Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | OKI ELECTRIC INDUSTRY TO SUSPEND OPERATIONS AT TWO FACTOIRES IN EAST JAPAN |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Labour leaders were strongly criticised for embracing an ‘ unprincipled ’ U-turn away from unilateralism in an attempt to win votes at the next election . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | TAURUS You are going to have to put your mind to solve problems at the moment . |
| 9 | Social services departments were strongly criticized in the 1980s for not taking more effective action to protect children at risk . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Consider therefore may be necessary to use force to move Cossacks at all from present area . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | For the Opposition to make guesses at costings would be aimless . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | Ingratiators in low power positions use favours , self-promotion and flattery to induce superiors at least to listen to the ‘ rational ’ case . |
| 18 | There is , of course , room for disagreement about how much independence to grant children at different stages of their development . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Capacity to receive benefits at civil law and under the law of trusts was the topic of Chapters II and III . |
| 21 | Yesterday 's mass picket had been fuelled by last week 's decision at the Court of Session to allow meetings at the gates , and by the wave of support for the sacked workers at a rally in Dundee on Saturday . |
| 22 | Female worms migrate to the bottom to lay eggs at night |
| 23 | There are four types ; seed , containing no fertiliser and potting 1–3 containing increasing amounts of fertiliser to suit plants at different stages of development . |
| 24 | Hewlett-Packard executives , however , confirmed that they did not regard the plan to introduce servers at the 20 regional branch offices as a ‘ funded project ’ and Hungarian Minister for Labour Gyula Kiss made no reference to the programme in a detailed briefing on Hungarian employment policy delivered to the foreign pass contingent last week . |
| 25 | Council to make waves at show |
| 26 | It is , however , within the discretion of the Faculty to make offers at below the ‘ going rate ’ or minimum rate . |
| 27 | The idea is not new — a Hungarian engineer designed the first photocomposing machine in 1894 — but its widespread adoption depended on the computer to select characters at high speed from an optical storage disc . |
| 28 | He may simply be an entrepreneur who perceives the opportunity to buy resources at a total cost lower than the revenue he can obtain from the sale of output . |
| 29 | A MAN with a compulsion to drive cars at high speed was sent to young offenders institution for a year . |
| 30 | In December 1989 the then Foreign Minister , Oskar Fischer , expressed his government 's desire to establish relations at a meeting with the chair of the Berlin Jewish community . |