Example sentences of "[vb infin] [to-vb] [noun pl] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dear Mrs Woodward … she was a neighbour who did n't really need to send presents at all but she liked the girls and had n't any children of her own . |
| 2 | Account executives must have a head for figures and a feeling for spending the client 's money wisely because they may need to explain costs at any moment . |
| 3 | Why is it unlikely that industrialists will choose to build factories at these places ? |
| 4 | ‘ People will want to do things in different ways , they will want to run trains at different times , they will want to act competitively , they may want to run a bus service at the end of the train service so they may not be too interested in timetabling together . ’ |
| 5 | But , in order to maintain the services to our members , unions will probably still have to increase rates at an annual basis . |
| 6 | Although technology can not realistically take a back seat , we will try to tackle concepts at a simple level . |
| 7 | You ought to be strong enough by then to cope with the journey , and I can try to organise things at the hospital so that my assistants can cope . ’ |
| 8 | The only problem there , though , since she would have to let Personnel at Vasey 's know where she had moved to , was that her employer would have no trouble in finding her at her new address either ! |
| 9 | What do you have to put stones at the bottom for ? |
| 10 | We parted at Paddington , and assured them that they would have to change trains at Oxford . |
| 11 | She occupied herself with studying a map on the opposite wall because she knew she would have to change trains at some point . |
| 12 | Although the line will remain open , people will have to change trains at Thornaby . |
| 13 | Under the new arrangements each house would have to offer bills at a price which the Bank hoped would reflect the degree of difficulty it was in . |
| 14 | But one of the most significant developments in inter-union relations was the ‘ Bridlington Agreement ’ passed at the TUC Congress in 1939 , which laid down that no union should attempt to organize workers at any industrial establishment where another union was already represented and negotiated on behalf of the majority of the workers . |
| 15 | If you pop an empty plastic bottle with the top screwed on into the tub , she will try to take swipes at it and watch it bob about . |
| 16 | She would have to make enquiries at once . |
| 17 | But during our conversation even he was forced to concede that besides being unable to entertain he would also have to follow events at Hove and Edgbaston over the next few days through newspapers and television . |
| 18 | Shortly afterwards , on July 31 , the central bank introduced a two-tier dinar/US dollar exchange rate according to which ( i ) the government would continue to provide dollars at an existing fixed rate for a specified list of imports ; and ( ii ) a separate free market exchange rate would prevail for commercial banks meeting their legitimate foreign currency needs . |
| 19 | Be careful that you do not continue to reject fields at the same time as getting lower and lower until it is too late either to have any selection or to achieve a good approach . |
| 20 | We can continue to gain services at a price that leads to the exploitation of some fellow citizens , whether they work in the private sector , such as in hotels , or in the public sector , as in the health services . |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't want to make decisions at present . |
| 22 | Material not designed for the classroom may well be too long for a normal lesson period , so you will want to note points at which you could come in and out of the programme . |
| 23 | THERE IS a place in the leafy Avenue Matignon , just off the Champs-Elysées , where children and grown-ups can learn to use computers at their ease . |