Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [to-vb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only after knowing what our target is can we go on and set a transfer price that encourages each division to operate at the required volume . |
| 2 | Four former South African police officers were sought by the Namibian authorities to testify at the trial , but had refused to come forward , despite being offered immunity from prosecution . |
| 3 | Leave five minutes before each interview to look at the candidate 's application form/letter , and any particular questions noted down while first reading it . |
| 4 | The Institute 's Education & Training Directorate and the General Practitioner Board have been watching the falling numbers of students training in small firms with deep concern and both have set up working parties to look at the problems . |
| 5 | They were but it , well it was an event , a big event in , in the , among the younger people anyway in Brooks in Willenhall then and er it was really lovely , really lovely I forget if we had to pay to go in , but er we had er we saved up for a good few weeks before , so that we would have some money to spend at the Wakes it was one of the an event of the year then , but erm I used to like Willenhall Wakes and er I used to go dancing a lot well I was allowed to go dancing cos I 've always loved singing and dancing you see and er I was allowed but I had to be home before my father got home , but I was n't always . |
| 6 | After 1986 , therefore , interest in EMU revived and in 1988 the Hanover summit set up another committee to look at the idea . |
| 7 | He wiped the sweat from his forehead , willing Graham to appear at the window . |
| 8 | Although the two never met , they both forged a figurative style out of the Abstract Expressionism raging all about them — not the most popular move to make at the time . |
| 9 | ‘ If it 's so easy for Rain Morgan of the Daily Post to get at the truth , it 's a secret which ca n't be kept . ’ |
| 10 | It does not take a well-qualified anthropologist to guess at the impact on self-esteem , relationships , and family lifestyles . |
| 11 | The ordinary canons of construction require this court to look at the words of the section and to give them their plain and natural meaning . |
| 12 | These situations may be characterised not by the actual risk felt in the situation but by the potential for risky situations to occur at the junction . |
| 13 | On the one hand , the local situation and knowledge about it encouraged some people to retire at the same time as they were made redundant . |
| 14 | Then you came into this library to look at the books , spending perhaps twenty minutes here . |
| 15 | H3 is hard to study under trial conditions since any school agreeing to help with trials is making some commitment to look at the materials beyond the norm . |
| 16 | There must surely be more acceptable ways to protest at the Turkish occupation of that part of the island . |
| 17 | It simply would not be tolerated for the old style to continue at the expense of progress . ’ |
| 18 | He had always been a socialist and a pacifist , a brave position for a man in public life to adopt at the time , and he and his colleagues paid a heavy price for his principles when in 1940 the BBC banned the Glasgow Orpheus Choir from the air waves . |
| 19 | Moving the game to a new playing field is a great idea , but you need not only another team to play against , but some spectators to pay at the gate . |
| 20 | Moving the game to a new playing field is a great idea , but you need not only another team to play against , but some spectators to pay at the gate . |
| 21 | I picked out a selection , deciding on even numbers only because it seemed like a sensible thing to do at the time . |
| 22 | It was the taste of Spring at climax , of an afternoon in which , at the touch of the rising breeze , cherry-blossom floated from the boughs in a frail pink torrent of petals that drifted through the shimmering heat-haze to cling at the sweat on one 's skin . |
| 23 | ‘ Another thing to remember at the interview , ’ said Sukey pointedly , ‘ is to let Perdita do the talking . |
| 24 | A game of darts at the local pub ; just as much a favourite way to relax at the end of the day 50 years ago , as it is now . |
| 25 | I remember Christmas Eve 1930 , when we went as we always did on that day to the High Street to look at the lighted shops , seeing a little girl in a tattered dress and with bare feet , her nose pressed at the toy-shop window . |
| 26 | In the interval there would be pressure on Scottish MPs to abstain at the second vote on the ground that their constituents were not affected . |
| 27 | Mr Whitty told delegates the NEC had given them ‘ adequate time to look at the reviews ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ It was felt it was in the public interest to look at the company which was already insolvent , ’ said a DTI spokeswoman . |
| 29 | Mr Hogg summoned the Iranian charge d'affaires , Gholamreza Ansari , to the Foreign Office to protest at the continuing death sentence or ‘ fatwa ’ against Mr Rushdie . |
| 30 | It is interesting in this context to look at the large ( 2 MW ) windmill built largely by students at a college complex in Tvind , Denmark . |