Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun] [v-ing] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charges are 2 ½%; management fee — this covers free tax reporting at the year end and quarterly valuation and investment reviews — and 6% as a front end charge . |
| 2 | It was this arrangement that led to Branson waking up one morning in March 1976 , at his home in Denbigh Terrace , to find three men standing at the foot of his bed demanding money . |
| 3 | Branson 's role in the Atra deal had been negligible , and his first reaction on waking up to find three men standing at the bottom of his bed demanding £5,000 was one of confusion and outright terror . |
| 4 | Clearly there is so much ground to be covered , particularly on the engineering and operational sides , when a large transport aircraft is involved that you will need several investigators working at the same time . |
| 5 | During a trade dispute in 1960 , a police officer found two pickets standing at the front entrance of a factory , four standing at the back entrance and ten or twelve outside the back entrance . |
| 6 | A newspaper obituary mentioned four children living at the time of his death . |
| 7 | I 've seen strong men crying at the salmon mayonnaise , and the wine cellar would turn a camel off the water . |
| 8 | CYCLES characterize geochemical processes operating at the surface of the Earth . |
| 9 | When they reached it , they spied two men standing at the ready as they had expected : the passage through the palisade over the water was always manned by a guard or two . |
| 10 | If we now look at what happens to total product between O and O L 1 units of labour and we can see total product rising at an increasing rate , right , which implies our marginal product positive but increases over that range O to L L 1 right , between the the range O L 1 and O L 3 , right , the total product is rising but at a decreasing rate a decreasing rate that implies that the marginal product is still positive , right , but falling . |
| 11 | Like it is n't you know that the Eucharist , er the the the communion is very central to our worship and having had ten years working at the Navy that was an eye opener and deepening of my own spiritual awareness in the , as in the sanctity that I got , the sacrament and how other churches see it and er helped to create a very affirm , at the very centre of my own if you like , pilgrimage . |
| 12 | Local people heard armed police shouting at the man , Get out get out . |
| 13 | Around the same time , he saw a boy or young man wearing light clothes running at the side of the road . |
| 14 | I think Mr. Mendez wanted to get him on his way before he had time to change his mind ; before he spent another night staring at the ceiling and counting all the reasons why he should n't go to Contention . |
| 15 | After Broadman had left , at a run , the alchemist spent some time staring at the ceiling . |
| 16 | I think it is erm Greater York that has been seen as an area with special problems because of its er historic character , erm which we spent many hours debating at the York greenbelt local plan inquiry , and I think most participants there accepted that the er what was being protected was not just the historic core , but also the setting of York and its surrounding ring of villages , and the way which it is proposed to protect that setting and character is by a greenbelt , now it follows that if you are imposing extremely severe restrictions on new development in an area around a settlement , then you have to meet the legitimate development needs for that settlement in another location , the further away that new settlement or other policy response is located it seems to me the less likely it is to meet the er needs of that settlement , and that will give rise to erm , you know , additional pressures on the settlement you are proposing to protect and maybe those pressures could not be resisted , and I think that 's why there is this requirement that erm the development which might otherwise be built on the edge of York , but which is not proposed to be so built because of the greenbelt needs to be located close , as close to York as is consistent with the original environmental objectives greenbelt objectives for the greenbelt . |
| 17 | Ca n't think what people see in them , ’ he added darkly , referring to the fact that most of the Zoo visitors who came by the Cages spent more time looking at the vultures than they did at African eagles like him . |
| 18 | The effect of such correction can , in some instances , be dramatic , as in the case of a child who , after receiving his first pair of spectacles , spent several evenings looking at the stars as it was the first time he had ever been able to see them . |
| 19 | The reason that you use hot air is to keep that combustion going at a good temperature . |
| 20 | The County Council er together with its district council colleagues er has also spent five years looking at the problems in Greater York . |
| 21 | Now , in order for Donald to be able to hear the replies as well , we must only have one person talking at a time . |
| 22 | We have just er er spent two hours looking at a report whether that will be the report we 'll use at that particular time needs to be agreed yet . |
| 23 | However , the greater solar input at the equator than at the poles would produce greater solar choking at the equator , and this can be shown to aid equator to pole circulation in the Jovian interior , thus distributing solar energy more uniformly and leading to the small equator to pole temperature differences observed in the upper troposphere . |
| 24 | He believed that the conflict of interest between capital and labour , which involves one group gaining at the expense of the other , could not be resolved within the framework of a capitalist economy . |
| 25 | I saw one woman standing at the door of her ruined home , crying and bewildered , with dried blood on her forehead . |
| 26 | ‘ That 's wonderful , ’ said the man , but then he saw four Scots sitting at a table without a drink . |
| 27 | But if it 's a world problem , if there are international dimensions to our problems in Britain , or to Kenya 's problems in Kenya , or to Mexico 's Mexican problems in Mexico , then somehow we 've got to have international groups looking at the international aspects of those problems . |
| 28 | Although careful control is required , the ideal system seeks to have all staff working at the peak of their knowledge and ability . |
| 29 | Once in the park , Joyce 's mother had stopped to talk to another young woman while Joyce herself sat watching some birds pecking at the remains of a sandwich that someone had dropped on the path . |
| 30 | I 'm usually too absorbed in my work to spend much time looking at the other students . ’ |