cleaning its stone façade . |
| 13 | The original idea of running Day Driving Courses at the Museum has proved enormously successful , well beyond the bounds of belief , with substantial bookings already well in to 1993 . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , three hundred budding stars of the future will be trading shots at the Gloucester Leisure Centre tomorrow and Sunday in the Cotswold Championships . |
| 15 | In the late 1970s there was considerable pressure on landing facilities at the fish quay and a serious proposal for a replacement on a much larger scale ( see North Tyneside CDP , 1978a ) . |
| 16 | We also need Government investment to back up the youth services , teachers and parents so that the next generation of youngsters does not include a minority whose self-discipline , self-esteem and respect for their own future are so lacking that they get kicks from racing stolen cars or lobbing bottles at the police . |
| 17 | ‘ Although we consolidate using spreadsheets at the moment , we find that it is quite a lot of hard work , ’ says finance director Mark Nabakov . |
| 18 | The rod that I eventually settled with was made from an AFTM 10 reservoir fly rod blank , after an interesting morning inspecting blanks at the Horizon factory at Redditch . |
| 19 | As she fumbled with trembling fingers at the clip on her safety harness she could feel Nathan 's gaze burning into her . |
| 20 | It was in 1842 that the Kinnaird Commission , appointed to enquire into children 's employment , reported that 97 children and young persons were engaged in mineral dressing activities at the Church Coniston Mine . |
| 21 | There is widespread suspicion that the two firms , along with the rest of the nuclear industry , were appalled by the revelations about operating methods at the power station that had already been given in testimony . |
| 22 | In such models the problematic taxa are further and separate derivatives , useful for documenting the range of metazoan morphospace but irrelevant for establishing relationships at the base of metazoan evolution . |
| 23 | The union chiefs were urging workers at the Tyne yard to fight to complete work on three frigates being built there . |
| 24 | — For valuing stocks at the end of the accounting period . |
| 25 | Bryant and Bradley chose 65 of the children who had not been very good at categorising sounds at the beginning of the study and divided them into four groups . |
| 26 | Rashid and Shahid cooked up the idea while serving customers at the Sitar in Northgate , Darlington . |
| 27 | THE flagship of the Midland Railway Trust headquarters at Butterley , near Ripley in Derbyshire , No. 6203 ‘ Princess Margaret Rose ’ , will be operating trains at the Centre during the weekend of June 27 and 28 . |
| 28 | Petrol prices are on the way up again with Shell pushing prices at the pumps to more than £2.34p . |
| 29 | Stopping and searching vehicles at the roadside . |
| 30 | The video would show activities undertaken during a typical school day , including lunch times and break times , the routines for meeting children at the end of the day , introduce the staff and the chair of governors and the chair of the parents ' association . |