Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] the [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not know what purpose the meeting served in persuading Wapping of the merits of our plan , but it did enable me for the first and only time to see the terrain on which we were working and reinforced my enthusiasm to kill the committee at the earliest possible moment . |
| 2 | There will be no attempt to force the pace at the Luxembourg summit next month . |
| 3 | Tony Scivetti , a parent governor who supports Mrs Snelling , said Newham had already spelled out its intention to close the school at the earliest opportunity . |
| 4 | If the electorate disapproves of the policies or their outcomes , it has the opportunity to replace the government at the next election . |
| 5 | The snow was almost knee-deep ; it took him nearly ten minutes to reach the hedge at the other side of the field . |
| 6 | When an appeal is made from a decision of a family proceedings court in a secure accommodation order case , or in any case of urgency where time is short , it is the duty of the appellant solicitor to make the district registry or the district judge aware of the need for urgency and to invite the district registry or district judge to list the matter at the nearest court where an early hearing can take place before a High Court judge ( post , p. 92D–E ) . |
| 7 | When an appeal is made from a decision of a family proceedings court in a secure accommodation order case , or in any case of urgency where time is short , it is the duty of the appellant solicitor to make the district registry aware of the need for urgency and to invite the district registry or the district judge to list the matter at the nearest court where an early hearing can take place before a High Court judge . |
| 8 | On Thursday , 10th December your scribe and spouse had the honour to represent the Village at the ‘ Island in Bloom ’ awards ceremony at the Palace Hotel . |
| 9 | But he was so moved by the film that he launched a campaign to raise the money at the place where he worked . |
| 10 | But despite all this , Haig never deviated from his original plan to renew the offensive at the earliest favourable moment . |
| 11 | The problem of volume storage is compounded by the need to refresh the screen at the equivalent of 25 frames each second to achieve the same effect as television video . |
| 12 | Music , therefore , should always come from a single source , not a single loudspeaker but a group of speakers close enough together for the natural sound to leave the platform at the same time as the electronic sound . |
| 13 | There was enough drama at Bristol to rival the excitment at the Lords test yesterday . |
| 14 | Mr Lamont set an inflation target of between one and four per cent , excluding mortgage costs , with the aim to keep the figure at the lower end of the scale . |
| 15 | An audition will be held on 7th April 10.30 — 4.30 at Aylwin School , Southward Park Road , London SE16 , to select a display team to represent the Society at the Festival of Movement and Dance being given to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Central Council of Physical Recreation . |
| 16 | As the tracks were not completed at West Croydon , such transfers proved rather difficult and cars had to be moved at night , using temporary rails to bridge the gap at the top of Tamworth Road . |
| 17 | The appointments of two celebrated lawyers , Jean de Vaux and the Englishman John of Havering , as seneschals in 1287 and 1288 was a direct product of the need to represent the king-duke at the Paris Parlement against usurpations of his authority and against false or frivolous appeals . |
| 18 | He has not won it since he demolished John Parrott in 1989 — and he has shown a total commitment and desire to lift the trophy at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield on May 4 . |
| 19 | The trustee may at any time give notice to a secured creditor that he proposes at the end of twenty-eight days to redeem the security at the value placed upon it by the creditor in his proof . |
| 20 | On the other hand , the quantum theory of gravity has opened up a new possibility , in which there would be no boundary to space-time and so there would be no need to specify the behavior at the boundary . |
| 21 | The changes included the introduction of the pre-trial review ( see above ) with the object , in part , of assisting the litigant in person , the encouragement of the use of arbitration rather than trial to resolve the dispute at the request of one of the parties , and the introduction of a rule that solicitor 's costs would not be awarded to the successful party where the claim was for less than £100 . |
| 22 | If completion accounts are required , it is common practice to require the relevant accountants to agree the apportionment at the time they agree the completion statement as the price will not be finalised at the time of contract . |
| 23 | This demo 's not for sale at the moment but there 's a chance to see the band at the Wheatsheaf , Farnham , on Wednesday night . |
| 24 | World record holder Mike Powell of the United States produced the best long jump ever in Australia last night when he leapt 8.23m to win the event at the NEC International track and field meet in Melbourne . |
| 25 | Gauging water requirements is less difficult now that moisture meters are available , but in the absence of one , water to fill the space at the top of the container between compost surface and rim , let it soak through , repeat and allow the surplus to drain off , then leave the plant until the compost surface appears dry . |
| 26 | This Government have done more than any of their predecessors to put the environment at the top of the agricultural agenda . |
| 27 | Mr. Philipson addressed an impassioned argument that it would be quite wrong for the court to vary the injunction at the behest of the defendants , seeing that they had flouted Morland J. 's order , as a result of which the documents had come into the hands of the Federal Reserve Board , who had in turn passed the information to the Bank of England ; and that it would be the antithesis of justice that the consequence of this misconduct should be the discharge of the very injunction which had been designed to protect the plaintiffs from these consequences . |
| 28 | The aircraft was just about to touch down when the pilot found himself in unfamiliar surroundings and opened his throttle in time for his wheels to clear the cliff-edge at the end of the runway . |
| 29 | To obtain uniform segments I use a cutting jig to hold the plank at the desired angle . |
| 30 | He will be the third person to hold the job at the 53-year-old company , reportedly selected after a two-year process . |