Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun sg] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DOREEN Barnett , seated , with one of her retirement gifts , says farewell to her colleagues in the potting department at Imperial Pottery after 27 years ' service . |
| 2 | By incorporating parking at right angles to the kerb in 50m stretches on alternate sides of the road , a series of 45 degree chicanes in a formerly straight street can be created ( Figure 5.9 ) . |
| 3 | Pre-eruption vesiculation has been inferred previously using microgravity at andesitic stratocones ( Poas and Pacaya ) where only 1–2% change in the degree of vesiculation accounts for the observed changes ( of 100μGal ) . |
| 4 | A number of guests , unaccustomed to attending formal functions , caused a few unpleasant moments when they began targeting abuse at social secretary , the Reverend Shrigley . |
| 5 | More than 150 nuclear safety experts from 36 countries met in Vienna on May 14-18 to exchange information on operating experience at nuclear plants and to analyse new dimensions in nuclear safety . |
| 6 | He recalled also that the company had won awards for quality and production but added : ‘ It will be difficult to portray that image when there are several hundred people at the factory gate shouting abuse at prospective customers . ’ |
| 7 | On June 13 , having heard speeches from both Walesa and ex-Prime Minister Olszewski , delegates adopted a resolution " expressing indignation at recent events in Poland and the role played by the President in them " and calling for the exposure of secret service agents . |
| 8 | The 260,000 employees of the overmanned and loss-making East German Deutsche Reichsbahn were demanding increases to bring their wages closer in line with the earnings of employees of the West German Bundesbahn , but were also expressing concern at proposed massive redundancies in the rail workforce when the Reichsbahn and the Bundesbahn merged early in 1991 . |
| 9 | There were also different conventions surrounding painting at different periods . |
| 10 | It was a particularly testing time at British Steel as we were still engaged in the major retrenchment exercise and we also had the very difficult task of keeping the steel mills operating during the miners ' strike . |
| 11 | A substantial amount of the training will be done in teaching practice at local schools and using distance learning methods . |
| 12 | The department has well-equipped laboratory facilities and houses the most advanced parallel computers as well as conducting research at national and international institutions . |
| 13 | For the DES , teaching quality at secondary level is enhanced by the possession of specialist subject expertise among those with responsibility for teaching the particular subjects in question . |
| 14 | For the man-about-town of the 1890s betraying concern at owing money to tradesmen was bourgeois , boring and absurd . |
| 15 | Peskin has been buying property at rock-bottom prices ahead of recovery . |
| 16 | The scheme was innovatory in providing housing at controlled rents in a converted building on a spectacular riverside site , something which previously had been regarded as the preserve of affluent owner occupiers . |
| 17 | Jasper Sharpe powered up the direct start to Moving Staircase at High Rocks to give a fun ( and 6b ) boulder problem . |
| 18 | The League 's five Maghreb members were the first to announce that they would be sending representation at ambassadorial level only ( instead of foreign ministers ) . |
| 19 | Some of them serving the Institute well , by holding office at local or national level and others by being ( what I will become on Sunday ) ‘ an ordinary grumbling member ’ . |
| 20 | These difficulties , it is argued , although in part the result of the marginalization of the arts in British education at national level , are also caused by the failure of arts educators to come to terms with the reasonable expectations of those charged with administering INSET at local level and thereby exploit more effectively the support for the arts of those charged with administering education . |
| 21 | Women giving birth at over age 30 began to be regarded by the medical profession as something of a curiosity . |
| 22 | On the rare occasions when he consented to do interviews , he usually sat silent and still , staring stone-faced at baffled journalists . |
| 23 | A sinister rumour from Japan has it that the yakuza , the indigenous mafia , have joined the game , lending money at usurious rates to art speculators and taking the painting as collateral . |
| 24 | The work of the Dragon Project though , is beginning to show that there may be some basis for thinking that unusual behaviour of certain known energies could be taking place at certain sites ( New Scientist , 21 October , p 166 ) , and it is possible that our ancient ancestors could detect this ‘ Earth energy ’ . |
| 25 | Injections of " capital " from this source will probably differ wildly from one partner to the next and so , taking the generalised capital clause at its face value , adjustments to capital sharing ratios will appear to be taking place at annual intervals , whereas no change at all will have been intended by the partners . |
| 26 | But these changes are not just taking place at regional level . |
| 27 | If Day-Lewis is the movie 's greatest strength then its most noticeable defect is that it was shot by two different cinematog-raphers , often with the same scene lit very differently as if taking place at contrasting times of day . |
| 28 | Despite a post-election resumption of fighting , a breakthrough in negotiations appeared imminent following the March round of the UN-sponsored peace talks between the government and the FMLN ( which had been taking place at monthly intervals over the past year ) . |
| 29 | The problems connected with these are inseparable , because of the variety of local conditions , which led to them taking place at different times in various parts of the kingdom . |
| 30 | Tench to 3lb taking caster at Blue Anchor but problems could be looming with algae bloom at Burscough end . |