Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [to-vb] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four former South African police officers were sought by the Namibian authorities to testify at the trial , but had refused to come forward , despite being offered immunity from prosecution . |
| 2 | The Institute 's Education & Training Directorate and the General Practitioner Board have been watching the falling numbers of students training in small firms with deep concern and both have set up working parties to look at the problems . |
| 3 | These situations may be characterised not by the actual risk felt in the situation but by the potential for risky situations to occur at the junction . |
| 4 | The men from the lorry picked their way through a graveyard of broken stones to pray at a sheikh 's white-domed tomb , while we made our way across a wide flood plain of gravel and cracked mud to the river . |
| 5 | Other specific provision includes an ESL ( English as a Second Language ) initiative which seeks to help unwaged individuals from ethnic minorities to look at the skills involved in setting up small businesses or entering self-employment . |
| 6 | Please make early arrangements to pay at a council office or post office ’ . |
| 7 | Enraged by the wine bar 's policy of forbidding them to stand with their male colleagues to drink at the bar , Hall and her cohorts decided to stage a protest . |
| 8 | Smallfry walked with him all the way to the playground , where the other children bunched together in little groups to stare at the absentee and his beautiful mother . |
| 9 | As the level of county commitment to social education lessens it would seem to be a time for us as members of local parish , town and diocesan communities to look at the priority given to such work with our own young people . |
| 10 | IVAN Lendl joined the long list of seeded players to fall at the US Open when he was forced to retire because of tendinitis in his left knee . |
| 11 | I WILL by your kinda town ; I WILL host the first leg of this year 's most significant ‘ alternative ’ rock event , and I WILL send my splendid , scrubbed , windswept children to worship at the feet of its various missionaries . |
| 12 | By then , the women had all become firm trade union supporters , staged solidarity strikes with a number of other factories and political stoppages to protest at the arrest of important opposition leaders . |
| 13 | Sometimes it appears that the mere act of measuring them in order to manufacture a candle of corresponding dimensions to burn at the tomb was sufficient to effect the cure . |
| 14 | After all , she had signed Sting in the first place ( she had even given him a list of music-business lawyers to consult at the time , but he had used the Newcastle lawyer because he was cheaper ) . |
| 15 | Many of them face major cuts to balance at the end of the year and one of them has dangerously low nursing levels . |
| 16 | Suddenly the girl raised her immense grey eyes to look at the gardener . |
| 17 | The tragic musical story of a group of viciously exploited young men who rode the back of the drug-frenzied rock-shag monster for two full years to emerge at the end bruised and bloody and battered but changed — changed from grubby little knobsessed small-town caterpillars into beautiful , brilliantly SPIRITUAL butterflies . |
| 18 | Unfolding the notice , she found it was a call to Italian women to demonstrate at the NATO base where the camp had been set up . |
| 19 | Regional health authority officers insist they have no immediate plans to look at the possibility of merging districts . |
| 20 | Few people in the village had skates but those who did were not the only ones to gather at the lake that morning without invitation or fear of rebuke . |
| 21 | On March 1 a vigil was held in Sofia by several hundred people holding open umbrellas to protest at the failure of the authorities to fulfil Lilov 's promise to Annabel Markov . |
| 22 | He was not a lady 's man in the accepted sense , rather he championed and encouraged single women to travel at a time when it was still considered bad form for a respectable young lady to take a shopping trip to London unchaperoned , let alone visit the Continent . |
| 23 | Nuadu had said that the Robemaker and CuRoi took sacrifices from the ordinary people of Ireland ; strong young sons to work at the Looms , although presumably they would not actually do this work themselves . |
| 24 | Nostalgia for secret quests , obsessions , purity , past promises to keep at the expense of present obligations , these should be confined to the realm of fiction , I thought . |
| 25 | Determined to maintain the authority of the president , in 1766 he overruled the appointment of a new steward ( who oversaw the domestic arrangements of the college ) made at a meeting presided over by the vice-president , having persuaded eight of the senior fellows to protest at the action and ruling that the proceedings were contrary to statute . |
| 26 | Perhaps , with its powerful jaws , it also routinely crunched up bones of dead carcasses to get at the marrow , a scavenger-cum-predator like today 's lion or hyaena . |