Example sentences of "[noun] be [to-vb] at a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her routine was to rise at a quarter past seven , bath , take a light breakfast and catch an omnibus into the City . |
| 2 | The biggest cut comes in Germany where its packaging plant in Braunschweig is to close at a cost of 275 jobs , and the decision highlights the growing structural problem in the German economy : growing numbers of German and international companies now find that the high cost of employment makes it too expensive to manufacture there . |
| 3 | Part of the art of angling is to look at a stretch of water , to analyse the clues of current , depth and cover and to decide , for example , where the roach are likely to lie or where the barbel may be shoaled up . |
| 4 | To get one , the best course is to ask at a gunshop , or to advertise . |
| 5 | Sixty two jobs are to go at a milk depot . |
| 6 | A hundred and forty jobs are to go at a brewery distribution centre in Swindon . |
| 7 | Theirs are the more menial chores in Hell — the fetching and carrying of water , for instance — and their reward is to suckle at a witch 's nipples . |
| 8 | The procedure was exactly as for Experiment 1 except condition C was to point at a target using the non-preferred hand while wearing prisms , rather than pointing at an auditory target . |