Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [to-vb] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He is a world class player with all the attributes a striker needs to play at the top , ’ added Allison . |
| 2 | For now the point is that the drafter needs to know at the outset whether any of the business 's customers will fall within the definition of " consumer " : if so , care must be taken in drafting clauses excluding or limiting liability . |
| 3 | This small-scale study aims to look at the impacts of deregulation of passenger transport in the United States and to examine the way that transport suppliers have responded to the new environment . |
| 4 | You can you go to church every Sunday , sing the choruses or the hymns , listen to what the man has to say or the lady has to say at the front , and it can just go over your head and it can mean nothing to you apart from something that you believe might be true . |
| 5 | The chances are that the punters only know an error has been made if the drummer decides to smirk at the guitarist , or the guitarist turns away from the audience to have a good laugh at the keyboard player . |
| 6 | Uterine contractions continue for a few days after birth ( they are often particularly evident when the child begins to suck at the nipple ) . |
| 7 | The fact is that Schubert 's Symphonies are appallingly badly served at present , with the exception of the ‘ Unfinished ’ and ‘ Great ’ , although there too my heart tends to sink at the memory of even some of the established ‘ best buys ’ . |
| 8 | The family proceedings court has to look at the Welfare Checklist ( section 1 , 1989 Children Act ) and , as the writers say , the conflict between the child 's welfare being paramount and the need to protect the community present a real paradox . |
| 9 | Compromise tends to occur at the level of implementation ’ . |
| 10 | Any team dropping the matchbox has to start at the beginning . |
| 11 | I erm unfortunately , er , agree with the previous speaker that a very strong calvinistic streak runs through me and I believe in the two parent family and also in the efforts that you should make to keep the family ge together , but I think too , there 's sp , er , perceptions of individuals and particularly , younger generations now in society , are so much different from my own perceptions when I initially became married and started my own family but what society has to look at the perceptions and expectations of the individuals in society . |
| 12 | And I think central government needs to look at the way in which inner cities are being constantly run down and erm problems highlighted and aggravated because of the circumstances . |
| 13 | About 700m ecus are still waiting to be collected , partly because spending tends to bunch at the end of a period and partly because Britain 's system of local-authority finance means that some councils can not use the money . |
| 14 | The beginning of each sentence in the middle of the poem seems to start at the end of the previous line which has the effect of making the reader almost experience the same sort of speed the train is going through . |
| 15 | If the space extends to soil at the back of the wall , so much the better , as the plant can then root through into it , and the choice widens to include any small perennial herb . |
| 16 | When a don fails to return at the start of term , the shock at the discovery of his body in a Parisian church is well contained in the cloisters . |
| 17 | In doing so , the counsellor has to look at the family dynamic with a particular emphasis on those factors which impinge upon the life of the ageing family member , but to be seen as anything other than impartial , particularly when there is jealousy and conflict within the family group , can lead to a lack of trust and the possible withdrawal of co-operation and participation by some family members . |
| 18 | This project seeks to look at the question of labour regulation and economic performance in a more rigorous manner by undertaking a secondary analysis of the 1980 and 1984 Workplace Industrial Relations Surveys and by incorporating into the analysis additional economic data . |
| 19 | A reduction in bone density tends to begin at the menopause . |
| 20 | The first of these can be demonstrated at several sites where a religious element appears to predominate at the core ; besides Harlow , with its ditched temenos , central precincts can also be seen at Irchester , Springhead and Wycomb , while much the same level of importance may originally have attached to the enclosure at Frilford . |
| 21 | If the petitioning creditor fails to appear at the hearing of the petition , it would seem that the petition must be dismissed and no subsequent petition by the same creditor can be presented in respect of the same debt without the leave of court ( r 6.26 ) . |
| 22 | Moreover , except by consent , the court can not make an order for possession against the tenant in the application ; so that if the tenant refuses to leave at the expiry date of his tenancy , the landlord will be compelled to take fresh proceedings against him . |
| 23 | The rules contain no provision about standing at the hearing stage , but the basic test of sufficient interest appears to apply at the hearing stage as well as at the leave stage . |