Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] [to-vb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Brainsby 's idea for Richard Branson to arrive at the inaugural press conference wearing a brown leather aviator 's helmet , à la Biggles , in an attempt to lend the launching of an international airline something of the savour of a Boys Own adventure . |
| 2 | Senate set up a working party under Professor Furmston , Council asked consultants Coopers & Lybrand Deloitte to look at the matter , convocation set up an ad hoc working group to respond to the first two reports , and the Vice-Chancellor produced a report for Council which drew together the common threads in all three . |
| 3 | Of course , I avoided so much work , going out to the bloody square on Tower Hill to gawk at the gore-drenched platform where the Great Ones of the land had their heads cut off . |
| 4 | Article 96 of the Company 's Articles of Association requires Mr Blacker , Mr Brown and Mr Walker to retire at the Annual General Meeting since they were appointed by the Board after the 1989 Annual General Meeting . |
| 5 | Unity Trust , the trades unions ' bank , would support an employee share ownership scheme in any bid and its chairman Sir Dennis Landau has urged Mr Heseltine to look at the offer . |
| 6 | Unity Trust , the trades unions ' bank , would support an employee share ownership scheme in any bid and its chairman , Sir Dennis Landau , has urged Mr Heseltine to look at the offer . |
| 7 | With that in mind , the college plans to invite President Clinton to visit at the earliest opportunity . |
| 8 | The DUP leader wants Mr Major to insist at the conference that the Republic 's Government drops its territorial claim to Northern Ireland . |
| 9 | In spite of reports yesterday that Mr Friel 's move amounted to a reopening of the inquiry , Scottish Office sources have told The Scotsman that the decision to ask Strathclyde CID to look at the evidence is an established part of the appeal procedure . |
| 10 | Is he aware that next week my hon. Friend the Member for Motherwell , South ( Dr. Bray ) will visit the United States to look at the latest technological developments in steel production — thin slab casting ? |
| 11 | This reflects the almost total concern with American abolitionism of some reformers as well as a liberalism about religious matters which regretted even the refusal to allow the unbeliever Joseph Barker to speak at the earlier Manchester conference . |
| 12 | In that regard , does my hon. Friend agree that the commission that the Secretary of State has set up under Professor Alexander to look at the way in which primary school children are taught is particularly welcome ? |
| 13 | Negotiations are going ahead for booking top personalities like Johnny Mathis , Bob Monkhouse and Freddie Starr to appear at the club subject to approval by the licensing authorities . |
| 14 | Then there were the Paris student riots , the Biafran conflict and scenes of devastating suffering and starvation ; Yasser Arafat became head of the PLO and enlisted thousands of young people into his army ; Muammar Gaddafi threw out the Libyan monarchy and installed himself as his nation 's leader and hero of terrorist factions everywhere ; the streets of Ulster became a battle zone with troops , fire bombs and unbelievable scenes of street-fighting ; Jan Palach , a twenty-one-year-old Czech student set fire to himself in Wenceslas Square to protest at the Soviet invasion of Prague . |
| 15 | Each member of the back row handled in a drive off a scrum and when the ball came back Andrew looped round Jeremy Guscott to score at the posts . |
| 16 | One leads up an unfrequented glen occupied by wild goats and skirts the northern flank of Beinn Fhada to arrive at a rough bealach or col , where I once shivered for two hours waiting for the mist to lift off Sgurr nan Ceathreamhnan ahead , which it did not . |
| 17 | Ninety one balls and one four , and not a typical DaSilva innings and one does wonders whether in the end it might have been better for Sri Lanka to play at a more natural game . |
| 18 | In 1984 the Industry and Employment Committee commissioned a report , by G Easton and R Wensley to look at the quality and quantity of research in marketing in the UK . |
| 19 | But her desire to be a ballerina was more than just an adolescent fancy and she returned to New York to study at the American School of Ballet . |
| 20 | On the way back we stopped at Horstead Keynes to look at the Carriage and Wagon Dept . |
| 21 | And he pleaded for the public to write to Premier John Major to protest at the move . |