Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outside number 1015 the rest of the world came and went , while the porch door swung open and shut even more frequently , as the October wind strengthened , forcing the few passers-by to bend into what was now turning into a gale and to clutch at their hats . |
| 2 | The right to elect members on to the Executive Committee and to vote at the Annual General Meeting |
| 3 | So that 's the first rule of good negotiating : learn to master the art of listening and to feel at home with silence . |
| 4 | These phenomena can not be used as a warning of incipient fracture because , to observe the effects , it is necessary to cut thin sections of the stressed part and to look at it in an optical microscope . |
| 5 | Our Lord left this earthly scene to occupy his throne and to sit at the Father 's table . |
| 6 | Baldwin contemplated all this at Aix , and made up his mind both to go for protection and to put at risk the first independent Conservative majority for two decades . |
| 7 | Ten years previously he had bound her husband over to good behaviour and to appear at the next sessions . |
| 8 | The aim of this chapter is to show that you are often your own worst enemy in learning and to look at how you can best go about teaching yourself . |
| 9 | I arranged a number of meetings with various staff : with the director of nursing services to discuss the status of the ENP and to look at her additional skills ; with our business manager to discuss possible auditing tools for the scheme , availability of statistics , and so on ; with the A&E consultant , to look at my long term training needs and the |
| 10 | This study aims to discover patterns of migration of labour within and between the townships of Calverley parish and to look at the role of vestry policy upon this and also upon movement into and out of the parish . |
| 11 | ‘ I can remember Nick as a small boy , maybe five , begging me not to go back to London that Monday morning and to stay at home with them . |
| 12 | Last week he announced that he was to undertake a radical review of public spending and to look at the ‘ nitty gritty ’ of the welfare state . |
| 13 | Even if you are not a skier , it is worth taking the funicular up to the slopes just to experience the journey and to marvel at the views opening out below . |
| 14 | Other rules while in the Gulf were , as far as possible , to move only at night , to observe rigid radio silence and to travel at maximum speed . |
| 15 | And so erm , the youth bus is , is trying to fill that gap , it 's not ideal , because what we actually want to do is get the advice centre to provide some information and to look at ways they can open up to young people . |
| 16 | Mr Chairman I , I mentioned that whilst welcoming the report , erm our motion is to say is , is of a more general nature , we 're looking at the , what is really has er greater standing for financial costs and other practical difficulties involved in increasing the proportion of waste erm who acts as that recycled in the County and apparent progress in meeting government recycling are not being too much and what needs a job and whilst we recognise that responsibility with this requires primarily with the District Council rather than County Council as their question of authority erm it 's an area that we have n't had much erm , the , there has n't been perhaps to the environment committee for some , some time now and I would like to s to actually look at this , look at this again because it is a fairly fast moving , ch changing area , so erm this really is then more of a general , general information and to look at it again . |
| 17 | Her assessment of me changed from one of total hostility to a slightly puzzled statement that my experience with these doctors , in her own words ‘ may prove , after all , not to have been a bad thing for this peculiar chap — half high principle and half unashamed pragmatism — to have been brought into personal dealings with this autocratic profession and to experience at first hand the kind of behaviour that has been driving Ministers of Health to despair for years ’ . |
| 18 | Even in the absence of information about place and time of original utterance , even in the absence of information about the speaker / writer and his intended recipient , it is often possible to reconstruct at least some part of the physical context and to arrive at some interpretation of the text . |
| 19 | It is common ground that in a majority of cases where an order may be made under section 18 for the payment by the Board to the unassisted party of the costs of appellate , as opposed to first instance , proceedings , the Court of Appeal or this House will be in a position at the conclusion of an appeal on the information then before it to decide under section 18(3) what , if any , order for costs should be made against the assisted party and to form at least a provisional view under section 18(4) ( c ) as to whether it would be ‘ just and equitable in all the circumstances of the case that provision for the costs should be made out of public funds . ’ |
| 20 | The best way is to make a chart of each proposed solution and to look at the gains , losses and likely outcome for each . |