Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] at an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | what weight of importance to attach to each criterion to arrive at an overall assessment for each axis . |
| 2 | I thought that this was a painting I should n't discuss with Lili , but only when I had walked to the end of the gallery to look at an innocuous picture of a group of long-haired sheep did I ask myself what Robert had been doing in Marie Claire 's bedroom . |
| 3 | He paused by the windowsill on the way to his desk to peer at an African violet in a pot . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Long and fulfilling because Alan Millet offered the chance to bite at an old enemy whose presence pervaded the rooms of the terraced home in Hampton Wick . |
| 6 | Thank you all very much indeed and thank you particularly for making an effort to come and join us at the A G M , apart from the fact that it would be tedious in the extreme to look at an empty room , I do understand |
| 7 | This aspect therefore involved a judgement that low-income families … do not have access to credit at an acceptable price . |
| 8 | A climber jumps in his car , burns precious fossil fuels on a stretch of tarmac that has eaten acres of countryside to arrive at an undeveloped crag . |
| 9 | Another doctor , Edward Spitzka , believed that an unwillingness to work at an appointed task was itself a symptom of masturbatory insanity . |
| 10 | It is one thing to look at an ill person and say that they are out of balance . |
| 11 | Good health resides in areas under more direct personal control , and those with time to investigate such matters as exercise and nutrition may be in a better position than a doctor to arrive at an accurate understanding . |
| 12 | A few weeks later I received an invitation to compete at an international meeting in Gateshead , the Amoco Games . |
| 13 | Well , MCPS have a team of Licence Negotiators whose job it is to negotiate between the producer and our member to arrive at an agreeable rate . |
| 14 | The first aim of the ESRC funded project is to complete the Gloucester database , to revise it as necessary in order to arrive at an optimum design for future use , and to publish the final version in the form of a book of statistical tables . |
| 15 | I have destroyed many pages and crossed out hundreds , no thousands , of words in order to arrive at an imaginative sympathy ( though not , of course , an explicit approval ) with Miller as he walks down this long , gently curving terrace of dilapidated Edwardian houses . |
| 16 | There continues to exist an element of uncertainty as all EC member countries are not at the same level of preparedness to proceed at an identical pace towards the final stage of European monetary unification . |
| 17 | It will also receive a four-year option to buy at an undisclosed price 65% of GPA 's equity , with the possibility of extending that to 80% . |
| 18 | Impending bankruptcy It may be preferred to activate the power to expel at an earlier date in the bankruptcy process so as to minimise the damage caused to the firm by protracted , and possibly contested proceedings . |