Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the rules change at this stage . |
| 2 | The syllables heard at the two ears differed only in the initial consonant or only in the middle vowel . |
| 3 | The British authorities argued at the time that the way to tackle this problem of falling competitiveness , far from being to allow the pound to devalue , was to maintain a rigid exchange rate for sterling and so through the resulting high interest rates and tight money ‘ to squeeze inflation out of the system ’ . |
| 4 | Reader 's interest coincide generally with the news values listed at the start of the chapter . |
| 5 | The purchase of a call option on a futures contract gives the owner the right to acquire a long position in the futures contract at a set price ( the exercise or striking price ) during ( or at the end of ) a specified time period . |
| 6 | It is also possible to unwind a futures contract at any time by performing a reversing trade , so futures contracts are generally extremely liquid ( at least for the near maturing contracts ) . |
| 7 | When the long originally bought the June futures contract at 90.50 , he was expecting to lock in a three-month sterling interest rate of 9.50 per cent . |
| 8 | If an individual buys a futures contract at this price and later sells a contract at 91–23 , then he will have made a loss of 328.13 ( i.e. 21 ticks x 15.625 per tick ) . |
| 9 | Alternatively , he could sell a futures contract at the current futures price and , at the end of T years , buy the asset in the cash market to deliver it into the futures market to fulfil the contract . |
| 10 | The role will involve providing economic back-up analysis and feasibility studies for planning activities undertaken at all levels by the Physical Planning Directorate . |
| 11 | The Middle East peace talks continued during May with a series of multilateral meetings arranged at the Moscow round in January [ see p. 38740 ; see p. 38885 for fifth round of bilateral talks held in Washington in late April ] . |
| 12 | Indeed the Director of Kenya 's Institute of Education looks forward to a time when a syllabus may be devised which , in addition to a national ‘ core ’ , has specific defined areas where programmes devised at district or local levels will be developed and implemented . |
| 13 | Produced in six bi-monthly parts it gives an up-to-date , comprehensive summary of all decisions on human rights cases heard at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg . |
| 14 | We got votes against our proposals with no reasons given at all , you 've now got down to the point of having no reasons at all for opposing what we want to do . |
| 15 | Moreover , at moments of crisis — notably in 1881 , 1903 , and October 1905 — the authorities connived at vicious pogroms against them . |
| 16 | Oolitic grainstones predominate at the edge of the platform where the coastal sand barriers that enclosed the lagoons , became established . |
| 17 | Grain-size and heavy mineral analysis of selected sherds of pottery from stamp-linked groups excavated at the cremation cemetery at Spong Hill in Norfolk indicated that there were a minimum of nine day sources , possibly relating to the settlements using the cemetery . |
| 18 | Downstairs , Teppanyaki San is Japanese food as theatre , with knife-juggling , joke-telling chefs cooking at your table — express lunches from £5.50 |
| 19 | Status would allow operators to see at a glance which items of safety-related equipment were in proper working order . |
| 20 | There is little doubt that their handwriting skills develop at a slower pace than their linguistic skills . |
| 21 | Research projects undertaken at OIES are initiated internally in a fully autonomous manner . |
| 22 | Aggersborg , the largest , contained forty-eight houses , arranged in blocks of four grouped in threes in each of the quadrants formed by two internal roads intersecting at right angles . |
| 23 | Logica Plc is letting the Callserver Unix-based speech and call processing activities developed at its Cambridge research lab go in a management buyout for £187,000 and up to £1.3m over the next five years . |
| 24 | Logica Plc is letting the Callserver Unix-based speech and call processing activities developed at its Cambridge research lab go in a management buyout for £187,000 and up to £1.3m over the next five years . |
| 25 | The honours list simply shores up Britain 's class system guaranteeing that those with grand hereditary titles remain at the top of the heap . |
| 26 | The corresponding 1991 figure showed 500 buy-outs completed at a cost of £2.6 billion . |
| 27 | So do make sure that at least one of the contacts listed at the foot of the release is around to answer questions . |
| 28 | Forty-five coaches stopped at checkpoints on the A2 in Kent exceeded permitted weight restrictions and passengers were ordered to unload duty-frees before being allowed to continue their journeys . |
| 29 | It was , therefore , necessary to carry out a complete validation check of the listing against the manual records kept by the Personnel Branch at Gatwick Airport . |
| 30 | Erm , she actually traced back calls on the station log and it was done from the first of October nineteen ninety two to the thirtieth of September nineteen ninety three and during that time we had over five thousand three hundred and thirty calls , of which one thousand one hundred and sixty six originated from , so that is erm twenty point three percent of the calls received at police station and were held on came from , which is quite a lot . |