Example sentences of "to [noun] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ON AIR : John Leslie gives a few TV tips to Colin at the Blue Peter Studio . |
| 2 | The morning room was supported out from it on stilts , reaching into nothing so that to stand at the foremost edge of the platform was to seem to be poised above an abyss . |
| 3 | In some cases these Rios 2 chips will overlap the PowerPC in performance while others should outperform it 50% to 100% at the same clock speeds thanks to superscalar technology . |
| 4 | She was elected to Parliament at the general election in April . |
| 5 | They had run the city respectively from 1976 to 1986 and from 1986 to December 1991 , and both were protected by parliamentary immunity , having been returned to parliament at the general election . |
| 6 | She was a newcomer to Parliament at the last election . |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , Miss Hardbroom , ’ agreed Mildred , dragging the cat from her front and reducing the cardigan to shreds at the same time . |
| 8 | But the police continued their enquiries into the activities of the PIE , and in 1980 two other members of the group were brought to trial at the Old Bailey . |
| 9 | Both logistically and procedurally it would be impossible for all four cases to be pursued to trial at the same time , and it was therefore natural for the Barclays ( Asia ) and West L.B. matters to be placed in relative suspense , whilst attention was concentrated on Carrian and B.M.F.L. |
| 10 | THE IDEA that the Warsaw Pact would be able to mount a surprise attack on Nato will shortly be ‘ barely plausible ’ because of the unilateral troop cuts started nine months ago by the Kremlin , according to experts at the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies . |
| 11 | A special award went to Stewart at the annual pop ceremony for a lifetime 's achievement , while Hucknall took best British male artist and best British group trophies . |
| 12 | Following a tax charge of $21.0m and a contribution from minorities of $0.3m , the profit attributable to shareholders at the half year was $105.5m ( 1992 : $14.8m loss ) equivalent to earnings per share of 21.5p ( 1992 : 3.4p loss per share ) . |
| 13 | Before moving on to look at the new developments that I suggested initially might constitute the basis for a redirection in writing , it is worth considering some of the shortcomings of the frequency-count approach just described . |
| 14 | Let us just accept that the inclusion of education within social policy is the consequence of a comparatively arbitrary decision by the author , and move on to look at the difficult problems that would have to be faced if we were to define social policy in terms of public expenditure which contributes to public welfare . |
| 15 | John Howell , chief executive of Teesside Training and Enterprise Council , is to present 27 people with qualifications for occupations from horse care to floristry at the High Street , Stockton , offices of training organisation Face today . |
| 16 | This was forcibly brought home to Churchill at the first of the conferences attended by Stalin as well as Roosevelt . |
| 17 | Page 26 Next tumbles : Next 's pre-tax profits nearly halved to £16.2m at the halfway stage as it revealed problems rooted in overexpansion and poor merchandising . |
| 18 | The band , tipped to win an award for their video Friday I 'm In Love , were forced to cancel a planned satellite link-up from London to LA at the last minute . |
| 19 | ( C ) Samples were subjected to cleavage at the modified bases by heating in NaOH solution ( 5 ) , and equal cpm from all fractions were electrophoresed on a DNA sequencing gel and autoradiographed . |
| 20 | Detectives are appealing to teenagers at the soft drinks all-night disco to come forward . |
| 21 | In Paris he bought mince pies and English marmalade , took Colette to tea at the British Dairy , shared a blazing plum pudding with her at Christmas , drank whisky instead of wine at a dinner party at Fouquet 's , spent two summer holidays in Dieppe because it was so English , and there made friends with Walter Sickert , William Nicholson , Reggie Turner , Ada Leverson , Marie Tempest and Max Beerbohm . |
| 22 | As Louise seemed unwilling to come to the boats , Nenna was obliged to take the girls to tea at the luxurious Carteret . |
| 23 | This week they will be advertising for one or two extra staff and anticipate moving to bigger premises by the end of the summer , if business continues to boom at the same rate , possibly in the Manningtree area . |
| 24 | There is substantially more information both general and related to risks at the risky junctions than at the less risky ones . |
| 25 | Despite the greater complexity of the RET and an increase in candidate numbers last session , results were being despatched to candidates at the usual speed through the summer . |
| 26 | Niven came to grief at the eighth fence on Flight Hill and had his left arm in a sling when he left the course by ambulance . |
| 27 | Closing the road meant that motorists driving from Sisikon to Schwyz at the northern end of the lake — a distance of only six miles — faced a 60-mile detour . |
| 28 | The Premier cancelled a trip to Spain at the last minute as the sick pound hit its lowest level since joining the Exchange Rate Mechanism . |
| 29 | She was so surprised by the warmth of his smile , by his being able to smile so frankly , so like a friend , that when he said he was going to lunch at the Blue Lagoon and would she come too , she said yes , all right , without thinking . |
| 30 | Hurd , who was entertaining members of the European Parliament to lunch at the Grand , murmured something to the effect that they would all meet Margaret soon enough , that evening at Jeffrey 's great party : ‘ The three ‘ Bs ’ : Beluga , Bollinger and bullshit . ’ |