Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Status would allow operators to see at a glance which items of safety-related equipment were in proper working order . |
| 2 | To coach them better , to give them better opportunities , to give them better opportunities to play at a higher level , to be more competitive rather earlier in their lives . |
| 3 | the availability of opportunities to study at a broad range of levels , of course lengths and of modes ( part-time , full-time or mixed ) ; |
| 4 | In this case it can include a requirement in the order that he comply with the supervisor 's directions to attend at a specified place to participate in specified activities either with or without the child ( para 3(1) ( c ) ( 2 ) ) . |
| 5 | The first prizewinner will also receive £250 worth of vouchers to spend at a range of top high-street stores ; the 12 second prizewinners get £80 worth of vouchers . |
| 6 | The Soviet Communist Party 's ideology chief denied on Monday that the entire ruling Politburo had offered to resign or faced calls to resign at a key party meeting this month . |
| 7 | Erm , resolution that Synod appoints Jo , John as Synod clerk for a period of up to three years to commence at a date mutually convenient to him and the present Synod clerk . |
| 8 | This may be an explicit allowance for imputed interest as a deduction from revenues in periodic income calculations to arrive at a residual income figure , or there may be no deduction for required equity yields in the income calculations at all . |
| 9 | There was a short silence now in which anyone with good enough hearing to detect a pin-drop would have detected the sound of hundreds of little grey cells jostling and barging each other in frantic efforts to arrive at a perfect understanding of the day 's events . |
| 10 | This skill relies on the human ability to consider information and constraints from a variety of knowledge sources to arrive at a ’ solution ’ to the ’ problem ’ of making a plausible interpretation of some arbitrary handwriting marks on a page . |
| 11 | So , as Forster points out , AMV has the cash resources to expand at a time when many target companies are temptingly priced . |
| 12 | You have attempted to schedule LIFESPAN RDBI to run at a time in the past . |
| 13 | Its influence extends beyond its seeming limits , causing business parks and shopping centres to sprout at a distance — hence the book 's title . |
| 14 | In consultation with colleges in 1989 , we planned the changeover to the new system over three years and three batches , providing , we hoped , a timetable which was not too rushed but which at the same time allowed centres to progress at a pace which met their candidates ' needs . |
| 15 | They had gone all over the place ; peeking into the Oval Office ( but the little rope was across , Hakim said ) ; stopping on the stairs to look at a picture called The Canine Cabinet , in which North pointed out a drowsing member and said it was Casey ; and into the Roosevelt Room , where North showed the young Iranian the Nobel Prize won by Theodore Roosevelt for negotiating peace between the Russians and the Japanese . |
| 16 | It meant , through IT , that quickly improved drafts could provide alternative ways to arrive at a near-excellent final version of what was being said . |
| 17 | Critically discuss the apparent inability of academics to arrive at a universal set of determinant factors for the APT . |
| 18 | Please make early arrangements to pay at a council office or post office ’ . |
| 19 | Lefevre allowed the carriage to travel a hundred yards before giving orders to follow at a safe distance . |
| 20 | The initial attempts to arrive at a theoretical representation of the dimensions of a linear chain , treated the molecule as a number n of chain elements , joined by bonds of length l . |
| 21 | RUSSIA teetered on the brink of anarchy last night as President Boris Yeltsin virtually declared war on a conservative legislature that had bluntly rejected his attempts to arrive at a power-sharing agreement . |
| 22 | The offender arranged for the two girls to swim at a local swimming pool where he was employed as a cleaner after it had closed . |
| 23 | There has recently been a sharp rise of interest in artificial intelligence — very broadly the attempt to write computer programs to work at a human level of intelligence and performance in such tasks as identifying and recognising objects in cluttered environments , understanding ordinary human languages such as English , or diagnosing what is wrong in cases of human illness or machine failure . |
| 24 | In gases , there is plenty of space for particles to spread at a rapid rate . |
| 25 | As I pulled through 15 feet of brittle biscuit flakes to get at a wickedly inaccessible peg , my sack kept jamming in the bottle-walled groove . |
| 26 | To force together two protons that are initially far apart , for example those in two separate hydrogen atoms , is like trying to encourage the two north poles of a pair of magnets to join at a distance of less than a billionth of a millimetre . |
| 27 | There is provision for Member States to pay at a level above the stated maximum in order ‘ to improve or maintain the natural landscape ’ but such increased payments will not be eligible for EEC refund so are very unlikely to be implemented . |
| 28 | To allow pupils to progress at a pace suited to their own particular aptitudes , they are taught French in sets based on their ability in the subject . |
| 29 | The drama itself also benefits from this approach : writing in role slows the drama down in a very productive fashion , encouraging children to look at a particular situation in much greater depth than they would otherwise . |
| 30 | There is a general tendency , Marx claimed , for wages to stick at a general exploitative level , except when some skills are temporarily scarce . |