Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] at [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Horn , of Hurworth Moor , resigned from his £34,000-a-year job as education officer in charge of forward planning before he was due to appear at a disciplinary hearing at the council 's headquarters in Matlock last week . |
| 2 | The cow , worth thousands of pounds , had been champion of several shows and was due to appear at the National Dairy Event in Warwickshire next weekend . |
| 3 | However , the audience this year was below its normal pitch of receptiveness and Nobby and company might have found it easier to perform at the old Glasgow Empire … ‘ . |
| 4 | If there are any area display teams willing to perform at the Annual Reunion on Saturday 19th November to be held at Warwick Park School , please contact at , , |
| 5 | So what forces impeded the real wage rate from falling so as to bring into employment those willing to work at the going wage rate ? |
| 6 | But even though what was being contemplated was regionally restricted , it nevertheless went far beyond what these states , following the British line , had been willing to accept at the European level . |
| 7 | Television is at least one escape and just like all the other trivial pastimes , should allow the unemployed to participate at a reduced rate . |
| 8 | ‘ I would hope a club of the stature of Nottingham Forest might have been more willing to look at the domestic market if they wanted a young keeper . ’ |
| 9 | Where firms maximise profits in uncompetitive conditions the effect is that consumers are denied goods which they would have been willing to buy at the competitive market price . |
| 10 | This can make it easier to arrive at the correct spot by varying the radius and steepness of the turn . |
| 11 | Ahmed liked to be laughed at , but he was a peasant and Nour was , in his own estimation , a prince and I was of an English generation which would have felt free to laugh at the Grand Turk if it had been so inclined . |
| 12 | Last night 's meeting , involving banking advisers for both GM and Jaguar , was to examine whether GM was prepared to bid at the inflated share price . |
| 13 | It is easy to sneer at the credulous pilgrims . |
| 14 | After observing the industrious building of castles in the air in the past few days , I thought it would be appropriate to look at an odd phenomenon that has puzzled meteorologists for the past ten years : the series of giant mushroom-shaped cloud formations round the periphery of the Siberian land-mass . |
| 15 | During Biblical times , some ancients thought moonlight was dangerous for one 's eyes but a more modern belief was that if you took a child , suffering from whooping cough , outside to look at the new moon , then it would effect a cure . |
| 16 | It is particularly instructive to look at the stratigraphical record of our kindred science of archaeology . |
| 17 | Apart from pure nostalgia , perhaps this is because in the ‘ old days ’ it was fairly easy to look at a faulty circuit , identify components used for specific functions , replace them and get the set going again whether it was commercially or home-made . |
| 18 | The ravens , uninvited guests , must be content to scramble at the outer edges , snapping up any morsels the vultures accidentally drop . |
| 19 | A couple of his men , apparently under orders from Epitot , were content to follow at a respectful distance as she and Karelius went for a stroll in the city . |
| 20 | It is odd — one of the anomalies of science — that it is possible to look at a single entity as if it were either one thing or another , apparently quite different thing . |
| 21 | Other competitors include Audi 's new 80 2.8E V6 and the forthcoming new Volkswagen Passat VR6 , likely to sell at a similar price . |
| 22 | Granted better luck he should get his head back in front and is likely to start at a reasonable price in this company . |
| 23 | It is clearly imperative to arrive at a correct diagnosis of the origins of involuntary unemployment . |
| 24 | When you telephone someone you are more likely to intrude at an inconvenient time and not realize it . |
| 25 | First , that non-climatic influences ( including the distribution of natural resources ) are likely to dominate at the regional level , as evidenced by the 10–200 fold variation in national per capital GNP values within 10° latitude bands . |
| 26 | To understand the processes occurring at high Rayleigh number , it is helpful to look at the mean temperature distribution across the layer . |
| 27 | Those thinking about asking for funding might find it useful to look at the SOED booklet referred to above . |
| 28 | Tudjman , who had urged local leaders in Trogir ( west of Split ) on May 5 to demonstrate at the naval base to show the world their support for the battle being waged by the Croatian leadership , was accused by the Defence Secretariat of inflaming sentiments against the army . |
| 29 | Norman had mentioned that they needed to fill up with petrol and must be sure to call at the all-night garage after they left the Clarence . |
| 30 | It 's far better to undertrain at a consistent level rather than to overtrain , which inevitably leads to staleness and possibly injury . |