Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] at a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To coach them better , to give them better opportunities , to give them better opportunities to play at a higher level , to be more competitive rather earlier in their lives . |
| 2 | the availability of opportunities to study at a broad range of levels , of course lengths and of modes ( part-time , full-time or mixed ) ; |
| 3 | In this case it can include a requirement in the order that he comply with the supervisor 's directions to attend at a specified place to participate in specified activities either with or without the child ( para 3(1) ( c ) ( 2 ) ) . |
| 4 | The Soviet Communist Party 's ideology chief denied on Monday that the entire ruling Politburo had offered to resign or faced calls to resign at a key party meeting this month . |
| 5 | This may be an explicit allowance for imputed interest as a deduction from revenues in periodic income calculations to arrive at a residual income figure , or there may be no deduction for required equity yields in the income calculations at all . |
| 6 | There was a short silence now in which anyone with good enough hearing to detect a pin-drop would have detected the sound of hundreds of little grey cells jostling and barging each other in frantic efforts to arrive at a perfect understanding of the day 's events . |
| 7 | It meant , through IT , that quickly improved drafts could provide alternative ways to arrive at a near-excellent final version of what was being said . |
| 8 | Critically discuss the apparent inability of academics to arrive at a universal set of determinant factors for the APT . |
| 9 | Lefevre allowed the carriage to travel a hundred yards before giving orders to follow at a safe distance . |
| 10 | RUSSIA teetered on the brink of anarchy last night as President Boris Yeltsin virtually declared war on a conservative legislature that had bluntly rejected his attempts to arrive at a power-sharing agreement . |
| 11 | The initial attempts to arrive at a theoretical representation of the dimensions of a linear chain , treated the molecule as a number n of chain elements , joined by bonds of length l . |
| 12 | The offender arranged for the two girls to swim at a local swimming pool where he was employed as a cleaner after it had closed . |
| 13 | There has recently been a sharp rise of interest in artificial intelligence — very broadly the attempt to write computer programs to work at a human level of intelligence and performance in such tasks as identifying and recognising objects in cluttered environments , understanding ordinary human languages such as English , or diagnosing what is wrong in cases of human illness or machine failure . |
| 14 | In gases , there is plenty of space for particles to spread at a rapid rate . |
| 15 | The drama itself also benefits from this approach : writing in role slows the drama down in a very productive fashion , encouraging children to look at a particular situation in much greater depth than they would otherwise . |
| 16 | There is a general tendency , Marx claimed , for wages to stick at a general exploitative level , except when some skills are temporarily scarce . |
| 17 | Positivism particularly favours the indeterminate sentence : it is premature to decide at the time of sentence how long the offender should be detained for , since this may depend on how quickly the treatment works ; ideally therefore the release decision should be left in the hands of treatment experts to take at a later date . |
| 18 | These would take place on a series of Sundays , for instance , or as a block of evening classes , and cater for all levels of ability from foundation and introductory courses to advanced tuition , allowing students to progress at a steady and consistent rate . |
| 19 | I moved along past the drawings to look at a blurred water-colour with a wild smudge of cobalt in the centre . |
| 20 | Would millions of people tramp across the hills to look at a twentieth century Broadway Tower ? |
| 21 | The 1973 Act provided for community councils to operate at a similar ‘ grass-roots ’ level , and in so doing introduced a new concept into British local government — a statutory body without statutory functions . |