Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] [noun pl] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | An annual study day on topical issues in nursing is organised by the alumni of the department and departmental staff collaborate frequently with other professional and academic groups to mount conferences at national and international level . |
| 2 | The eighteenth-century administration sought to protect those whom the intendant of Burgos called the ‘ wretched slaves ’ of the landlords : there were proposals to freeze rents at the 1770 level , to set up arbitration boards of peasants and landlords . |
| 3 | Eight of the bombers broke through the defences to launch torpedoes at the ‘ Ark ’ and at the battlecruiser ‘ Renown ’ , but without obtaining hits . |
| 4 | The decision by the Swedish authorities to restart operations at the plant , which had been closed down in September because of a flaw in the emergency cooling system [ see ED 63 ] , has been strongly criticized in Denmark . |
| 5 | As companies continue to dispose of non-core subsidiaries , this next generation of MBI managers will have golden opportunities to acquire companies at realistic prices . ’ |
| 6 | This is in fact more important from the company management point of view than the notion of building up funds to replace assets at a given date . |
| 7 | This is in fact more important from the company management point of view than the notion of building up funds to replace assets at a given date . |
| 8 | By midday the AA was warning shoppers to leave cars at home and use public transport or risk being trapped in city centres . |
| 9 | In addition to the afternoon 's official programme , there were several extra events , all raising funds to improve facilities at the centre . |
| 10 | There have been a number of attempts to define languages at the assembler level which would be portable from one computer to another ; the compatible computer ranges of the previous section are , of course , one such attempt . |
| 11 | to restrictions placed on the authority of directors to allot shares at their whim and pleasure . |
| 12 | The Romans had been used to the idea of employing rams to push down walls , and catapults to throw stones at or over them . |
| 13 | The contrasts made above between the political systems on the two sides of the Atlantic suggest that it may be much more difficult for British pressure groups to identify points at which the political system is particularly open to influence . |
| 14 | On the economic front Alia 's proposals included encouraging initiative in enterprises and curtailing the role of central planning bodies ; paying bonuses to workers exceeding production targets ; allowing agricultural workers to sell surpluses at prices not fixed by the state ; curtailing artificial price fixing , by means of state subsidies , for all but essential goods ; and allowing people to build their own homes . |
| 15 | A few pupils have gone on in recent years to study Classics at universities including Oxbridge . |
| 16 | Oldsters to rub bumpers at Darlington rally |
| 17 | The remuneration for a lecture at the National Gallery that might take two weeks to prepare stands at £50 and in many cases you pay for your own slides . |
| 18 | They abolished 50 existing laws and 36 agencies involved in regulating foreign trade , to ( i ) lift all quotas on imports and exports ; ( ii ) end trade controls except those protecting health care , urban planning , competition policy and environmental protection ; ( iii ) phase out regulation on domestic production and prices ; ( iv ) allow employers to negotiate wages at company level rather than with national unions ; ( v ) abolish regulations covering labour contracts and business hours ; ( vi ) prevent professional bodies fixing fees nationally ; and ( vii ) phase out the controls of State Boards to regulate production and sale of such key products as beef , wine , sugar , cotton and tobacco . |
| 19 | The " package " may also involve stock options — rights to buy shares at a specific value exercisable at a future date , the idea being that if the firm does well the shares will be worth far more than the exercise price . |
| 20 | While Special Branch sent along junior officers to transcribe proceedings at NL meetings in 1939 , the most important information we have on its activities is that procured by an intelligence agent working for the Board of Deputies of British Jews . |
| 21 | Anglo-American Corporation announced on Nov. 11 that it was temporarily laying off between 4,000 and 5,000 workers without pay as part of its efforts to defuse tensions at the mine . |
| 22 | That sounds humane enough in theory , and no doubt it saved many hundreds of families from starvation during the years of the French wars ; but it positively encouraged employers to keep wages at rock-bottom levels , while anyone who wanted to do an honest day 's work for an honest day 's pay was subject , instead , to the ignominy of accepting supplementary alms in order to live . |
| 23 | However , the Bill retains the duty of local authorities to protect children at risk . |
| 24 | Alternative pathways at one level of description can be filtered hierarchically through attempts to build pathways at the next higher level . |
| 25 | I shall therefore be bringing forward shortly the necessary orders to establish trusts at Foresterhill and South Ayrshire in April 1992 and at the Royal Scottish National hospital in April 1993 . |
| 26 | To take child care for instance , we can suddenly get two or three ah admissions to secure units at a cost of two thousand pounds a week and that 's er you know a hundred thousand a year per child so we can really there are other votes that can , can absorb that sort of money . |
| 27 | The three agencies , the Branches , the commercial agencies and the educational institutions have developed a policy of mutual support whereby the Branches include some academic input in their meetings , the commercial sector provides a more sophisticated programme , and the polytechnics draw upon the strengths and goodwill of their own staff and practitioners to provide seminars at post-graduate level . |
| 28 | These findings are consistent with the epidemiological evidence available ( Chapter 2 ) , and could assist general practitioners to identify individuals at risk . |
| 29 | Rosemary teaches people with learning difficulties at Oulton Broad while Marlene has taught many classes in Suffolk over the past 20 years ( including 50+ groups ) , assisted with the Norfolk Training Course , and has brought several teams of class members to perform items at our Annual Reunions . |
| 30 | A few new guide-posts appeared here and there in the late seventeenth century , and an act of 1698 ordered justices to erect standing-posts at cross-roads ; but the act seems to have been ineffective . |