Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] at the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , just one little notice I do have that erm several of us are going on Thursday to the , on the trip to Docklands by the erm erm Rotary Club of Sawbridgeworth erm I 'm told that there are still one or two odd seats if anybody wants to come at the last minute er , he does n't anticipate he 's going to erm fill them so even if , late Wednesday night you suddenly find you are available , by all means , contact and I 'm sure it can be arranged . |
| 2 | They give us a highly detailed picture of the initial occupational spread of graduates , and the extent to which they enter occupations which are cognate with their degree ( the mere number of type of work categories is a rather crude measure ; one has to look at the actual headings ) . |
| 3 | One only has to look at the diminishing casts in productions all over the country . |
| 4 | Yet when one starts to look at the overall picture a little more deeply , will the obvious strengthening of what will be nine single Championship weeks , be anything more than a move which enables the rich to get richer and actually sets into motion what could become a long term contraction , rather than expansion of the sport , especially if the much-needed revival in the world economy takes longer to become bullish than some of the optimists have been forecasting . |
| 5 | She wants to play at the highest standard . |
| 6 | Do you know I ca n't remember the date , early part of March , early part of March , erm what she says at the moment is that er someone else from the college is going to Leicester next Wednesday when Helen 's going to Cardiff and this girl is then going to Cardiff when Helen should be going to Leicester , so Helen says , and she wants to look at the same subjects as what Helen does so Helen says that they 're gon na sort of go to the different colleges and compare notes when they come back from it so she might need n't want to go to Leicester |
| 7 | I am saying that , as an organisation , it can not cope with the work it has to do at the present time . |
| 8 | With a relatively tiny home market , Ericsson is always short of the resources it needs to stay at the leading edge of its chosen industry , where the cost of major development projects is measured in hundreds of millions of dollars , and although it has developed its own TMOS Telecommunications Management and Operations Support software suite — which runs under Unix — it needs the muscle of a company like Hewlett-Packard to exploit the product . |
| 9 | Whether Skelton needs to expand at the present moment is not for me to say . |
| 10 | Smith will return to his normal run-up the following weekend when he plans to compete at the big Belfast meeting and then for the AAA against Loughborough University . |
| 11 | Our company is exchanging greetings with the young soldiers when suddenly a white car refuses to stop at the next checkpoint up the street — braking only slightly and seeking to swerve past the two soldiers . |
| 12 | This research project aims to look at the philosophical basis for the new 1980s environmentalism with special reference to economic concepts of sustainability familiar to resource and environmental economists . |
| 13 | The refusal is as understandable as it is naive , but seems to constitute at the same time what amounts to an abnegation of intellectual curiosity about human needs . |
| 14 | This seems to strike at the very heart of many of the cases which are made against firms of accountants . |
| 15 | It may increase slightly but if fertility continues to decline at the present rate that is unlikely . |
| 16 | At very low stepping rates the motor comes to rest at the appropriate equilibrium position after each excitation change . |