Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [to-vb] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It may be that Parliament has to look at this issue of excluding people from property when they 've got property rights , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Many relationships begin to fail at this stage , and are often allowed to do so by default because the difficulties of living through this stage of life are insufficiently understood . |
| 3 | Poland restored relations on Feb. 27 , calling the rift a mistake , apologising for an anti-Semitic purge in March 1968 and offering to restore citizenship to about 30,000 Jews forced to emigrate at that time . |
| 4 | He entered in the midst of a raging dispute about whether the endowment deserved to exist at all . |
| 5 | Indian companies tend to allocate at most two per cent of turnover to R&D as against 15 per cent by US firms . |
| 6 | ‘ … we find it unfortunate that Upjohn failed to respond at all readily to requests made by the Licensing Authority as early as 1990 , that they should carry out a new post-marketing surveillance study ’ . |
| 7 | But most cancers failed to respond at all to the largest doses which were tolerated by healthy tissues . |
| 8 | The main oil fields in production are the Bombay High off the west coast and some onshore fields in Gujerat and Assam but with consumption expected to rise at some 6% per year this aim is unlikely to be achieved without significant new discoveries . |
| 9 | They passed , apparently oblivious , intent only on their own business ; but hardly a soul in the village failed to pass at some time during that day , and not one missed a detail of what was there to be seen . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , anybody working in a pub , a cafe , a restaurant , a tea shop , a cinema , or serving food or drink of any type has to work at all those times . |
| 11 | No , ’ the brief self-mocking laugh seemed to tear at this throat , ‘ I want far more than that . |
| 12 | The USA and IBM continue to lead at all levels — in supercomputers , in mainframes , in minis , and in micros ( IBM and Apple ) . |
| 13 | In fact those two countries fail to feature at all . |
| 14 | There was always a supply of the two things Simon liked to consume at all hours , fresh fruit and very good brandy . |
| 15 | Eve refused to laugh at all . |
| 16 | A proxy which the holder intends to use at any meeting of creditors must be lodged with the official receiver not later than the time mentioned for that purpose in the notice convening the meeting or the adjourned meeting . |
| 17 | Additionally , in the case of a complete failure to perform to contract at all , the buyer will usually have the right to go elsewhere to a third party for the same goods and to charge the seller for any increase in the price paid to the third party over that payable to the seller . |
| 18 | The process has to stop at any duly authorised statement , e.g. by the Clerk of the Parliaments , or perhaps the Speaker of the House of Commons , etc. , as to what was the will of the House . |
| 19 | It is surprising that London did not industrialize and that the population continued to grow at such a rate . |
| 20 | These ‘ eclectic ’ economists prefer to look at each element of the debate and assess it as dispassionately as possible in the light |
| 21 | A bout of sickness and diarrhoea exacerbated the problem intensely to the point of Darren refusing to eat at all and becoming extremely weak and debilitated . |
| 22 | Rottweilers seem to excel at this work . |
| 23 | Cud play to win at all times and no mistake . |
| 24 | Cud play to win at all times and no mistake . |
| 25 | The anxieties of some UK companies over the reluctance of UK banks to participate at this stage were assuaged with the early November announcement of a meduium-term facility worth about £700 million ( $190 million ) to be extended to Kuwait by the UK government . |
| 26 | Some tracks are littered with hundreds of carcasses signifying an immense extension of the famine if the remaining livestock continues to die at this rate . |
| 27 | But all managers have to negotiate at some time so it pays to learn about handling the process well . |
| 28 | ‘ Businesses have to look at all their costs during a recession , ’ says David Grayson , BITC 's managing director of operations . |
| 29 | Moving from the broad elements of communication to the particular , I have for the purposes of this assignment chosen to look at some applications of communication relevant to the practice of public relations . |
| 30 | The argument outlined in Chapter 3 is that the long term interests of society are best served by a set of regulatory arrangements designed to deter at all levels the misuse of inside information . |