Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] at the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Below we include a brief extract from this study which looks at the problems and consequences of conviction for the business , ‘ respectable ’ criminal in comparison to the regular criminal — bearing in mind , of course , that the business criminal is far less likely to be convicted that most other types of criminal . |
| 2 | In this chapter we look at the ways to develop the applications which use the database , including an analysis of data requirements , and in Chapter 7 we look at setting up different external views in the context of different DBMS . |
| 3 | A big difference from the episode we have at the vets each month ! |
| 4 | From trees and undergrowth they fired at the victors again and again , as they swarmed over the wall in twos and threes , then in dozens and scores , and finally in hundreds . |
| 5 | The issues raised by this and subsequent questions go to the heart of the debate on the Compensation Fund , and it is apparent that many of those who answered negatively felt to varying degrees that in the present commercial climate the public could no longer expect the entire profession to compensate them for any losses they suffered at the hands of a tiny minority of errant solicitors — particularly as no comparable compensation was available from the providers of other professional services . |
| 6 | However , because the moral phenomena which lay at the roots of social solidarity could not directly be measured , Durkheim identified law as an external and visible index of changes in invisible moral phenomena . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , I fell on the gravel , severely grazing my knee and , what was worse , ruining one of my two pairs of stockings — nasty rayon objects which sagged at the knees and cost precious clothing coupons . |
| 8 | Under the old set up , I ran a course which looked at the problems of language learning chronologically . |
| 9 | His letter written to congratulate his elder brother Lodovico when his engagement was announced , is typical of the sermons he preached at the marriages of so many friends . |
| 10 | The heroes of the faith who died at the hands of the persecutor had long enjoyed special honour among Christians , as , before them , among Jews . |
| 11 | The row does not affect the Small Beer Festival which starts at the Arts Centre on Thursday . |
| 12 | The porcelain produced at Chelsea was said to compare with Dresden 's fine china and there was always keen competition amongst dealers who waited at the doors to purchase pieces as soon as they emerged from the ovens . |
| 13 | It is important for the Government to pursue other involved parties — including the company itself , but also the finan cial advisers who put savers into the Gibraltar fund without inquiring too much about how it was able to offer such high rates of interest , not to mention the auditors who looked at the books . |
| 14 | ‘ You can trust us to wake up every day remembering the people we saw in the bus trips , the people we saw in the town meetings , the people we touched at the rallies , the people who had never voted before , the people who had n't voted in 20 years , the people who 'd never voted for a Democrat , the people who had given up hope , all of them together saying we want our future back . |
| 15 | ‘ You can trust us to wake up every day remembering the people we saw in the bus trips , the people we touched at the rallies , the people who had never voted before , the people who had n't voted in 20 years , the people who 'd never voted for a Democrat , the people who had given up hope , all of them saying we want our future back . ’ |
| 16 | To test his theory he looked at the processes responsible for producing monstrosities , because these provided the closest observable parallel to the saltative transmutations demanded by his theory . |
| 17 | The Devil 's spawn , black hearts with rhythm in their souls who jeer at the weaknesses of little people unfit to lick the dirt from their boots . |
| 18 | The Devil 's spawn , black hearts with rhythm in their souls who jeer at the weaknesses of little people unfit to lick the dirt from their boots . |
| 19 | But inspiration came in the form of a fellow photographer he met at the printers , who suggested a different way of looking at the images . |
| 20 | In fact , we do run a project which looks at the ways science can be taught in the first school , which has been very surprising to me and many of my colleagues by what can actually be done with children in the ages of five to seven . |
| 21 | In fact , we do run a project which looks at the ways science can be taught in the first school , which has been very surprising to me and many of my colleagues by what can actually be done with children in the ages of five to seven . |
| 22 | People wrote in books about a black weight of worry , and they were right , that was just how it felt , a perpetual physical burden which dragged at the shoulders and the heart , denying joy , even destroying , she thought bitterly , their pleasure in Debbie . |
| 23 | Are you aware that the array of funerals , commonly made by undertakers , is strictly the heraldic array of a baronial funeral , the two men who stand at the doors being supposed to be the two porters of the castle , with their staves , in black ; the man who heads the procession , wearing a scarf , being a representative of a herald-at-arms ; the man who carries a plume of feathers on his head being an esquire , who bears the shield and casque , with its plume of feathers ; the pall-bearers , with batons , being representatives of knights-companions-at-arms ; the men walking with wands being supposed to represent gentlemen-ushers , with their wands : are you aware that this is said to be the origin and type of the common array usually provided by those who undertake to perform funerals ? |
| 24 | They possessed a faint whiff of humour , those men who sat at the ankles of Iosif . |
| 25 | But in moving to a second order analysis they looked at the relations between groups of signs in discursive systems . |
| 26 | It marks and establishes the arcane authority of the ( usually male ) development expert much more profoundly and severely than his outer lineaments of specialness such as the belted safari suit he wears ‘ in the field ’ and the flap and epaulet-laden trench coat he sports at the conferences he attends with sickening frequency in the West . |
| 27 | Over his shoulder I looked at the sheets covering the Corporal , the bloodstain widening . |
| 28 | They say statistics can be manipulated to give any impression , but whichever way you look at the Gunners , the facts of Highbury life make glum reading . |
| 29 | And it was the taller of the two boys who looked at the others before explaining , ‘ He 's got little legs . ’ |
| 30 | A viewpoint which is in stark contrast to so many so-called protestants who grovel at the feet of Israel and its un-Godly and alien occupants . |