Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [to-vb] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many relationships begin to fail at this stage , and are often allowed to do so by default because the difficulties of living through this stage of life are insufficiently understood . |
| 2 | Poland restored relations on Feb. 27 , calling the rift a mistake , apologising for an anti-Semitic purge in March 1968 and offering to restore citizenship to about 30,000 Jews forced to emigrate at that time . |
| 3 | Indian companies tend to allocate at most two per cent of turnover to R&D as against 15 per cent by US firms . |
| 4 | But most cancers failed to respond at all to the largest doses which were tolerated by healthy tissues . |
| 5 | In fact those two countries fail to feature at all . |
| 6 | These ‘ eclectic ’ economists prefer to look at each element of the debate and assess it as dispassionately as possible in the light |
| 7 | Rottweilers seem to excel at this work . |
| 8 | But all managers have to negotiate at some time so it pays to learn about handling the process well . |
| 9 | ‘ Businesses have to look at all their costs during a recession , ’ says David Grayson , BITC 's managing director of operations . |
| 10 | The argument outlined in Chapter 3 is that the long term interests of society are best served by a set of regulatory arrangements designed to deter at all levels the misuse of inside information . |
| 11 | Less than 4.25 per cent of Trust members seem to vote at all . |
| 12 | On 7 July 1575 Sir John Forster , the Warden of the English Middle March , took offence at an insult offered him by his opposite number , supporters of the two men began to jeer at each other , and a skirmish ensued in which several men were killed and Sir John and his son-in-law Lord Francis Russell were carried off as prisoners . |
| 13 | Although the amount NoS had to raise at this point was small compared with what was to come later , those involved say that in many ways it was harder work . |
| 14 | The air raids failing to materialise at that time , 152 of these were transferred to the Orchard London County Council Hospital in Dartford . |
| 15 | His subsequent letters to her reveal a side of his personality that Victorian biographers preferred to suppress At this point it seems that Wolfgang was interested in matters more scatological than sexual ; his humour is of the smutty adolescent variety that was evidently taken for granted in Salzburg middle class society . |