Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun sg] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Mr Wilson , 25 , was last seen by his family as they prepared to celebrate Hogmanay at a relative 's at the nearby Charleston estate , but there appear to have been sightings a day or so later in the city centre . |
| 32 | Flooding Instructions , by Lothian Roadcare , have been issued to repairs being carried out to eliminate flooding at the Candy Box and to clean out drainage blocks in Baberton Avenue . |
| 33 | Flooding Instructions , by Lothian Roadcare , have been issued to repairs being carried out to eliminate flooding at the Candy Box and to clean out drainage blocks in Baberton Avenue . |
| 34 | Alan 's trip to America 16 years ago was to receive treatment at the Institute of Human Potential in Philadelphia . |
| 35 | A spokesman for the health authority said the family was owed a sincere apology , and Virginia Bottomley ( without reference to the case ) said she was pleased that Rhys was to receive treatment at the Bristol Royal Hospital for Sick Children and hoped it would be successful . |
| 36 | The contract was secured against keen competition from other UK fire engineering companies due to WGFP 's close attention to design detail at the proposal stage and the development of a procurement and assembly plan to meet John Brown 's fast track site programme . |
| 37 | Heart pounding with excitement , he barged through the door and into the dock , where Germans both on the dockside and aboard the ships ran for cover , beginning to open fire at the intruders . |
| 38 | Raymond was witty and unusual and from time to time he was invited to drink coffee at the artists ' cafés . |
| 39 | Accordingly , the programme was designed so that it could be modified in the light of experience , and families could choose to discontinue investigation at every stage from the initial screening test to the confirmed diagnosis . |
| 40 | I 'm at the moment chairing a university working party on sexual harassment erm and what this working party erm intends to do is to try to survey experience gathered from the operation of codes and the appointment of people in college with a special responsibility for this sort of thing over the past few years , to see what we can learn from experience , so I 'd want to reserve judgement at the moment on what this committee might recommend is the best way forwards . |
| 41 | I like this very much as an easy summer skirt — three pieces knitted right across your machine , hooked back on to fewer stitches for a small yoke to avoid bulk at the waist — equally becoming to the very slender or larger lady . |
| 42 | LINDA McCartney , wife of former Beatle Paul McCartney , has written to Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating to express disgust at the premier 's investment in a pig farm . |
| 43 | He also tried his hand as a film director , though less successfully , and wrote a play about a German who sought to take out a patent for gas ovens , which was staged to scant acclaim at the Arts Theatre in 1965 . |
| 44 | Yeah , he could n't be bothered to play rugby at the beginning , I mean nobody missed about four weeks . |
| 45 | He would start the evening in his quiet , sometimes moody , Kansas drawl and would end up in ranting fashion , telling them all that things would be different when he and the rest of ‘ new ’ Hollywood were running things , and they would all be clapped in irons , which was hardly the brightest way to inspire confidence at a time when you were seeking film money . |
| 46 | We write to express astonishment at the standard of writing that has featured in much of your pre-election coverage . |
| 47 | Having observed his or her own former situation by means of regression , the patent will then during the course of a counselling session have the opportunity to discuss what happened ( something that may never have been done before ) , to express anger at the perpetrator and possibly at others who may have guessed what was going on but perhaps did nothing to prevent it , and to understand that he or she was in no way to blame for what occurred . |
| 48 | As in the case of other peripheral areas , there was the practical difficulty of trying to exert authority at a distance ; but this problem was compounded by the north 's proximity to what was by this date England 's only land boundary with another state . |
| 49 | As in the case of other peripheral areas , there was the practical difficulty of trying to exert authority at a distance ; but this problem was compounded by the north 's proximity to what was by this date England 's only land boundary with another state . |
| 50 | By November of the year 655 or 656 — Bede gives 655 ( HE 111 , 24 ) but again this date may need to be emended in the same way as Bede 's other Northumbrian dates ( see Appendix , Fig. 7.3 ) — Penda was able to challenge Oswiu at the battle of the Winwaed with a mighty coalition , for he had spent the intervening thirteen years consolidating his position . |
| 51 | Given this , Whitelocke was lucky to escape prosecution at the Restoration ; to the credit of both , he and Charles II made their peace when Whitelocke returned some royal manuscripts that he had saved from plunder and lectured the king about Welsh , which he said was ‘ his Majesty 's more ancient native language than English ’ . |
| 52 | In the heady days immediately following the Keynesian revolution , many of Keynes 's followers began to express concern at the consequences which might flow from a commitment to full employment . |
| 53 | Following receipt of a Government letter he had written to express concern at the lack of information and support , to which there had been no reply . |
| 54 | The one thing they seem to be trying to do now is obfuscation and delay er and I think we ought to voice our concern and I hope the Council will agree to ask the Town Clerk to express concern at the way it 's being handled . |
| 55 | Although it could be assumed by some that this is a development towards a more specialized and fragmented approach it may alternatively be a foundation for a more unified approach and one which accommodates the necessity to combine understanding at the microphysiology and biochemistry ( realist ? ) level with that at the biome level which had traditionally been approached more in functional terms . |
| 56 | They 're teaching you to express personality at the Slade — personality in general . |
| 57 | Over the years , she 'd kept back a portion , every week , of the money Wakelate gave her to buy food at the market . |
| 58 | The five main party leaders contesting the general election united to express dismay at the breakdown of the Gatt negotiations . |
| 59 | But Olten , in common with so many small Swiss towns , has been careful not to buy prosperity at the expense of damage to its character . |
| 60 | For them , the task was to win power at the centre and then to distribute wealth more fairly . |