Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she prepares to go for gold at the World Cross Country Championships in the Spanish seaside town of Amorebieta , the South African could not help sadly recalling the drama surrounding the 1988 event which left her on the verge of a nervous breakdown . |
| 2 | You live in Glasgow and you have just received a letter from a company requesting you to attend for interview at the Station Hotel , Inverness on Tuesday morning at 9.30 am . |
| 3 | She understood that she could only leave the flat to shop for food at the Indian-owned store at the end of the street . |
| 4 | The directive , which had hitherto been opposed by West Germany , Greece and Spain , was due to come into effect at the end of 1994 ; the Commission aimed to reach agreement on a single passport for insurance companies during 1990 . |
| 5 | But there 's an Equal Pay Act that 's supposed to come into force at the end of 1975 — that will give women equal pay and a bit more power . |
| 6 | This change has been recommended by the Legal Services Ombudsman , and will require a change in the law , expected to come into force at the beginning of 1994 . |
| 7 | In a peace initiative brokered by Zaïre 's President Mobutu Sese Seko , a draft ceasefire agreement was reported to have been signed between the Rwandan government and the FPR in Zaïre on March 18 and was due to come into force at the end of March . |
| 8 | The biodiversity convention signed at the summit has been ratified by the required 30 countries and is due to come into force at the end of this year . |
| 9 | Still to come before Christmas at the Nursing Home are as follows : — |
| 10 | Thus , in the Health Service , nurses , doctors and technicians are tending to increase in number at the expense of more strictly manual jobs in hospital cleaning , cooking and domestic work . |
| 11 | But blacklisted television writers , who had to appear in person at the studios , had to ask a ‘ clean ’ writer ( or even a non-writer ) to ‘ front ’ for them . |
| 12 | To neglect these questions and concentrate instead on the ‘ environment ’ of learning , however important that might be , is to risk encouraging the belief that teachers are judged and advanced on the basis of how their classrooms took rather than how and what their pupils learn ; consequently , some may feel that it is strategically sensible to concentrate on surface at the expense of substance . |
| 13 | Mahmoud had a case that morning in the Mixed Tribunals and Owen wanted to send a letter to England so they agreed to meet at noon at the Post Office . |
| 14 | As mentioned earlier , the bidder binds itself to the scheme by agreeing to appear by counsel at the hearing of the petition and giving the appropriate undertaking . |
| 15 | But small British booksellers will be able to sell with VAT at the British rate ( i.e. zero ) . |
| 16 | He stroked a strand of hair from her face , and Robyn forced herself not to shiver with delight at the gentleness of his touch . |
| 17 | Meanwhile Pope , the master of the Lower School , had been compelled to resign through ill-health at the end of 1854 . |
| 18 | Roberts ' solicitor , John Grey-Lloyd , did not oppose the application but said he reserved the right to apply for bail at the next hearing . |
| 19 | However , boys will be boys and they enjoyed the fresh air and the sport of fishing , in fact the boys had been known to fish after dark at the newty pond which was very illegal ! |
| 20 | The East India Company and other companies like the Royal Africa Company and the Hudson 's Bay Company rarely brought in men like Roe to help with work at the top , and normally expected to promote people who had spent their lives working for the Company . |
| 21 | The company also has its Smartstream decision support products ready to ship under Unix at the end of the month . |
| 22 | Businessmen and elderly women picked their way over the broken concrete and steel to stare in disbelief at the crippled buildings with their bulging walls and blackened balconies . |
| 23 | He had actually planned to resign from Parliament at the 1983 election and had to revise his intentions rather swiftly . |
| 24 | Senior officials including the Prime Minister , Haider Abu Bakr al-Attas , were said to have threatened to resign in protest at the President 's alleged unwillingness to deal with violence , including failing to authorize the arrest of suspected killers of more than 30 Yemen Socialist Party members . |
| 25 | What they have done is to look in detail at the impact of two severe floods which hit the little Araglin river in Co Cork in August 1986 and how it has recovered since . |
| 26 | When we come to look in detail at the Nikol'skaia peasantry in 1922 , many of these inhibiting features will become more evident . |
| 27 | To see exactly what has happened , it is necessary to look in detail at the composition of the park committees . |
| 28 | For the answer to these and many other questions we have to look in detail at the items giving rise to so much concern . |
| 29 | We have then to look in detail at the ways in which relatively constant biological processes and relatively variable means of production have combined both in specifically comparable and in specifically variable ways , always within specific social ( historico-social ) situations . |
| 30 | The Quality Audit 's main purpose is to look in detail at the centre 's internal quality assurance system . |