Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] to [noun sg] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hurd , who was entertaining members of the European Parliament to lunch at the Grand , murmured something to the effect that they would all meet Margaret soon enough , that evening at Jeffrey 's great party : ‘ The three ‘ Bs ’ : Beluga , Bollinger and bullshit . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ She was proud of that piece to camera at the end , ’ murmured Terry , in his flat London accent . |
| 3 | The dorsal and anal fins of both male and female are a light burgundy to purple at the base , darkening at the outside , and they appear to be covered in small iridescent blue spots that are particularly striking under the right light . |
| 4 | At the end of March , the Crown Prince and his Chief-of-Staff , von Knobelsdorf , were still dedicated to the capture of Verdun , come what may ; equally , Falkenhayn was still true ( in his indecisive fashion ) to his aim of bleeding the French Army to death at Verdun , regardless of whether or not the city fell in the process . |
| 5 | This image may well have borne some relation to reality at one time in the first half of this century and the second half of the last , following the process of industrialization which took men out of the home to work in factories . |
| 6 | Indeed , had the populist programme been realized , the effect would not have been direct transition to socialism at all , but the more rapid development of capitalism . |
| 7 | Knowing where to fish is the real key to success at Scourie and one year Stan took Ann and me to one of his favourite lochs , close to Ben Stack . |
| 8 | Second , the EEC 's retention of its subsidy policy in culture is the chief obstacle to agreement at the GATT talks and thus to freeing the world trading system , including providing new markets for British farmers . |
| 9 | Ear-tagged lambs traceable back to source at every stage will be delivered by approved hauliers to processors , who will check them against retailers ' specifications . |
| 10 | But , of course , if you 're going to be another voice you really need to know what you 're talking about and you need to have vast access to information at least as good as all the departments who are putting forward their voices , and you need to have the time and the staff and I do n't think they always had that . |
| 11 | The LTA 's principal claim to fame at the end of 1992 will be the same as it is now — the richest tennis organisation in the world . |
| 12 | Tens also means ice creams in the sun , a drink with the lads , a bit of star-gazing and an early introduction to rugby at its best . |
| 13 | After his relatively sudden rise to fame at Edinburgh , where he claimed the Commonwealth 10,000m title in only his second race over the distance , Solly 's four-year hiatus tested optimism to the absolute limit . |
| 14 | There was a welcome boost to morale at the Sussex-based charity Friends of the Young Deaf when WCUK Maidstone marketing manager , Kim Taylor , presented a cheque for £1,000 on behalf of the George Wimpey Charitable Trust . |
| 15 | A Central News South crew has been given unprecedented access to film at the Buckinghamshire Prison . |
| 16 | ‘ My mother had taken my little brother to tennis at Winchester , ’ he said . |
| 17 | So Moore 's method can hardly allow us to attach any intrinsic value to education at all ; its value must be that of a means to other things or perhaps as an element in some larger whole of value . |
| 18 | Risk of lung cancer from lifelong exposure to radon at home . |
| 19 | There was a traditional end to construction at the Three Lamps housing development at Totterdown in Bristol when WCUK stepped back in time to top out a new home at the site . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , the Children Act 1989 purports to offer LEAs a new legal solution to non-attendance at school — the Education Supervision Order . |
| 21 | To be able to ‘ identify what their interests and ideas might be ’ is to take up a political stance to life at work . |
| 22 | HENRY WHARTON plans to take the short route to victory at Leeds Town Hall tonight when he defends his Commonwealth super-middleweight title against Australian Rod Carr , the man he beat to win it last year . |
| 23 | But a bit more attention to detail at the spraying or finishing stage would add a touch more panache . |
| 24 | The Camden-based guitar assailants play their biggest bill-topping show to date at London 's Astoria on June 19 . |
| 25 | But this may be the grandest folly yet : a totally unsympathetic character ( a man as hard to empathize with as Mick Hucknall , whose ‘ Money Too Tight to Mention ’ graces the second commercial ) in unbelievable situations , doing ridiculous things with no discernible connection to beer at all ( unless , of course , he 's drunk when he tears up the plans , gets fired , breaks back into the offices and holds the board at gunpoint while he sells their cars ) . |
| 26 | During a three-day visit to BLDSC at Boston Spa , the Thesis Declaration forms were manually scanned for records of loans of the theses . |
| 27 | Nominally he merely continued as parliamentary private secretary to Law at the Treasury . |
| 28 | And after his successful return to management at Ipswich , he guided them into the Premier League before moving ‘ upstairs ’ at Portman Road this summer . |
| 29 | For these reasons it is no exaggeration to claim that the increasing drift to training at the expense of education , in adult education as elsewhere , represents a very real threat to a democratic society . |
| 30 | If there is one drawback to life at Belle Vue Cottage , it is the lack of land around the place . |