Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [to-vb] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four former South African police officers were sought by the Namibian authorities to testify at the trial , but had refused to come forward , despite being offered immunity from prosecution . |
| 2 | The Institute 's Education & Training Directorate and the General Practitioner Board have been watching the falling numbers of students training in small firms with deep concern and both have set up working parties to look at the problems . |
| 3 | These situations may be characterised not by the actual risk felt in the situation but by the potential for risky situations to occur at the junction . |
| 4 | Moving the game to a new playing field is a great idea , but you need not only another team to play against , but some spectators to pay at the gate . |
| 5 | Moving the game to a new playing field is a great idea , but you need not only another team to play against , but some spectators to pay at the gate . |
| 6 | The men from the lorry picked their way through a graveyard of broken stones to pray at a sheikh 's white-domed tomb , while we made our way across a wide flood plain of gravel and cracked mud to the river . |
| 7 | Second division , Swansea away in the cup was never going to be an easy ticket for Oxford , but when Nick Cusack scored with just over 10 minutes to go at the Vetch Field , United looked a good bet for the 4th round . |
| 8 | If the partners unanimously or by a prescribed majority feel that one of their number should no longer remain with the firm they are given power to require him to retire at the end of a period of notice , typically six months or not less than six months to expire at the end of the firm 's accounting year . |
| 9 | Other specific provision includes an ESL ( English as a Second Language ) initiative which seeks to help unwaged individuals from ethnic minorities to look at the skills involved in setting up small businesses or entering self-employment . |
| 10 | Please make early arrangements to pay at a council office or post office ’ . |
| 11 | Enraged by the wine bar 's policy of forbidding them to stand with their male colleagues to drink at the bar , Hall and her cohorts decided to stage a protest . |
| 12 | Smallfry walked with him all the way to the playground , where the other children bunched together in little groups to stare at the absentee and his beautiful mother . |
| 13 | As the level of county commitment to social education lessens it would seem to be a time for us as members of local parish , town and diocesan communities to look at the priority given to such work with our own young people . |
| 14 | Erm , resolution that Synod appoints Jo , John as Synod clerk for a period of up to three years to commence at a date mutually convenient to him and the present Synod clerk . |
| 15 | IVAN Lendl joined the long list of seeded players to fall at the US Open when he was forced to retire because of tendinitis in his left knee . |
| 16 | I WILL by your kinda town ; I WILL host the first leg of this year 's most significant ‘ alternative ’ rock event , and I WILL send my splendid , scrubbed , windswept children to worship at the feet of its various missionaries . |
| 17 | By then , the women had all become firm trade union supporters , staged solidarity strikes with a number of other factories and political stoppages to protest at the arrest of important opposition leaders . |
| 18 | He took 17 hours to hatch at an ostrich farm at Weeton , Lancs — egged on by ranger Philip Bowness , who used an African trick of whistling to encourage him . |
| 19 | You might find you 've one too many problems to handle at the moment and a final hassle or irritation will be the straw that breaks the camel 's back . |
| 20 | Sometimes it appears that the mere act of measuring them in order to manufacture a candle of corresponding dimensions to burn at the tomb was sufficient to effect the cure . |
| 21 | After all , she had signed Sting in the first place ( she had even given him a list of music-business lawyers to consult at the time , but he had used the Newcastle lawyer because he was cheaper ) . |
| 22 | Many of them face major cuts to balance at the end of the year and one of them has dangerously low nursing levels . |
| 23 | Prospects for the highest-rated shares to open at a premium of up to 30 per cent continued to look good as the stock market held steady yesterday . |
| 24 | Prospects for the highest-rated shares to open at a premium of up to 30 per cent continued to look good as the stock market held steady yesterday . |
| 25 | Suddenly the girl raised her immense grey eyes to look at the gardener . |
| 26 | The patient complained of pain to a scar on her leg which she had cut 18 mths previously and which had taken 6 weeks to heal at the time . |
| 27 | The tragic musical story of a group of viciously exploited young men who rode the back of the drug-frenzied rock-shag monster for two full years to emerge at the end bruised and bloody and battered but changed — changed from grubby little knobsessed small-town caterpillars into beautiful , brilliantly SPIRITUAL butterflies . |
| 28 | Unfolding the notice , she found it was a call to Italian women to demonstrate at the NATO base where the camp had been set up . |
| 29 | Regional health authority officers insist they have no immediate plans to look at the possibility of merging districts . |
| 30 | Tickets for the whole event are on sale , price £10.00 , from the box-office of the Empire Leicester Square , and we have pairs of free tickets for the first five readers to arrive at the cinema on Sunday morning bearing a copy of The Independent . |