Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun pl] [to-vb] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is why Cable & Wireless 's subsidiary , Mercury , has recently sent forty payphones for British Forces to use at bases in Saudi Arabia . |
| 2 | Cash-strapped governments are being pushed into privatisations that are too big for domestic stockmarkets to absorb at prices that are acceptable to the seller . |
| 3 | Serbs were using anti-aircraft machineguns with explosive bullets to shoot at buildings in Bosnian-held Grbavica , a district just south of central Sarajevo . |
| 4 | Possibly this is why the argument as to whether it is better for a woman with young children to stay at home or go out to work goes round and round in circles . |
| 5 | Similarly , managers in nearly every industry have learned from Japanese firms to look at quality control and inventory management as continuous processes , rather than discrete tasks . |
| 6 | It costs the National Health Service £350million a year to cope with back problems caused by eveything from sporting injuries to stress at work . |
| 7 | There is a strong tendency for tone-unit boundaries to occur at boundaries between grammatical units of higher order than words ; it is extremely common to find a tone-unit boundary at a sentence boundary , as in : I wont have any tea I do nt like it |
| 8 | He told the story of a loner , a drifter , a maverick boy who went from banner-waving at public meetings to protest at experiments on animals , all the way to incendiaries and assault and finally an attempted car bomb . |