Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adj] [noun] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Canberra to lead new Normandy landings P&O CRUISE SHIP TO CARRY ALLIED VETERANS AT 50TH ANNIVERSARY |
| 2 | There is also some doubt about whether enterprises are entitled to issue promissory notes at all , and whether banks are entitled to endorse them . |
| 3 | Since Ferdinand 's instructions to the Junta of Government ( which he left in Madrid to govern while he was at Bayonne ) were to cultivate French friendship at all costs , and since these counsels were not modified until after the outbreak of a popular rising , it meant that official Spain could not take the leadership of the instinctive movement against France . |
| 4 | LAST YEAR the Conservatives were telling us how clever they were to have been able to cut taxation and to increase public spending at one and the same time . |
| 5 | They realized dimly that , for the moment at least , the Bolsheviks seemed even keener than the SRs to provoke similar disorder at all levels : and their Land Decree seemed indistinguishable from the old SR demands on behalf of the peasantry . |
| 6 | IBM went through a similar tough patch in the early seventies ( when the ‘ Open Window ’ began to encourage early retirement at 55 ) . |
| 7 | George IV Bridge is one of Edinburgh 's numerous viaducts built to span transverse streets at different levels . |
| 8 | And it would be impossible to provide constant vigilance at future exhibitions . |
| 9 | Programmes can be deployed to meet urgent needs at certain times . |
| 10 | But by mid-1989 , Kylie was THE figurehead of High Street fashion throughout Europe , which was very good news for Sydney 's pauvre couture set , who were beginning to find international recognition at last . |
| 11 | The desperation of many homeless families and single people means that they are prepared to accept poor accommodation at high prices because of the absence of any reasonable alternative , even if they are aware of their legal rights . |
| 12 | There is no doubt that Karajan was able to observe musical power-politics at close quarters , having arrived by some malign chance in 1937–8 as a possible rival to the politically recalcitrant Furtwängler . |
| 13 | It used to be possible to obtain second-hand telescopes at low cost , but by now a really good , cheap second-hand telescope is about as common as a great auk . |
| 14 | Those people that had found ways of structuring their time , of organising themselves round routines , or having particular sorts of appointments to make _ and this could take many forms , like , for example , just getting up early in the morning to play a sport game , for example , or arranging to meet other people at particular times _ those people that had got some sort of time structure in their lives and some sorts of regular activities to carry out in their lives erm tended to be a lot less severely affected by unemployment than those people that did n't have these sorts of activities , this sort of time structure . |
| 15 | This trend had culminated in a joint communiqué issued at the UN on Sept. 30 , in which South Korea and the Soviet Union had announced their intention to establish diplomatic relations at ambassadorial level with immediate effect . |
| 16 | November : Thailand and Madagascar agreed to establish diplomatic relations at ambassadorial level , with effect from Nov. 30 . |
| 17 | It was reported on Sept. 4 that Kiribati and the Soviet Union had decided to establish diplomatic relations at ambassadorial level . |
| 18 | The plan notes ‘ some lines may be the subject of bus substitution proposals to provide local transport at lower cost ’ . |
| 19 | They face the prospect of having to accept unskilled jobs at lower wages or of retraining , in either event , they may have to move to another part of the country . |
| 20 | Since the Newton disaster , where four people were killed and 22 injured in July 1991 , risk analysis techniques have been introduced to evaluate possible danger at single-lead junctions . |
| 21 | Envisaging a 4 per cent real growth in 1990 , it provided for a 10 per cent reduction in public expenditure , a wage increase for public employees , and the establishment of shops to sell basic items at low cost . |
| 22 | Some of the report 's recommendations have since been implemented by the Hong Kong authorities but AI continues to call for each asylum-seeker to receive legal advice at all stages of the process and to receive an oral hearing when appealing against refusal of refugee status . |
| 23 | Be brief because the answers are needed only to explore general trends at this stage . |
| 24 | Better to feed small amounts at regular intervals . |
| 25 | Visual field representations are mapped by sampling successive locations in the visual cortex with a microelectrode and , at each location , determining where you have to place a stimulus in the visual field to activate single cells at that location . |
| 26 | They believed that it was necessary to combine the best in local community action and larger social concerns ; to bring the fragments of social and community action together , e.g. community groups , trade unions , women 's groups , etc. to work towards a vision of a new society based on a radical analysis of existing structures and the lessons and aspirations of the men and women attempting to create new structures at local level ; to stress objectives and content in education as well as methods and process . |
| 27 | One contributor replied that it is very difficult to create new jobs at all and especially difficult to attract jobs to Northern Ireland . |
| 28 | It is possible to buy and sell foreign exchange in ‘ futures ’ markets : that is , it is possible to conclude a contract now to buy foreign exchange at some specific future date at a price specified now . |
| 29 | Before proceeding to discuss quantitative analysis at this more general level , we shall look in 6.8.2 and 6.8.3 at two specific issues which have received some attention in the sociolinguistic literature . |
| 30 | The court will usually impose a requirement that appropriate attempts are made to trace lost shareholders at reasonable intervals , often by advertisements . |