Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [to-vb] [noun sg] at [art] " in BNC.
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1 | WE 'RE giving you another chance to sample life at the top with Vernons Pools — an extra route to enter our five free contests themed on what it would be like to win the pools . |
2 | Likewise , a carpenter or joiner might be on a set day rate but who for a period might take on a separate contract to saw timber at a rate per 100 ft. , the figure depending upon the hardness of the wood . |
3 | We spent the middle of the day at the red fort , returning in the late afternoon to catch sunset at the Taj . |
4 | In his address to the congress , the chair of the Russian Supreme Soviet , Ruslan Khasbulatov , expressed support for the continued existence of collective and state-owned farms as the most effective way to provide food at the present time . |
5 | I made a mental note to seek revenge at the earliest opportunity . |
6 | He would start the evening in his quiet , sometimes moody , Kansas drawl and would end up in ranting fashion , telling them all that things would be different when he and the rest of ‘ new ’ Hollywood were running things , and they would all be clapped in irons , which was hardly the brightest way to inspire confidence at a time when you were seeking film money . |
7 | LITHUANIA 'S leader , Mr Algirdas Brazauskas , yesterday called for a united front to establish statehood at the opening of a crucial congress of the republic 's Communist Party . |
8 | Raybestos ruled out the possible compromise of a temporary permission to dump asbestos at the site . |
9 | A VIDEO produced by Courtaulds overcame hot competition to strike gold at the 35th New York Festival competition for non-broadcast media . |
10 | I like this very much as an easy summer skirt — three pieces knitted right across your machine , hooked back on to fewer stitches for a small yoke to avoid bulk at the waist — equally becoming to the very slender or larger lady . |
11 | The contract was secured against keen competition from other UK fire engineering companies due to WGFP 's close attention to design detail at the proposal stage and the development of a procurement and assembly plan to meet John Brown 's fast track site programme . |
12 | The aim of the examination is to test the candidate 's ability to understand and write connected English on business topics and in formats usual in business communication ( and , in the case of the case of the candidates whose mother tongue is not English , to confirm the parallel ability to speak English at an equivalent level ) . |
13 | The aim of the examination is to test high-level ability to understand , write and variously process the general and special varieties of English used in business , and the ability to use appropriate formats ( and , in the case of candidates whose mother tongue is not English , to confirm a parallel ability to speak English at an equivalent level ) . |
14 | ‘ It worries me that impresarios are using the Russian label to make money at the expense of companies like us , like the Scottish and Northern Ballet . |
15 | In 1899 he extended his earlier theory to wave behaviour at the interface between two different types of rock . |
16 | The enactment of the hunt and the practice of imitative magic to ensure success at the kill became fossilized as a widespread and regular feature of the seasonal festivities . |