Example sentences of "[to-vb] the [noun sg] of [noun] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus when Hollar asks him to smuggle his thesis out of the country and proposes a solution to Anderson 's ethical objections ( " But if you did n't know you were smuggling it " ) , his determination to preserve his negative face is demonstrated by the fact that he interrupts Hollar 's proposal in order to uphold the maxim of quality at the expense of the maxim of agreement ( 'smuggling implies knowledge " , ( p. 56 ) ) . |
| 2 | However , the Central Council recognized in April that a franchise change could not now be avoided , but resolved to support it only if the government would agree to restore the House of Lords at the same time . |
| 3 | BP Oil supports Opportunity 2000 , a campaign to promote the progress of women at work in the UK , and has appointed its own equal opportunities ‘ champion ’ . |
| 4 | They are intended to promote the primacy of schools at the expense of teacher education institutions . |
| 5 | On the contrary , a wide range of dispersal agents would allow a larger number of individuals to strip the tree of fruit at its prime and it would then be distributed to a wider range of habitats and be buffered against any disaster that might overcome the dispersal agent of a species relying on just one such agent . |
| 6 | And that illustration offers the same image of an invisible power , and with this we can begin to see the spirit of God at work in the world . |
| 7 | As I see it , my duty is to report the state of things at once . " |
| 8 | ‘ People do n't seem to like the look of sycamore at the moment . |
| 9 | Now a rise in interest rates would be seen in its true colours , as a means for attempting to support the value of sterling at an artificially high level against the D-Mark within the ERM . |
| 10 | BSDI made its motion on the basis of legal procedure claiming USL would first have to charge it with trade secret and copyright infringement , a charge USL subsequently made when it expanded its suit to include the University of California at Berkeley ( UX No 396 ) . |
| 11 | Its principal provisions had included a commitment to halve the use of chlorofluorcarbons ( CFC ) by 2000 , and to freeze the production of halons at 1992 levels . |
| 12 | The Water of Leith rises in the Pentland Hills and flows for a distance of 36 kilometres to meet the Firth of Forth at Leith . |
| 13 | Some companies are making strenuous efforts to increase the proportion of women at all levels of employment . |
| 14 | Such a modest objective perhaps seemed prudent given the way the issue of how to increase the proportion of women at the very top already seems to have run into so many brick walls . |
| 15 | CASHLINE machines are to be installed at several Sainsbury supermarkets as part of a Royal Bank plan to increase the number of ATMs at what are known as third party or remote locations . |
| 16 | Regarding paragraph nine Chairman , no doubt you , you would tell us if there 's been a response on this , because this does seem a useless step forward er , to increase the number of people at the coalface as it were , and self-financing , and no doubt we shall hear in due course about this . |
| 17 | There was no attempt to revive the church of Paulinus at York and no further pursuit at this time of a pallium for a northern archbishop . |
| 18 | As a final warning , the manager will probably expect you to find the deposit of 10% at least , and more likely 25% or 30% of the overall cost . |
| 19 | I think we found it quite difficult to provide the range of services at fully competitive prices and the one thing that this merger will do is to make us much more competitive . ’ |
| 20 | All that hit the floor was a glossy leaflet inviting her to discover the magic of Christmas at the local hypermarket . |
| 21 | The specific objectives for 1990 were ( i ) to achieve a real growth rate of 2.6 per cent of gross domestic product ; ( ii ) to contain the rate of inflation at 3 per cent or less ; and ( iii ) to limit a deterioration in the external current account deficit . |
| 22 | Some may have the opportunity of a short-term secondment to industry to observe the world of work at first hand or to reconnoitre a promising field for curriculum in-put . |
| 23 | If the interim payment was specifically assigned to one head of damage ( eg on account of nursing services or the cost of a specially modified bungalow for a quadraplegic ) there is no difficulty , and the note at para 29/11/2 of the 1993 White Book encourages the court to assign the payment to special damages to simplify the calculation of interest at trial . |
| 24 | The first Leopold heard of it was when his son coolly informed him that he was accompanying Aloysia and her father for a few days to visit the Princess of Orange at Kircheim-Bolanden , where Aloysia was to sing several arias that Wolfgang had written for her . |
| 25 | Others even took the view that the Party was deliberately exploiting the situation , with the Führer away at the Front leading the struggle against Bolshevism , to destroy the basis of Christianity at home ‘ behind his back ’ . |
| 26 | The efforts of the Irish Georgian Society , energetically headed by Desmond Fitzgerald , the Knight of Glin , have done much to highlight the plight of buildings at risk . |
| 27 | On all three issues conservatives in the Soviet Communist Party and army have been trying to reverse the combination of change at home and co-operation with America abroad . |
| 28 | After the death of Coleman , one of the main problems was how to widen the scope of instruction at the College , until then restricted to horses , and embrace the diseases of other animal species , particularly cattle and sheep . |
| 29 | It is considerably harder to characterise the form of exchange at a local level , although we may hypothesise about its nature on the basis of the organisation viewed through alternative forms of evidence . |
| 30 | While some of these divisions represent a branch point , many of the divisions are only proliferative , and serve to amplify the number of cells at that particular stage in the lineage . |