Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [noun pl] at a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Beneath the respectable front of many local organisations there had developed only too frequently , as the men of the north-east had earlier predicted , a form of legalised crimping operated between Board of Trade staff at Mercantile Marine Offices and boarding house keepers who were only too happy to supply seamen at a profit to themselves . |
| 3 | It is important to make changes at a pace with which you can easily cope . |
| 4 | Gosh , I was so surprised to see skinheads at a Madness gig . |
| 5 | Many trade unionists , acutely sensitive to wage reductions at a time of high unemployment and deflation , held two important views on the matter of pensions . |