Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [to-vb] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is then deducted along with other allowances and deductions from total income to arrive at taxable income . |
| 2 | The governing body will almost certainly need to set up sub-committees or working groups to look at different aspects of the school 's development . |
| 3 | The Recorder told Mulraney : ‘ 'You have a compulsive urge to drive at excessive speed . ’ |
| 4 | UEFA bosses are expected to visit Britain at the end of this season to look at possible host stadiums . |
| 5 | Researchers at IBM TJ Watson research centre report the first high-temperature superconducting magnetic gradiometer to operate at liquid-nitrogen temperatures . |
| 6 | The only proper way to arrive at sustainable definitions of good educational practice is by sharing and analysing ideas and values , marshalling and examining evidence , and applying both processes to the task of formulating principles . |
| 7 | television are obviously having trouble rousing experts to appear at ungodly hours to comment on the morning 's news . |
| 8 | That is , while it may prove difficult or impossible to devise the appropriate experiment to get at young children 's appreciation of logical necessity , they may reveal that they have a measure of understanding of logical necessity in what they say and do in everyday contexts . |
| 9 | For corporatist arrangements to survive at local level , at least according to Cawson , state agencies must be ‘ capable of making and delivering bargained policies , so that a potential local corporatism depends upon strong local state institutions ’ ( 1985b , p. 146 ) . |
| 10 | More than 100,000 miners held lighting strikes the following week to protest at inadequate safety precautions in Turkish mines ; the official 1989 accident statistics were 26 dead and 7,433 injured . |
| 11 | The snap punch is an ideal technique to use at close quarters . |
| 12 | The curriculum provides many opportunities to look at current work and organisational problems . |
| 13 | The utilitarian theorists — such as L W Sumner and Joseph Fletcher — reject moral absolutes , but still rely on deductive reasoning to arrive at moral principles and are much given to abstract statements like ‘ a fetus is a human being which is not yet a person ’ . |
| 14 | He wins a lot of ball in the line-outs and as such is a useful character to have at top level , in tandem with a big no.8 . |
| 15 | I hope that these factors , together with custodianship and more willingness to look at open adoption by the judiciary as well as by social workers , will diminish the number of occasions when adoptive placements have to be made against the wishes of the natural parents , and/or children . |
| 16 | The Children 's Book Foundation will hold a conference , ‘ The Way Forward ’ , in Birmingham on 27th February to look at pre-school literacy initiatives at a possible national direction . |
| 17 | Presenting less raw data might have allowed more scope to look at certain issues in more depth . |
| 18 | The company is already seeing substantial demand from the workstation industry — RISCs need much more memory to work at full efficiency — and forecasts that demand will soar . |
| 19 | There are many reasons why , in the early nineteenth century , different considerations would intrude on the modelling of a dissected female body rather than that of a male , but one conclusion we could draw from these figures is that the human norm is male , and the only reason to look at female bodies is for that which makes them female , i.e. the reproductive system . |
| 20 | If you , if you can cool down you 're essentially taking away all that erm extra energy , you 're making things less random , in fact one way to look at low temperature physics is , is to think that we 're always striving after the ideal , we 're trying to make things more and more perfect . |
| 21 | As the authors state , it is important for neonatal research to look at simple interventions such as this . |
| 22 | He had done well that day — almost performed miracles — having located Mrs McLaren 's Scottish relations ; persuaded a most excellent and locally well-known lady to come at short notice and be in the house to stay with her ; and had seen to it that the house itself was tidied , and cleaned ready , and supplied with food . |
| 23 | The fixed duration , the stereotypy , of the growth phase , makes it possible for particular things to happen at particular times during embryonic development , as if governed by a strictly observed calendar . |
| 24 | NEW SPARCS TO FLY AT HOT CHIPS |
| 25 | Coen and Hickman dispense with the common practice of linking changes in NAIRU with changes in the natural unemployment rate , preferring instead to rely on demographic and other data to arrive at direct estimates of the natural rate , estimates which do not take as their reference point the behaviour of the rate of inflation . |
| 26 | Each operating region is visited once every three months and in between , he visits other countries to look at specific projects . |
| 27 | We 've then got two areas to look at national curricular levels and general skills and abilities . |
| 28 | New body to look at special education |
| 29 | We do not , for a simple example , examine heat directly but through , for instance , the property it has of causing certain metals to expand at uniform rates : a property which enables us to construct mercury thermometers which are capable , within reasonably precise limits , of measuring heat . |
| 30 | All the same , the 1988 results give Socialist defenders of the mixed economy new ammunition to fire at would-be privatisers . |