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

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1 Only after knowing what our target is can we go on and set a transfer price that encourages each division to operate at the required volume .
2 This is then deducted along with other allowances and deductions from total income to arrive at taxable income .
3 Alcohol misuse is more likely to come to light via marital disputes , repeated driving offences , accidents , absenteeism and progressive inability to cope at work .
4 Mapletoft , having knocked over the conversion , trumped it by banging over a 30-metre dropped goal off his weak foot to level at 20–20 .
5 what weight of importance to attach to each criterion to arrive at an overall assessment for each axis .
6 Leave five minutes before each interview to look at the candidate 's application form/letter , and any particular questions noted down while first reading it .
7 And that 's truer than ever today , when even an ordinary family saloon is powered by a highly sophisticated engine that depends on the right lubrication to perform at its best .
8 It was normal practice to live at home with one 's parents until marriage ( and women who did not marry usually continued to live with parents , often supporting them into old age , see below ) .
9 Reading manager Mark McGhee , who is with his prodigy in Monte Carlo , insisted yesterday that Lambert is not for sale and would be offered an improved contract to stay at Elm Park .
10 He will also discover that my desire — indeed , my absolute commitment — to ensuring that the House has a proper decision to make at any stage of development in the EC is at least equal to his .
11 She was glad of this opportunity to look at him unobserved .
12 But he says : ‘ He used this case to get at us . ’
13 They were but it , well it was an event , a big event in , in the , among the younger people anyway in Brooks in Willenhall then and er it was really lovely , really lovely I forget if we had to pay to go in , but er we had er we saved up for a good few weeks before , so that we would have some money to spend at the Wakes it was one of the an event of the year then , but erm I used to like Willenhall Wakes and er I used to go dancing a lot well I was allowed to go dancing cos I 've always loved singing and dancing you see and er I was allowed but I had to be home before my father got home , but I was n't always .
14 Rosenthal has rejected a one-year deal to stay at Liverpool but has dismissed the possibility of a move to Turkish club Besiktas , who showed interest last week .
15 It is no part of the function of this chapter to dilate at length upon the rules ( so far as they exist ) or the functions of heraldry since its rise in the second quarter of the twelfth century , but a few general remarks will not be out of place .
16 Ironically she rarely used much make-up herself , but right now she could have done with a cover-up stick to hide the dark shadows beneath her eyes and some blusher to conceal at least a little of her pallor .
17 And I 'll keep the old monitor to use at home with my notebook .
18 Racing : Prix de L'Arc de Triomphe : Britain 's faith in Class value : Europe 's richest race brings another opportunity for Britain 's most fearless trainer to tilt at a top prize .
19 Billed as the most important sale of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French silver to appear at auction for twenty years , the results of Sotheby 's sale of the Jourdan-Barry collection were not outstanding .
20 This is the most significant collection of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French silver to appear at auction in twenty years .
21 ‘ I 've got some work to do at home . ’
22 And you had some work to do at home on that .
23 After 1986 , therefore , interest in EMU revived and in 1988 the Hanover summit set up another committee to look at the idea .
24 If you find you never get beyond the stage of " falling in love " or " being in love " and meeting the other as the real-life individual behind the projection , then you may need some help to look at what 's happening and why .
25 This enormous gift that , despite all the trying things that went with it , Phoebe had received ; this capacity to look at a thing and know that , because it must be done , it is the doing of it that brings freedom and salvation .
26 The police chose this moment to charge at and disperse the pickets from the entrance to the plant and the NUM President was bundled to the floor .
27 It can be argued that this failure to look at higher education may be the result of a deficiency in feminist theory about education — that feminists ( and , indeed , other educational theorists ) have difficulty in theorizing the role of higher education in the reproduction of inequality .
28 Those of us who feel we are too busy or not dedicated enough to set aside time for exercise periods can utilize our daily routine to provide at least some opportunities to keep fit .
29 A tentative hypothesis is that this relates to real differences in the means by which knowledge is disseminated in the scientific and non-scientific disciplines — the large numbers of scientific journals as compared to those in the arts , and the pressures on the scientific community to publish at all costs .
30 Although the two never met , they both forged a figurative style out of the Abstract Expressionism raging all about them — not the most popular move to make at the time .
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