Example sentences of "[to-vb] at [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , it is appropriate for those working with a child to try to communicate at the right level ; this means introducing language structures with which the child is already familiar and trying to ensure that the content of conversations is appropriate to the child 's ability to understand and to her interests . |
| 2 | Alternatively , it could be simply a collection of modules which it is temporarily convenient to modify at the same time . |
| 3 | If CFC emissions continue to increase at the current rate , they would cause an extra 2C of warming over the same period . |
| 4 | If the rent under the sublease is made to increase at the same rate as the rent under the headlease , and the rent under the headlease is less than a market rent at the date of grant of the sublease , the rent under the sublease may well exceed the true market rent after the first rent review . |
| 5 | Inflation was estimated to increase at an annual rate of 4.5 per cent for 1990 , according to the OECD World Economic Outlook . |
| 6 | indeed , was beginning to increase at an alarming rate — the resources to meet the challenge were simply not to hand . |
| 7 | His suicide , in protest at the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the forces of the Warsaw Pact — only Romania declined to participate - seemed to catch at the Western conscience as somehow symbolic of those dreadful days , though it produced no result other than a further deepening of the Cold War . |
| 8 | By 1925 , this early optimism had disappeared and the District continued to struggle at a financial subsistence level throughout the whole period , apparently incapable of seriously addressing the resolution of the problem of financial self-sufficiency . |
| 9 | But even though what was being contemplated was regionally restricted , it nevertheless went far beyond what these states , following the British line , had been willing to accept at the European level . |
| 10 | The old slate quarry here is one of the largest man-made holes in Britain , and such is the fascination that holes in the ground exercise on the mind of man that there are special viewing platforms where visitors may stand to gape at the awesome chasm . |
| 11 | Avoid trying to jump white water , aiming instead to jump at the steepest part of the wave which is normally the part about to break , the critical section . |
| 12 | To the massed spectators in the stands , flung in an instant from joyous acclaim of a Royal winner to horrified , dumbfounded silence , Devon Loch had seemed to leap at an imaginary obstacle before slithering to the ground and skidding along to a halt , the momentum throwing Francis up on to the horse 's neck . |
| 13 | They arranged to meet at the Blue Boar on the following Wednesday night , then Billy jumped on his bike to ride home . |
| 14 | One o'clock was agreed as the deadline when Mrs Wijsmüller and another refugee worker , Gertrud van Tijn , were to meet at the American Hotel to decide on their next move . |
| 15 | They parted at the hatshop and made an arrangement to meet at the same time the following day . |
| 16 | One was to Adam Russell whom she arranged to meet at an Italian restaurant in Pimlico . |
| 17 | The select committees , in contrast , were to be investigating bodies where policy issues were not of first importance , the principal task being to find out what was happening inside the various government departments , to inform the House and the public , thus bringing public opinion to bear at an earlier stage while policy was still relatively fluid . |
| 18 | Its aim , according to Vice-President Al Gore , is to " ensure that environmental considerations are brought to bear at the earliest stages in the development of economic policy " . |
| 19 | I think that it was during this visit that Peter Duval-Smith tacked on to us when we were going to dine at the Turkish harbour . |
| 20 | Applicants who are uncertain as to the validity of their qualifications or of their present course of study , or who wish further information on any aspect of their application , are advised to write at the earliest opportunity to the Associate Dean for Admissions , Faculty of Arts Office , David Hume Tower , George Square , Edinburgh EH8 9JX . |
| 21 | It is essential to establish at an early stage the significance of the properties to the operations and overall value of the target business . |
| 22 | Zeuxis 's painted vine provoked the wonder and the applause of all his audience when it attracted birds to peck at the plump fruit . |
| 23 | Their fun , courtesy of the Conservative Party , was to come at a later stage . |
| 24 | William was forced by the lie of the land to come at the Saxon strongpoint from the south . |
| 25 | Charlie is unaware of the spirits alive in him , so that the narrator of the story is frustrated in his attempt to come at the uncluttered account of past lives . |
| 26 | Oh , just one little notice I do have that erm several of us are going on Thursday to the , on the trip to Docklands by the erm erm Rotary Club of Sawbridgeworth erm I 'm told that there are still one or two odd seats if anybody wants to come at the last minute er , he does n't anticipate he 's going to erm fill them so even if , late Wednesday night you suddenly find you are available , by all means , contact and I 'm sure it can be arranged . |
| 27 | Is he guaranteeing to tell us where everyone of the cooks is going to come at the next Policy Meeting . |
| 28 | Whichever way I try to come at the Unknown Substance it remains just beyond my grasp . |
| 29 | But Rostov 's experience of the Empire had not prepared him to find at the same time a complete absence of the poor and underprivileged . |
| 30 | It is like viewing an Impressionist painting , where the viewer is required to stand at a certain distance before the image comes into focus ; the bigger the individual strokes of paint , the further back the viewer has to stand . |