Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think I 'd rather climb ladders than sit at a checkout . ’ |
| 2 | So rather than sit at the counter and do it they they have rooms which you can go to and erm get interviewed |
| 3 | She 's all grey , rather than freckled at the moment , but this chick is still something very special to staff at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust . |
| 4 | The change of style at the corner of Downing Street , on the other hand , would provide no greater contrast ‘ than occurs at every turn in the Grand Canal at Venice where Gothic and renaissance palaces constantly alternate to the great satisfaction of the artist ’ and would avoid the ‘ stereotyped monotony of a single style ’ . |
| 5 | Her eyes were wide with sworls of silver and blue brighter than looking at the sun at its zenith in the longest day of summer . |
| 6 | Rather than looking at the proposal we decided that it was so that 's what we did really and that 's why , if you have a look down there right , so all we 're doing then we 're working through the resources and allocating them room numbers erm and then when that 's done so that 's what we did for each of the little rooms . |
| 7 | I do not know what the hon. Gentleman means , but I regret that , as ever — and typically of Labour Members — the hon. Gentleman seems to glory in gloom and despondency in identifying the more negative aspects of things , rather than looking at the positive . |
| 8 | It 's something very close to what I 'm saying erm and erm I 'm saying perhaps one thing in addition , which is that just as when we look into the future , which , as a historian , I 'm asked to do more often , I think , these days than looking at the past , but when we look into the future , we have different versions of what that future will be . |
| 9 | The emergence of Gestalt ‘ wholes ’ ( Bruce and Green , 1985 ) or the application of Gestalt principles , as in David Marr 's work on computer vision ( Marr , 1982 ) , illustrate the kinds of matchings of similar elements which , although operating at a level of pre-awareness , nevertheless result in a conscious recognition of an image 's identity . |
| 10 | It 's probably no more pleasant than living at the centre of some large , dirty , crime-ridden city . |
| 11 | The idea of confidence runs thus : Rather than look at the probability of getting this precise result , we find the probability of getting a less likely observed result . |
| 12 | Clearly , it shows a very much more complex structure than exists at the moment ( see Figure 3.1a ) . |
| 13 | The position of the mother would be one of even greater dependence than exists at the moment . |
| 14 | I mean , what we 're trying to do in the visual arts is to spend what limited money we have to produce a better situation for the visual artist and for the public who gets pleasure and enlightenment from visual arts than exists at the moment , so rather than just prop up the status quo , which is what is would be very easy to do if one just kept the pot boiling so to speak by giving a few grants to artists here and sitting at the centre of a spider 's web in Tunbridge Wells waiting for applications to come in to us and then responding . |
| 15 | ICI , although running at a loss of £384 million , still distributed £393 million to its shareholders , over half its R&D budget . |
| 16 | Its universality as far as human life is concerned depends on when it actually happened , and we can do no more than guess at the date . |
| 17 | However , the reduction in railway employment was offset by the growth of activity in the Post Office , and changes in bus service employment were less than feared at the time of ‘ deregulation ’ ( 1987 ) . |
| 18 | I expect a Public Sector Borrowing Requirement in the current financial year of £35 billion , slightly lower than projected at the time of my Autumn Statement . |
| 19 | ( It might be useful to remind the reader at this point that the Speech and Drama movement , although fading at the school level , had become firmly entrenched in teacher colleges where many well qualified Speech and Drama people had gained appointments , colleges such as Trent Park and Goldsmiths ' , where teacher-training in the arts was not unlike theatre-training . ) |
| 20 | Consequently , in order to assert its prevalence , the Court of Chancery began to issue common injunctions which , although directed at the litigant personally rather than the common law courts , had the effect of limiting common law jurisdiction … |
| 21 | Although hailed at the time as ‘ the most important discovery in England [ and perhaps ] … of greater importance than any other yet made at home or abroad ’ , during the next forty years it became increasingly difficult to reconcile this hominid with the burgeoning human fossil record from Asia and Africa . |
| 22 | Though the next decade quickly reversed the conservatism of the 1950s , the notion that British fiction lacks experimental energy , or even just quality , still survives ; a partially accurate picture , based upon a lapse in the experimental tradition less complete than suggested at the time . |
| 23 | Look straight ahead as if gazing at a place on a wall . |
| 24 | rack for fucking plates , so I put them away and the best way to do it is if sit at the table , you wash and I 'll dry or I 'll dr you er dry and I 'll wash , well what |
| 25 | if given at the trial , the evidence would probably have had an important influence on the result of the case ; and |
| 26 | Dereham had in fact considered that he and Catherine were engaged to be married , and this , if revealed at the time , would have invalidated the royal marriage . |
| 27 | If approved at the A.G.M. , the final dividend will be paid on 31st July 1991 to those on the register at 11th July 1991 . |
| 28 | She lowered her head , as if to look at the floor . |
| 29 | In this Jarman sits , Prospero-like , sniffing flowers as if grasping at a memory of happier times . |
| 30 | If sold at a loss , the distributable reserves of the purchaser may be protected , assuming that the purchaser does not need to provide against its investment in the IHC . |