Example sentences of "[to-vb] at [noun] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We agreed to meet at school the following week . |
| 2 | I just ca n't seem to look at peaches the same way any more . |
| 3 | I have already explained , I think three times , in the hearing of President Delors why this Government are not prepared to put at risk the striking progress that has been made in industrial relations in this country since 1979 . |
| 4 | Baldwin contemplated all this at Aix , and made up his mind both to go for protection and to put at risk the first independent Conservative majority for two decades . |
| 5 | To investigateas necessary , and in particular : ( i ) to contactor seek to interview people as appropriate or as the court directs ; ( ii ) to bring to the court 's attentionall records and documents inspected which may assist the court in deciding the case ; ( iii ) to obtain professional adviceas appropriate or as the court may direct ; ( iv ) to file at court a written reportat least seven days before the final hearing , unless the court directs otherwise ; the court will then distribute copies of the report to the other parties . |
| 6 | Lamb had finally yielded to an invitation from Coleridge to travel west , and wrote at the end of June to say that he hoped to arrive at Stowey the following weak . |
| 7 | She stood in the hazy light cast by the bulb in the ceiling , looking uncomfortable and angry , as she phoned Eddy Russell of the Drugs Squad with the information about Della Torre and the lorry due to arrive at Dover the next day . |
| 8 | For two years , they managed to hold at bay a Roman army , with experienced commanders , well-disciplined troops and extensive siege equipment . |
| 9 | The Macclesfield Canal , which was built to serve the growing textile and other industries of Macclesfield and Congleton , was one of the final attempts to hold at bay the growing threat to canal transport from the railways . |
| 10 | It is noteworthy that , whereas the demographic conditions of optimum childbearing can be largely , though not entirely , controlled , parents and individuals are unable to regulate at will the socio-economic and environmental circumstances that affect infant and child health and mortality and , by inference , optimum conditions of childbearing . |