Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it is , your Council has effectively decided to challenge Structure Plan 1985 , policies HP8 and EP5 , since your decision to support housing at Colt Hill was made with no reference to timing . |
| 2 | Bill senior , who will celebrate his 90th birthday on 25 August , has the unique place in the company 's history of being the last employee to continue working at the old Etruria factory . |
| 3 | She turned back to the typewriter to avoid looking at his face . |
| 4 | Hereford need a win at Torquay tomorrow … they 've done it once this season in the coca cola cup … the only side to have won at Plainmoor this season … |
| 5 | First , it is appropriate for those working with a child to try to communicate at the right level ; this means introducing language structures with which the child is already familiar and trying to ensure that the content of conversations is appropriate to the child 's ability to understand and to her interests . |
| 6 | ‘ Whenever I stand in the middle of a big field , ’ she said , ‘ I expect some harpy to come flying at me with a hockey stick . |
| 7 | It being reported to this Meeting that the Peck Measures of the different corners of Islay do not agree in size , & that many of them are deficient of the Legal Standard Measure of this Country-In order to remedy this evil it is recommended that in place of the Heaped Peck commonly used that a streak measure answering exactly to the standard measure of Islay shou 'd be substituted in place of the Heap measure , & in order to carry this Resolution into Execution the Meeting do hereby appoint the following Committee … it is earnestly recommended to these Gentlemen to have the different Pecks of the different Parishes brought to the proper Streak measure , and to have these pecks Branded with Shawfield 's Iron , and this being once done it is recommended to the said Committee to cause publish at the Parish Churches that if any person within their Bounds shall Sell or Buy with any other peck than the Peck so ascertained & stamped , that they shall be Fined at the discretion of the Baron Baillie of Islay |
| 8 | For example , though an access road might be designed to encourage speeds below 30 km/h , there is no law to prevent driving at 50 . |
| 9 | Additionally , in the case of a complete failure to perform to contract at all , the buyer will usually have the right to go elsewhere to a third party for the same goods and to charge the seller for any increase in the price paid to the third party over that payable to the seller . |
| 10 | Peter Coni , chairman of the Stewards , announcing the new rules yesterday , criticised a growing number of top crews for entering lesser events at Henley ‘ rather than showing the ambition and confidence to try to win at a higher level ’ . |
| 11 | there 's point to point racing at Mollington tomorrow … where the Bicester and Whaddon Chase have a full card of runners and riders … |
| 12 | An important area to bear in mind when drawing up a briefing programme is the need to supply briefing at the end of the employee 's period overseas . |
| 13 | The only team to have won at Meadow Lane in the league are Middlesborough . |
| 14 | He gave important , but merely verbal assurances that the proceeds from it for the arts , heritage , sport and charities would not substitute other government funds for these areas and that he expected the cash to begin flowing at the end of 1994 . |
| 15 | They drove through the night to start unloading at the Apollo the following lunchtime . |
| 16 | The hypnotist 's instruction to keep looking at the drawing pin conflicts with his suggestion that the eyes are growing tired and will soon be closing of themselves . |
| 17 | It was after they had cleared supper and were sitting by the range with a cup of tea that the first person to arrive knocked at the front door . |
| 18 | Indeed the anonymous reviewer of the Pope and Weiner edition went on to propose that ‘ if the police staff college is to fulfil its task [ of producing a major project ] with any credibility , it must encourage its academic staff to go out into the field to study policing at first hand ’ . |
| 19 | As EAST Anglia awaits next week 's potentially dangerous North Sea tides , timber from the region 's small woodlands is being harvested in the constant fight to keep flooding at bay . |
| 20 | The problem arose when her husband Arve , was refused an extension of his visa to continue studying at an American college . |
| 21 | The half-stepping scheme is therefore a useful compromise , since the Vo/V1 ratio is not too high and reasonable damping can be achieved by arranging for the motor to come to rest at positions where two phases are excited . |
| 22 | This means that the machine must know which stitch of the pattern to start knitting at , in order for stitch one of the pattern to fall at the N1 cam ( stitch one being the stitch at the left of the pattern on the mylar sheet ) . |
| 23 | However , the approach in both methods is the same : first find what the group should do to maximise profits , then set a transfer price that encourages each divisional manager to decide to operate at that level . |
| 24 | Since its establishment in 1945 the College has had a strong commitment to research aimed at improving management and the development of managers . |
| 25 | Since its establishment in 1945 the College has had a strong commitment to research aimed at improving management and the development of managers . |
| 26 | Then , knowing what we want the group to achieve , set a transfer price that gets each division to decide to operate at the volume we want . |
| 27 | In conventional language we talk of a pointer moving across a scale to come to rest at the mark saying " here " or at the mark saying " there " . |
| 28 | Official inertia and resistance to change have at times seemed to spring from a sense of hopelessness . |
| 29 | Later , if the child takes a definite stand as a Christian , there will also be a deeper challenge to struggle to change at heart ; tackling inward dispositions as well as facing the difficult questions of faith . |
| 30 | You may not yourself be in the habit of taking this small precaution to avoid knocking at some highly inappropriate moment , but I always have been and can vouch that it is common practice amongst many professionals . |