Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [conj] [v-ing] at [art] " in BNC.

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1 Sea waybills have reduced some of the above uncertainties by limiting the number of qualified issuers , minimizing the possibilities of fraud and arriving at the port of destination prior to arrival of the goods .
2 It may look good when you are standing , but if you reveal acres of thigh when sitting at a business meeting , you 'll never be taken seriously .
3 It may look good when you are standing , but if you reveal acres of thigh when sitting at a business meeting , you 'll never be taken seriously .
4 She saw a young man squatting on a rucksack , eating a bar of chocolate and looking at the board .
5 Remember , thermal soaring is more about staying in the strongest area of lift than flying at an ‘ efficient ’ angle of bank ; it usually pays to turn steeply , as the small turning circle enables you to keep in the narrow cores of strong lift .
6 Biological materials always operate in the saturated state : this gets rid of the problem of shrinkage and swelling at the expense of a reduction in strength .
7 But the real start to his career came in 1875 with an appointment as professor of geology and mining at the Imperial College of Engineering , Tokyo .
8 To choose between individual partnerships which feed benefit into the school and large associations which have potential value for a larger community is a matter not of managerial choice from day to day but of planning and drafting at the level of the institutional development plan .
9 Still sucking in lungfuls of air and wincing at the detonating roar of Duvall 's automatic pistol , Cardiff began to haul himself to his feet again by one arm , his gun hand hanging limp .
10 I 've got to get some sleep , ’ the impresario said , eating a spoonful of caviar and looking at a column about grosses in Variety .
11 For the people of Pakistan to enjoy the huge benefits of heating and cooking at the press of a switch , then praise be to the Darlington firms of Head Wrightson and Whessoe .
12 ‘ No , ’ said Greg , looking towards an elderly female colleague in a drab woolly frock , hunched over piles of marking but twitching at the ears for anything of scandalous human interest .
13 Lord James Douglas-Hamilton the Minister for Education and Housing at the Scottish Office not only ascended in a ‘ cherry picker ’ with the Principal to uncover the Napier University sign at Merchiston but also unveiled a plaque and addressed the crowd , praising the contribution of the Scottish ‘ Techs ’ to Scottish education and to the local and national economies .
14 However , it is first worth rehearsing the basic structure within which the delegation of powers will work under LMS and looking at the basis for teacher involvement that already exists in many schools .
15 Another woman explains how a food co-operative has been set up , buying in bulk and selling at no profit to members .
16 1807 " The Meeting having revised the Consideration of last year 's resolution respecting the Restriction as to the Liquor … now think that this restriction is not necessary … the Constables shall also be prohibited from Eating or Drinking at the Expence of the Publick . "
17 These might now be labelled ‘ fundamental principles ’ and it is important to bear them in mind when looking at the limitations of the legal aid scheme ( Pollock , 1975 ) :
18 Some of them have spent more terms in schools than others — which must be borne in mind when looking at the position of an individual pupil — but all those factors even out in the local authorities .
19 you make your sound and you carry on and on and on , I 'm gon na keep on taping different people 's make their sound and then we 're gon na see what it feels like you 're in hospital , okay , now it does n't matter if somebody 's got the same sound as somebody else , it 's no big deal , alright , because eventually they 'll all blend into each other , but as soon as I 've tapped you , make your sound , alright patients , come on where 's the machines ? okay , stop , now when did it start becoming out of hand ? , at one stage we did n't really know where we were to , once , once I say ten people , okay , and that was also due to the fact that we had perhaps too many erm patients moaning , alright , it was good in one respect because why , it made obvious that we were in a , a hospital well something like , but erm when you 're in smaller groups and you 're making your sound machines , obviously it 's much easier to control and to make the overall sound more realistic , do n't you think ? , so , mm , what we 're going to do is we 're going to get into different groups , into groups of four , five , no big deal , you 're welcome to only if you want to , and , you 're going to , each group is going to choose er a profession , okay , you can be brick layers , you can be er musicians , er you can be er gardener , I mean absolutely you can be factory workers , you can be absolutely anything , and what you 're going to do is you 're going to choose , each person will choose a sound which is represented of that particular person , er profession , okay , and you 'll going to make your sounds simultaneously so that as for the audience who are simply listening to you can just close our eyes cos we wo n't , you wo n't be acting you 'll be making these sounds and using , we 'll close our eyes and we 'll know exactly where we are , okay , and then after that once we 've done that just , before you choose your profession to know what this is going to lead onto , after that we 're going to put movements to that profession , so when , if you were in a factory going er putting bottles on , on top top of bottles , you would have the movements going and you would have the sound going and I want you to build up , up , the sound machine which becomes the movement machine as well , so you 're almost robotic so you , shh , shh , or whatever , however your sound , and each person does their thing in the factory or where ever they are and we will be able to see from listening and looking at the movements and obviously remember just because you 're not an example it does n't mean you ca n't talk , there might be for instance there would be a doctor going stand back , stand back , you know , er , in , in the you can use voices , but also obviously very , very effective to have sound voices , shh , shh , to create that part of it , have instruments , but this is how they actually started lay down sound tracks for movies , people specialize
20 During the holiday , Norma who was already suffering the stresses of life as the wife of a Government Minister awoke one night covered in sweat and clawing at a port hole , trying to get out .
21 Transfer to the Admiralty enabled him in 1920 to attend evening classes in writing and illuminating at the Central School of Arts and Crafts .
22 The team was put through a daily fitness programme , starting with a 40 minute run before breakfast and finishing at the nearby police gym where they took in circuit and weight training before going on another one-and-a half mile run .
23 By 1973 it was in production and selling at a good profit to Jensen for the new Jensen-Healey .
24 The lecture room is in the heart of the International Centre for brewing and distilling at the Heriot Watt , the only such facility in the UK .
25 If anyone starts talking about sex or looking at the Indian women , someone always says , ‘ Riddled with diseases I 'm sure . ’
26 A wayward child , forever up to mischief and straining at the bit to dash around , is not necessarily hyperactive .
27 As a result of this , large manufacturers operating a ‘ pull ’ strategy have been able to exercise control over their distributive intermediaries ; such intermediaries could only dismiss demand created through advertising and branding at the risk of losing custom .
28 Or side by side and touching at the hips ,
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