Example sentences of "[noun pl] at the [noun sg] gate " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another queue of cars at the Falcon Gate . |
| 2 | Grumbles gathered from parents at the school gate , from the child that does n't want to come to school or from teachers blowing off steam in the staff room will , if properly used , help in the forestalling of trouble and give indications about ways in which the school can be improved . |
| 3 | It seems that the stewards at the transfer gate to the east stand carried on selling tickets to the stand long after it was obviously full . |
| 4 | Excavations at the south-east gate astride the Dorchester road have suggested that its stone semi-circular tower was an integral part of these early defences . |
| 5 | One not to be missed was Betty Boothroyd in a black-on-red number trying to be demure and inconspicuous on a day that resounded to cries at the palace gates of ‘ We want Boothroyd . ’ |
| 6 | According to John Webster , head of the department of animal husbandry at Bristol University , new cages of this sort would cost twice as much as existing ones , and would add one-third to the price of eggs at the farm gate . |
| 7 | Although there were minor scuffles at the factory gates on Tuesday morning , Mr McLevy said the workers would continue to picket peacefully and legally . |
| 8 | Since the early 1950s the Soviet workforce has , in the main , found its jobs by methods familiar to workers outside the state socialist economies : advertisements at the factory gate , in newspapers , by word of mouth . |
| 9 | The whole transaction conforms in detail to known Hittite law ( the mention of the trees , the weighing of the silver by current standards , and the proclamation in the presence of witnesses at the city gate ) . |
| 10 | Meanwhile prices at the factory gate increased 0.4 per cent in September , the same as in August , lifting the index to 120.0 , 1985=100 , which was 5 per cent above a year earlier . |
| 11 | Marketing and the development of specialised outlets at the farm gate or through farmer co-operatives was a source of enhanced income in certain areas of Europe . |
| 12 | They the da the harbour master 's men at the lock gates came out on strike . |
| 13 | Whatever the tide states at the lock gates , the ri the channel is dredged ten feet below that . |
| 14 | On the south side of the town , just north of the bridge crossing the Tyne , a constriction in Dere Street has been noted , of the same width as between the foundations at the north gate ; the length of the ‘ constriction ’ would have accommodated a wall and bank of nearly similar dimensions to that observed on the north side of the town . |
| 15 | It is clear that one of the reasons why the companies were prepared to invest so much in the provision of housing for their workmen was because they could influence employees living in company houses at the pit gates far more effectively than those living in a more mixed community several miles from their place of work . |
| 16 | On Thursday , two of the four will return to Edinburgh to answer charges that they breached an earlier interdict banning them from inciting or organising mass pickets at the factory gates . |
| 17 | Mr Peters asks the highly relevant question : why do so many workers leave their talents at the factory gate ? |
| 18 | Mr Peters asks the highly relevant question : why do so many workers leave their talents at the factory gate ? |
| 19 | Four former workers are awaiting trial at Dundee Sheriff Court on charges of breach of the peace arising out of incidents at the factory gates . |