Example sentences of "[to-vb] at [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Figures are sketchy but all these categories combined appear to total at least 100m , or over 9% of the Chinese population — nearly 20% of the adult population . |
| 2 | The result is that first-time buyers now have to find at least 6% of the valuation to put down in advance . |
| 3 | Commenting cautiously on the present situation for the newspaper Kultura , the Chairman of the Archaeo-Geographic Commission of the Russian Academy of Sciences , Academician Sigurd Schmidt , has said that he is convinced that a library belonging to the Muscovite sovereigns does in fact exist , and that , wherever it may be located , it will be possible to find at least fragments of what is left . |
| 4 | It starts with about $380m over five years to help national authorities exchange information in areas such as taxes and export controls , says national governments would have to provide at least $6,700m over five years , it said , and wants another $7,900m or so over seven years to help all the Community 's backward regions to build up their telecommunications and computer infrastructures ; it says helpfully that loans will be available from the European Investment Bank to help with the effort . |
| 5 | ITV and Scottish Television have a contract for TV coverage , but the project needs to attract at least £15m in sponsorship and advertising of various kinds . |
| 6 | FERRANTI 'S shares return to active trading today after a three-week suspension and are expected to open at around 45p . |
| 7 | The government had to increase its grant to the Arts Council in order to replace at least part of the subsidies these county authorities had paid to support cultural activities . |
| 8 | For chunky knitting , a 90% Courtelle/10% Nylon Brushed Chunky has been introduced in five pale shades to retail at approximately £1.89 for a 100 gram ball . |
| 9 | In their 4-ply Bouncing Babes range , Spectrum have added a selection of ‘ spot dye ’ shades on 100 gram balls to retail at around £2.36 or less . |
| 10 | Cut the plastic to cover at least 75% of the tank 's base , cut one or two holes along the back for the uplift tubes to fit in tightly , either just pushed in or siliconed . |
| 11 | The Spanish government may , of course , be hoping in the long term to be able to buy at least part of this collection at favourable rates ; otherwise it must simply be gambling on the Thyssen collection being a sufficiently spectacular and alluring feather in the cultural cap of the capital over the next ten years to make its considerable investment worthwhile . |
| 12 | As I have a fairly tight budget I am looking to buy at around £6,000 to £7,500 , However , at this price the addition of VAT is a hefty extra . |
| 13 | The third sentence it 's beautiful to look at etc comment on Jemma 's version . |
| 14 | The local authority has adopted a computerised system to look at where savings can be made . |
| 15 | I propose , then , to look at how sex differences in language reflect , or are said to reflect , the natures or roles or statuses of women and men . |
| 16 | Now is the best time to look at how Britain should conduct its industry when the economy recovers . |
| 17 | This is relevant when you come to look at how cholesterol is transported around the body . |
| 18 | Armed with this knowledge , they were able to look at how maternity care was offered in their own hospital , and adapt it . |
| 19 | And in fact , if we look at even more , I mean where I work is a Family Centre in Berinsfield erm and I interviewed erm some of the carers of young children , and most of the women I interviewed had , in fact , been subjected to marital violence by their male partners and in many ways this had been triggered off by arguments over who should take care of the children and over the woman not being in her place , so although it 's important to maybe look at the macro level , I really think we have to look at how men and women behave towards one another , particularly where child care is concerned . |
| 20 | It may be useful , first , to look at how schools are judged , in practice , by various interested parties , starting with parents . |
| 21 | Oh it 's nice to look at though Ray . |
| 22 | Jay had taken up situationist sculpture , and eased herself half upright to look at yesterday evening 's achievement . |
| 23 | Conversely , IDC forecasts that the world market is set to grow at about 20% per year between now and 1996 , by which time it will be worth $58,600m . |
| 24 | When you buy your spur , also buy bolts sufficiently long to pass through both spur and post to leave at least 25mm ( 1in ) protruding . |
| 25 | You will also need to use at least part of this milk with your cereal breakfasts . |
| 26 | You may prefer to pay more for a course geared specifically to the needs of health visitors rather than something more general , and may be able to recoup at least part of the costs of attending a course from your local continuing education budget . |
| 27 | The market is now expecting pre-tax profits to emerge at about £70m this year , a far cry from the £138m taxable profits reported in 1988 . |
| 28 | Investors can take out a combination Pep , allowing them to choose the balance they want between the two plans , though they have to put at least £500 in each one . |
| 29 | If we wish to know why hysteria is now so rare and why modern forms of psychopathology in general seem so often removed from their classical , nineteenth and early twentieth-century manifestations , we may now be in a position to give at least part of the answer . |
| 30 | But from the very fact that a religious authority who was comparable with the Pope , and for whose position no precedent seems to have existed in the Ottoman state except , perhaps , in its earliest , almost legendary days , appears on the scene relatively suddenly in the time of Murad II , it seems possible to deduce at least part of the reason for the foundation of the institution . |