Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have absolutely no plans to retire at any time . ’ |
| 2 | When he announced he would retire from the game at the end of Biarritz 's run in the Championship it was the signal for scores of journalists to gather at each match to report on his ‘ funeral ’ … but we kept postponing it ’ . |
| 3 | First , despite a brave attempt to encourage candidates to stand at last week 's annual general meeting , the council remains grossly under-represented . |
| 4 | The curriculum provides many opportunities to look at current work and organisational problems . |
| 5 | Langton could also play snooker despite his disability , and negotiated 35 steps to play at one club , Preston Crown Court heard . |
| 6 | The readiness of Scots to migrate at this period has prompted suggestions that there were forces inherent in Scottish society which encouraged high levels of mobility and a propensity to migrate , but this has yet to be shown . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Use a variety and put it in more than one spot , if you have space , to allow more birds to feed at one time . |
| 9 | Phoned all day , he said , you 'd better get the engineers to look at that telephone of yours . |
| 10 | We 've then got two areas to look at national curricular levels and general skills and abilities . |
| 11 | It holds ‘ blitz ’ evenings where couples have under five minutes to look at each other before fixing up dates . |
| 12 | For groups to function at this level , opportunity has to be given for full social contact between members , and the emphasis has to be placed not on activity , but on group interaction . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The inflation rate has fallen to its lowest in twenty-five years to stand at one point seven per cent . |
| 15 | He felt he should be watching the road from behind the curtains , waiting for the badmen to arrive at High Noon , while in the background a voice intoned ‘ Do not forsake me , o my darling ’ . |
| 16 | We have , therefore , two possibilities to offer at this stage of our thinking : a simultaneous approach offering a mixture of BSL and English presented concurrently by teacher and pupil , or a bilingual approach where both BSL and English are accepted and used as separate languages . |
| 17 | This device should more accurately be described as a freewheel , the intent of which is to allow the blades to rotate at high speed while the motor is idling or stopped . |
| 18 | ‘ As you can see , there are many things to consider at this point and we are doing that now ’ , said . |
| 19 | THE Irish selectors , obviously pleased with the performance of the Under-25 team in the Home Countries Championship in Carlisle last week-end , really have n't got their sorrows to seek at this level of competition . |
| 20 | It is up to 50 feet high , overhanging throughout and wide enough to allow 15 or more teams to operate at one time . |
| 21 | Cross-sectionally they had to show high scores for schizophrenic symptomatology on standard psychiatric ratings , and retrospective measurement of treatment resistance was carried out using case histories to look at past failure on different neuroleptic regimes . |
| 22 | For corporatist arrangements to survive at local level , at least according to Cawson , state agencies must be ‘ capable of making and delivering bargained policies , so that a potential local corporatism depends upon strong local state institutions ’ ( 1985b , p. 146 ) . |
| 23 | I have no comments to make at this stage . |
| 24 | Among innovations to appear at this juncture were such personal items as cups and tumblers , belt or girdle hooks , sword pommels and scabbard fittings like buckles and chapes , as well as bowmen 's rings . |
| 25 | Bell and his colleagues now believe these were caused by head-on fights with opponents , who appeared to lunge at each other in much the same way that present-day crocodiles do , but with more apparent gusto , using strong jaws to tear at each other 's snouts . |
| 26 | The enormous table around which the politburo was supposed to meet would have required the members to shout at each other across oak as old as their collective age . |
| 27 | Sterling+2 is supplied with DOS and Windows versions in one box , enabling users to switch at any time , free of charge , from one operating system to the other . |
| 28 | Matches to commence at 12 noon and be played until 3.10pm without a break , to be followed by a 40-minute interval and the close of the second innings by 7pm . |
| 29 | Police to look at new Gilmour murder evidence |
| 30 | There are two closely connected points to make at this stage about these Marxist accounts . |