Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] [noun pl] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the things that those of us who were involved in local government campaigns were trying to do was to achieve some measure of redistribution in favour of all those lesbians and gays who do not belong to the charmed circles of The Swimming Pool Library — people who have no private income ; people who depend on their jobs and would welcome job security ; people who want council tenancies free of harassment , with friends and lovers of their choice ; people who want to meet others at venues which have disabled access , which are not commercially exploitative and which are run for the benefit of the community ; people who want to display affection or consensual desire publicly without fear of violence or arrest ; people who want to bring up children without intimidation from the courts or social workers ; people who have survived the indoctrination of the education system but do not want to see the next generation of lesbians and gays subjected to the same process ; people who wanted themselves and their lifestyles to be treated with respect by the health services . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't know why they bother to have gates at this school , ’ remarked Mildred , as another three pupils soared over the wall on their brooms . |
| 3 | Have we thought about whether we want to have kids at all ? |
| 4 | I sometimes want to throw things at them . |
| 5 | It 's a nice thing to know if you ever get tense , er decide that this is it , I 'll throw things Er well I do when I want to throw things at the kitchen and go away and you use aromatherapy . |
| 6 | Regions devoid of neutral gas are vital for astronomers who hope to observe stars at extreme ultraviolet wavelengths . |
| 7 | ARTS centre staff are celebrating after hearing they will receive a £40,000 boost to improve facilities at their home in a former church . |
| 8 | The new promoters hope to make prototypes at $299,000 each and after attracting enough investors , to produce up to 3,000 cars a year costing $50,000 each . |
| 9 | United lost the match in Wales , so chance to make amends at Edgar Street . |
| 10 | ORBITEL TO LAUNCH PRODUCTS AT CEBIT ‘ 93 |
| 11 | You usually like to keep things at the status quo , but today you could be willing to make a few changes . |
| 12 | Remember to take turns at the back and the front . |
| 13 | We try to see parents at least once every half-term to discuss children 's progress . |
| 14 | For example , I have not concentrated much on the work of Steven Jones and related experiments that claim to see neutrons at levels near to background ; if real , they are of interest to science but have nothing to offer as such solutions to the world 's energy problems , at least not in the grandiose form claimed on behalf of Fleischmann and Pons . |
| 15 | By early 1949 the outlook was improving , yet there was a lack of will on the part of both industry and government to plan for there turn to free markets at home and abroad . |
| 16 | When deciding on height/depth ratios , try to make treads at least 300mm ( 12″ ) deep , which is comfortable for all but the largest of feet ( unless you 're unlucky enough to take size 16s ! ) . |
| 17 | If you intend to insert subtitles at a later editing stage ( rather than superimposing them live at the time of shooting ) , you will need to reserve space for these on the tape by shooting overlength material which can subsequently be erased and over-recorded by the insert . |
| 18 | I love to paint carriages at night in the rain . |
| 19 | I love to paint carriages at night in the rain . |
| 20 | One must take account of the inefficiencies such as the fact that many muons fail to initiate fusions at all , they are produced in an accelerator that has to be kept running and only a fraction of the power input ends up in beams of muons and energy is expended in the motion of the neutrons and alpha particles produced in the fusion reactions . |
| 21 | Given their ( rational ) expectations , firms agree to set prices at P in periods 1 and 2 and therefore expect to produce a level of output in both periods equal to y n . |
| 22 | Imagine an economy in which firms , for whatever reason , agree to fix prices at the end of period t to cover period t + 1 and t + 2 and not to alter these prices in either period t + 1 or t + 2 if circumstances differ from those expected at the close of period t . |
| 23 | For example , The Economist ( 1987 ) noted that " banks lose money in the eurobond market because it is the most competitive capital market … compete to underwrite bonds at rates so cheap they can only be sold at a loss , often exceeding fees ( 1 ⅞%); ng … some institutions subsidise borrowers by providing money at below market rates … |
| 24 | Very often , too , when we were travelling round the farms doing repairs ( and many of these were done just before harvest to prevent hold-ups at a busy time ) the Guv'nor would tell us to leave two shillings at a certain farm , half a crown perhaps at another , and at some only a shilling : that would go towards the men 's largesse-spending . ’ |
| 25 | Rangers manager Walter Smith still believes that Marseilles have a slight edge as they have to face Rangers at home on April 7 but he said : ‘ I 'm still optimistic about what we can do in our home games . ’ |
| 26 | Aurigny serves both Cherbourg and Dinard direct from Guernsey , but Alderney residents and visitors have to change planes at Guernsey , as do Jersey travellers to Cherbourg . |