Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] at a " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | The Sainsbury 's application is the latest to go to appeal at a public inquiry . |
2 | His ill-looks are a punishment received when he failed to appear at a fairy festival , preferring to spend his time with a mortal maiden . |
3 | They agreed to appear at a venue called Litchfields , basically a working men 's club on one of the town 's many estates . |
4 | I knew that it would at the very least be fun to fail again , however effortlessly , and we agreed to meet at a pub in Barnes on the following evening . |
5 | They had arranged to meet at a pub in Soho , not far from Helen 's flat . |
6 | He did not want to appear at a loss or to let his followers down . |
7 | ‘ If they want to go at a certain pace and not become a Top Five singles band you have to respect them for it . |
8 | Personal bankruptcies may also slow down because of the recent interest rate cuts but are expected to continue at a high level for some time , he said . |
9 | Recruitment clearly has to continue at a high level so as to maintain C&P 's scientific excellence [ and relevance ! ] . |
10 | In Britain , water tables are expected to remain at a low level throughout the summer . |
11 | I think one wants to go at a time when people still want you to stay , rather than stay until people want you to go . |
12 | In the coming two years sales are targeted to continue at an even faster rate , contributing an extra 9.5 billion to the Exchequer by April 1988 . |
13 | If you wait five years it gets slightly steeper so the force to you becomes that and so on and so forth , forty five fifty and you can see at fifty five if you want to retire at a certain age er what 's the age that you actually want to retire ? |
14 | None of the fathers ' job descriptions given on the birth certificate referred to work at a nuclear establishment . |
15 | If we want to work at a high level of stress , however , anywhere near the potential strength of glass for instance , we must be prepared to keep the surface free from even the most microscopic cracks for , if even one crack is allowed to exceed the Griffith length , which may be only about a thousand Ångströms , catastrophic failure will occur . |
16 | For some specialised yarns , say those with knops , or the hairy yarns , you will probably need to work at a looser tension for the cables to show but this is not to their disadvantage since the cables , loosely worked , frequently add to the richness of the finished look . |
17 | Our perception of the pub has to work at a number of levels — mostly obvious , but nonetheless worth clarifying . |
18 | For example , in a particular year a given region has x million inhabitants and the population is expected to increase at a rate of 2% per year . |
19 | It therefore has to aim at a carefully judged angle to the apparent direction if it is going to score a hit . |
20 | If a product fails to sell well , the company may be left with a lot of unwanted stock which it has to sell at a reduced price |
21 | But mostly he did not need to talk at a bunfight , people came up and talked to him , and he would nod his head and smile benevolently and say happily , Yes , Yes , Yes . |
22 | Bettino Craxi , whose leadership of the Socialist Unity Party was under serious challenge [ see p. 39114 ] , announced on Nov. 7 that he proposed to resign at an unspecified date and suggested Prime Minister Giuliano Amato as his successor . |
23 | One , we 're going to look at why well trained staff are , are so important to the C U , secondly we 're going to look at things responsibility training is and lastly we want to look at a systematic approach that you can take as training . |
24 | Because of the size of the data this is a large commitment to space which is only worthwhile where a large number of people want to look at a lot of the data . |
25 | Now I just want to look at a simple class of demand function , right , which we could write , if I can get a pen that works we write the demand function as P equals A over Q to the beta . |
26 | It looks the English breakfast fixing it up for , that 's what and if you , if you want to look at an X-ray , you will see that the arteries of the body , those are the arteries , bring the blood supply is blocked with arteriosclerosis , and there you can see the English breakfast , the yolk of egg , the butter and all these things that are in there , causing a blockage of the artery , not enough to that muscle , and a heart attack , death and all these unbelievable things , that give me a little bit of income . |
27 | So at this moment it 's as well to look at your present experience and see how you can help yourself to extend it , before applying to audition at a drama school . |
28 | In Chapter 5 I propose to look at a different aspect of metalinguistic politics : the way in which grammarians and linguists have projected a male/ female dichotomy on to the languages of the world , and their attempts to use grammar as a tactical weapon in the battle of the sexes . |
29 | Such movements , however , do not necessarily and simply entail the substitution of a smaller conjugally-based family for a traditional extended family ; rather it would appear that at these times kin may take on a new significance , and that we may need to look at a network of relationships much wider than the conjugal family . |
30 | But after 25 years loyal service with the RAF , the time has come to look at a more modern replacement . |