Example sentences of "[conj] [to-vb] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I dare say someone could cross a road with the best of intentions — to help an old lady perhaps , or to look at a fruit-shop — then slip on a banana-skin and cause a perfectly horrible accident . |
| 2 | But it said that to get at the root of the problem the Government had to tackle the whole issue of deprivation . |
| 3 | well not posters , the horsewatch is a prime example where I wanted to look at setting a format in a particular way , and to sit at the side of either Alf or Tracey well now alter it to that or to that I 'm sure they 'd do it , but nevertheless it 's putting them off their work . |
| 4 | Our Lord left this earthly scene to occupy his throne and to sit at the Father 's table . |
| 5 | And to stand at the ford as long as humanly possible , denying the Northumbrians the crossing until they were forced to give way . |
| 6 | It was agreed to harmonize fiscal incentives for investors and to aim at the creation of a monetary union by 1995 . |
| 7 | She lowered her head , as if to look at the floor . |
| 8 | The project aims to develop a general set of answers to these questions , relevant to any metropolitan region , and to look at a set of current labour market issues in Greater London and the Outer Metropolitan region ( including West Kent . ) |
| 9 | However , it is time to take a more positive view , and to look at the way early organisms began to combine energy from the sun with gases in the atmosphere and in so doing enabled life as we know it to evolve . |
| 10 | I urge the Minister to comment on that and to look at the way in which capital is treated for income support purposes to ensure that such disadvantages do not continue . |
| 11 | This study aims to discover patterns of migration of labour within and between the townships of Calverley parish and to look at the role of vestry policy upon this and also upon movement into and out of the parish . |
| 12 | We aim to continue to expand the magazine , provide more opportunities to our members , continue to give exposure to the work of women artists and to lobby at every opportunity to enable equality to exist within all the professional levels of the art world today . |
| 13 | By virtue of this settled view he managed to live tolerably through the period , to risk his fate in a number of bold throws , and to emerge at the end with his dignity unimpaired and his power enhanced . |
| 14 | In the next few days nearly all Sullivans diplomatic colleagues came to offer their condolences and to marvel at the fact that no one had been killed . |
| 15 | And I would urge all intending applicants to give very serious thought to what sort of person they are , to what their real academics interests are , and to what sort of institution they want to attend , and to recognise at the outset that that can not be gleaned from any one compendium or any one adviser . |
| 16 | After travelling around the continent to a constellation of cities linked by who her father knew , it was a relief to cross the Channel alone and to arrive at a place where it was not generally such a struggle to make herself understood . |
| 17 | Mr Carey said : ‘ We submitted a bid which tried to be clear about the problems , and to arrive at a view of what is practicable , which disturbs MPs as little as possible , while giving the broadcasters what they want . |
| 18 | He had fought hard over the year of her suspension to have her case dealt with speedily , and to get at the truth behind the allegations . |
| 19 | To be the best though and to stay at the top , you need willpower . |
| 20 | At some stage it will be possible again to enjoy memories and to laugh at the fun we shared . |
| 21 | Sometimes they get blown off course by exceptionally strong winds — to thrill bird watchers by their apparent ‘ tameness ’ and exquisite plumage ; to spin on the spot in circles ; and to dab at the water surface for invertebrate food . |
| 22 | We would hope that by doing this we 'd actually mobilize the whole country to get down into London and to protest at the House of Commons against the closures in the Health Service . |
| 23 | But to attend at the Home Office itself , and at the breakfast hour , was unusual , and the Foreign Office message had lacked explanation . |
| 24 | But to look at the problem from another angle , none of us lives in an environment free from synthetic chemicals — if we did , would we still suffer from those ‘ everyday symptoms ’ such as headaches ? |
| 25 | But to start at the beginning . |
| 26 | TRACE II has no choice but to start at the beginning and work rightwards , since input directed to feature detectors automatically results in activity at the phonetic and lexical levels through the hard-wired connections . |
| 27 | A man who is so abnormal as to weep at the death of his wife is said to be behaving illogically . |
| 28 | How could he be so offensive as to stare at the chap 's disfigured face , he wondered . |
| 29 | Alternatively the retained profit could be deducted from a calculation of the profit and loss account balance carried forward so as to arrive at the profit and loss account brought forward . |
| 30 | He thought to take Mr gross salary in the present financial year , to reduce it by a third to get from gross to net earnings and to do similar calculations for the rest of the three and a half years so as to arrive at the figure of fifty three thousand nine hundred and six pounds . |