Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun] [to-vb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I will also give you a good deal of freedom to look at the sea . ’ |
| 2 | Inevitably this assault had to mean trouble for some of their own folk , since they must drive through the outer ring of Scots to get at the enemy — the cost which had caused Ramsay momentarily to hesitate . |
| 3 | The fifth feature is the development of so-called ‘ parallel networks ’ , which cross-cut the formal or official organization of the state , and cause a concentration of powers to accumulate at the very top of the executive . |
| 4 | But now the club have found that on applying for renewal of permission to play at the same venue next season , the pitch has already been allocated . |
| 5 | In 1987 the Department of the Environment set up a national review of homelessness to look at the implementation of the law relating to homelessness and to consider whether it needed changing . |
| 6 | The rally , at the City Halls , Glasgow , will be attended by civil servants from the West of Scotland to protest at the Government 's market testing ( or privatisation ) programme . |
| 7 | Davis was the worst sort of person to have at the head of a monopolistic company . |
| 8 | The Attorney General would spend hours poring over the evidence before asking the Court of Appeal to look at the Courtney case . |
| 9 | Her own afforded her nothing but a transient thrill , but mine supplied another dose of semen to chuck at the uterine wall where , sooner or later , she reckoned , some of it must stick . |
| 10 | They function as a diversion to the eye , a focus for a view , a foretaste of grandeurs to come at the entrance to a park . |
| 11 | Gradually , an expanse of intense colour and velvetine texture emerged ; the minute particles of pigment fell and dispersed causing a natural halo of colour to appear at the base of each panel . |
| 12 | They dynamited and burned our museums , and stole works of art to sell at the border with Thailand . |
| 13 | The fourth and final section takes leave of society to look at the realm of theory . |
| 14 | You need a glass of wine to raise at the end of your speech if you are going to propose a toast . |
| 15 | Carpenter bees use their saw-jaws to cut holes in the sides of flowers to get at the nectaries . |
| 16 | He was bound in the sum of £40 to appear at the Michaelmas Quarter Sessions in Kendal , the banker Christopher Wilson standing surety for him , for £30 . |
| 17 | Oh , why do n't you make what you 've got cos you 've got a lot of things to make at the moment , and then come back and choose another time , hm . |
| 18 | There is still a lot of work to do at the Training Centre . ’ |
| 19 | In a comparison between blocking and non-blocking strains of mice it was shown that the potential of embryos to arrest at the 2-cell stage is determined solely by the genotype of the egg and occurs irrespective of the paternal or embryonic contribution ( 18 ) . |
| 20 | Given basic ability , equality of opportunity to borrow at the market rate of interest to invest in your human capital so as to secure a future return makes observed income inequality a matter of individual choice . |
| 21 | The Institute seems to be rather vaguely organized , as they still have n't been able to tell me what students I am teaching — my teaching , it turns out , does n't start until Monday , but I have heard that an abnormally large number of students have signed up for my course , so I shall have a lot of marking of papers to do at the end of four weeks . |
| 22 | As it melted , the fuel 's chemical reaction with the surrounding water also caused a bubble of hydrogen to form at the top of the reactor vessel . |
| 23 | I began 1982 with a series of visits to look at the issues which were facing the health service . |