Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] at the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He was due to retire at the end of the year anyway . |
| 2 | The appended list gives names of all officers and members of Council currently serving , and indicates those due to retire at the close of the AGM . |
| 3 | You both need to do this to work at the principle of conciliation . |
| 4 | With this explanation in mind , it is interesting to look at the accuracy of recall of clause ( 1 ) in the two conditions . |
| 5 | Where the shareholders also happen to be the directors , and a close personal trust and confidence is involved , the courts have been willing to look at the settlement of arguments on the basis of equity rather than strict legal principle . |
| 6 | He and Shinwell had told the Central Authority at their first meeting in September 1947 that , while general price rises could be ruled out , they were prepared to look at the possibility of controlling demand at peak times by differentially higher prices for peak use or by mechanical load-restricting devices . |
| 7 | Now the important thing about the toxin is not so much that it can paralyse its victim , but that biologists can use it , and they can use it because it 's possible to label the toxin radioactively and then employ this to look at the distribution of receptors in patients with miocenia and characterise the receptors in other ways . |
| 8 | It is far tougher to dive at the legs of an oncoming player than to haul them down by the neck or straight-arm tackle them as they run past you . |
| 9 | ‘ We were wrong to laugh at the idea of Europeans mastering football , ’ said Chapman in the Sunday Express after the game . |
| 10 | There is something strange about a subject in which its research workers are willing to dabble at the application of the jargon of thermodynamics but unwilling to apply even the most rudimentary aspects of mechanics to these problems . |
| 11 | But I was so confident I would feel the solidness of either chub or root my reactions are not prepared to stop at the end of the strike . |
| 12 | At the lower end of the social scale , the dusty rather than the ‘ fit-to-be-dusted ’ classes , people were prepared to encamp at the station for days . |
| 13 | When he invited Derek to confirm the existence of Tristram Abberley 's letters to his sister , it was impossible to guess at the purpose of his enquiry . |
| 14 | It may be difficult or impossible to establish at the date of the sale the value of the pension rights to be transferred . |
| 15 | So it seems to me if we can agree on what criteria might be appropriate to look at the location of the new settlement on a strategic level , the final version of H two will in fact probably be much shorter , more concise er than the policy H two that we have at the moment . |
| 16 | The impact upon investment appraisal will be left until chapter 6 , but it is appropriate to look at the effect upon costing here . |
| 17 | But before we move on , it may be instructive to look at the relationship between language viewed as a formal system and language as part of a wider social and psychological context , and to say something about the place of these two approaches in the development of ideas about language in general . |
| 18 | Not easy to prise at the rim of the bolt , because this was a purpose-built carriage . |
| 19 | Both products are due to ship at the beginning of June . |
| 20 | Having seen the function of the Bank of England in the sterling money markets carrying out its role as lender of last resort , it is now possible to look at the significance of its open market operations in relation to interest rate determination in the money markets and in the wider economy . |
| 21 | The etymological team of the Seventh Research Fleet was privileged to sit at the feet of two gentlemen of the Oeldrid Stance Academy . |
| 22 | Duclos-Lasalle , 37 , who is likely to retire at the end of the season , converted two previous second places , a fourth and sixth , into victory when he arrived alone on the velodrome at Roubaix to one of the warmest welcomes in the long history of the race . |
| 23 | Martina Navratilova announced she is likely to retire at the end of next year after she blasted aside Manuela Maleeva-Fragniere 6–2 , 6–2 in the first round of the Virginia Slims championships in New York . |
| 24 | Sets of papers from the conference are likely to appear at the end of this year . |
| 25 | ‘ Look : I ca n't say this strictly , as a scientist , but it is my feeling that a bonfire , grilling a kipper or lighting a cigarette all release greater concentrations of dioxins than you 'd be likely to find at the end of the pipe of a properly run high-temperature incinerator . ’ |
| 26 | In Derby itself a decision had also been taken in 1975 to look at the use of APL for providing management information via on-line access of any of the personnel files available . |
| 27 | Postgraduate students are welcome to call at the Service at any time during their course and are encouraged to take advantage of the facilities offered as early as possible . |
| 28 | You may , you may have lec the lectures are supposed to finish at the end of this term , but if , you know , a lecturer has been ill or has n't managed to get through the stuff erm , you may have some lectures next term , but er |
| 29 | A long arm , seeming likely to snap at the wrist from the excessive weight of a diamond bracelet , was raised in what she thought might be a greeting , but ended in a gesture to brush a wisp of free-flowing grey hair from in front of the Baronessa 's eyes . |
| 30 | Er and erm it 's difficult for people to maintain er not only as I say , but in their lifestyle over a particular period of time , so you could be more likely to get at the truth by this method , than by sending out questionnaires . |