Example sentences of "[noun pl] or [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are the 3% placed in welfare institutions or left at home with parents , classed as ineducable . |
| 2 | ( If you do n't have either of these , find someone who has and ask them to record a few straightforward patterns or beats at around 80–100 beats per minute on a cassette — it will work just as well . ) |
| 3 | All Indian weavers , whether employed in large manufactories or working at their own family looms , are under contract to one of the major distributors , who tell them what sizes , colours and designs to weave . |
| 4 | To see this double image as joined to a symbol of the grave ‘ that linked one Vincent to the other ’ is not as far-fetched as it appears when one sees the multiplicity of twinned and fused pairs appearing later : pairs of cottages , trees , and chairs , as well as of people on roads or seated at tables , overlapping or merged or shadowed . |
| 5 | I do not feel therefore , there is any crime for the trade union role in , in the constitutional procedure of the Party , whether it be selecting candidates or voting at conference , indeed I feel it is the strength of the movement . |
| 6 | Lives have been ruined because people have read the wrong books or looked at the wrong pictures . |
| 7 | There are many cheeses that are similar to Brie and Camembert but produced in different shapes or sold at differing stages of ripeness. all are referred to as surface-ripened , containing bacteria on their developing white rinds . |
| 8 | Its effectiveness at low concentrations , and cheapness make it particularly suitable for high volume industrial requirements , treating large areas or circulating at relatively high speed in clean-in-place systems and for process water disinfection . |
| 9 | How many people who ask questions or speak at small or large gatherings are really only talking to themselves ? |
| 10 | But Llewellyn denied his players had grabbed testicles or spat at the world champions . |
| 11 | She thought of it first when she spent her two nights on the Embankment , which was littered as soon as dark fell with sad , wild men and women stuffing bread into their mouths out of brown paper bags or staring at the barges on the river . |
| 12 | He readily accepted invitations to talk at other colleges or to teach at weekend courses for amateur artists . |
| 13 | We can not literally weigh religious truth-claims or look at them through a micro- scope . |
| 14 | This degree of knowledge will not guarantee immunity from mistakes or deceit at the hands of unscrupulous dealers , but it will help to combat the more obvious attempts at misinformation — far more likely than outright deception — and assist in assessing the integrity of any dealer or expert whom one may need to rely on for advice . |
| 15 | Handling and storage are n't simple , either — the choices for natural gas are compressing it to 200-plus bars or liquefying at -167deg C. Liquefied propane is easier to handle and already accepted , particularly in places like cold stores , where toxic exhaust build-up would be tricky . |
| 16 | She first offered monarchs to four ‘ experimental ’ birds and viceroys to four ‘ control ’ birds ; she recorded how many times the birds avoided the butterflies or pecked at them . |
| 17 | Brower then offered viceroys to both classes of jays and recorded the number of trials in which they avoided the butterflies or pecked at them ; the numbers in the Table give her results . |
| 18 | On a purely practical note , all this added up to quite a bit in value and Ivy Cottage did not appear to have any extra locks or catches at the windows . |
| 19 | Then later , in 1896 and 1897 , letters were sent by Fellows , Morton and Clayton to the Grand Junction , complaining of the lack of progress in either constructing wide locks or lifts at Foxton and Watford . |
| 20 | ‘ I spend my time in the bookies or sat at home in front of the telly . |
| 21 | She claimed photographers who took pictures of her as she walked the streets or appeared at public events were then making a fortune by selling their shots to companies ready to churn out posters , T-shirts and magazines by the million . |
| 22 | Fair-haired Jews from Moscow and Leningrad mingled with olive-skinned Georgians to read the Cyrillic slogans welcoming them and then sank down in rows of plastic chairs or gazed at the panoramic photograph of Jerusalem covering an entire wall . |
| 23 | Now they are more likely to spend their time sitting in front of the television , watching videos or staring at a computer screen . |
| 24 | Several of my old shipmates from earlier years were now established on the cutters and were building up reputations as excellent navigators , boat handlers or engineers , as well as hitting the headlines occasionally with notable seizures or rescues at sea . |
| 25 | Originally nature spirits , fees would metamorphose into fog or cloud , mountain stones or moss at will . |