Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She shot him a look designed to kill at fifty feet , but he only raised one eyebrow in mute enquiry . |
| 2 | High street sales fell in Novbember and business this month is now expected to remain at last year 's depressed levels , says Nigel Whittaker , chairman of the CBI 's Distributive Trades Panel . |
| 3 | Driven by up to eight Intel Corp 80860XP RISCs , Realityengine is claimed to perform at 800 MFLOPS and comes with up to 160Mb of memory for handling screen display . |
| 4 | Finally , an evaluation which was constrained to look at stated objectives alone would forego opportunities to develop theoretical and empirical models which have general application over and above the particular initiative under scrutiny . |
| 5 | If the subject-matter is sequential , the teacher must ask himself whether it is essential that step A is known to have been mastered before the beginning of step B , and what is the essential minimum ; he will then go on to decide how the achievement of that minimum can be tested , what can be done for those who do not reach it , and whether the material is such that comprehension or insight might be expected to dawn at later stages after more exposure to the subject field . |
| 6 | Television coverage is expected , and the first ‘ pull ’ is expected to start at 11.00 , continuing throughout the afternoon , with each team having two attempts . |
| 7 | Inevitably , this reputation as a man of letters militated against his artistic reputation ; in England , you are expected to excel at one thing only , if that . |
| 8 | The Oxford Wordpower Dictionary heads the list this year and is designed to compete at intermediate level with the Longman Active Study and Cobuild Students Dictionary . |
| 9 | Troops from both sides would be expected to assemble at predetermined points around the country within one month of the ratification of the treaty ; they would surrender their weapons to UN monitors within six months . |
| 10 | Money spent on goods and services is sometimes the only expenditure included , on other occasions interest charges and transfer payments to companies and individuals are added to arrive at total current expenditure . |
| 11 | Above this line standard uplifts for selling expenses and budgeted profit are added to arrive at average selling price . |
| 12 | Above this line standard uplifts for selling expenses and budgeted profit are added to arrive at average selling price . |
| 13 | Such changes occurred most commonly when women were initially booked to deliver at general practitioner hospitals : 40% of them were delivered at a consultant unit . |
| 14 | Such processes will be temperature-and-time-dependent and so the uniform stress assumption would be expected to fail at low temperatures and the composite elastic moduli to approach the ( Voigt ) upper-bound values . |
| 15 | That we 've actually voted to spend at this meeting |
| 16 | Every species has a slightly different solution to the problem of getting about , and the amount of work required to go at a particular speed depends in part on how well an animal has been designed to move at that speed . |
| 17 | The argument outlined in Chapter 3 is that the long term interests of society are best served by a set of regulatory arrangements designed to deter at all levels the misuse of inside information . |
| 18 | To disclose whether or not a warrant has been issued in a particular case could establish means whereby those involved in serious crimes or espionage or subversion could learn the extent to which their activities had come to notice or — perhaps more damaging — could in some cases confirm whether their activities had come to notice at all . |
| 19 | The ESSE/L Project was designed to operate at two distinct levels of funding , Minor award schools receiving less than half the allocation offered to Major Project schools . |
| 20 | And then I know full well that I 'm well within the guidelines of not going over the thirteen amp that this is designed to operate at maximum efficiency and safety . |
| 21 | As part of the same struggle against destitution , meetings were organised to protest at increasing food prices and profiteering ; a large attendance at Canning Town Public Hall heard Sylvia Pankhurst and resolved to campaign for government price controls and votes for women ( SE 27 February 15 ) . |
| 22 | It 's the first occasion in fact on which I 've been permitted to speak at any meeting dealing with this application . |
| 23 | The fact that timing of the first births is closely related to age at first marriage or union is documented in Fig 1 . |
| 24 | I crossed it out because I thought it was gon na say cos I thought it said , survey managers are instructed to work at all times |
| 25 | And what I wanted to know was , why had O and Boy never been seen to look at each other ? |
| 26 | All AE 's immediately turned to stare at one of their number a poker-faced young man , who described any client who would n't buy from him as a " cunt " even scribbling comments to that effect on the client record cards . |
| 27 | Well another survey was done to look at these people at the top and see how they 're coping , and a big surprise . |
| 28 | Some effort is being made to look at general issues such as the effect of industrial organisation and firm size on standards and the form and value of published statistics . |
| 29 | Council officers have been instructed to look at new ways of increasing access to town for disabled motorists . |
| 30 | Under pressure to cut costs , the big banks that dominate Swiss securities trading were no longer prepared to deal at seven regional exchanges , each with its own rules , regulations and supervisory body ( or none ) . |