Example sentences of "[n mass] [vb pp] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After that you will do whatever work is needed and have the aircraft delivered at the weekend , to the destination in France that my secretary will notify you of . ’ |
| 2 | The sub-species kept at the park is the very rare Persian Leopard from Iraq and Iran . |
| 3 | The first is , at best , a ‘ trade union consciousness ’ or a ‘ subordinate value system ’ , in which people placed at the bottom of the social system recognize they are exploited but seek only to improve their position within it . |
| 4 | Trouble erupted outside the factory gates as buses carrying workers hired to replace the 340 Timex staff sacked at the end of January , tried to break through the picket line . |
| 5 | Security forces surrounded the area and ordered the 3,000 people gathered at the church to leave . |
| 6 | First official event took place during the early afternoon of April 25 , when a large number of people gathered at the memorial site dedicated to the RAF and Allied aircrew . |
| 7 | There were disturbances in Drury Lane on 10 June 1695 , when a number of people gathered at the Dog Tavern to celebrate the birthday of the Prince of Wales . |
| 8 | They visited all the factories and shops they could squeeze into their brief , allotted time and the highlight of their visit was a Silver Anniversary Ball when 700 people gathered at the leisure centre near Deeside , Queensferry . |
| 9 | On Feb. 20 thousands of people rallied at the university campus in the support of the hunger strikers . |
| 10 | Duchy retained all the staff employed at the time of the takeover , with the exception of the previous General Manager , who preferred to retire . |
| 11 | More than 30 people arrested at the end of November 1991 are reported to have ‘ disappeared ’ , raising fears that they to have also been killed . |
| 12 | People trained at the Institute of Information Technology , established by MITI in 1971 , return to their original companies — users , mainframers or software houses — where they help to train junior engineers and programmers . |
| 13 | Of 71 marked salmon caught at Issaquah Creek , 70 lacked their right pelvic fins ; all 124 marked salmon caught at the University Hatchery lacked their left pelvic fins . |
| 14 | Works produced at the theatre in Hvar , rebuilt in 1612 after its destruction in 1571 , five years before London 's first theatre was built , carried on the literary traditions of the Hvar literary school established in the previous century . |
| 15 | The expansion of the Virgin operation , the sharp influx of profits ( the loss of £900,000 reported at the beginning of 1981 had been turned into a profit of £1.5m by the beginning of 1982 ) , and the more aggressive attitude of performers to selling themselves had all put Virgin in a more competitive milieu and frame of mind . |
| 16 | A still more disturbing example occurred when the family of Servet Sayan , interrogated at the Second ( Criminal ) Branch of Istanbul Police Headquarters in March , made a formal complaint to the public prosecutor stating that Servet Sayan had been suspended by the arms , and beaten on the testicles with a stick , resulting in a punctured scrotum ( a medical report described a 2.5 cm wound at the base of the penis ) . |
| 17 | A repeated Barium swallow showed almost complete disappearance of the tumour ; only a slightly narrowed segment with a length of 2 cm remained at the level of the carina ( Figs 6 and 7 ) . |