Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Captain Edward Tupper made attempts to organise at various fishing ports from April 1910 , and claimed a fishing membership of 5,000 for the NSFU in 1919 which appears not to have survived the post-war depression . |
| 2 | This would certainly occur if the rates of suicides among those who make attempts continue at the levels mentioned earlier ( p. 21 ) . |
| 3 | But she was relieved to see Patrick thrive at last now that Maggie had been weaned off gin , and when Rosa 's sixth baby arrived she helped with it , gaining experience for when her own time came . |
| 4 | She concluded that although her findings showed considerable improvement since previous studies , there were still problems and she made proposals to rectify at least some of them . |
| 5 | In what was hailed as a major initiative , US President George Bush on Sept. 27 announced proposals aimed at substantially reducing US air- , land- and sea-based nuclear weapons . |
| 6 | The faster aircraft could make it across without landing , and when they got permission to fly at 10,000 feet , they left . |
| 7 | However , it has long been argued whether , for countries wishing to moderate population growth through fertility reduction , it is more efficient to invest the available meagre resources in primary health care programmes that , through reducing infant and child mortality , may have a secondary effect on fertility or , to promote policies aimed at healthful childbearing patterns that will reduce fertility and also have an indirect beneficial impact on maternal and child health . |
| 8 | I 'm asking you , you sh you got loads to look at his hair . |
| 9 | These could test and modify units designed at international workshops ( or by other centres ) or initiate work of their own and present it for international criticism , modification and subsequent diffusion to other countries . |
| 10 | He looked up to see Merymose grinning at him . |
| 11 | Ms Richardson said that the plants at Ayr and Galway made computers aimed at different sections of the market . |
| 12 | This principle states that transformations apply cyclically , and that later transformations , in tinkering with the transforms already produced , deal with them as completed units undergoing at most peripheral changes in this later re-arrangement . |
| 13 | Rice is a perfectionist when it comes to his art , which he practised as a child in Mississippi by catching bricks thrown at him by his brothers , sometimes four at a time . |
| 14 | She did not dispute that , merely standing before me , head bowed , yet sneaking side glances at me and round about . |
| 15 | The investigation involves losses estimated at between five hundred thousand and a million pounds . |
| 16 | The investigation involves losses estimated at between five hundred thousand and a million pounds . |
| 17 | Nearer home he recalls the late Gordon Coe 's 50 years at Evenwood , Harry Brown 's near lifetime service to Shildon and generations of the Fairbairn family then as now helping football survive at Tow Law . |
| 18 | In his memorandum Aziz accused Kuwait of having deliberately pursued policies aimed at weakening Iraq during the latter 's eight-year war with Iran . |
| 19 | An agreement to increase contacts aimed at resolving the financial dispute between Iran and France [ see p. 37929 ] was confirmed on Sept. 27 following a meeting in New York between Vellayati and his French counterpart , Roland Dumas . |
| 20 | If managerial functions are to be carried out both efficiently and effectively , then it is a prerequisite that high quality information is available to inform decision making at the various managerial levels . |
| 21 | The sections which follow will examine the way in which high quality information can be gathered and used to inform decision making at the school level . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , without the sense of a common interest , it is clear that democracy itself is at risk , whether from a privileged minority determined to obstruct policies aimed at helping the poor majority , or , as in Northern Ireland , from the forcible incorporation into the state of a minority who do not accept the legitimacy of that state and who are then systematically excluded from power and influence . |
| 23 | The Queen invited Sarah to stay at Sandringham in January 1986 ; soon after , Charles and Diana took her skiing to Klosters in Switzerland . |
| 24 | You can buy weights to use at home . |
| 25 | Now I mentioned bonuses paid at proof stage . |
| 26 | I mentioned bonuses paid at proof stage . |
| 27 | Some time later I heard a chink of glass and looked up to find Dennis sitting at a nearby table with a half-empty bottle of chilled rosé . |
| 28 | You know they mean it , too : a huge second cooling fan sits at one end of the processor card . |
| 29 | I want animals to look at because I like animals . |
| 30 | Primary sources provide data gathered at first hand ; that is to say , they are original sets of data produced by the people who collected them . |