Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] at the " in BNC.

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31 I , I mean you usually start off with the boy everybody has to start at the bottom , .
32 With a relatively tiny home market , Ericsson is always short of the resources it needs to stay at the leading edge of its chosen industry , where the cost of major development projects is measured in hundreds of millions of dollars , and although it has developed its own TMOS Telecommunications Management and Operations Support software suite — which runs under Unix — it needs the muscle of a company like Hewlett-Packard to exploit the product .
33 However , Mr Lamont wants to stay at the Treasury to oversee the long-awaited economic upturn .
34 Whether Skelton needs to expand at the present moment is not for me to say .
35 The field man confronted with something which may be a ‘ problem ’ has to rely at the outset on his own personal judgment about the most appropriate action to take without waiting for sample results .
36 You can you go to church every Sunday , sing the choruses or the hymns , listen to what the man has to say or the lady has to say at the front , and it can just go over your head and it can mean nothing to you apart from something that you believe might be true .
37 The child who refuses to sit at the table or in a high chair These children may be showing specific food-related problems or the difficulty may be part of a much wider behavioural and emotional problem .
38 Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA plans to pitch at the top-end of the volume workstation business with high-performance machines built around Digital Equipment Corp 's Alpha RISC that will compete with the likes of Sun Microsystems Inc , Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM Corp — if it can figure out how to market the things .
39 Moreover , except by consent , the court can not make an order for possession against the tenant in the application ; so that if the tenant refuses to leave at the expiry date of his tenancy , the landlord will be compelled to take fresh proceedings against him .
40 Smith will return to his normal run-up the following weekend when he plans to compete at the big Belfast meeting and then for the AAA against Loughborough University .
41 Dustin Hoffman plays Bernie La Plant , a small-time hustler who happens to arrive at the scene of an air crash and against his better instincts rescues everyone and then disappears .
42 Our company is exchanging greetings with the young soldiers when suddenly a white car refuses to stop at the next checkpoint up the street — braking only slightly and seeking to swerve past the two soldiers .
43 So one turns to look at the statute that governs the practice on the criminal side , section 23 of the Criminal Appeal Act 1968 :
44 The fact is that Schubert 's Symphonies are appallingly badly served at present , with the exception of the ‘ Unfinished ’ and ‘ Great ’ , although there too my heart tends to sink at the memory of even some of the established ‘ best buys ’ .
45 It is understood he intends to retire at the end of his contract in June 1994 and had negotiated a deal with Poynton to boost his retirement proceeds .
46 THE chairman of Darlington Health Authority has announced he intends to retire at the end of March .
47 The imagined Philip ceases to exist at the time of the older critic 's death ; the real tribute to Mr Noble was Thomas 's finest book , inscribed to his memory .
48 About 700m ecus are still waiting to be collected , partly because spending tends to bunch at the end of a period and partly because Britain 's system of local-authority finance means that some councils can not use the money .
49 Mercury prepares to expand at the double
50 Compromise tends to occur at the level of implementation ’ .
51 A reduction in bone density tends to begin at the menopause .
52 This research project aims to look at the philosophical basis for the new 1980s environmentalism with special reference to economic concepts of sustainability familiar to resource and environmental economists .
53 This small-scale study aims to look at the impacts of deregulation of passenger transport in the United States and to examine the way that transport suppliers have responded to the new environment .
54 I would really love to have long hair but it never seems to grow at the back , only at the fringe !
55 The rules contain no provision about standing at the hearing stage , but the basic test of sufficient interest appears to apply at the hearing stage as well as at the leave stage .
56 The refusal is as understandable as it is naive , but seems to constitute at the same time what amounts to an abnegation of intellectual curiosity about human needs .
57 The beginning of each sentence in the middle of the poem seems to start at the end of the previous line which has the effect of making the reader almost experience the same sort of speed the train is going through .
58 The first of these can be demonstrated at several sites where a religious element appears to predominate at the core ; besides Harlow , with its ditched temenos , central precincts can also be seen at Irchester , Springhead and Wycomb , while much the same level of importance may originally have attached to the enclosure at Frilford .
59 Though most merchants say it is too early to come up with a firm idea of the trade , the initial reports on quality suggest some low nitrogens and good bushel weights , at least for the Puffin that seems to predominate at the moment .
60 This seems to strike at the very heart of many of the cases which are made against firms of accountants .
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