Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So gripped did I become with my inability to proceed at one point , that I almost became benighted through ignoring what was literally a keyhole through the rock . |
| 2 | All day long she had wondered how he had managed to bamboozle his way into a consultancy , but first the calm , unflappable way he had dealt with Steve and now here , with the devastated relatives , Kathleen had an opportunity to see at first hand the qualities that set him apart as a consultant . |
| 3 | Whilst your forthcoming weekend will naturally provide you with the ideal opportunity to discover at first hand the delights of owning your own Highland retreat , I can assure you there is absolutely no commitment . |
| 4 | Swiss researchers , who lost access to millions of dollars from the European Communities ( EC ) when voters decided in December to delay the process of joining the EC , are waiting for the reaction to their government 's attempt to participate at some level in the EC 's fourth Framework Programme , which begins next year . |
| 5 | Kenneth Clarke , the education secretary , poured cold water on the recommendations of a working party set up by his department to look at physical education . |
| 6 | Differences between the three main systems in use mainly concern punctuation , use of parentheses and the order of elements which must be cited ; but while these may seem small discrepancies , it is one part of the process of research to assess at some point the different conventions governing the listing and presentation of sources , and to present work accurately according to whatever set of conventions you are following . |
| 7 | The court held that it was not open to the defendant to raise at that stage the question of the validity of the notice to quit . |
| 8 | For its elegance , performance , comfort and refinement , the XJ6 4.0 is a hard car to beat at any price . |
| 9 | And when she opened her mouth to protest at this treatment she saw that her objections would have to wait . |
| 10 | For her it worked because of one other factor — her ability and willingness to engage at some depth with the concepts , ideas and questions evoked by the material . |
| 11 | Do not allow the leash to slacken at this point , but try to keep it taut as this will help to ensure the puppy adopts the required position rather than jumping up . |
| 12 | He had done well that day — almost performed miracles — having located Mrs McLaren 's Scottish relations ; persuaded a most excellent and locally well-known lady to come at short notice and be in the house to stay with her ; and had seen to it that the house itself was tidied , and cleaned ready , and supplied with food . |
| 13 | ‘ He also showed a remarkable capacity to look at any form of contract and identify both the things that needed taking out and what has been wrongly omitted . |
| 14 | Their determination to win at any cost , brought world criticism as the details of massacres such as Mai Lai emerged . |
| 15 | There is a further aspect of financial management to consider at this stage : the impact of different legal structures on the way in which firms manage their financial affairs . |
| 16 | A user interface reportedly allows a developer to intervene at any stage in the translation . |
| 17 | Opponents of the curfew claim that forcing every bar to close at one time or , as proposed , requiring nightclubs to close their doors at 1.30 while allowing drinking until 3am or 4am , would lead to a flood of pub-goers hitting the streets at once , exacerbating the problem . |
| 18 | I hope that these factors , together with custodianship and more willingness to look at open adoption by the judiciary as well as by social workers , will diminish the number of occasions when adoptive placements have to be made against the wishes of the natural parents , and/or children . |
| 19 | This session also provides an opportunity to look at cultural bias and racism in materials . |
| 20 | I think that er one of the things that we had to examine at national level er and this was done erm after I became a full time officer , erm there 'd usually be a procedure in the national agreement er whereby first of all if we registered failure to agree at domestic level , erm with the management , the next stage was to draw in the district secretary . |
| 21 | more reluctant to so infer , particularly where the applicant did not know of his right to object at that stage . |
| 22 | The Senate reserves the right to discontinue at any time the studies of any student whose academic work proves unsatisfactory . |
| 23 | However , Lindstedt cautions that such visual behaviour as peering closely at the work being undertaken by no means offers a complete solution to the problems arising from the need to work at close range . |
| 24 | Other colleagues working in schools or adult training centres from our authority were also asked to participate , as together we had previously set up a voluntary curriculum development group to look at authority-wide provision for young people and adults with severe learning difficulties . |
| 25 | New body to look at special education |
| 26 | Nafuth to win at third attempt |
| 27 | Partly due to this , the long end of the yield curve has been rather stable in the UK , and the need to hedge at this end of the term structure was diminished . |
| 28 | Pluralist approaches have stressed the need to look at actual decision-making . |
| 29 | It can be argued that this failure to look at higher education may be the result of a deficiency in feminist theory about education — that feminists ( and , indeed , other educational theorists ) have difficulty in theorizing the role of higher education in the reproduction of inequality . |
| 30 | Sometimes we may need to make changes which we reserve the right to do at any time . |