Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [to-vb] at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is then deducted along with other allowances and deductions from total income to arrive at taxable income . |
| 2 | He will also discover that my desire — indeed , my absolute commitment — to ensuring that the House has a proper decision to make at any stage of development in the EC is at least equal to his . |
| 3 | The Recorder told Mulraney : ‘ 'You have a compulsive urge to drive at excessive speed . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ There are 1,001 possibilities as to why this accident happened and it would be pure speculation to say at this stage what could have caused it . |
| 5 | For corporatist arrangements to survive at local level , at least according to Cawson , state agencies must be ‘ capable of making and delivering bargained policies , so that a potential local corporatism depends upon strong local state institutions ’ ( 1985b , p. 146 ) . |
| 6 | More than 100,000 miners held lighting strikes the following week to protest at inadequate safety precautions in Turkish mines ; the official 1989 accident statistics were 26 dead and 7,433 injured . |
| 7 | A lorry was hired to carry our furniture and other belongings to Fontanellato , not an easy thing to arrange at that time as there were few local drivers willing to travel so far . |
| 8 | The garish shirt that caused a myotonic goat to faint at first sight may have little effect once the animal has grown used to its owner 's poor taste . |
| 9 | ESSEX school students of all ages now have a unique opportunity to study at first hand the integration of wildlife and landscape conservation with modern farming techniques . |
| 10 | Whilst your forthcoming weekend will naturally provide you with the ideal opportunity to discover at first hand the delights of owning your own Highland retreat , I can assure you there is absolutely no commitment . |
| 11 | For its elegance , performance , comfort and refinement , the XJ6 4.0 is a hard car to beat at any price . |
| 12 | ‘ He also showed a remarkable capacity to look at any form of contract and identify both the things that needed taking out and what has been wrongly omitted . |
| 13 | Labour members of the Select Committee on Procedure obtained permission from the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Chief Labour Whip to look at this omission in the 1968–9 session . |
| 14 | He wins a lot of ball in the line-outs and as such is a useful character to have at top level , in tandem with a big no.8 . |
| 15 | Bell and his colleagues now believe these were caused by head-on fights with opponents , who appeared to lunge at each other in much the same way that present-day crocodiles do , but with more apparent gusto , using strong jaws to tear at each other 's snouts . |
| 16 | Fran sat back in the seat , staring unseeingly out of the window , wondering why she should feel the most ridiculous urge to cry at such evidence of Luke Calder 's attitude to life . |
| 17 | There are two closely connected points to make at this stage about these Marxist accounts . |
| 18 | He had done well that day — almost performed miracles — having located Mrs McLaren 's Scottish relations ; persuaded a most excellent and locally well-known lady to come at short notice and be in the house to stay with her ; and had seen to it that the house itself was tidied , and cleaned ready , and supplied with food . |
| 19 | There is a further aspect of financial management to consider at this stage : the impact of different legal structures on the way in which firms manage their financial affairs . |
| 20 | New body to look at special education |
| 21 | ( 3 ) The Director may by notice in writing require the person under investigation or any other person to produce at such place as may be specified in the notice and either forthwith or at such time as may be so specified any specified documents which appear to the Director to relate to any matter relevant to the investigation or any documents of a specified description which appear to him so to relate ; and — ( a ) if any such documents are produced , the Director may — ( i ) take copies or extracts from them ; ( ii ) require the person producing them to provide an explanation of any of them ; ( b ) if any such documents are not produced , the Director may require the person who was required to produce them to state , to the best of his knowledge and belief , where they are . |
| 22 | Many students told me that they only joined the League because it was the correct thing to do at middle school and at university they maintained their membership for the social functions the League organised , such as outings and dances . |
| 23 | Sure enough , Version 3.4 sports SmartIcons , like its Windows relation , which give a pictorial way to get at that power more intuitively than the still-resident backslash menus . |
| 24 | ‘ That was a damn silly thing to do at this time of night . ’ |