Example sentences of "of [verb] [noun] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | So you see human beings are not the only animals capable of using tools to get at their food . |
| 2 | A rite of reaffirming vows made at baptism and at confirmation , a rite particularly intended for those who have subsequently experienced some sort of dramatic renewal of their Christian life which makes their previous experience of it seem as nothing . |
| 3 | One of the effects is that a survey of a range of prep school publicity material revealed nothing in the way of knocking copy aimed at other schools within or outside the private sector . |
| 4 | The need for accurate and long-term information concerning the composition of atmospheric wet and dry deposition has resulted in the establishment in Europe and North America of sampling networks aimed at documenting any further changes in the distribution and composition of acid precipitation . |
| 5 | Well , I 'm not sure that 's correct , but anyway Mill thinks that these ideas local participation of jury service are ways of getting people involved at the highest practical level of participation . |
| 6 | That there are auxiliary impressions , Lotze points out , ‘ merely explains the possibility of distinguishing impressions made at different places ; but each impression must also be referred to the definite place at which it acts . |
| 7 | Membership Assistant Dean ( chair ) Dean Modular Course Co-ordinator Assistant Academic Secretary ( secretary ) Ten elected members of teaching staff to include at least one member from each faculty Two student representatives nominated by the students ' union from the MCC representatives Any Field Chair ( not otherwise qualified ) choosing to attend and having two days ' notice of his or her intention to the Chair . |
| 8 | A curtain of dripping water spat at the bonnet as the darkness of the tunnel engulfed us , the sound of the engine louder now and a sense of finality as the rock walls closed about us . |
| 9 | Since last April , instead of having tax deducted at source from all accounts , we now have about 12.5m accounts which have registered for interest to be paid gross . |
| 10 | Hundreds of wintering wigeon grazed at the water 's edge , tinted-pink breasts , yellow Mohican-hair-piece crowns glowing gold . |
| 11 | If this value of fv is substituted in the Doolittle expression for viscosity we find An equation of this type had already been suggested by Williams , Landel & Ferry as an empirical way of combining data derived at different temperatures into one master curve . |
| 12 | Other possible approaches that may come to the rescue include interactive video , expert systems ( a form of ‘ machine intelligence ’ ) , and the use by tutors of authoring systems to produce at speed specific , computer-based ‘ lessons ’ made up of text , graphics , and self-assessment questions . |
| 13 | The achievement of reading skills requires at least minimal vision , and the accomplishment of writing skills is further dependent on an adequately functioning preferred hand . |
| 14 | In many cases , such co-operation is a matter of swapping data arrived at by various different means — pooling knowledge of genes or weather systems , for example . |
| 15 | To estimate the number of synonyms that occur during creation of a direct file using a one-pass load , let us examine the result of storing n records at random in N addresses , on the assumption that each record has to be stored at once and each address can hold only one record . |
| 16 | The problems of making extrapolations arise at both the behavioural and the neurological level . |
| 17 | Hospitality is the art of making people feel at home when you wish they were at home |
| 18 | The concept of altering demand to remain at full employment was one he did not find it difficult to grasp . |
| 19 | Meanwhile , for Stan the basic business of discovering fossils proceeded at a dazzling pace . |
| 20 | A new development called time-coding is in the process of revolutionising video editing at the advanced amateur level . |
| 21 | When the sea freezes , a series of working tide-cracks form at the junction of land ice and sea ice , renewed twice daily during each tide cycle . |
| 22 | The Old Fire Station on George Street now houses a permanent exhibition of working science aimed at schoolchildren . |