Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [noun pl] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The eighteenth-century administration sought to protect those whom the intendant of Burgos called the ‘ wretched slaves ’ of the landlords : there were proposals to freeze rents at the 1770 level , to set up arbitration boards of peasants and landlords . |
| 2 | Eight of the bombers broke through the defences to launch torpedoes at the ‘ Ark ’ and at the battlecruiser ‘ Renown ’ , but without obtaining hits . |
| 3 | The decision by the Swedish authorities to restart operations at the plant , which had been closed down in September because of a flaw in the emergency cooling system [ see ED 63 ] , has been strongly criticized in Denmark . |
| 4 | ‘ The world itself is God 's greatest miracle ’ , he wrote , defending God 's freedom to work miracles at the cost of dissolving the idea of a nature which is subject to its own laws in the freedom of the divine will . |
| 5 | Thus the development of the mix to meet conditions at a particular point or period in time is essentially a contingency approach to marketing management . |
| 6 | This is in fact more important from the company management point of view than the notion of building up funds to replace assets at a given date . |
| 7 | This is in fact more important from the company management point of view than the notion of building up funds to replace assets at a given date . |
| 8 | Labour leaders were strongly criticised for embracing an ‘ unprincipled ’ U-turn away from unilateralism in an attempt to win votes at the next election . |
| 9 | TAURUS You are going to have to put your mind to solve problems at the moment . |
| 10 | We were told what to do and then left , as the instructor went to the other end of the loch to shout instructions at a few stranded boats . |
| 11 | THE Government was under pressure last night to re-enter negotiations over the ambulance dispute as unions stripped away all but three elements of their pay and conditions claim in an attempt to force talks at the conciliation service , Acas . |
| 12 | In addition to the afternoon 's official programme , there were several extra events , all raising funds to improve facilities at the centre . |
| 13 | Initially , used the effect to entertain children at the Leukaemia unit in St Bartholomew 's hospital , but when he found that scientists also were taking interest , he founded the Magic Penny Society , partly because he sees the new pennies as an excellent educational toy to excite children 's interest in science . |
| 14 | In forty one , Charlotte and Emily travelled to Brussels to become pupils at the Mes en des occasion pour les jeune desmoiselles Er , Charlotte fell in love with the principal , but he did n't reciprocate . |
| 15 | There have been a number of attempts to define languages at the assembler level which would be portable from one computer to another ; the compatible computer ranges of the previous section are , of course , one such attempt . |
| 16 | CROWDS lined the streets of Wrexham to cheer riders at the start of yesterday 's 120 mile Milk Race leg to Rotherham . |
| 17 | Yesterday 's mass picket had been fuelled by last week 's decision at the Court of Session to allow meetings at the gates , and by the wave of support for the sacked workers at a rally in Dundee on Saturday . |
| 18 | Hewlett-Packard executives , however , confirmed that they did not regard the plan to introduce servers at the 20 regional branch offices as a ‘ funded project ’ and Hungarian Minister for Labour Gyula Kiss made no reference to the programme in a detailed briefing on Hungarian employment policy delivered to the foreign pass contingent last week . |
| 19 | However , in the face of market expectations , the Bank took advantage of a money market shortage on 5 March to buy bills at a rate of discount of 11.75 per cent , 0.5 per cent higher than the previous day 's dealings and about 1 per cent above what markets were anticipating . |
| 20 | He may simply be an entrepreneur who perceives the opportunity to buy resources at a total cost lower than the revenue he can obtain from the sale of output . |
| 21 | In December 1989 the then Foreign Minister , Oskar Fischer , expressed his government 's desire to establish relations at a meeting with the chair of the Berlin Jewish community . |
| 22 | US State Department experts on Latin America fear that the longer the military resistance against the US troops continues in Panama , the more the Latin Americans are likely to be driven by their own domestic public opinion to voice protests at the US action . |
| 23 | The vilification of Arthur Scargill , the unbalanced emphasis on picket-line violence and intimidation , the failure to explain issues at the heart of the strike , the criminalization of striking miners , the unquestioned assumptions of police neutrality and the fundamental contradiction between the reality experienced by striking communities and the distorted presentation of that reality through the mass media — these were the key components of the media 's ideological policing of the strike . |
| 24 | Likewise , they expressed a desire to involve parents at the centre of decision-making . |
| 25 | Meanwhile students at the lecture got the chance to pitch questions at the minister on a range of subjects from Maastricht to the loss of his private life . |
| 26 | The National Trust 's Ryedale Centre raised more than £3,000 to aid improvements at the trust 's landmarks , Nunnington Hall , The Bridestones and Bransdale . |
| 27 | She was a clever woman with obscure sources of energy who would suddenly start to garden by torchlight late at night , or walk wilfully all the way to Soho to buy vegetables at the times when the pin in her hipbone was especially painful . |
| 28 | The " package " may also involve stock options — rights to buy shares at a specific value exercisable at a future date , the idea being that if the firm does well the shares will be worth far more than the exercise price . |
| 29 | ‘ It is an achievement to play games at the moment , as we are literally living from hand to mouth . |
| 30 | One player is chosen to call out , ‘ Horns , horns , bull 's horns , ’ and everyone taps their knees and puts their fingers to their forehead to make horns at the animal 's name . |