Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [to-vb] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seeing no future in hearts West then found the club switch and East took the next six club tricks , leaving only six tricks for declarer to collect at the end . |
| 2 | And I will also give you a good deal of freedom to look at the sea . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It is the task in front of humanity to arrive at a definition for all controversial acts and to set a value on them ; acts decided as ‘ good ’ contributing to the Godhead , acts decided as ‘ evil ’ detracting there from , and acts of an innocuous nature as ‘ neutral ’ — , and having no effect . |
| 6 | There is still a lot of work to do at the Training Centre . ’ |
| 7 | Since the discourse analyst , like the hearer , has no direct access to a speaker 's intended meaning in producing an utterance , he often has to rely on a process of inference to arrive at an interpretation for utterances or for the connections between utterances . |
| 8 | You need a glass of wine to raise at the end of your speech if you are going to propose a toast . |
| 9 | Davis was the worst sort of person to have at the head of a monopolistic company . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They dynamited and burned our museums , and stole works of art to sell at the border with Thailand . |
| 12 | The fourth and final section takes leave of society to look at the realm of theory . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | And there are some properties producing rent , though not many , because the group 's business is in speculative purchases of property to sell at a profit — it 's not a property company in the sense of owning blocks of officer or flats to rent . |
| 15 | This was its justification : ‘ All who make war seek through war to arrive at a peace more perfect than existed before war . ’ |
| 16 | And perhaps she might agree to allow the circle to make some fine ones in lawn to sell at the bazaar and I could do some white Swiss eyelet embroidery on them . |
| 17 | This proved futile , and when I decided eventually to rise , it was still so dark that I was obliged to turn on the electric light in order to shave at the sink in the corner . |
| 18 | It was arranged that they should get the express train from Hanover in order to open at the Folies-Bergère on the very evening of their arrival . |
| 19 | William Jackson and John Turner had a long discussion about exporting , as they were both inexperienced in such matters , and they listed the strengths and weaknesses of Quality Kraft Carpets in order to arrive at a decision as to which would be the most appropriate overseas market to enter . |
| 20 | But when apparatchiks from Central Office , who have us acting as stewards ( ie , usherettes ) are often seen risking life and limb , SAS-style , in order to arrive at a doorway at the same time as a minister does , they are taking a serious risk with morale . |
| 21 | We might also note that , in order to arrive at the implicature , we have to know certain.facts about the world , that garages sell petrol , and that round the corner is not a great distance away . |
| 22 | ‘ one who helps another to recognize and to follow the inspirations of grace in his life , in order to arrive at the end to which God is leading him ’ . |
| 23 | In order to arrive at the truth behind the idyll , I must return to the matter of attributions . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Not all the hypocrites are equally resourceful , but they all exploit positions of trust in order to gain at the expense of others . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It is also possible to add in new centres in order to look at the impact of potential new developments , including " What-if " analysis based around the attractiveness of the new centre . |
| 28 | Erm I think it 's just a little too much looking over their shoulder because sh to , to , in order to look at the camera she 's having to keep her eyes over really , yo you know really over to her er right , and erm it tends to be a little bit erm uncomfortable . |
| 29 | The children in each group are shown trying to escape from their parents in order to meet at the fortress ‘ den ’ . |
| 30 | Since that would mean that the World Bank would talk less to governments , one of the Treasury 's main reasons for bullying the IFC is in order to get at the Bank . |