Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] [to-vb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So if you 're going to plan ahead , now , which I think is the only thing you can do in the circumstances … what I suggest is a with-profits endowment policy linked to a seven-year maturity date with yearly incrementals — optional , if you like , or you can build them in , it depends how optimistic you are about your career , ha ha — leaving a little bit of the schools fees to pay at the time , but there will be a big chunk taken out , that 's for sure … and do it off monthly standing orders of around … let's say … five hundred a month ? |
| 2 | Its influence extends beyond its seeming limits , causing business parks and shopping centres to sprout at a distance — hence the book 's title . |
| 3 | This may be an explicit allowance for imputed interest as a deduction from revenues in periodic income calculations to arrive at a residual income figure , or there may be no deduction for required equity yields in the income calculations at all . |
| 4 | So , as Forster points out , AMV has the cash resources to expand at a time when many target companies are temptingly priced . |
| 5 | The 1973 Act provided for community councils to operate at a similar ‘ grass-roots ’ level , and in so doing introduced a new concept into British local government — a statutory body without statutory functions . |
| 6 | A mob of young Catholics was waiting at Cromac Square , armed with a good supply of bricks and metal objects to hurl at the marchers . |
| 7 | One of the main problems of timber-framed is the tendency of oak posts to rot at the bottom . |
| 8 | This skill relies on the human ability to consider information and constraints from a variety of knowledge sources to arrive at a ’ solution ’ to the ’ problem ’ of making a plausible interpretation of some arbitrary handwriting marks on a page . |
| 9 | As I pulled through 15 feet of brittle biscuit flakes to get at a wickedly inaccessible peg , my sack kept jamming in the bottle-walled groove . |
| 10 | These low paid workers will then generate increased profits for the Bank in order that the Executives can get more Share Options to cash at the most appropriate time when the Share Prices are rising and the tax is least . |
| 11 | The BA has organised a meeting of trade representatives to look at the wording of the Legalities of Price Marking documentation to ensure that the advice it passed to members in September 1989 , which was approved by trading standards officers at that time , still covers all eventualities . |
| 12 | There has recently been a sharp rise of interest in artificial intelligence — very broadly the attempt to write computer programs to work at a human level of intelligence and performance in such tasks as identifying and recognising objects in cluttered environments , understanding ordinary human languages such as English , or diagnosing what is wrong in cases of human illness or machine failure . |
| 13 | A more fundamental design fault is the positioning of our noses above our mouths , which requires our food and air passages to meet at the back of the throat , an arrangement which exists because the nostril in fish is not a breathing passage , but an opening to a chemical sense organ . |
| 14 | dir : The huge project in the United States which randomised people to different health insurance schemes to look at the consequences , including the impact on their health . |
| 15 | But before the meeting could commence a group of young demonstrators attempted to break through the police lines to get at the counter-demonstrators , who were jeering , shouting slogans and singing party songs . |
| 16 | There is provision for Member States to pay at a level above the stated maximum in order ‘ to improve or maintain the natural landscape ’ but such increased payments will not be eligible for EEC refund so are very unlikely to be implemented . |
| 17 | Positivism particularly favours the indeterminate sentence : it is premature to decide at the time of sentence how long the offender should be detained for , since this may depend on how quickly the treatment works ; ideally therefore the release decision should be left in the hands of treatment experts to take at a later date . |
| 18 | You have attempted to schedule LIFESPAN RDBI to run at a time in the past . |
| 19 | If we think of linguistic analysis as usually being linked to the sentence as the maximum unit of grammar , then the study of discourse attempts to look at the larger contexts in which sentences occur . |