Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [noun sg] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not think that people in Cornwall want to allocate blame at the moment , but they do want to ensure that the environmental clean-up is carried out both in the short term and the long term without hold-ups . |
| 2 | ‘ I- want to put appearance at the office before lunch . ’ |
| 3 | Designed to allow ventilation at the apex of lean-to roofs the new Abutment Ventilation System utilises the major components of Marley 's Ventilated Dry Ridge System with the addition of a lead support strip . |
| 4 | They say that the French can not be trusted to maintain safety at a plant which , though on French soil , is surrounded by Belgium . |
| 5 | Because an institutional plan has to guarantee quality at a level which is sought by parents and employers , the information on which it is based has to be that which they value . |
| 6 | Here , the leaders of commerce stopped to throw paper at a film unit — like a lot of overgrown schoolboys . ’ |
| 7 | Monnet 's original report had drawn particular attention to the fact that West Germany could easily be expected to produce steel at a cost far below what France could manage . |
| 8 | Accordingly , the programme was designed so that it could be modified in the light of experience , and families could choose to discontinue investigation at every stage from the initial screening test to the confirmed diagnosis . |
| 9 | The Bulgarian government has decided to suspend production at the country 's biggest lead plant for several months because it is causing severe pollution to nearby agricultural land . |
| 10 | Mr Wilson , 25 , was last seen by his family as they prepared to celebrate Hogmanay at a relative 's at the nearby Charleston estate , but there appear to have been sightings a day or so later in the city centre . |
| 11 | Following receipt of a Government letter he had written to express concern at the lack of information and support , to which there had been no reply . |
| 12 | The five main party leaders contesting the general election united to express dismay at the breakdown of the Gatt negotiations . |
| 13 | One of many photographers who had been lurking among the azaleas seemed to take hope at the sight of such an obviously affectionate couple and presented himself before them . |
| 14 | Residents within line of fire were evacuated from their homes and advised to take refuge at the Shuttle and Loom pub . |
| 15 | I 'm at the moment chairing a university working party on sexual harassment erm and what this working party erm intends to do is to try to survey experience gathered from the operation of codes and the appointment of people in college with a special responsibility for this sort of thing over the past few years , to see what we can learn from experience , so I 'd want to reserve judgement at the moment on what this committee might recommend is the best way forwards . |
| 16 | She turned to hurl abuse at the creature . |
| 17 | We would like to see work at the accident blackspots ; junctions and blind bends where you ca n't see . |
| 18 | Yeah , he could n't be bothered to play rugby at the beginning , I mean nobody missed about four weeks . |
| 19 | By the early 1960s , therefore , it had become accepted that fiscal and monetary policies could only be used to reduce unemployment at the expense of a deterioration in the balance of payments and a higher rate of inflation . |
| 20 | These may then be able to pay a minimum tax charge , equivalent to the current annual licence fee , or may elect to pay tax at a rate of up to 20% . |
| 21 | A. Discus would normally begin to display courtship at the age of nine months , so it is possible that all your Discus are of the same sex . |
| 22 | Garvey , of Sandwell Avenue , Middlesbrough , is expecting to stand trial at the Crown Court for the alleged offence but magistrates decided neither case could go ahead after Garvey 's solicitor Jimmy Watson failed to appear . |
| 23 | When she began to use contraception at the age of 42 she probably did so without her husband 's knowledge , but this would have been difficult for most working class women , given the lack of privacy in their homes . |
| 24 | A spokesman for Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles , said the 63-year-old film star was scheduled to leave hospital at the weekend . |
| 25 | In the choice of rotation by one farmer in East Anglia in 1970 , why did he decide to spread fertiliser at the start of Year 5 ? |
| 26 | Luckily perhaps for those who believe in human free will , however , this was not the complete and only picture on offer when the social sciences began to take shape at the end of the eighteenth century . |
| 27 | 9.35 : Check money and ticket stubs returned from parents for the Christmas Draw to take place at the school social evening next month . |
| 28 | Whatever method is employed to make height at the overlap , some 40ft ( 12m ) up the final corner , there is still a long reach to be made to find the hold in the crack above . |
| 29 | Finally , deciding to ‘ get serious about life ’ , he had enrolled to study law at the Polytechnic of Central London . |
| 30 | The claim that IQ is heritable appears to provoke controversy at every turn . |