Example sentences of "[verb] at [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He needs at all rimes to be in full possession of his faculties , or that extra , unpredictable poetic thrust would never declare itself — that heart-lifting boost that rockets mere words into the outer spaces of true poetry . |
| 2 | The use of naturally occurring sugars in milk , honey and fruit resulted in cavities occurring at different positions to those in modern teeth ( Moore and Corbett 1971 ) . |
| 3 | His uncle , sister , and brother can all be described as nationalists and although Ho seems to have been attracted at one point to the China of the 1911 Revolution , he chose instead to make his way to France where , having led an intellectually enriched but materially impoverished existence in Paris , he achieved some fame , or notoriety , among his fellow expatriates by attempting to present a list of Vietnamese grievances to Woodrow Wilson and the European statesmen who had gathered in 1919 at Versailles . |
| 4 | The implications for the children 's hearing system of section 4 of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act , 1974 , appear at first sight to be far-reaching and disastrous . |
| 5 | Other works , for example Beehives , which appear at first sight to be silk screen prints are revealed as watercolours , where bleach has created a subtle monotone effect . |
| 6 | and the head or whoever it is is committed at that time to be taking the rest of the year so they can profile . |
| 7 | Similar modifications were included at Greek request to passages on the right to conscientious objection . |
| 8 | for example , to solve any design problem there has at some stage to be a switch from systems thinking to thinking in terms of physical entities because these are the things that can be created , precisely located and manipulated in the real world . |
| 9 | When he moved at this time to larger premises at no. 5 Charing Cross , his maps were reputed the finest being engraved anywhere in the world . |
| 10 | To examine the effects of PSL , SASP , and 5-ASA on ADCC activity as well as on natural and lymphokine activated killer activity , those drugs were added at various concentrations to the cultures in all three kinds of assays already described . |
| 11 | BRITAIN 'S oil ‘ minnows ’ , many of them companies whose shares are trading at big discounts to their asset values , are hoping to grow by acquisition before they are swallowed by much bigger predators , writes George Duthie . |
| 12 | For all her encouragement to them to come at any time to her house , Rose herself was wary of calling at Great Meadow . |
| 13 | The book also examines the relationship of individual artists such as Manet , Monet and Degas as well as more ‘ traditional ’ names and the Salon , and looks at critical reception to individual works . |
| 14 | They can only be resolved at great danger to myself and so I beg you , my Lord , to order my withdrawal from this country for Satan walks here . |
| 15 | The public are thoroughly fed up with prisoners smashing up prisones , which then have to be repaired at vast expense to the taxpayer , and with attempted escapes which cause injury to dedicated prison officers . |
| 16 | Trophies will be presented at Annual Conference to the winning branch runners-up . |
| 17 | The board processes themselves often do not work , so one often hears the remark : the company policy is X , but of course I am not personally in support of this , I believe we should be doing Y. Since industrial success depends totally on getting the concentration of effort of widely differing groups of people with different skills to be applied at optimum effect to the achievement of the common goal , it is not difficult to see why such disparate messages strike at one 's heart and give one a more than usual dose of despair . |
| 18 | In Newham the picture was more complex , though not dissimilar , with the project tending at one year to be supporting people living on their own whose dementia was advanced or who for other reasons could not manage their own care , or needed some safeguarding care . |
| 19 | The road ran straight ahead , the telegraph poles passing at regular intervals to the right . . |
| 20 | In the former camp , organisations such as the Council for the Protection of Rural England vigorously protest at any threat to the Green Belt and argue that derelict , or ‘ brown ’ sites within it should be restored rather than handed over to developers . |
| 21 | Finally , subscribers will be relieved to know that this work is done at minimal cost to the Bar — all the work is done pro bono by individual members of the Bar in their own time . |
| 22 | He said that the post would be advertised , which was duly done at some cost to the public purse . |
| 23 | A Midland TESSA may be transferred at any time to any Midland branch or other Financial Institution . |
| 24 | The chunks of marc are often transferred at this stage to a séchoir- a smaller , deeper , vertical press — or to a horizontal press to be squeezed out . |
| 25 | Det Chief Insp Dave Sinclair , of Wiltshire CID , said : ‘ He could have been shot at close range to the device and staggered 20 yards away before collapsing . ’ |
| 26 | The lines joining these centres represent the directions of greatest tensile stress in the lava flow as it cools , and the hexagonal joint patterns are generated by cracks forming at right angles to these maximum stress lines . |
| 27 | The fact was that Wagnerian music drama claimed a relationship with Greek tragedy and that the new status of music drama in Nietzsche 's thoughts sufficed to activate and inform an interest he had taken in the Greek tragedians years before : witness his Pforta dissertation on the Oedipus Rex ( which , prophetically enough , actually alluded at one point to the analogy between Wagner and the Greeks ) . |
| 28 | I have written at great length to my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary . |
| 29 | Although data does not appear at first sight to be a resource of the organisation , it certainly is a resource , as data is essential for the organisation to operate effectively . |
| 30 | The plants lumped together under the umbrella name of herbs do not appear at first glance to be essential to maintain life , but it is now becoming apparent that this concept could be wrong , and that herbs are as necessary as oxygen , though the ingredients they contribute , such as minerals and vitamins , may only be found in minute quantities . |