Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she was relieved to see Patrick thrive at last now that Maggie had been weaned off gin , and when Rosa 's sixth baby arrived she helped with it , gaining experience for when her own time came . |
| 2 | However , it has long been argued whether , for countries wishing to moderate population growth through fertility reduction , it is more efficient to invest the available meagre resources in primary health care programmes that , through reducing infant and child mortality , may have a secondary effect on fertility or , to promote policies aimed at healthful childbearing patterns that will reduce fertility and also have an indirect beneficial impact on maternal and child health . |
| 3 | He looked up to see Merymose grinning at him . |
| 4 | An agreement to increase contacts aimed at resolving the financial dispute between Iran and France [ see p. 37929 ] was confirmed on Sept. 27 following a meeting in New York between Vellayati and his French counterpart , Roland Dumas . |
| 5 | If managerial functions are to be carried out both efficiently and effectively , then it is a prerequisite that high quality information is available to inform decision making at the various managerial levels . |
| 6 | The sections which follow will examine the way in which high quality information can be gathered and used to inform decision making at the school level . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , without the sense of a common interest , it is clear that democracy itself is at risk , whether from a privileged minority determined to obstruct policies aimed at helping the poor majority , or , as in Northern Ireland , from the forcible incorporation into the state of a minority who do not accept the legitimacy of that state and who are then systematically excluded from power and influence . |
| 8 | Some time later I heard a chink of glass and looked up to find Dennis sitting at a nearby table with a half-empty bottle of chilled rosé . |
| 9 | First , despite a brave attempt to encourage candidates to stand at last week 's annual general meeting , the council remains grossly under-represented . |
| 10 | She turned to find Piers staring at her , and she suddenly said , ‘ Penny for them . ’ |
| 11 | Isabel started to shake , fear for Edmund maintaining its clutch on her mind , and an increasingly urgent desire to trust fitzAlan tearing at her heart . |
| 12 | The JMU will take a dim view of any practice in which it discovers repeat breaches or a failure to meet undertakings given at an earlier inspection , regardless of whether or not these were the subject of subsequent correspondence with the Institute ( the fact that they were raised and documented at the closing meeting with the Inspector is a sufficient record ) . |
| 13 | It is hard to find things to say at times like these and , ‘ Do n't know what 's wrong with me today . |
| 14 | He turned shortly to discover Willie staring at him . |
| 15 | In addition , there was one passenger on board , a ground service engineer who was to supervise ground handling at transit stops . |
| 16 | If the object is to encourage mothers to stay at home , the use of child benefits would have been a superior policy . |
| 17 | In a report to the 15th conference of the Kosovo LC on Nov. 9 , 1989 , Rahman Morina , its president , said that the struggle in Kosovo had taken a new turn and accused people of trying to encourage processes aimed at destroying Yugoslavia and at changing its federal system . |
| 18 | These days pay negotiators in the West have one eye always on the retail price index — they broadly aim to secure wage increases at least equal to the rate of inflation . |
| 19 | Scandals like these have prompted other firms to provide services aimed at protecting their performers . |
| 20 | Transport operators and local authorities are beginning to establish schemes aimed at countering both crime and fear of crime . |
| 21 | It is of no consequence once it is accepted that the God to serve humanity originated at the moment that life first became manifest , and combined with the material of the universe to start the long process of producing living creatures with the capacity to enjoy life and all that that involves . |
| 22 | She came to visit Streatlam to look at the horses and I thought what a very handsome woman she was . |
| 23 | It pays not to overfeed adult ferrets at times when they are not working or they become fat and lazy . |
| 24 | The number of operators available to answer emergency calls at any one time will be reduced from 2,000 out of a trained total of 8,000 , to just 150 . |
| 25 | New guidance from the Standing Conference on Drug Abuse , Alcohol Concern and the Local Government Drugs Forum with input from other specialists and the DoH , aims to help authorities look at the most effective and useful ways of assessing the needs of alcohol and drug misusers and managing their care . |
| 26 | At an extraordinary general meeting last Thursday , Spectrum 's shareholders agreed to form a consortium , Harmony Investments , which has pledged to inject at least £600,000 into the station to cover debts estimated at £450,000 . |
| 27 | The taxman ought to require companies to reveal at the end of each tax year how much each company car insured for private use has cost them in depreciation , insurance , servicing and fuel . |
| 28 | In origin a feudal revenue , this was the right of the King to buy household supplies at less than their market price . |
| 29 | A flurry of tissue paper used by the market traders to wrap oranges rustled at her feet . |
| 30 | These exercises have met with acclaim worldwide for their ability to help villagers look at their lives critically and constructively with minimal input from the workshop leader . |