Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun pl] at [art] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | To take child care for instance , we can suddenly get two or three ah admissions to secure units at a cost of two thousand pounds a week and that 's er you know a hundred thousand a year per child so we can really there are other votes that can , can absorb that sort of money . |
| 2 | When he struggled to find winners at the start of the season , the cries of gleeful recrimination reached a crescendo . |
| 3 | Many trade unionists , acutely sensitive to wage reductions at a time of high unemployment and deflation , held two important views on the matter of pensions . |
| 4 | They were no longer committed to a debtors ' prison at the instance of the man to whom they still owed money , to suffer indignities at the hands of a Thomas Bambridge . |
| 5 | In the morning the two sides shared the four Foursomes matches but therein hides a tale of powerful enough to displace Neighbours at the top of the TV ratings . |
| 6 | ‘ The world itself is God 's greatest miracle ’ , he wrote , defending God 's freedom to work miracles at the cost of dissolving the idea of a nature which is subject to its own laws in the freedom of the divine will . |
| 7 | Data General Corp is finding the transition to open systems at a time of recession extremely painful with a second quarter loss of $55m after a $48m charge for another 1,000 lay-offs : turnover was down 14% at $274m , in part because the sale of the Japanese subsidiary cut volume by $19m ; the company blamed the disappointing results on competitive pricing pressures , which have cut profits , as well as the weak worldwide economy ; the company says it continues to be very cautious about the remainder of 1992 ; AViiON sales continue to grow , but ‘ we are not satisfied with overall revenues , ’ the company declared Electronic Data Systems Corp says its graphical design system now supports Hewlett-Packard 's series 700 workstations : first deliveries are scheduled for May . |
| 8 | However , in the face of market expectations , the Bank took advantage of a money market shortage on 5 March to buy bills at a rate of discount of 11.75 per cent , 0.5 per cent higher than the previous day 's dealings and about 1 per cent above what markets were anticipating . |
| 9 | They were given authority to make decisions to help guests at the point of contact . |
| 10 | The general principle of proportional representation is surely a more democratic one than any system which tends to over-represent majorities at the cost of under-representing minorities — if they are lucky enough to be represented at all . |
| 11 | THE SON of a British Army officer yesterday described to the Aldington libel jury in the High Court how his late father told him of his ‘ horror ’ when he received the order to repatriate Cossacks at the end of the second world war . |
| 12 | CROWDS lined the streets of Wrexham to cheer riders at the start of yesterday 's 120 mile Milk Race leg to Rotherham . |
| 13 | He raised the receiver to his ear and waited , his face pale in the subdued light of the room , impatience beginning to mark lines at the edge of his lips . |
| 14 | One usual method is to leave gaps at the end of each block so that records can be inserted into a block ( with only slight reorganisation of the records in that block to maintain the correct order ) . |
| 15 | ‘ It is not appropriate for staff members to put guests at the centre of … scenes . ’ |
| 16 | We teachers need actually to say to the children that they are going to enjoy the work that day , that it will be interesting , and that they are going to know or be able to do things at the end of the day that they did n't know or were n't able to do before . |
| 17 | You know , something to give customers at the end of the year . |
| 18 | Imagine an economy in which firms , for whatever reason , agree to fix prices at the end of period t to cover period t + 1 and t + 2 and not to alter these prices in either period t + 1 or t + 2 if circumstances differ from those expected at the close of period t . |
| 19 | It saves time and effort on the part of the typist not to have to put commas at the end of each and every line of an address and full stops at the end of an address and after the date . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Margaret Irwin " paid three visits to Edinburgh to address meetings at the invitation of the Typographical Association " , and the STA Annual Report of 1898 claimed that the new society " bids fair to succeed ; if it will be the means , as anticipated , of improving the position of the male comp [ sic , my italics ] there will be no lack of well-wishers " . |
| 22 | Bush arrived on Dec. 31 , flying to Mogadishu from the USS Tripoli to address troops at the start of a 48-hour visit in which he was also to go to Baidoa . |
| 23 | The nice thing about the Program Manager is that if you tidy it once , you will always be presented with an organised opening screen , provided , of course , that you do not instruct Windows to save changes at the end of each session . |
| 24 | The following week police had to be called to quell disturbances at a number of grounds — including Middlesbrough and Upton Park where the referee was again attacked — and Reynolds 's News ( 15 November 1936 ) thought that ‘ the FA will soon have to issue another ‘ rough play ’ ’ memorandum — this time to the spectators ! ’ |
| 25 | A canal , as the Duke of Bridgewater explained , had " to have coals at the heels of it " . |
| 26 | It also meant reassuring West European countries worried about a unified Germany that America intended to maintain troops at the heart of the continent . |
| 27 | A frank talk was a help , but it was no substitute for knowing what it was like to have to milk cows at the crack of dawn every morning or mend fences , or battle with the elements , and so he began a series of annual stays on Duchy farms . |
| 28 | She and assistant manager Lance Green had been instructed to improve profits at the expense of Burger King . |
| 29 | The vilification of Arthur Scargill , the unbalanced emphasis on picket-line violence and intimidation , the failure to explain issues at the heart of the strike , the criminalization of striking miners , the unquestioned assumptions of police neutrality and the fundamental contradiction between the reality experienced by striking communities and the distorted presentation of that reality through the mass media — these were the key components of the media 's ideological policing of the strike . |
| 30 | The charging clause will enable him to collect fees at the end of the trust . |