Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] at [art] [noun] that " in BNC.
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1 | Hence the need to stress at the outset that Nizan 's adult development can be correctly understood only as a deep involvement in the communist party , a process of attraction-repulsion in which Nizan was both deeply committed to and deeply compromised by the party itself . |
2 | It was nerve-racking to remember Rosie 's shattering scream as the knife sprang from the bag and hit the floor , but the memory of her distress forced Rain to tug at the staples that secured the bag . |
3 | The DUP leader wants Mr Major to insist at the conference that the Republic 's Government drops its territorial claim to Northern Ireland . |
4 | In order to look at the effect that financial devolution , in the form of LMS , is likely to have , both on schools and on the quality of education , it may be helpful to look closely at what has happened in institutions that have already experienced various levels of financial autonomy . |
5 | Likewise in ( 84 ) one can not hear a tune " come " from somewhere ( cf. the strangeness of * I heard the tune come from the top of the hill ) : its source of emission can only be identified by a process of deduction which interprets what is directly observed in order to arrive at the conclusion that the sound is coming from such-and-such a point . |
6 | An object of a particular date in a particular context does not automatically mean that it dates that context : a context often contains artefacts of quite different dates , and it is the archaeologists 's task to arrive at an interpretation that fits all the facts . |