Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | television are obviously having trouble rousing experts to appear at ungodly hours to comment on the morning 's news . |
| 2 | Initial test copies of the Earth Data System , which incorporates Boulder , Colorado-based Ellery software , began shipping in October 1992 , and are running on Hewlett workstations at five US locations including universities and research centres , for example enabling researchers analysing the Pacific Northwest to look at environmental data from their desktop to help forest managers to decide where to cut and replant trees without disrupting wildlife . |
| 3 | The curriculum provides many opportunities to look at current work and organisational problems . |
| 4 | As the authors state , it is important for neonatal research to look at simple interventions such as this . |
| 5 | Kenneth Clarke , the education secretary , poured cold water on the recommendations of a working party set up by his department to look at physical education . |
| 6 | These could be controlled by the driver , on either side , enabling the cars to load at central islands , as envisaged on the Lytham Road route before it was conventionally relaid in 1936 . |
| 7 | Last month 's issue featured my visit to East Lambrook Manor to look at true geraniums , or cranesbills . |
| 8 | NEW SPARCS TO FLY AT HOT CHIPS |
| 9 | The revaluation at a common date has helped , as has agreement in practice to arrive at comparable results . |
| 10 | But it is certainly not impossible and the attempt to arrive at agreed standards in all organizations can be helpful and educational to manager and employees alike . |
| 11 | Coen and Hickman dispense with the common practice of linking changes in NAIRU with changes in the natural unemployment rate , preferring instead to rely on demographic and other data to arrive at direct estimates of the natural rate , estimates which do not take as their reference point the behaviour of the rate of inflation . |
| 12 | The utilitarian theorists — such as L W Sumner and Joseph Fletcher — reject moral absolutes , but still rely on deductive reasoning to arrive at moral principles and are much given to abstract statements like ‘ a fetus is a human being which is not yet a person ’ . |
| 13 | That is , while it may prove difficult or impossible to devise the appropriate experiment to get at young children 's appreciation of logical necessity , they may reveal that they have a measure of understanding of logical necessity in what they say and do in everyday contexts . |
| 14 | Such a client pool could best be exploited by setting up sales within the country rather than wooing clients to bid at international level , which is currently their approach in Korea , another target area in their long-term world-wide strategy . |
| 15 | He had done well that day — almost performed miracles — having located Mrs McLaren 's Scottish relations ; persuaded a most excellent and locally well-known lady to come at short notice and be in the house to stay with her ; and had seen to it that the house itself was tidied , and cleaned ready , and supplied with food . |
| 16 | Each operating region is visited once every three months and in between , he visits other countries to look at specific projects . |
| 17 | We 've then got two areas to look at national curricular levels and general skills and abilities . |
| 18 | Outside facilitators worked with the committee to look at current staff development issues in the University and to take the first steps in producing a new strategy paper on Staff Development Policy for the University . |
| 19 | The Children 's Book Foundation will hold a conference , ‘ The Way Forward ’ , in Birmingham on 27th February to look at pre-school literacy initiatives at a possible national direction . |
| 20 | This is over and above the ability to schedule the transfer to run at given times . |
| 21 | The basis of payment was the subsidy assessment of 1334 , but although this remained in use for the following two centuries , the variations in the extent to which relief was granted in the fifteenth century to communities which had declined in size and wealth since that date suggest that a genuine effort was made to judge their capacity to pay at particular times . |
| 22 | Encourage engineers to speak at public meetings , discussions , seminars and conferences to promote public awareness of risk issues . |
| 23 | The technique was made possible by the use of the scanning tunnelling microscope which allows researchers to look at individual atoms on a surface . |
| 24 | I hope that these factors , together with custodianship and more willingness to look at open adoption by the judiciary as well as by social workers , will diminish the number of occasions when adoptive placements have to be made against the wishes of the natural parents , and/or children . |
| 25 | This session also provides an opportunity to look at cultural bias and racism in materials . |
| 26 | The governing body will almost certainly need to set up sub-committees or working groups to look at different aspects of the school 's development . |
| 27 | Captain Edward Tupper made attempts to organise at various fishing ports from April 1910 , and claimed a fishing membership of 5,000 for the NSFU in 1919 which appears not to have survived the post-war depression . |
| 28 | I think that er one of the things that we had to examine at national level er and this was done erm after I became a full time officer , erm there 'd usually be a procedure in the national agreement er whereby first of all if we registered failure to agree at domestic level , erm with the management , the next stage was to draw in the district secretary . |
| 29 | Market gardeners often use artificial light and dark cloths to adjust the length of the night and so persuade plants to flower at unnatural times of the year . |
| 30 | However , Lindstedt cautions that such visual behaviour as peering closely at the work being undertaken by no means offers a complete solution to the problems arising from the need to work at close range . |