Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] at the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Detectives seized eight kilos of coca leaves , the base for cocaine , which were to have been handed out for visitors to chew at the Bolivian Pavilion .
2 Hong Kong casts a spell over the visitor almost as soon as your aircraft weaves its way between high-rise blocks to land at the chaotic airport .
3 It is about all manner of motoring matters such as improvements in vehicle safety and construction , raising of driving standards and an attempt to get the authorities to look at the whole business of motoring in a different way for the good of all .
4 He said that it might take two to three years to arrive at the complete version of the social audit , which will be sent to all shareholders with the financial statements .
5 The fifth feature is the development of so-called ‘ parallel networks ’ , which cross-cut the formal or official organization of the state , and cause a concentration of powers to accumulate at the very top of the executive .
6 There must surely be more acceptable ways to protest at the Turkish occupation of that part of the island .
7 In a comparison between blocking and non-blocking strains of mice it was shown that the potential of embryos to arrest at the 2-cell stage is determined solely by the genotype of the egg and occurs irrespective of the paternal or embryonic contribution ( 18 ) .
8 erm the west bank option for widen worsen road to be abandoned , that I quite agree with and design on , and then follow that , I 'd like erm do environmental report for members to be or for members to look at the environmental report before it comes here .
9 But there will be an opportunity for members to look at the present programme which will need pruning to get it down to those guidelines , and they can obviously make any comments they wish to , or any advice they wish to give the P A G in terms of individual schemes or the detail .
10 The human world and hell joined forces to scoff at the dying man .
11 Messages would be sent out , up and down the track , summoning song-owners to assemble at the Big Place .
12 Aircraft which were collected with such discrimination and taste , which were restored using the most scrupulous of standards and which were displayed for us and our children to enjoy at the Tamiami Airport near Miami , Florida .
13 Christian roadblocks were therefore set up at the eastern end of the Ring motorway and the first 40 Muslim men to arrive at the Christian checkpoint , some of them travelling with their wives and children in their family cars to homes in east Beirut , were taken beneath the overpass and had their throats cut .
14 Corbett asked the others to stay at the great gate whilst he went across the open square .
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