Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [verb] at " in BNC.

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1 As thoughts turn to booking a place in the holiday sun , Money Guardian looks at both the costs and savings of taking a break .
2 It launched two computer programmes aimed at giving people on-the-spot help through the maze of social security benefits and advice on managing debts .
3 It also has a deeper problem : fiscal indiscipline , manifested in a budget deficit running at 7% of GDP .
4 The Bank of England is struggling to finance a budget deficit running at 8% of GDP .
5 The 1991 budget deficit estimated at BD118,000,000 ( US$313,000,000 ) was expected to increase by 6 per cent in 1992 .
6 Agreement was subsequently reached on Sept. 20 on public spending cuts and tax increases to save 40,600 million kronor ( 2.5 per cent of GDP ) over five years on a 1992-93 budget deficit estimated at 102,000 million kronor ( 7 per cent of GDP ) .
7 He had to decide what to do about the serious state of the Government 's own finances — the spiralling budget deficit estimated at £50 billion for next year — and he had to try to help the country to get out of the exceptionally severe recession which has bought both company failures and exceptionally high unemployment .
8 He had to decide what to do about the serious state of the Government 's own finances — the spiralling budget deficit estimated at £50 billion for next year — and he had to try to help the country to get out of the exceptionally severe recession which has bought both company failures and exceptionally high unemployment .
9 There is little doubt that their handwriting skills develop at a slower pace than their linguistic skills .
10 Contemporary bargaining structures are to some degree a reflection of bargaining patterns established at a fairly early stage of industrial development .
11 Agreement was reached with Turkey in September 1989 after a dispute lasting several years over unfinished building contracts valued at USdollars 100,000,000 .
12 When I entered our kitchen Mum stared at me , dumbounded , until she recovered and found her voice .
13 The New Year brought a change of luck for Swindon Town who ended a run of ten games without a win by beating Millwall three-one at the County Ground yesterday … in the fourth division Hereford lost at Gillingham …
14 But she hopes they will be enjoyed for the music and not simply used as background at drug raves aimed at tempting gullible youngsters .
15 Donald Selkin , head of stock index futures research at Prudential-Bache , said ‘ panic short-covering ’ might have boosted prices toward the end .
16 From across the kitchen Lavinia smiled at him as though to reassure him , as though stating again that he did not seem laughable .
17 Before clearing the suburbs to the west Patrick stopped at a café so that they could have a quick breakfast of delicious brioches and excellent coffee .
18 Blundell 's School magazine later observed : ‘ Parisian cricket is not of the Comic Opera kind one would expect … we dreamt of French demon bowlers with pro-Boer tendencies hurling at us on bumpy wickets . ’
19 The CASE projects aim at least to double this proportion in the first three years of secondary schooling by developing new teaching skills in science teachers .
20 They were 65ft 6in long , 9ft wide , and 8ft 1in high , carried on 11ft 6in wheel-base bogies mounted at 43ft 6in centres .
21 Many of the Champagne houses established at this time were born as a direct result of the Reims textile trade .
22 However , in statements after his election Polozkov appeared at pains to emphasis his loyalty to Gorbachev and support for perestroika , and to refute his reputation for conservatism .
23 However , Novell , which claimed it was acting on the urgings of its customers , is expected to press the integration and interoperability of NetWare and Unix , the development of common management framework and common application framework ABIs to put at the service of third-party software developers and mission-critical accounts intent on rightsizing and employing distributed solutions .
24 From 1 October , 1980 , applications to the MAFF for agricultural capital and development grants were to be notified to the park authority ; and since then the park authorities have at least had a chance of commenting and .
25 1917 , at Semirechensk in Turkestan , Russian peasant representatives met to deliberate the subduing of the natives , and resolved to create vigilante groups to keep at bay those fugitives who were now returning ( Muslim sources claim 83,000 were killed ) .
26 Their dancing was highly dignified and best suited to aristocratic roles or , as he was to say later ( 1810 ) , ‘ those of noble birth , the only appropriate heroes and heroines fur ballets staged at the Paris Opera ’ .
27 Remember that the money stock expands at a rate determined , ceteris paribus , by the flow of net new bank lending and assume that the demand for bank lending is inversely related to the rate of interest charged on that lending .
28 The bodyshells of Class 60 Nos 60005 and 60006 under construction inside toe Procor Works at Horbury on 25 April 1989 .
29 HAIR stylists training at Kirby College , Middlesbrough , took the top awards in the North of England Hairdressing Championships , held at Newcastle .
30 Absorbed in his own thoughts , he paid no attention to the purple saloon car parked at the roadside just short of number thirty-seven until , as he made his way past it , the driver 's door was pushed abruptly open to block his path .
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