Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [to-vb] [noun] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | UEFA bosses are expected to visit Britain at the end of this season to look at possible host stadiums . |
| 2 | A first issue from 1979 , one of only 150 , and drawings by editor Chris Donald are expected to fetch £500 at the Anderson and Garland showrooms in Newcastle next Wednesday . |
| 3 | She and assistant manager Lance Green had been instructed to improve profits at the expense of Burger King . |
| 4 | Found off the UK Continental Shelf at depths of up to 3,000 metres , grenadiers are thought to reach maturity at the advanced age of 50 , while orange roughies fished elsewhere have been estimated at 100-years-old . |
| 5 | Concrete steps are proposed to put people at the forefront of a resource-constrained environment , with due account of the profound impact of new technologies . |
| 6 | Tom-cats have been known to produce offspring at the advanced feline age of sixteen years . |
| 7 | The scheme has been proposed to improve facilities at the Honeypot Lane site in Darlington . |
| 8 | The scheme has been proposed to improve facilities at the Honeypot Lane site in Darlington . |
| 9 | Let us first recall the classical continuum definitions of stress and then consider in what ways these need to be modified to have meaning at the molecular level . |
| 10 | ‘ Satellites can be programmed to take pictures at the customer 's request , ’ Dr Baker explained . |
| 11 | The sponsorship money will be used to upgrade facilities at the Stoop Memorial Ground because , according to chairman Roger Looker , ‘ We recognise we have a long way to go towards what we consider to be adequate facilities , particularly if we sustain our growth ’ . |
| 12 | By the early 1960s , therefore , it had become accepted that fiscal and monetary policies could only be used to reduce unemployment at the expense of a deterioration in the balance of payments and a higher rate of inflation . |
| 13 | Yeah , he could n't be bothered to play rugby at the beginning , I mean nobody missed about four weeks . |
| 14 | Time will tell how this course can best be adapted to serve Christ at the end of the twentieth century . |
| 15 | Each rod or cone contains a photo-sensitive pigment and the changes this undergoes when exposed to light cause a signal to be passed to nerve cells at the front of the retina . |
| 16 | This endorsement should be added when we have insisted that an alarm should be fitted to improve security at the home . |
| 17 | A further increase in advertising and promotions budget will be required to promote developments at the Specialist Gardens over the next 5-10 years , with each garden requiring its own advertising/promotional budget . |
| 18 | Caller — I have been asked to do teas at the tennis club on Saturday . |
| 19 | Central London teachers are asked to provide tea at the next training day ( 17th October 1981 ) . |
| 20 | AUSTRALIA 'S world No 4 Chris Robertson , who played in the British Open final at Wembley in April , has been forced to quit squash at the age of 27 with an arthritic hip . |
| 21 | This remarkable feat resulted in Alan being selected to represent Scotland at the International Team Trials in Wales , an annual event for top teams throughout the world . |
| 22 | Sophisticated surveillance techniques were used to control crowds at the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention ( see Chapter 2 ) . |
| 23 | These Homes were used to accommodate boarders at the school , and their destruction severely hampered the School 's capacity after the war . |
| 24 | A few were converted to target tugs at the same base . |
| 25 | And that by a stroke of coincidence no bed and breakfasts were open and you were forced to seek help at the Hall ? |
| 26 | This process of compounding , which he patented in 1845 , came to be known as ‘ McNaughting ’ , and as it was relatively inexpensive ( even though new boilers were required to supply steam at the higher pressure ) it was very popular in the second half of the nineteenth century . |
| 27 | In 1815 he visited Paris , in 1820 he made a six months ' visit to Italy , and in 1825 he was in Paris again , having been sent to supervise repairs at the British embassy . |
| 28 | Suppose a machine has a known life of only one year and is expected to yield £450 at the end of that year . |
| 29 | Her acceptance as a full member nation is expected to take place at the ITF 's Annual General Meeting , which takes place in the Dominican Republic in September . |
| 30 | Whatever method is employed to make height at the overlap , some 40ft ( 12m ) up the final corner , there is still a long reach to be made to find the hold in the crack above . |