Example sentences of "[to-vb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am afraid this is all very complicated and difficult to untangle at short notice , but I hope , nonetheless , that it is of some help . |
| 2 | Their study shows that every $10 of interest payments per year and per person means 142 days less of life on average , had life expectancy continued to increase at pre-debt crisis rates . |
| 3 | In November he was able to lecture at Central Hall , Westminster , on " The Three Voices of Poetry " — in the recording of that address , his clipped and precise speech , almost professorial in character , can be heard — but it was to be his last major engagement for many months . |
| 4 | To aid the overall analysis of the contractor 's programmes it is often appropriate to request at tender detailed programmes for each structure or major work area programmes for shutter , falsework and scaffolding erection and movement resource schedules against work elements , and movement charts for labour and plant . |
| 5 | When we could find nowhere to meet at short notice , the WTN local , The Crown and Sceptre , said that we could use the kitchen upstairs . |
| 6 | It was in that personal role that he had been summoned to dine at short notice . |
| 7 | The fog-horn , its sound now muffled by the houses , continued to bleat at regular intervals . |
| 8 | Here the position that the plaintiff seeks to establish at common law is broadly consistent with the legislative policy evidenced by the Act of 1976 . |
| 9 | It means that the stressed syllables in an utterance tend to come at regular intervals with a varying number of less stressed syllables in between . |
| 10 | He had done well that day — almost performed miracles — having located Mrs McLaren 's Scottish relations ; persuaded a most excellent and locally well-known lady to come at short notice and be in the house to stay with her ; and had seen to it that the house itself was tidied , and cleaned ready , and supplied with food . |
| 11 | In the store room next to the kitchen were a long table and shelves always covered with all sorts of provisions ; large earthenware jars full of confits of pork and goose , a small barrel where vinegar slowly matured , a bowl where honey oozed out of the comb , jams , preserves of sorrel and of tomatoes , and odd bottles with grapes and cherries marinating in brandy ; next to the table a weighing machine on which I used to stand at regular intervals ; sacks of haricot beans , of potatoes ; eggs , each one carefully dated in pencil . |
| 12 | Ten ratings were chosen to stand at selected points along the way . |
| 13 | Excuse me for needing this spelt out , but does this mean that Leeds fans can now just pay at the door to stand at away games . |
| 14 | For centuries the continual struggle of ordinary country folk to harvest an income to keep them and their families above starvation level meant that they were always prepared to swallow their pride and go , cap in hand , to the gentry for a few vital coppers The same philosophy spawned the hiring fairs ( which continued until the second half of the century ) when the ‘ spare ’ children of rural ( and sometimes urban ) families , not required for work at home , were sent to stand at appointed places where prospective employers could examine and interrogate them checking their limbs for strength and making sure they were properly subservient There was n't a deal of difference , fundamentally , between hiring fairs ( as immortalized by Thomas Hardy in Far From the Madding Crowd and the weekly cattle auctions held in market towns . |
| 15 | Its importance sharply decreased for those in their early 20s , to stand at little above the average and fell gradually as age increased , to reach just over eight per cent for over-55 year olds . |
| 16 | The role of the National LX Network is to provide at local level those services required throughout the country to enhance the nation 's export profile by supporting British commerce , business and industry in sustaining international pressures and in penetrating foreign markets . |
| 17 | He had studied the latest Russian , German and French film theories , spent six months mixing with movie people in Hollywood , then gone on to train at British Instructional Pictures , a maker of successful non-fiction films which moved into drama production in the late 1920s . |
| 18 | The scheme will not apply to staff who are contracted to work at multiple locations . |
| 19 | The real limitation was time ; many students , although they enjoyed the projects , felt the pressure of looming final examinations and said that they were unable to complete their project to their own satisfaction and had to make the best of a bad job in order to work at other , equally pressing , aspects of the course . |
| 20 | However , Lindstedt cautions that such visual behaviour as peering closely at the work being undertaken by no means offers a complete solution to the problems arising from the need to work at close range . |
| 21 | ‘ I used to have the impression that I should feel almost privileged to work at certain big-name establishments when I saw the size of my pay packet , and I never used to know my general manager . |
| 22 | Alongside tests of observation , students would be required to work at different sections in the kitchen : sauce-making ; larder-work ; vegetable-preparation , etc . |
| 23 | you could n't do it , but he had every opportunity the other , the twin did to get through you know and he passed his City and Guilds , but Peter 's got on alright , the other son who 's got the factory , he 's , he 's busy got an electrical panels and all that he does , you know , he 's quite good and my other son he works , he used to work at Burnt Mill , and he now has moved to erm er Stansted , he works at Stansted he works in the big food depot , that used to be years ago and he works there , he 's been there ever since he left school , since except two , two years he had in the army you know for the conscription , but he 's been there erm ever since he was fourteen and he 's now about oh , forty something now he is , I 'm not quite sure of their ages , I get muddled up I 've got , eight , eight sons altogether , so , I 've got quite a family dear . |
| 24 | To summarise , then , concentration is a skill you must develop if you are to work at high efficiency . |
| 25 | As a definition , this has its flaws but it can still help us understand better what health care should be about and enables us to work at improving health care provision . |
| 26 | This means there will be time to get everything down but that your brain will have to work at full speed and concentration to analyse all the words . |
| 27 | The company is already seeing substantial demand from the workstation industry — RISCs need much more memory to work at full efficiency — and forecasts that demand will soar . |
| 28 | It can be expensive to provide and difficult to obtain at short notice , and has the disadvantage of not being readily available in ordinary schools . |
| 29 | Because the Moon revolves around the Earth , the lunar day — the time it takes for the Moon to appear at equal heights above the horizon on successive occasions — is longer than 24 hours . |
| 30 | television are obviously having trouble rousing experts to appear at ungodly hours to comment on the morning 's news . |