Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Sainsbury 's application is the latest to go to appeal at a public inquiry . |
| 2 | That Arthur 'ad stopped at a pub on 'is way to the church , 'e said 'e needed fortifyin' , and 'im and 'is best man both went in the pub an' stayed there a lot longer than they should of . |
| 3 | His ill-looks are a punishment received when he failed to appear at a fairy festival , preferring to spend his time with a mortal maiden . |
| 4 | They agreed to appear at a venue called Litchfields , basically a working men 's club on one of the town 's many estates . |
| 5 | I knew that it would at the very least be fun to fail again , however effortlessly , and we agreed to meet at a pub in Barnes on the following evening . |
| 6 | The crucial events around which the case centred occurred at a dinner party given by the General , when Aitken and some others were present . |
| 7 | Maintenance grants remain frozen at a maximum of £2,845 for students in London and £2,265 for those studying elsewhere . |
| 8 | They had arranged to meet at a pub in Soho , not far from Helen 's flat . |
| 9 | He did not want to appear at a loss or to let his followers down . |
| 10 | ‘ If they want to go at a certain pace and not become a Top Five singles band you have to respect them for it . |
| 11 | Personal bankruptcies may also slow down because of the recent interest rate cuts but are expected to continue at a high level for some time , he said . |
| 12 | Recruitment clearly has to continue at a high level so as to maintain C&P 's scientific excellence [ and relevance ! ] . |
| 13 | In Britain , water tables are expected to remain at a low level throughout the summer . |
| 14 | I think one wants to go at a time when people still want you to stay , rather than stay until people want you to go . |
| 15 | If you wait five years it gets slightly steeper so the force to you becomes that and so on and so forth , forty five fifty and you can see at fifty five if you want to retire at a certain age er what 's the age that you actually want to retire ? |
| 16 | None of the fathers ' job descriptions given on the birth certificate referred to work at a nuclear establishment . |
| 17 | If we want to work at a high level of stress , however , anywhere near the potential strength of glass for instance , we must be prepared to keep the surface free from even the most microscopic cracks for , if even one crack is allowed to exceed the Griffith length , which may be only about a thousand Ångströms , catastrophic failure will occur . |
| 18 | On the back of Wall Street 's overnight strength , the FT-SE 100 cash index rose 33 points at the outset and , with the futures index opening at a hefty premium , looked poised to turn in a record-setting performance . |
| 19 | For some specialised yarns , say those with knops , or the hairy yarns , you will probably need to work at a looser tension for the cables to show but this is not to their disadvantage since the cables , loosely worked , frequently add to the richness of the finished look . |
| 20 | Our perception of the pub has to work at a number of levels — mostly obvious , but nonetheless worth clarifying . |
| 21 | ‘ The injury has come at a time when I would love to be looking forward to making my home debut against Forest . |
| 22 | The joint Royal College of Nursing and Nursing Standard survey has come at a time when Essex Rivers Healthcare is trying to save £2.2 million to cope with an overspend of £1.3 million last year , waiting lists are at a record high and the closure date of a Colchester hospital has been set . |
| 23 | A working group made up of clinicians , consultants , GPs and other health professionals has looked at a number of options and has recommended that services be consolidated , and accommodation improvements made , at the Chest Hospital . |
| 24 | However once the unemployment rate has stabilized at a new , higher level , so too will the equilibrium rate of unemployment . |
| 25 | For example , in a particular year a given region has x million inhabitants and the population is expected to increase at a rate of 2% per year . |
| 26 | Roberts , using statistics for 1960 , 1970 and projected for 1980 , shows how in six of the largest Latin American countries , Argentina , Brazil , Chile , Mexico , Peru and Venezuela , the urban population has grown at a faster rate than has the total population ( Roberts 1978 ) . |
| 27 | International factoring has grown at a faster rate than domestic factoring over the past five years but still remains only a small fraction of domestic business . |
| 28 | The real value of the licence fee has grown at a relatively slow pace and has never quite caught up with the rate of inflation . |
| 29 | Sustained growth sounds unconvincing in the mouth of the Government because , in the past few years , Britain has grown at a rate well below trend growth and below the OECD average , managing a paltry 0.75 per cent . |
| 30 | The first term on the right-hand side is the sum of the dividend income for n periods which has grown at a compound rate of ( ) , the ‘ super-normal ’ growth rate . |