Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [to-vb] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Above this line standard uplifts for selling expenses and budgeted profit are added to arrive at average selling price . |
| 2 | Above this line standard uplifts for selling expenses and budgeted profit are added to arrive at average selling price . |
| 3 | Council officers have been instructed to look at new ways of increasing access to town for disabled motorists . |
| 4 | This month we 're going to look at minor scales and their application . |
| 5 | Next we are going to look at nutritional deficiencies . |
| 6 | Tonight , and during the next two Tuesday programmes , we are going to look at cultural links and influences . |
| 7 | They are going to travel at great speeds a lot faster than we think is safe . |
| 8 | It was in that personal role that he had been summoned to dine at short notice . |
| 9 | Each business area now has its own quality improvement manager , a Quality Strategy Group has been appointged to look at long-term policy making , and corrective action teams are busily at work . |
| 10 | The Milan Congress gave impetus to those who favoured the Pure Oral method to agitate for the inclusion of education of the deaf in the proposed Royal Commission that was to be formed to look at educational provision for the blind in Britain , on the grounds that the Education Acts of the 1870s had ignored educational provision for the deaf and dumb . |
| 11 | Troops from both sides would be expected to assemble at predetermined points around the country within one month of the ratification of the treaty ; they would surrender their weapons to UN monitors within six months . |
| 12 | Such processes will be temperature-and-time-dependent and so the uniform stress assumption would be expected to fail at low temperatures and the composite elastic moduli to approach the ( Voigt ) upper-bound values . |
| 13 | Although short sticks can be used to jab at close range , longer sticks and chains become almost useless when there is no room to swing them in , or against a very close opponent . |
| 14 | In this chapter we have been concerned with interpreting patterns of variation in speech communities with reference to the norms that can be shown to exist at varying levels of abstraction and generality . |
| 15 | In these autobiographical investigations , he seems to follow an aim he had noticed in L'Intelligence des Fleurs where , at times , Maeterlinck ‘ seems to be striving to look at scientific facts in a poetical manner … . |
| 16 | Timed tickets in operation : visitors will be asked to wait at busy periods . |
| 17 | Erm I think it 's really very sad that i it 's just the society we live in has put these kind of pressures on marriages and you know we 're all human and we can all be tempted to look at other people and be unfaithful but in those times of er you know temptation you just I well I I 've found that that 's where my faith comes in you 're sort of helped through those times . |
| 18 | Alongside tests of observation , students would be required to work at different sections in the kitchen : sauce-making ; larder-work ; vegetable-preparation , etc . |
| 19 | Furthermore , during production the guitars are left to acclimatise at various stages , so the wood settles down even further as it metamorphoses into musical instruments . |
| 20 | As part of the same struggle against destitution , meetings were organised to protest at increasing food prices and profiteering ; a large attendance at Canning Town Public Hall heard Sylvia Pankhurst and resolved to campaign for government price controls and votes for women ( SE 27 February 15 ) . |
| 21 | Some effort is being made to look at general issues such as the effect of industrial organisation and firm size on standards and the form and value of published statistics . |
| 22 | The Pontiac crouched for a whole foot lower than it did before , and General Motors shareholders were beginning to complain at annual meetings of bumping their heads or not being able to wear a hat in a Buick . |
| 23 | To accommodate such large numbers , visitors were asked to arrive at different times , all carefully co-ordinated to avoid a jam . |
| 24 | However , with Sun and other compatible players moving into the Sparc SMP market , which Solbourne has had more or less to itself for some time , the company is being forced to look at other ways of differentiating its products . |
| 25 | For centuries the continual struggle of ordinary country folk to harvest an income to keep them and their families above starvation level meant that they were always prepared to swallow their pride and go , cap in hand , to the gentry for a few vital coppers The same philosophy spawned the hiring fairs ( which continued until the second half of the century ) when the ‘ spare ’ children of rural ( and sometimes urban ) families , not required for work at home , were sent to stand at appointed places where prospective employers could examine and interrogate them checking their limbs for strength and making sure they were properly subservient There was n't a deal of difference , fundamentally , between hiring fairs ( as immortalized by Thomas Hardy in Far From the Madding Crowd and the weekly cattle auctions held in market towns . |
| 26 | Ten ratings were chosen to stand at selected points along the way . |
| 27 | The scheme will not apply to staff who are contracted to work at multiple locations . |
| 28 | You ca n't , take your point which we 've been trying to tackle at national account level |
| 29 | The Oxford Wordpower Dictionary heads the list this year and is designed to compete at intermediate level with the Longman Active Study and Cobuild Students Dictionary . |
| 30 | And then I know full well that I 'm well within the guidelines of not going over the thirteen amp that this is designed to operate at maximum efficiency and safety . |