Example sentences of "[to-vb] at [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , Lord Redesdale thought that if the Government ever wanted the larger site , ‘ the truest economy would be to purchase at once the ground about Charles Street . |
| 2 | Congress works by building coalitions ; to aim at just the ghetto poor — wholly urban and overwhelmingly black — would attract too narrow a coalition . |
| 3 | I want at the end erm , Chairman to give you my views of what is meant by er , an integrated and balanced community because I think that 's that 's quite important , but before I do that , I 'd like to mop up one or two er points right at the end in response to some of the contributions that have been made , and I 'll deal with them , Wincup , Curtis , Brook , er and Thomas , if that 's acceptable er to you , and really as far as Mr Wincup is concerned , he 's quite properly raised the issue of procedural issues about how the Greater York authorities is going to address moving towards er an agreed location , and quite clearly I 've got to reaffirm again that the County Council will want to look at both the greenbelt local plan report and your panel report before er it moves erm er forward or looks at any conclusions it may be moving to in the light of those er in the light of those reports , and quite clearly , as we all know , there are a number of options . |
| 4 | We had to look at where the opportunities were for development in Greater York as a whole rather than looking at individual district elements , and in terms of land available , erm Mr Steel appears to have included some sites which we classify as land held in reserve , which we do n't normally count towards the land availability targets , although we do acknowledge that it is there . |
| 5 | Administrators responsible for other areas of enterprise in the Department of Trade and Industry were asked to look at how the OSO ‘ culture ’ could be embraced in formulating wide-ranging plans to enhance Britain 's role as a trading nation . |
| 6 | erm I 've always believed that consistency is an overrated virtue so I 'm not gon na criticise the Conservatives for changing their minds but you have to ask yourself why is this recorded on the agenda today when the sub-committee , planning sub- committee has already met and discussed these matters and things have moved on a little further Well we we really have to look at how the resolution in this paragraph came about in the first place . |
| 7 | Each information officer will have a mix of new writing and rewriting , both short items and long items , as well as special research projects to look at how the information system is used in bureaux . |
| 8 | RESEARCH is to be carried out in Darlington to look at how the borough council can coordinate its green policies . |
| 9 | Well they 'll probably have to put at least the bone in there , it 's a bone graft . |
| 10 | And referee trying to prize them apart , to keep at least the pretence of a fight going . |
| 11 | And Mary was to arrive at precisely the time when the reformers were beginning to add a new dimension to Scottish self-perception . |
| 12 | Each tag will have to hold at least the information : This will mean that the few home addresses or home buckets which have large numbers of synonyms will have to allocate a lot of space for these tags . |
| 13 | A master file record in a partially inverted file will always be required to hold at least the data on fields that are not inverted . |
| 14 | B : There 's a yellow VW outside Sue 's house Here B 's contribution , taken literally , fails to answer A's question , and thus seems to violate at least the maxims of Quantity and Relevance . |
| 15 | Unless means can be found for experienced teachers to have at least the equivalent of a whole year studying for a Master 's level retraining , the partially sighted will be leading the blind . |
| 16 | The clear inference must be that the average knight was expected to have at least the £120 a year postulated by Smith , and indeed the median of twenty-three in Buckinghamshire , Suffolk and Sussex in 1524–5 lay between £120 and £160 , while nationally the median of eighteen feodary surveys works out at £204 . |
| 17 | The G M B and the trade union generally need to have at least the resources the management have . |
| 18 | If they have n't remained constant over our sampling period , right , then there 's no point in making our sample predictions , alright , we 've got to have at least the confidence that our model is re relatively stable over our small sample , right , in order to make any sort of predictions about the behaviour of the dependent variable that we are looking at and the parameter of interest out of sample more often than not when we have parameter instability that does n't always signal a change in government policy , it often signals the fact that you 've got a very poor model , a model er is mis-specified and so if we detect a structural change in our model , we first of all try and explain why it may come about |
| 19 | Hitting the water in a blast of spray , she drove herself as far under as she could , trying not to gasp at either the impact of her mistimed dive or the surprisingly low temperature of the water . |
| 20 | He worked in a fair frenzy for two hours , making demands of the paint he 'd never made before , plastering it on with palette knife and fingers , attempting to capture at least the shape and proportion of the thing 's head and neck . |
| 21 | Up to the darkroom to begin at once the pictures she had taken this afternoon . |