Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | However , it has long been argued whether , for countries wishing to moderate population growth through fertility reduction , it is more efficient to invest the available meagre resources in primary health care programmes that , through reducing infant and child mortality , may have a secondary effect on fertility or , to promote policies aimed at healthful childbearing patterns that will reduce fertility and also have an indirect beneficial impact on maternal and child health . |
3 | These could test and modify units designed at international workshops ( or by other centres ) or initiate work of their own and present it for international criticism , modification and subsequent diffusion to other countries . |
4 | Ms Richardson said that the plants at Ayr and Galway made computers aimed at different sections of the market . |
5 | This course not only develops topics encountered at Standard Grade such as rates of reaction , the mole , bonding and structure but also introduces Thermochemistry , equilibrium and radioisotopes . |
6 | Tests on products packed in market packages involve samples stored at elevated humidities as well as those stored at elevated temperatures . |
7 | The technique was made possible by the use of the scanning tunnelling microscope which allows researchers to look at individual atoms on a surface . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | Microchips also let things happen at inhuman speed . |
11 | If this is done samples stored at elevated temperatures represent a more constant degree of acceleration and render stability predictions based on them more accurate . |
12 | He 's been presenting awards aimed at encouraging safety at work , a challenge taken up in Oxfordshire 's old folks homes . |
13 | Mohamed Abbad was sentenced to 15 years ' imprisonment on charges including conspiracy to overthrow the government and possessing leaflets aimed at disturbing internal security . |
14 | The new release includes enhancements aimed at high-end multi-processing Unix systems . |
15 | Some 4,500 stand tickets priced at Fijian $15 — more than the average daily wage — sold out within two days . |
16 | Even if used sensibly , capital-budgeting procedures will tend to discourage major initiatives and indicate strategies aimed at short-term returns . |
17 | There is a clear need for a population-orientated strategy to complement and reinforce policies aimed at local and national economic restructuring , but , as is argued further in the next chapter , if such an approach is to stand a good chance of success much more attention must be given to the improvement of data sets suitable for monitoring population change at regional and urban scales and to the study of the causes and consequences of internal migration . |
18 | Foreign Minister Ali Alatas on Oct. 11 echoed criticisms levelled at Western countries by Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamed at an ASEAN meeting on Oct. 7 , over their failure to provide assistance in coping with large-scale fires under way in Indonesia for several months . |
19 | During this time affected characters run at maximum speed away from it . |
20 | That there are auxiliary impressions , Lotze points out , ‘ merely explains the possibility of distinguishing impressions made at different places ; but each impression must also be referred to the definite place at which it acts . |
21 | In the 1970s the search for a room temperature superconductor led chemists to look at one-dimensional organic conductors and semiconductors . |
22 | And soon 15 MG RV8s a week will be handbuilt on a new low volume production line at Cowley in Oxford , using bodies built at British Motor Heritage in Faringdon . |
23 | There is still evidence that the young and newly diagnosed patients remain at increased risk of death and it is among these that we must concentrate our efforts . |
24 | Encourage engineers to speak at public meetings , discussions , seminars and conferences to promote public awareness of risk issues . |
25 | A five-month strike involving tax collectors , customs officers , statisticians and government accounts officers protesting at low wages as well as at archaic and deteriorating facilities ended in November 1989 . |
26 | For the most part , however , the procedures were given a clean bill of health , with the Commissioner examining warrants drawn at random , but also examining all new warrants issued on grounds of subversion . |
27 | This makes it possible to study samples isolated at high dilution in an inert matrix of a solid such as N 2 or Ar . |
28 | In the autumn of 1915 the Government had assumed powers to requisition at fixed prices all cereal products ; in 1916 these powers were extended to sugar , milk and eggs , but only limited use was made of them . |
29 | I suggest that an outside agency such as the Commission for Racial Equality should use the method more widely , targeting hospitals selected at random . |
30 | By using examples taken at random over a period of years the following list has been assembled : |