Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun sg] at the [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it would be a release to suffer extinction at the teeth of this woman . |
| 2 | Mr Wright was one of the first to give evidence at the inquests into the deaths of three students : Mayuree Taraket ; Ketkanok Chuenjai , and Malee Jenajaroen , all from Thailand . |
| 3 | 3.5 With effect from carrying out the Tenant 's Works in accordance with clause 3.7 and thereafter to commence business at the Premises for the purpose permitted by the Lease |
| 4 | His fit of coughing echoed across the landscape , an early morning salute , as he often put it in his ‘ Jottings ’ , to an old man still courageous enough to face death at the hands of a packet of filter-tips . |
| 5 | A " works contractor " , on the other hand , is an organisation which supplies its own employees to undertake work at the premises of a client and which retains control over them whilst they are working there . |
| 6 | Buoyed up by a wave of patriotic outrage rooted in the well-established propensity of liberal England to display shame at the actions of its Governments , the left was quick to seize the opportunities presented by Munich . |
| 7 | In both of these roles he is himself exposed to close scrutiny at the hands of other politicians and the media . |
| 8 | Other UN agencies started to throw money at the problems of the territories , for example both Unicef and UNDP provided money for activities selected and overseen by the Israeli authorities , thus — however innocent the intention — allowing aid to become an instrument of control rather than support for independent development . |