Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government also appears to be under the misapprehension that it is not at present possible to arrive at any one BR station and demand a ticket ( full fare , saver or railcard-discounted ) to any other on the network . |
| 2 | Mr Miller said security around all Northwest 's flights had been increased but there was no intention of cancelling Flight 51 , a DC-1O due to arrive at Roissy airport from Detroit at 6.40am today . |
| 3 | A nationwide one-hour strike of 2,000,000 Solidarity trade union members was mounted on Jan. 13 to protest at energy price rises imposed on Jan. 1 and at the fall in the standard of living . |
| 4 | Weed control must have been a major problem for a one pass cultivation system before the development of herbicides , and the extra weight of the rotor unit and the engine must have made the plough difficult to handle at the headlands . |
| 5 | He got several books ready to throw at the creature . |
| 6 | A large demonstration organized by the opposition was held on May 26 to protest at corruption and to call for the Prime Minister 's resignation . |
| 7 | Tudjman , who had urged local leaders in Trogir ( west of Split ) on May 5 to demonstrate at the naval base to show the world their support for the battle being waged by the Croatian leadership , was accused by the Defence Secretariat of inflaming sentiments against the army . |
| 8 | The only difference , as any apple-cheeked country solicitor will tell you , is that in boundary disputing the only winners are apple-cheeked country solicitors who collect large fees from pushy incomers unable to live at peace with one another . |
| 9 | On Saturday , Athletics Canada chairman , Brian Langley , said it was unlikely officials would drop two healthy sprinters who had met the 60m standard in favour of an athlete unable to run at the qualifying meet due to injury . |
| 10 | The applicant sought judicial review of the decison of the Director of the Serious Fraud Office on 26 June 1991 , in the course of criminal proceedings against the applicant , to seek to enforce his compliance with the requirement contained in a notice issued pursuant to section 2 of the Criminal Justice Act 1987 to attend at her offices and answer questions or otherwise furnish information in respect of her investigation of the applicant alone , afer she had caused him to be interviewed under caution on three occasions and thereafter charged him with an offence , at a time when and in circumstances whereby ( a ) the applicant 's application for legal aid had not yet been granted and he had neither legal advice nor legal representation available to him ; ( b ) the Director had stated that she would not cause the applicant to be further cautioned in compliance with Code C , paragraph 16.5 of the current Codes of Practice issued pursuant to the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 . |
| 11 | The hunger strike launched by Palestinian political prisoners on Sept. 27 to protest at conditions in Israeli prisons continued until mid-October [ see p. 39117 for start of hunger strike ] . |
| 12 | On March 22nd the market reacted by falling a further 3.1% , which took the Nikkei index below 30,000 for the first time since December 1988 to close at 29,843 . |
| 13 | Representatives from state enterprise unions defied a ban on political gatherings and convened in Bangkok on March 21 to protest at an NPKA plan to amend the Labour Relations Act and dissolve all 61 state enterprise unions and prevent new ones from being formed . |
| 14 | I 'm just finding levity a bit hard to take at the moment . ’ |
| 15 | Dr Penry Vaughan 's brooding Celtic moods were a bit hard to take at times , to say the least . |
| 16 | With the population due to stabilise at merely twice the current numbers , there would appear to be little cause for concern on a global level . |
| 17 | Pearlin and his colleagues have discussed the effectiveness of commonly used coping responses to various chronic role strains of the sort likely to erupt at any time into major events ( Pearlin and Schooler , 1978 ; Pearlin et al. , 1981 ) . |
| 18 | This decree vested all powers in the SLORC , and required that a new constitution be drawn up ( by the SLORC ) and submitted to a referendum before the transfer to a civilian government — a process likely to take at least two years . |
| 19 | So do n't ask me if I 'm available on November 7th to appear at the Platinum Ball in aid of Spavined Armenian Panda Orphans , because I most definitely am not . |
| 20 | WITH South Africa due to play at Twickenham on November 14 as part of a four-match tour , England manager Geoff Cooke gave an indication of the current thinking in the England camp . |
| 21 | She stood in the hazy light cast by the bulb in the ceiling , looking uncomfortable and angry , as she phoned Eddy Russell of the Drugs Squad with the information about Della Torre and the lorry due to arrive at Dover the next day . |
| 22 | It is untrue that there are six sets of morris dancers due to appear at the Spring Thing , the annual Darlington folk festival . |
| 23 | If there are any area display teams willing to perform at the Annual Reunion on Saturday 19th November to be held at Warwick Park School , please contact at , , |
| 24 | Er so er let's say that the ten percent rate applies , er mind you ten percent is a long way from where we are now , but it makes the figures easy to look at , so er let's say that he 's getting ten percent gross on his return on a building society , he 'd actually get seven and a half percent net , er so on his ten thousand he 's going to earn seven fifty . |
| 25 | Alec Stewart ran himself out as he tried for a sharp single to cover and found Atherton unwilling to budge at the non-striker 's end . |
| 26 | ‘ They are both well respected members of the community and I have asked the Attorney General to look at the sentences . ’ |
| 27 | Other wines difficult to beat at the price include three wonderfully good dry whites from Hungary that I 'll be writing about later . |
| 28 | Every roof has an individual character — so you can be sure of an investment that ; s lovely to look at as well as adding to the value of your building . |
| 29 | The first company to build a computer able to perform at 100 million Flops per second ( 100 megaFlops ) , was Cray Research in 1975 . |
| 30 | In support of this claim some commentators saw a hardening of official Soviet attitudes on a number of international issues , particularly disarmament negotiations ahead of the Washington summit meeting between Gorbachev and US President Bush due to begin at the end of May [ to be covered in the June News Digest ] . |