Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [noun pl] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The historic Jewellery Quarter , close to the city centre , still displays traditional skills of silver and goldsmithing , with the opportunity to see craftsmen at work . |
| 2 | An annual study day on topical issues in nursing is organised by the alumni of the department and departmental staff collaborate frequently with other professional and academic groups to mount conferences at national and international level . |
| 3 | The eighteenth-century administration sought to protect those whom the intendant of Burgos called the ‘ wretched slaves ’ of the landlords : there were proposals to freeze rents at the 1770 level , to set up arbitration boards of peasants and landlords . |
| 4 | Eight of the bombers broke through the defences to launch torpedoes at the ‘ Ark ’ and at the battlecruiser ‘ Renown ’ , but without obtaining hits . |
| 5 | The decision by the Swedish authorities to restart operations at the plant , which had been closed down in September because of a flaw in the emergency cooling system [ see ED 63 ] , has been strongly criticized in Denmark . |
| 6 | ‘ The world itself is God 's greatest miracle ’ , he wrote , defending God 's freedom to work miracles at the cost of dissolving the idea of a nature which is subject to its own laws in the freedom of the divine will . |
| 7 | As companies continue to dispose of non-core subsidiaries , this next generation of MBI managers will have golden opportunities to acquire companies at realistic prices . ’ |
| 8 | OKI ELECTRIC INDUSTRY TO SUSPEND OPERATIONS AT TWO FACTOIRES IN EAST JAPAN |
| 9 | Thus the development of the mix to meet conditions at a particular point or period in time is essentially a contingency approach to marketing management . |
| 10 | This is in fact more important from the company management point of view than the notion of building up funds to replace assets at a given date . |
| 11 | This is in fact more important from the company management point of view than the notion of building up funds to replace assets at a given date . |
| 12 | Labour leaders were strongly criticised for embracing an ‘ unprincipled ’ U-turn away from unilateralism in an attempt to win votes at the next election . |
| 13 | Earlier in the month an agreement had been signed between HCIMA and city and Guilds to form a partnership to award NVQs at level 4 . |
| 14 | By midday the AA was warning shoppers to leave cars at home and use public transport or risk being trapped in city centres . |
| 15 | The offences only came to light because of an attempt to inflate profits at Alexander Howden , which was discovered by the American company Alexander and Alexander after it bought the company . |
| 16 | TAURUS You are going to have to put your mind to solve problems at the moment . |
| 17 | Social services departments were strongly criticized in the 1980s for not taking more effective action to protect children at risk . |
| 18 | We were told what to do and then left , as the instructor went to the other end of the loch to shout instructions at a few stranded boats . |
| 19 | THE Government was under pressure last night to re-enter negotiations over the ambulance dispute as unions stripped away all but three elements of their pay and conditions claim in an attempt to force talks at the conciliation service , Acas . |
| 20 | Celtic , on 21 March , 1992 , were the last side to beat Rangers at Ibrox and that is a record which , domestically at any rate , could stand for the foreseeable future unless visiting clubs are willing to alter their attitude to them . |
| 21 | In addition to the afternoon 's official programme , there were several extra events , all raising funds to improve facilities at the centre . |
| 22 | Consider therefore may be necessary to use force to move Cossacks at all from present area . |
| 23 | Initially , used the effect to entertain children at the Leukaemia unit in St Bartholomew 's hospital , but when he found that scientists also were taking interest , he founded the Magic Penny Society , partly because he sees the new pennies as an excellent educational toy to excite children 's interest in science . |
| 24 | In forty one , Charlotte and Emily travelled to Brussels to become pupils at the Mes en des occasion pour les jeune desmoiselles Er , Charlotte fell in love with the principal , but he did n't reciprocate . |
| 25 | For the Opposition to make guesses at costings would be aimless . |
| 26 | That made it difficult to work out the company 's exposure to open contracts at any given time and this , in turn , allowed Mr Koval to indulge in ‘ extensive trading outside any limit contemplated by the plaintiff 's board ’ . |
| 27 | There have been a number of attempts to define languages at the assembler level which would be portable from one computer to another ; the compatible computer ranges of the previous section are , of course , one such attempt . |
| 28 | Ingratiators in low power positions use favours , self-promotion and flattery to induce superiors at least to listen to the ‘ rational ’ case . |
| 29 | There is , of course , room for disagreement about how much independence to grant children at different stages of their development . |
| 30 | The acquirer will want to examine carefully what costs and fees are proposed to be paid by the target since , if there is no adjustment to net assets at completion , moneys paid by the target will effectively have been paid by the acquirer . |