Example sentences of "[to-vb] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | As industries continue to concentrate at the world level , the forces described in this chapter raise two possibilities . |
| 32 | Yet if the crackdown on the Press which is being demanded goes ahead , journalists would be working with both hands tied behind their backs — as opposed to the one-hand handicap they are forced to suffer at the moment . |
| 33 | Particularly when Fergie — to the astonishment and great displeasure of Buckingham Palace staff — arranged for him to dine at the Queen 's official London residence with the Iraqi oil minister . |
| 34 | ‘ He 's asked me to dine at the villa he 's looking after for a few months , just to oblige a couple of ex-pats . |
| 35 | To dine at the court of flattery ? |
| 36 | I delighted them once with a return invitation to dine at The Pightle . |
| 37 | The Contraalmirante had invited her to dine at the C-in-C 's residence . |
| 38 | All Félix 's guests who came to dine at the château paid her extravagant compliments . |
| 39 | Indeed that evening he was once again invited to dine at the Embassy . |
| 40 | Impatient to dine at the table , |
| 41 | And so , whenever I am called to dine at the palace , I always sport an old straw boater or knitted bobble hat , to exercise my hereditary privilege . |
| 42 | Working five-year-old children to death in their mines and mills and breeding their own daughters to swoon at the sight of an injured sparrow . |
| 43 | Nor did she manage to swoon at the sound of Elvis 's voice or at the mention of Big Bopper . |
| 44 | It is , however , a very special kind of autobiography , and may be compared to the accounts of their own lives which the early Methodists were expected to write at the time of their reception into the church : in such spiritual autobiographies divine visitations were singled out for special mention as evidences of God 's grace and power ; they were contrasted with laments over sinful behaviour and backsliding , and led to the culminating moment of conversion . |
| 45 | It may be difficult or impossible to establish at the date of the sale the value of the pension rights to be transferred . |
| 46 | One very important fact to establish at the outset , therefore , is that it is not necessary to know why a particular fear or problem started in order to overcome it . |
| 47 | Given the mythology surrounding Nizan 's life and work , it is essential to establish at the outset the full range and scope of Nizan 's activities in order to highlight the very real intellectual and literary qualities of the man himself . |
| 48 | It is essential to establish at the outset the correct relationship between Nizan and the communist party . |
| 49 | It is important to establish at the beginning of a drama lesson/ project whether magic is to be allowed or not . |
| 50 | it was too late to try and stop the marriage now , and it certainly had n't occurred to him to try at the time . |
| 51 | By the time morning came he was convinced he had been wide awake the whole night , though by that time he had remembered with the utmost clarity that the whole performance had taken place not in a television studio at all but in an enormous public lavatory , with Sir William and Lady Paice among the large crowd around the coffee table , and that his final humiliation was to discover at the end of the programme that he had been sitting on one of the lavatory seats throughout , with his trousers down around his ankles . |
| 52 | Classical conditioning principles suggest , what is indeed the case , that the bird will come to peck at the lit key . |
| 53 | No one was available to comment at the promoter 's office yesterday . |
| 54 | Yes there were criticism but it 's not appropriate for me to comment at the moment . |
| 55 | ‘ We need to come at the issue fresh each time , ’ says Nigel Pike of the Department of Transport 's ad agency D'Arcy Masius Benton and Bowles . |
| 56 | If the video is to end with music though , you should arrange for the last note to come at the end of the last shot . |
| 57 | On Monday 27 February Fleischmann and Pons were due to bring their working cell to Brigham Young University for the neutron spectrum to be measured , but a graduate student had to go to a funeral and so they suggested it would be better to come at the end of the week instead . |
| 58 | They function as a diversion to the eye , a focus for a view , a foretaste of grandeurs to come at the entrance to a park . |
| 59 | Well , if they 'd like to come at the fire station with their money today , barring fire calls , when we 'll be out of course , or if they see the fire engine driving round Didcot and it has n't got its blue lights on and they want to flag us down , they 're more than welcome to . |
| 60 | The only way out may simply be to mandate a shorter planning period , an alternative the Japanese have demonstrated does not have to come at the expense of quality . |