Example sentences of "[verb] is [verb] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Racing is held at York during six meetings from May to October with the biggest gathering during the three days august event . |
| 2 | Racing is held at York during six meetings from May to October with the biggest gathering during August |
| 3 | The full sum invested is returned at maturity or on the investor 's death , if earlier . |
| 4 | The male penguin might just have calculated that if you 're stuck in the Antarctic for years on end then the cleverest thing to do is stay at home minding the egg while you send the female off to catch fish in the freezing waters . |
| 5 | All you want to do is sit at home and watch TV . |
| 6 | What they are trying to do is to arrive at insights which are generally true of all humanity ( including the anthropologists themselves ) by observing very small-scale examples of human life . |
| 7 | But now I 'm glad , glad and thankful and almost forgiving … because all you 're going to do is play at soldiers twice a week . |
| 8 | The information to be entered is described at Section 4 . |
| 9 | ‘ However , British Coal believe that plans for major new investments have to be reviewed in the light of the changing market conditions , which I understand is happening at Point of Ayr . ’ |
| 10 | The first part of the Bible which Hugo illuminated is preserved at Corpus Christi College , Cambridge . |
| 11 | Another way of finding useful or appropriate things to read is to look at library catalogues which have been published as books . |
| 12 | An explanation of how variables are stored is given at Annex E. |
| 13 | The income arising is taxed at 10% . |