Example sentences of "to [noun pl] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles flies to break news to sons at school |
| 2 | First a considerable , and , on the whole , successful attempt to introduce some measure of integration to programmes at lower primary level . |
| 3 | As the fourth in its biennial series of exhibitions devoted to cities at their zenith , the Kulturstiftung Ruhr is offering ‘ London World City 1800–40 ’ from 6 June to 7 November at Essen 's Villa Hügel . |
| 4 | ‘ Yes , Miss Hardbroom , ’ agreed Mildred , dragging the cat from her front and reducing the cardigan to shreds at the same time . |
| 5 | Thus suppose that various characteristics ( size , shape , colour , etc. ) were allotted to objects at random . |
| 6 | There has been an assumption that young visually impaired children have little or no ability to use tactile maps to find their way around , and it has been argued that there is little to be gained from introducing visually impaired children to maps at an early age . |
| 7 | And I remember , one afternoon , going out with the whole of the rating committee , to houses at Eastwood and Beeston , and other places , and m in effect measuring them by counting how many nine inch bricks they were across the front and back , to make sure that , you know , nobody was subsidizing anybody else . |
| 8 | THE IDEA that the Warsaw Pact would be able to mount a surprise attack on Nato will shortly be ‘ barely plausible ’ because of the unilateral troop cuts started nine months ago by the Kremlin , according to experts at the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies . |
| 9 | While writing this book I surveyed the alcohol policies of a number of health and social services organizations , talked to experts at the forefront of innovations in the field and read numerous descriptions of services . |
| 10 | Into the MSG parish came cheap coal , lime , manure , and rich visitors to spas at Dinsdale and Middleton-One-Row . |
| 11 | A preliminary report by the Soviet Procurator General , Nikolai Trubin , on the events in Vilnius , the Lithuanian capital , on Jan. 13 , when 13 civilians were killed [ see pp. 37944-45 ] , was distributed to deputies at the USSR Supreme Soviet on June 3 . |
| 12 | If there is a demand for these we will look into providing further supplies which we could provide to groups at cost price . |
| 13 | It was around this time that Nick Kent started coming down to rehearsals at Riverside . |
| 14 | The 3.4-kb mRNA is not expressed in W/W v skin ( lane 17 ) , which lacks melanocytes , or in any skin that exclusively produces yellow pigment due to mutations at the agouti locus ( lanes 6 , 7 , and 8 ) . |
| 15 | Over the last decade or so , feminists have moved progressively from attempts at nonsexist dictionary-making to attempts at feminist lexicography which radically question the nature of the whole enterprise . |
| 16 | Because sentencing is viewed by magistrates as a craft or mystery , whose rites are known only to initiates , ( as opposed to a rational enterprise dedicated to the pursuit of externally defined goals ) , this renders it both impervious to criticism from outside , and highly resistant to attempts at external control . |
| 17 | A gradation system which fails to afford adequate recognition to the horror which the community may feel about certain forms of rape lays itself open to attempts at circumvention . |
| 18 | This research aims , first , to explain why the general pattern of income has been largely resistant to attempts at change through legislation , government policy and interest-group pressure ; secondly , to review the many kinds of research on income distribution ; thirdly , to identify criteria for , and means of , improvement . |
| 19 | Whilst Riley speaks specifically of the primacy of sight , her paintings constantly allude to states at the limits of meaning . |
| 20 | This sex difference applies to herring gulls in Cumbria and tufted ducks in Gloucestershire as well as to mallards at Folly Bridge . |
| 21 | Repairs costing £5,000 will be carried out to garages at Evesham Way and Barnet Way , Billingham , by Stockton Borough Council . |
| 22 | The slave trade and slavery subsumed many of these tensions and ambivalences , giving a focus to the categories of question troubling many English men and women and did so by directing powerful anxieties on to phenomena at some geographical and social distance from most people . |
| 23 | It would also be inequitable if taxes were levied on houses built by modest households , while the occupiers of ‘ social flats ’ were allowed to enjoy the privilege of heavily subsidized accommodation , which they often — illegally — rent to subtenants at very high rents . |
| 24 | Old cars were sold to clubs at inflated prices and on one occasion a player sold his dog to a director . |
| 25 | He 'd go to clubs at one in the morning . |
| 26 | ‘ Government plans for a radical shake-up of the local government system are proceeding against the grain of Scottish public opinion , according to researchers at Edinburgh University . |
| 27 | Longer term we hope to distribute software to researchers at the beginning of their data collection so that documentation can be produced in standard format and in machine-readable form . |
| 28 | The winter after a large volcanic eruption is often warmer than average in Eurasia and North America , despite the overall cooling effect on the earth 's climate , according to researchers at the University of Maryland . |
| 29 | HADEN MacLellan Holdings , the engineering and automated manufacturing systems group put together by Philip Ling , chairman , is maintaining the payout to shareholders at 8p , with a 5p final on July 1 , despite a 38 p.c. tumble in profits last year to £14.6m pre-tax . |
| 30 | He added : ‘ At the moment , there is severe doubt about the extent to which auditors owe any responsibility to shareholders at all . ’ |