Example sentences of "thing [verb] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are so many exciting things happening at church these days that it 's hard to keep up with events . |
| 2 | Worse things happen at sea . |
| 3 | Worst things happen at sea . |
| 4 | As things stand at present , the Labour Party uses three spurious reasons to justify its unprincipled boycott of Northern Ireland : |
| 5 | ‘ As things stand at present , it would be very difficult for a Bishop opposed to the new legislation to continue in office when that legislation comes into effect , ’ he said . |
| 6 | As things stand at present it seems more appropriate to talk about ‘ brains ’ than about ‘ the brain' . |
| 7 | If graduated tests are to have a large measurement component then it seems that , as things stand at present , a significant number of girls will be disadvantaged . |
| 8 | Mr Lang stated : ‘ I 'm not going to start answering specific questions about specific aspects of how one of the individual solutions we may chose will apply until we have reached a conclusion about the right way forward then we can address this issue and debate it fully , but as things stand at present I see no reason to have to change that law . ’ |
| 9 | He had told them he had things to do at home , had saved up the day for solitude . |
| 10 | His debut in the disastrous series in Australia was not a happy one , but things improved at home to India and then he really came into his own against England , finishing with 28 wickets at under 13 . |
| 11 | It is the work that is the most important thing to learn at school , with arithmetic being favoured by a three-to-one margin over being good . |
| 12 | The most important thing to note at present is that any strong syllable will have as its peak one of the vowel phonemes ( or possibly a triphthong ) listed in Chapter 3 , but not . |