Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the mother of two small children , the youngest hardly a month old , her eventual decision to remain at Stowey was clearly sensible . |
| 2 | Given basic ability , equality of opportunity to borrow at the market rate of interest to invest in your human capital so as to secure a future return makes observed income inequality a matter of individual choice . |
| 3 | So gripped did I become with my inability to proceed at one point , that I almost became benighted through ignoring what was literally a keyhole through the rock . |
| 4 | Status would allow operators to see at a glance which items of safety-related equipment were in proper working order . |
| 5 | ’ For Lewis it was a sobering experience to lose at major international level , following his Helsinki and Los Angeles exploits . |
| 6 | The Scottish Sports Council announced today that its Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Mr Ken Hutchison has intimated his decision to retire at the end of November . |
| 7 | I 've had to accept that the kind of woman who attracts me is n't the kind to sit at home having babies and darning my socks . |
| 8 | Thousands went on the rampage , ripping up paving slabs , trees and street signs to hurl at riot police who responded with teargas . |
| 9 | In Strasbourg , thousands of protesting farmers ripped up paving slabs , trees and street signs to hurl at riot police who responded with teargas . |
| 10 | The problem remains of how to get the existing parliament to connive at its own demise . |
| 11 | The letter , also sent to NME , said : ‘ When you signed your contract to perform at Manchester 's International 2 and London Astoria on December 16 and 17 , you effectively signed your death warrant . |
| 12 | This is the same waste that formed the cargo of the Syrian ship Zanoobia , which was denied permission to unload at ports all over the world in 1988 . |
| 13 | Earning a very large salary , Laura was quite used to buying expensive clothes — primarily , of course , smart and severely cut suits to wear at work . |
| 14 | It is therefore safe for a fire-engine driver to proceed at a higher speed than would be possible for other drivers . |
| 15 | The major objective of the whole project was to examine this question , and it is clearly of great relevance , not only to dementia sufferers and their carers , who on the whole are known to prefer the sufferer to remain at home ( see Levin , 1983 ) but also to service-providers and policymakers anxious to explore the extent to which the pressure towards community care can be implemented in practice . |
| 16 | Among our samples , for instance , 79 per cent of the spouses said at first interview that they wanted the dementia sufferer to remain at home , compared with 36 per cent of the non-spouses . |
| 17 | It was mainly from among those with a principal carer who wanted the dementia sufferer to remain at home that those who did remain at home were to be found ( if one excludes those who died or moved away , and compares place of care for those whose principal carer said initially that he or she preferred home or institutional care the difference between the two groups is significant at the 0.001 level ) . |
| 18 | For in both action and control samples the majority still stated , one year later , that they wanted the dementia sufferer to remain at home : only one in the action sample , and two in the control sample stating a clear preference for institutional care . |
| 19 | At first interview half the carers said they would prefer the sufferer to be in institutional care , and it was overwhelmingly from among these who wanted the sufferer to remain at home that those who did remain at home for the year were to be found . |
| 20 | The pressure pad system ( described in " A Place of my Own " by G Fennel ) is used in some sheltered housing and can be fitted in ordinary housing 4.2.1 What support is necessary and available to enable the sufferer to remain at home ? |
| 21 | Second division , Swansea away in the cup was never going to be an easy ticket for Oxford , but when Nick Cusack scored with just over 10 minutes to go at the Vetch Field , United looked a good bet for the 4th round . |
| 22 | ‘ We switched Brian further forward with half an hour to go at Portsmouth three matches ago and it has produced results , ’ said manager Malcolm Crosby . |
| 23 | Anyway he says it will be decided upon cos it 's the half an hour to go at it , you watch in the end . |
| 24 | Mrs Simmons drives to town each Saturday afternoon to shop at the market . |
| 25 | It is women who have to go alone ; whose lovers do not have the patience to wait at home and pray for them . |
| 26 | Alcohol misuse is more likely to come to light via marital disputes , repeated driving offences , accidents , absenteeism and progressive inability to cope at work . |
| 27 | All day long she had wondered how he had managed to bamboozle his way into a consultancy , but first the calm , unflappable way he had dealt with Steve and now here , with the devastated relatives , Kathleen had an opportunity to see at first hand the qualities that set him apart as a consultant . |
| 28 | A mob of young Catholics was waiting at Cromac Square , armed with a good supply of bricks and metal objects to hurl at the marchers . |
| 29 | ‘ The Bradys do n't have that much money to scatter at the Royal Hotel . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I have absolutely no plans to retire at any time . ’ |