Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [adv] at [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Given the time needed to deal with the residue of Poll Tax no reduction in Support Services , including typing is being suggested at this time and other services are expected to continue as at present .
2 This was especially the case in B , where staff were considered unapproachable , and where students were expected to work individually at labs :
3 Is committed to work ecumenically at home and overseas .
4 Then he 's got to go home at lunchtime and give her some food .
5 And you 've got to get there at night and at weekends to find out what really goes on , and whether they are meaningful in terms of pollution . ’
6 The cookbook approach is plainly a second-best , and reformers may therefore be driven to look again at auditors ' independence .
7 In Bassetlaw the liaison sister for elderly people , Frances Fairclough , has been seconded to look generally at community care planning and specifically at discharge procedures .
8 Some are betting on companies in sectors such as paper and pulp , which are meant to do well at times when the dollar is weak .
9 When Apricot was three weeks away from the examinations which were , in theory , to get herself , Belinda and Brenda out of school , away from home and into a preferable social and intellectual environment-Liese was happy enough to fail hers , and be allowed to stay cosily at home and be married off to someone suitable — there was an unusual uproar in Mafeking Street .
10 As a result , the decision was taken to redeem only at Savacentre .
11 The 85-year-old Mrs Riddiford was left to gaze admiringly at photographs in the Welsh national newspaper The Western Mail which was full of Kylie 's triumph the morning after .
12 They would include : opportunities for students to see or experience equipment or processes which are not on offer within the institution ; the chance for a student to sample a possible future job or career ; the opportunity to learn something ( not much ) of the lives led in employment by their neighbours , their parents or their peer-group , so that they may grow up more understanding and more tolerant ( this rather pious hope may in fact be quite unjustified , they may have confirmed or developed disdain or envy for others ) ; a good student may catch the eye of an employer looking for a later recruit ; absence may lend enchantment to the view of the college and the students may return from work-experience reassured about their choice of education ; students may be motivated to work hard at college by the prospect of either securing a job like the one they have seen or tried , or by the determination to avoid a similar fate ; all these outcomes may be little more predictable than the consequences of going to the zoo for a visit .
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