Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] [adv] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | UN flies bodies home THE BODIES of 23 peacekeepers shot in weekend battles with Somali gunmen were flown home to Pakistan yesterday as the UN honed plans to hit back at the killers ‘ within days ’ . |
| 2 | BODIES of 23 peacekeepers shot in weekend battles with Somali gunmen in Mogadishu were flown home to Pakistan as the UN honed plans to hit back at the killers ‘ within days . ’ |
| 3 | Garry Whannel traced four main themes in the analysis of football hooliganism in the popular press in the 1970s : fans were ‘ mindless/senseless ’ ; they were ‘ maniacs/lunatics ’ ; ‘ foul/subhuman ’ ( which led some fans to chant back at the police and the respectable public ‘ We hate humans ’ ) ; finally that they were ‘ so-called supporters ’ and in a small minority , i.e. they made up only a very small percentage of the crowd and they had little interest in the game itself . |
| 4 | But if you ask him to spare a couple of hours to help out at a St John Ambulance fund-raising activity or a garden fête for the church roof repair fund , he might find that a worthwhile thing to do . |
| 5 | Due to the large spread ( i.e. difference between buying and selling prices ) , it usually takes a substantial rise to enable investors to sell out at a profit . |
| 6 | It has all necessary powers to look again at the problem it has created and decide whether it is in the overall interest of the locality to have a commercial port . |
| 7 | if the war was going badly for NATO , and the USSR was already using nuclear weapons , the West would turn to the cruise missiles to strike back at the Warsaw Pact . |
| 8 | The narrowness of Foxton was at least one of the arguments to come up at the end of the century in favour of the inclined plane . |
| 9 | The methods used will depart from classic class based analyses of inequalities in health by using age and cause specific mortality rates for both sexes to look historically at the relationship between patterns of disease , standards of living , eating , drinking and smoking habits , and health service inputs . |
| 10 | You asked if it would be possible for certain material witnesses to stay on at the Lodge for an extra night while you continue your investigations on the spot . |
| 11 | This objection can easily be overcome by allowing two students to work together at the terminal — a method which appears to facilitate learning . |
| 12 | When we reached the jetty we paused for a few moments to look across at the islet . |
| 13 | I picture richly rewarding learning environments : I walk , unnoticed , into a creative activities period in Jos ( Nigeria ) where the children remain too absorbed in their various tasks to look up at a stranger , however unfamiliar . |