Example sentences of "[to-vb] at an [adj] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The select committees , in contrast , were to be investigating bodies where policy issues were not of first importance , the principal task being to find out what was happening inside the various government departments , to inform the House and the public , thus bringing public opinion to bear at an earlier stage while policy was still relatively fluid . |
| 2 | This approach , far from just offering a comfortable sense of hand-holding , serves as an excellent safety net , as it helps us to identify at an early stage where a trainee 's progress may be for some reason deficient , and to take whatever steps may be needed to rectify the situation . |
| 3 | After observing the industrious building of castles in the air in the past few days , I thought it would be appropriate to look at an odd phenomenon that has puzzled meteorologists for the past ten years : the series of giant mushroom-shaped cloud formations round the periphery of the Siberian land-mass . |
| 4 | Gone are the days when a hand-painted sign advertising a ‘ Real working farm experience ’ meant the townie parents paid £10 and got to look at an old plough while their children cuddled a fat , flop-eared rabbit . |
| 5 | It is one thing to look at an ill person and say that they are out of balance . |
| 6 | Bettino Craxi , whose leadership of the Socialist Unity Party was under serious challenge [ see p. 39114 ] , announced on Nov. 7 that he proposed to resign at an unspecified date and suggested Prime Minister Giuliano Amato as his successor . |
| 7 | And yet to the world at large he claimed to have conducted a most detailed investigation into the whole matter , sufficient to enable him to arrive at an informed judgement that British policy remained correct . |
| 8 | When you telephone someone you are more likely to intrude at an inconvenient time and not realize it . |
| 9 | Since the matter is important , I wonder if you would take the trouble to write to me again , indicating particularly whether such other arrangements as you will be making are likely to commence at an earlier date than one might otherwise suppose . |
| 10 | Already for a number of years , employers have not been able to oblige women to retire at an earlier age than their male colleagues but by law must have a common retirement age that applies equally to both sexes . |
| 11 | What I do not need is to be awoken at 4 a.m. in the depths of winter , forced from my bed and summoned to gawp at an empty space where once a football stand stood . |