Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [noun] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Due to sudden and unexpected problems the last Q.T. day had to have a shortened and condensed programme and it was not possible to provide tea at the end of the day . |
| 2 | A complete set of insurance markets would allow risk to be transferred from those who dislike risk to those who are prepared to bear risk at a price . |
| 3 | From the beginning of the fourth year , and especially for as long as pupils were legally free to leave school at the end of that year , very much more definite choices were made : ‘ Newsom ’ courses for those who were to leave , examination courses for most of the rest , with many decisions then to be taken about which subjects to drop , and which to pursue . |
| 4 | Yet during their tenure of office both have had to deal with a Russia now run by an apparently liberally minded head of government who has come to the conference table willing to reduce arms at a rate that the West sometimes finds embarrassing . |
| 5 | Meanwhile Aussie coach John Dorahy will stick to the best of British to keep Wigan at the top of the Rugby League world . |
| 6 | As a great movie fan , each year I try and keep a fortnight clear to spend time at the Birmingham International Film and Television Festival . |
| 7 | He did not become less willing to relinquish office during those forty-eight hours of crisis ; but he did become less willing to relinquish office at the behest of Arthur Henderson . |
| 8 | From Corran , it is possible to reach Kinlochhourn at the head of the loch by a footpath climbing around the steep hill rising behind . |
| 9 | I 'm just about due to cause havoc at a meeting of the passenger Health and Safety Committee anyway . ’ |
| 10 | Sales are going very well and Professor Jones was delighted to see copies at every location he visited in Brittany last summer . |
| 11 | We did not offer the all-day hospitality of previous years but were delighted to see members at the tea parties we organised , and enjoyed chatting with visitors to our stand in the Women in the Rural Community tent . |
| 12 | From then on , with the visitors seemingly content to waste time at every opportunity in the hope of keeping the scoreline respectable , the expected increase in Scotland 's lead failed to materialise . |
| 13 | For some goods it may be appropriate to permit cancellation at no charge provided sufficiently long notice is given . |
| 14 | The North Down side are due to play Cliftonville at the Oval on April 2 — the same night Northern Ireland 's schoolboys face England in a schoolboy international at Castlereagh Park . |
| 15 | If you happen to do a tour of the caddies ' pubs in Southport , Lancashire you are likely to stand shoulder-to-shoulder at the bar with four men who have carried the bags in no less than eleven British Open Championship victories . |
| 16 | In this view it is quite natural to find purposiveness at the level of the neurone or of the gene . |
| 17 | Given this , Whitelocke was lucky to escape prosecution at the Restoration ; to the credit of both , he and Charles II made their peace when Whitelocke returned some royal manuscripts that he had saved from plunder and lectured the king about Welsh , which he said was ‘ his Majesty 's more ancient native language than English ’ . |
| 18 | A SWORD said to have been used by poet Lord Byron in the 1823 Greek independence war is likely to fetch £4,000 at a London auction . |
| 19 | ‘ You should stop fighting so hard to keep people at a distance . |
| 20 | Overseas applicants are required to provide evidence of medical fitness ; such evidence , in the form of written verification from a medical officer that the applicant is deemed fit to undertake studies at the University , must be received in advance of registration . |
| 21 | Overseas applicants are required to provide evidence of medical fitness ; such evidence , in the form of written verification from a medical officer that the applicant is deemed fit to undertake studies at the University , must be received in advance of registration . |
| 22 | Yet when the rich who largely live off the proceeds of other people 's labour are marginally threatened we are supposed to feel concern at the loss of ‘ incentive ’ this might entail . |
| 23 | Those young people who gained places on what were called ‘ employer-led courses ’ , or mode A courses , were the ones most likely to gain employment at the end of their training . |
| 24 | Because the polls , and therefore the program , are likely to shortchange the minor parties , and because the minor parties are most likely to make gains at the Conservatives ' expense , the program is liable to project somewhat too high a level of Tory parliamentary support . |
| 25 | Mr McNeilage added that Alistair is due to leave Rwanda at the end of February . |
| 26 | Discouraged , Jinny bent to her picking , telling herself that she was stupid to expect faces at the window or dramatic voices calling . |
| 27 | And that means he 's sure to have people at the airport ready to intercept me the moment I arrive there . ’ |
| 28 | The fact that there is no sound track makes it possible to practise language at the students ' level ( Finocchiaro 1968 ) . |
| 29 | It is extremely important to provide education at a point when the user experiences motivation . |
| 30 | By November of the year 655 or 656 — Bede gives 655 ( HE 111 , 24 ) but again this date may need to be emended in the same way as Bede 's other Northumbrian dates ( see Appendix , Fig. 7.3 ) — Penda was able to challenge Oswiu at the battle of the Winwaed with a mighty coalition , for he had spent the intervening thirteen years consolidating his position . |