Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [prep] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having had the opportunity through working at a hospice of attending many funerals I have grown used to seeing the shudders and worried looks that pass between grieving family and friends as they struggle to make sense of the words being read . |
| 2 | ‘ We 've just time to do what I always do with Dick Francis ; spoil the suspense by peeking at the end . |
| 3 | They were then asked why they could not raise the money by staying at home and working on the land . |
| 4 | But we need also to remember that there is another entitlement — the privilege of feeling at home somewhere , of understanding something in depth , of being immersed in a culture . |
| 5 | By long history the Bishop of Durham had the privilege of standing at the right hand of the sovereign throughout the coronation as her chief supporter . |
| 6 | The OTEC system , although low in output , has the advantage of generating at a fairly constant level . |
| 7 | Its proponents claim that it has the advantage of functioning at high altitudes , where winds are strong and stable . |
| 8 | This will have the advantage of coming at the beginning of a new financial year . |
| 9 | Terms like ‘ expressionistic approach ’ and ‘ figurative equivalence ’ signal the critic 's preoccupation with the issue of likeness for , it would be assumed , if we are to accept these works as portraits there must be some point at which the notion of the subject-sitter intrudes upon the paint-as-surface which is such a prominent aspect of the experience of looking at Auerbach 's work . |
| 10 | Congratulations to all graduates and welcome to membership of a special group of people of a wide variety of ages and careers , in all parts of the world who share with you the experience of studying at this University . |
| 11 | You will , by now , have had the experience of making at least two sleeves , so the pair for the handle ends of the lines can be made up' in the field' quite easily with just that wire needle and a box of matches to hand . |
| 12 | I expect many mothers have had the experience of standing at the sink washing and re-washing dishes because a teenage son or daughter is standing in the kitchen talking about something important , and once the dish-washing is over , he or she will go away . |
| 13 | The American visitor wrote out the cheque after staying at the £16-a-night City of London hostel . |
| 14 | The Peleus had been sunk at 7.30 p.m. ; Eck therefore had a whole night 's steaming to put himself a hundred miles from the sinking before submerging at dawn . |
| 15 | On page five , those of you who were at the last council meeting will know that the City Centre Management Working Party were charged with the responsibility of looking at the whole issue of street trading . |
| 16 | Top management is represented by the centre circle and has the responsibility of arriving at and promulgating the corporate plan defining the company objectives . |
| 17 | Lucy was involved in a study of cetaceans and had come along in the hope of seeing at least some porpoises . |
| 18 | This programme takes a scientific approach to the story by looking at the advancements in science , like the discovery of electricity , that inspired her to pen it . |
| 19 | Other engineering work on the railway includes a full winter programme on permanent way work , completion of the installation of signalling at Tywyn Penre and further progress on the fitting of air brakes to locomotives and passenger rolling stock . |
| 20 | This chapter completes the course by looking at three further areas of study ; each is important in its own way , and each is an area on which students working at an advanced level in phonetics and phonology spend a considerable amount of time . |
| 21 | Shares in Pentos fell by an alarming 20% last week after the group issued warnings that pretax profits for 1992 would be ‘ significantly below ’ market expectations and that its final dividend would be reviewed ‘ in the light of trading at the time of the preliminary announcement in March ’ . |
| 22 | Peons were even brought in sustain the illusion by prodding at the land , and a bulldozer chugged about . |
| 23 | The next morning at 7.30 the cast and crew were called to board the Bounty for filming at sea . |
| 24 | While it is undoubtedly true that there are advantageous settlements negotiated at the door of the Court , the actual cost to the defender in settling at that stage is significant insofar as in the majority of cases it is the defender who will have to meet the whole cost of preparation for the Proof by both parties , including attendance of witnesses , Counsel 's fees and so forth . |
| 25 | The car will be one of 106 which will leave the start at Chelsea Harbour with the intention of finishing at Sydney Opera House in May . |
| 26 | PROPERTY CHAIR : A new Chair in Property Development and Asset Management is to be sponsored in the Department of Surveying at the University of Salford by the RICS North West University Trust . |
| 27 | We can corroborate our timescale of the circulation by looking at the changes in density surface of the salinity minimum . |
| 28 | As the experiment wore on , however , there was clear evidence that loss of sleep was beginning to dominate the results , there being a progressive increase in fatigue and decrease in the speed of shooting at a target . |
| 29 | fatigue ratings , the speed of shooting at a target , and the rate of urinary excretion of adrenalin are shown in fig. 4.1 . |
| 30 | One of the pleasures of a short break is the luxury of shopping at a leisurely pace . |