Example sentences of "[to-vb] its [noun] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the painted sculptures from the first decade of his activity as an abstract artist are ‘ Midday ’ ( 1960 , MOMA , New York ) , ) , ‘ Prairie ’ ( 1967 , NGA , Washington ) and ‘ Early One Morning ’ ( 1962 ) which the Tate Gallery was persuaded to loan only after Caro had agreed to supervise its restoration at the end of the exhibition . |
| 2 | But Cecil 's string was struggling to find its form at the time and Rainbow Lake could manage no better than a modest sixth to subsequent Derby fourth Cairo Prince . |
| 3 | The organisation wants to increase its investments at the rate of a dozen or so per year . |
| 4 | Arguments of this kind normally started from the assumption that the powers of Europe were still in a ‘ state of nature ’ with respect to each other and that each of them was engaged , consciously or not , in a ceaseless struggle to increase its influence at the expense of its neighbours . |
| 5 | The duty of this Committee is confined to considering " the position of English " in our whole educational system , which of course includes , and in our reference expressly stated to include its position at the Universities . |
| 6 | Last week , the Montgomery County ( Maryland ) chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ) , tired of waiting for the police to solve the case and for NIH to comment on the report , held a press conference to express its outrage at the events of the past seven months and to demand that the lives of those affected ‘ be made whole ’ . |
| 7 | However , if the company elects to exercise its option at the beginning of a contract year , it must pay the artist a previously agreed sum of money as an advance against future royalties . |
| 8 | The left used to have two ways to amplify its voice at the party conference . |
| 9 | Please note : Nottinghamshire County Council has collected information to publish this brochure in good faith and every effort has been made to ensure its accuracy at the time of printing . |
| 10 | The benefits of targeting were seen , for example , in St Helens where the party gained four seats compared with 1986 and managed to keep its share at the level experienced in the days of the Alliance . |
| 11 | These means include the appointment of joint committees for a particular purpose , the ability of one authority to place its staff at the disposal of another , and the possibility of local authorities entering into agreements to provide each other with goods and services . |
| 12 | We are pleased to see a programme of monitoring and review built into the scheme and hope that it will be possible to measure its success at the end of its first three years and make adjustments as necessary . |
| 13 | Like other supporters of Iraq , Yemen formally condemned the invasion and annexation of Kuwait during the early part of August , but then went on to direct its criticism at the US forces in Saudi Arabia and to press for an Arab solution to the problem . |
| 14 | A prototype Il-103 is under construction at Ilyushin 's Moscow factory and is expected to fly in mid-1993 , in time for the aircraft to make its debut at the Business & Light Aviation Exhibition at North Weald next September . |
| 15 | The plan is for CTC , currently based at Stockton 's Dovecot Arts Centre , to make its home at the Forum where it will stage productions before touring small scale venues in the North . |
| 16 | SunSoft Inc borrowed the laid-back format of the Tonight Show and Johnny Carson — down to the band , the couch and the jokes — to make its announcements at the end of last month : it would be a shame if those well-crafted anti-Microsoft Corp anti-NT ads they ran as ersatz commercials during the breaks do n't get a wider airing , if for nothing more than their amusement value . |