Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [noun] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Likewise , a carpenter or joiner might be on a set day rate but who for a period might take on a separate contract to saw timber at a rate per 100 ft. , the figure depending upon the hardness of the wood . |
| 2 | We spent the middle of the day at the red fort , returning in the late afternoon to catch sunset at the Taj . |
| 3 | ‘ The world itself is God 's greatest miracle ’ , he wrote , defending God 's freedom to work miracles at the cost of dissolving the idea of a nature which is subject to its own laws in the freedom of the divine will . |
| 4 | The food is prepared in the prison kitchens by a private catering company — ARA , which has a contract to provide food at a set cost . |
| 5 | X-Windows technology suppliers are bandying together as the X Industry Association to promote X at the behest of the X Business Group . |
| 6 | Thus the development of the mix to meet conditions at a particular point or period in time is essentially a contingency approach to marketing management . |
| 7 | Labour leaders were strongly criticised for embracing an ‘ unprincipled ’ U-turn away from unilateralism in an attempt to win votes at the next election . |
| 8 | He talked often of his ambition to win gold at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta . |
| 9 | Thereunder in the county court , Ord 20 , r 15 enables notice to be given of intention to give evidence at the trial pursuant to s 2 of the Act whensoever , for reasons to be given in the notice , a witness can not be called : see Ord 20 , rr 14 – 24 and notes thereunder in The County Court Practice . |
| 10 | He plans to provide an expert witness to give evidence at the public inquiry into the controversial plan for pylons from the power station at Wilton , and he has also raised the matter of the Skelton and Brotton link road in the European Parliament . |
| 11 | TAURUS You are going to have to put your mind to solve problems at the moment . |
| 12 | We were told what to do and then left , as the instructor went to the other end of the loch to shout instructions at a few stranded boats . |
| 13 | At 18 she moved to the east coast to study music at the prestigious Berkeley College in Boston . |
| 14 | The SNC also elected a delegation to represent Cambodia at the forthcoming UN General Assembly ( Hun Sen , SOC Foreign Minister Hor Nam Hong , NGC Vice-President and Khmer Rouge leader Khieu Samphan and NGC Prime Minister and leader of the Khmer People 's National Liberation Front ( KPNLF ) , Son Sann ) . |
| 15 | No injunction will be granted to restrain the repetition of an allegedly libellous statement if the publishers indicate an intention to call evidence at the trial to prove the truth of their statement , or to defend it as honest comment . |
| 16 | THE Government was under pressure last night to re-enter negotiations over the ambulance dispute as unions stripped away all but three elements of their pay and conditions claim in an attempt to force talks at the conciliation service , Acas . |
| 17 | It is the coach 's intention to have experience at the core of his team , bearing in mind the exceptional nature of the opposition , but Roxburgh did not rule out the possibility of a new arrival suddenly thrusting himself into consideration for one of Scotland 's remaining World Cup qualifying ties on the strength of a display against the Germans . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's an attempt to unsettle Marseille at an important moment in their history . ’ |
| 19 | Initially , used the effect to entertain children at the Leukaemia unit in St Bartholomew 's hospital , but when he found that scientists also were taking interest , he founded the Magic Penny Society , partly because he sees the new pennies as an excellent educational toy to excite children 's interest in science . |
| 20 | This is not an attempt to stop production at the factory ’ . |
| 21 | limited protest action to show disappointment at the decision ; |
| 22 | Dexter did not trust Russell one millimetre , let alone an inch , and he made up his mind to tell Blanche at the earliest opportunity . |
| 23 | Bath are now title favourites ; they won 21–13 at Rosslyn Park to replace Northampton at the top . |
| 24 | He arranged by telephone to visit Florey at the Oxford laboratory and did so on 2nd September . |
| 25 | National Power ( NP ) , Britain 's largest energy-generating company , has shelved a plan to use orimulsion at a power station in Pembroke , Wales . |
| 26 | The National Union of Teachers has begun a two hundred thousand pound campaign to put education at the top of the General Election agenda . |
| 27 | Yesterday 's mass picket had been fuelled by last week 's decision at the Court of Session to allow meetings at the gates , and by the wave of support for the sacked workers at a rally in Dundee on Saturday . |
| 28 | A 20Mb/second SCSI-2 interface connects the host system and the array , allowing backup to take place at a sustained rate of 3.5Gb per hour . |
| 29 | Hewlett-Packard executives , however , confirmed that they did not regard the plan to introduce servers at the 20 regional branch offices as a ‘ funded project ’ and Hungarian Minister for Labour Gyula Kiss made no reference to the programme in a detailed briefing on Hungarian employment policy delivered to the foreign pass contingent last week . |
| 30 | ‘ For an actor of his calibre , ’ recalls Gerald Thomas , ‘ and he was of a very high calibre indeed , he had the inability to play dialogue at the same time as he was handling props . |