Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 To back this up we provide subsidised nurseries and a dependent care allowance to those whose hours change at short notice .
2 SIGNS OF THE TIMES looks at generational conflict re furnishing and pictures of Jesus .
3 Hens pecked at unwanted rouble notes from piles of sacks dumped on the railway lines for no clear reason .
4 Cal-Volair did the work at both its shops located at Long Beach and Oxnard , California .
5 Boulton & Watt 's beam engines employed large cylinders operating at low steam pressures , and McNaught 's expedient consisted of the addition of a small higher-pressure cylinder acting on the other half of the beam about midway along its length , with an appropriately shorter stroke , exhausting its steam into the original low-pressure cylinder .
6 At its height , the organization claimed 90,000 national members and 250,000 additional supporters organized at local level .
7 So as the 48 assorted classic cars arrived at Scotch Corner around 3pm Steve and Graham 's Jaguar XK150 was not among them .
8 The curriculum provides many opportunities to look at current work and organisational problems .
9 In practice the particle sizes in the sediment are computed from the weights settled at specific time intervals .
10 Ambitious social workers will be pouring into Manchester later this month to explore the job opportunities provided at New Century Hall , Corporation Street .
11 History work is wider than National Curriculum History , and in many respects learning at primary level is seamless , rather than compartmentalised .
12 Police Sergeant Dick Howard , here with his second family is typical of the angry ex husbands protesting at new maintenance orders .
13 At the time of Stalin 's death , some two years before the signing of the Treaty , the USSR 's European clients maintained at Soviet behest over 1.5 million men under arms ( half again as many as today ) , supervised by thousands of Soviet ‘ advisers ’ posted down to regimental level and , particularly in Hungary and Poland , by Soviet Commanders in East European uniform .
14 Such a client pool could best be exploited by setting up sales within the country rather than wooing clients to bid at international level , which is currently their approach in Korea , another target area in their long-term world-wide strategy .
15 Despite the continued indifference of the Labour Party the Communists had made many concessions aimed at attracting support from Labour members .
16 There may still be some other warranties implied at common law in contracts of these types , both those covered by , and those outside the scope of , the SGSA .
17 Two books aimed at developing language skills through presentation and discussion of thought-provoking topics .
18 An easy cart track heads north and in five minutes arrives at Dry Laithe Cave , commonly known as Calf Holes , where a stream coming down on the right disappears in a rash of rocks and passes into a cave under the track .
19 The influence of the document on the SSD is noticeable ; there are two working groups looking at developing guidance on residential care and training and sexuality .
20 The principle of Speedlink is that train sections are exchanged at specified groups of sidings on the network , rather than individual wagons sorted at full-scale marshalling yards .
21 Then , when the predator moves in for the kill , at the very last moment the butterfly fish switch direction and dash rapidly forward , leaving the frustrated would-be killers snapping at empty water .
22 Langbaurgh Council is to take stands at Birmingham and Stavanger in Norway to help local companies exhibit at major trade fairs this year .
23 We 've then got two areas to look at national curricular levels and general skills and abilities .
24 All these men ( and presumably others with cancers detected at subsequent screening rounds ) would be exposed to the risks of radical prostatectomy , which may cause impotency in up to 42% and urethrovesical stricture in 7% .
25 So far as the latter are concerned it is evident that the movements aiming at national unification or national independence in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have arisen in circumstances very different from those which prevailed when the first nation states were created .
26 Consignments arrive at Burnt Oak every Thursday afternoon to crowds of eager bargain hunters who travel from as far as the Lake District and Newcastle .
27 KEYS SCARE AT TOP JAIL
28 The consequence is that merger bids aimed at improving performance will tend to fail .
29 Captain Edward Tupper made attempts to organise at various fishing ports from April 1910 , and claimed a fishing membership of 5,000 for the NSFU in 1919 which appears not to have survived the post-war depression .
30 She imagined him in his racing days driving at incredible speed towards some treacherous bend with just that same ice-cold look of control on his face .
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