Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [to-vb] [noun] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did not become less willing to relinquish office during those forty-eight hours of crisis ; but he did become less willing to relinquish office at the behest of Arthur Henderson . |
| 2 | Due to sudden and unexpected problems the last Q.T. day had to have a shortened and condensed programme and it was not possible to provide tea at the end of the day . |
| 3 | Those young people who gained places on what were called ‘ employer-led courses ’ , or mode A courses , were the ones most likely to gain employment at the end of their training . |
| 4 | Because the polls , and therefore the program , are likely to shortchange the minor parties , and because the minor parties are most likely to make gains at the Conservatives ' expense , the program is liable to project somewhat too high a level of Tory parliamentary support . |
| 5 | In practice it is not usually important to mark pauses at the beginning and end of a passage ; in the rest of the book I put no lines on short examples and only single lines around longer ones ; the boundaries within a passage are much more important . |
| 6 | Andy Currier was eventually able to provide consolation at the other end , but departed for the sin-bin 30 seconds later after a foul on Bob Jackson , accompanied by Paul Hulme , who questioned the referee 's decision too vehemently . |
| 7 | From the beginning of the fourth year , and especially for as long as pupils were legally free to leave school at the end of that year , very much more definite choices were made : ‘ Newsom ’ courses for those who were to leave , examination courses for most of the rest , with many decisions then to be taken about which subjects to drop , and which to pursue . |
| 8 | In this view it is quite natural to find purposiveness at the level of the neurone or of the gene . |
| 9 | As the winner of both his races this season , Cruising Altitude was fully entitled to start favourite at the weights and he set a course record beating the time of Run For Free in the opener who had himself just broken the previous record . |
| 10 | Students are strongly advised , wherever possible to take examinations at the centre where they are enrolled to study . |
| 11 | Yeah because the erm it 's very difficult to get rooms at the minute . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm very keen to get success at the club , and I want to do everything I can to bring it about . |