Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [noun] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she prepares to go for gold at the World Cross Country Championships in the Spanish seaside town of Amorebieta , the South African could not help sadly recalling the drama surrounding the 1988 event which left her on the verge of a nervous breakdown . |
| 2 | The wildlife departments of the governments concerned are to appeal for funds at the March meeting of the UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species ( CITES ) . |
| 3 | You live in Glasgow and you have just received a letter from a company requesting you to attend for interview at the Station Hotel , Inverness on Tuesday morning at 9.30 am . |
| 4 | In 1812 he accepted an invitation to stand for Liverpool at the election with his friend Henry Brougham ( later Baron Brougham and Vaux , q.v . ) . |
| 5 | The directive , which had hitherto been opposed by West Germany , Greece and Spain , was due to come into effect at the end of 1994 ; the Commission aimed to reach agreement on a single passport for insurance companies during 1990 . |
| 6 | This change has been recommended by the Legal Services Ombudsman , and will require a change in the law , expected to come into force at the beginning of 1994 . |
| 7 | But there 's an Equal Pay Act that 's supposed to come into force at the end of 1975 — that will give women equal pay and a bit more power . |
| 8 | In a peace initiative brokered by Zaïre 's President Mobutu Sese Seko , a draft ceasefire agreement was reported to have been signed between the Rwandan government and the FPR in Zaïre on March 18 and was due to come into force at the end of March . |
| 9 | The biodiversity convention signed at the summit has been ratified by the required 30 countries and is due to come into force at the end of this year . |
| 10 | Three balls later Wessels ' bat appeared to collide with Kapil at the bowler 's end as the South African turned for a second run . |
| 11 | Still to come before Christmas at the Nursing Home are as follows : — |
| 12 | Thus , in the Health Service , nurses , doctors and technicians are tending to increase in number at the expense of more strictly manual jobs in hospital cleaning , cooking and domestic work . |
| 13 | But blacklisted television writers , who had to appear in person at the studios , had to ask a ‘ clean ’ writer ( or even a non-writer ) to ‘ front ’ for them . |
| 14 | I hope to come to Ireland at the end of the season and I will , of course , come and see you . |
| 15 | " It 's hard to come to conclusions at the moment . |
| 16 | To neglect these questions and concentrate instead on the ‘ environment ’ of learning , however important that might be , is to risk encouraging the belief that teachers are judged and advanced on the basis of how their classrooms took rather than how and what their pupils learn ; consequently , some may feel that it is strategically sensible to concentrate on surface at the expense of substance . |
| 17 | Mahmoud had a case that morning in the Mixed Tribunals and Owen wanted to send a letter to England so they agreed to meet at noon at the Post Office . |
| 18 | As mentioned earlier , the bidder binds itself to the scheme by agreeing to appear by counsel at the hearing of the petition and giving the appropriate undertaking . |
| 19 | He stroked a strand of hair from her face , and Robyn forced herself not to shiver with delight at the gentleness of his touch . |
| 20 | Young people hoping to work in the bereavement business were being invited to talk to staff at the North Eastern Co-op , in Benwell , Newcastle upon Tyne . |
| 21 | Meanwhile Pope , the master of the Lower School , had been compelled to resign through ill-health at the end of 1854 . |
| 22 | A Dumfries horseman step-grandfather used to look after horses at the county balls : ‘ look after the horses while they were there . |
| 23 | Skinner , who moved back to Blackheath from Harlequins at the end of last season , underwent surgery in the summer and had hoped to play against Bath at the weekend . |
| 24 | The East India Company and other companies like the Royal Africa Company and the Hudson 's Bay Company rarely brought in men like Roe to help with work at the top , and normally expected to promote people who had spent their lives working for the Company . |
| 25 | The company also has its Smartstream decision support products ready to ship under Unix at the end of the month . |
| 26 | Senior officials including the Prime Minister , Haider Abu Bakr al-Attas , were said to have threatened to resign in protest at the President 's alleged unwillingness to deal with violence , including failing to authorize the arrest of suspected killers of more than 30 Yemen Socialist Party members . |
| 27 | The Quality Audit 's main purpose is to look in detail at the centre 's internal quality assurance system . |
| 28 | To see exactly what has happened , it is necessary to look in detail at the composition of the park committees . |
| 29 | We have then to look in detail at the ways in which relatively constant biological processes and relatively variable means of production have combined both in specifically comparable and in specifically variable ways , always within specific social ( historico-social ) situations . |
| 30 | When we come to look in detail at the Nikol'skaia peasantry in 1922 , many of these inhibiting features will become more evident . |