Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Planned tourist features like the Tees barrage , the Hartlepool marina and the Wynyard park business and leisure development were considered by Tees Valley 's board of directors , along with its existing achievements , strong reasons to retain at least some of its role in the future . |
| 2 | Planned tourist features like the Tees Barrage , the Hartlepool Marina , and the Wynyard park business and leisure development were considered by Tees Valley 's board of directors along with its existing achievements , strong reasons to retain at least some of its role in the future . |
| 3 | The governing body will almost certainly need to set up sub-committees or working groups to look at different aspects of the school 's development . |
| 4 | Four former South African police officers were sought by the Namibian authorities to testify at the trial , but had refused to come forward , despite being offered immunity from prosecution . |
| 5 | The Institute 's Education & Training Directorate and the General Practitioner Board have been watching the falling numbers of students training in small firms with deep concern and both have set up working parties to look at the problems . |
| 6 | He told the story of a loner , a drifter , a maverick boy who went from banner-waving at public meetings to protest at experiments on animals , all the way to incendiaries and assault and finally an attempted car bomb . |
| 7 | Whitham has come a long way from April 16 , 1988 when he won the Enkalon 1,000cc race and became one of the few English riders to score at Kirkistown at that time . |
| 8 | Why was it that British industrialists took advantage of rising labour productivity to reduce their labour force , rather than to develop new forms of production using more sophisticated techniques and making improved products to sell at home and abroad ? |
| 9 | Page 29 Sterling slumps : The pound posted its steepest one-day fall in more than three years , sinking almost six pfennigs in a few hours to close at DM2.9737 . |
| 10 | The US currency eased 1.07 pfennigs to finish at DM1.8748 and was 0.25 yen lower at Y140.90 . |
| 11 | It took the combined brain power of the teachers quite a few weeks to arrive at this simple routine for getting into Friday assembly . |
| 12 | Big style give me some boards to look at |
| 13 | If you only get a few ideas , you 've only got a few things to look at . |
| 14 | Politicians do n't have time to read screeds , so you have to give them short , pithy things to look at , We were doing all this anyway , of course , but the chaps at Barton , including Andy , are working on it much more effectively since we were able to say definitely that the DTI civil servants were agin them . |
| 15 | These situations may be characterised not by the actual risk felt in the situation but by the potential for risky situations to occur at the junction . |
| 16 | There must surely be more acceptable ways to protest at the Turkish occupation of that part of the island . |
| 17 | The UUP transport spokesman urged airport management to do ‘ all in its power ’ to persuade British Airways to stay at Aldergrove . |
| 18 | At first it seemed that the only delay was in making the cottage fit to occupy , and Coleridge wondered whether , until it was ready , there might not be some rooms to spare at Shurton Court . |
| 19 | She brought up her clenched fists to beat at him , and as he saw the dirt on them Benedict did let her go , stepping back out of the way . |
| 20 | That is why Cable & Wireless 's subsidiary , Mercury , has recently sent forty payphones for British Forces to use at bases in Saudi Arabia . |
| 21 | Soft acid water in a well-planted aquarium with strong natural front lighting is needed to allow these minute beauties to display at their best . |
| 22 | Only too true , reflected Cadfael , for she may well have some strictures to level at us , no less than at Ramsey . |
| 23 | The FT-SE 100 Index of leading shares gained 19.0 points to close at 2237.8 . |
| 24 | Moving the game to a new playing field is a great idea , but you need not only another team to play against , but some spectators to pay at the gate . |
| 25 | Moving the game to a new playing field is a great idea , but you need not only another team to play against , but some spectators to pay at the gate . |
| 26 | While contracts ( see under contract teaching ) can be used in full-class , teacher-centred situations , their full potential is realised when they are employed to break the " lock " step and free students to work at their own rates and in their own ways . |
| 27 | 700 jobs to go at Courage |
| 28 | The men from the lorry picked their way through a graveyard of broken stones to pray at a sheikh 's white-domed tomb , while we made our way across a wide flood plain of gravel and cracked mud to the river . |
| 29 | In the interval there would be pressure on Scottish MPs to abstain at the second vote on the ground that their constituents were not affected . |
| 30 | The drawing room was not very convenient , because the chemist needed services such as water and gas ; and the laboratory with its wooden benches to work at , with their sinks and gas taps , high stools to sit on , and racks of bottles at hand , came into existence . |