Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun pl] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A MAN with a compulsion to drive cars at high speed was sent to young offenders institution for a year . |
| 2 | At least financial agencies have some pressure to provide funds at competitive rates , and builders to guard against pricing themselves out of the market , but landowners just have to sit on the land until they get the price they demand . |
| 3 | North West Gas used the census variable ‘ dwellings with no inside wc ’ to find areas at serious risk from blocked flues . |
| 4 | On May 9 , 1991 , the governments of New Zealand and China signed an agreement to establish relations at consulate-general level . |
| 5 | Argentina and Belize moved to establish relations at ambassadorial level as a result of the signing of a protocol at the Argentine permanent mission to the UN in New York on Jan. 8 . |
| 6 | Regions devoid of neutral gas are vital for astronomers who hope to observe stars at extreme ultraviolet wavelengths . |
| 7 | There is , of course , room for disagreement about how much independence to grant children at different stages of their development . |
| 8 | The young man sat down beside her and started to pull faces at young Rachel . |
| 9 | As companies continue to dispose of non-core subsidiaries , this next generation of MBI managers will have golden opportunities to acquire companies at realistic prices . ’ |
| 10 | To augment the tuition at the College , students had to traipse all over London to attend lectures at medical schools , and to hear additional veterinary lectures on private premises in the evening . |
| 11 | This removes any temptation to sell articles at different prices in different Member States . |
| 12 | As well as using the linguistic concepts of sign and system to analyze structures at various levels of a text , the structuralists returned to Saussure 's distinction between langue and parole in order to outline a whole new approach to literature . |
| 13 | To pick verses at random from the Bible proves nothing at all , except that we are gullible and are not using the Scriptures as we are intended to . |
| 14 | A NEW way to detect women at high risk of developing cervical cancer is announced today by a team of researchers from the Imperial Cancer Research Fund . |
| 15 | A new way to detect women at high risk of developing cervical cancer is announced today by a team of researchers from the Imperial Cancer Research Fund . |
| 16 | Capacity to receive benefits at civil law and under the law of trusts was the topic of Chapters II and III . |
| 17 | Founding shareholders are reluctant to dilute their controlling holdings or to sell shares at depressed prices . |
| 18 | But price wars could soon spread outside food retailing too , with the arrival of warehouse clubs , which allow members paying an annual fee to buy goods at wholesale prices . |
| 19 | Taking effect from Nov. 18 , the reforms included ( i ) a 331/3 per cent devaluation of the currency , with an initial base exchange rate of 90 new kwanzas to the United States dollar ; ( ii ) a reduction in personal income tax , taking the top rate from 40 per cent of earned income to 15 per cent ; ( iii ) reduced consumer taxes ; ( iv ) the lifting of price ceilings on all commodities except soap , cooking oil , rice , sugar and baby milk ; ( v ) a new salary scale for public-sector workers , to compensate for the withdrawal of ration cards which had allowed them to buy goods at low prices ; and ( vi ) a minimum national salary of 12,000 kwanzas . |
| 20 | Both objectives require the application of higher level knowledge to identify inconsistencies at individual levels , so it is possible that techniques developed for recognition applications could contribute to the development of text understanding systems . |
| 21 | The idea is not new — a Hungarian engineer designed the first photocomposing machine in 1894 — but its widespread adoption depended on the computer to select characters at high speed from an optical storage disc . |
| 22 | All we can do is to report observations at national and international meetings where the keenest , most dedicated enthusiasts gather . |
| 23 | Energy management systems are collections of equipment constructed from sensors , controllers , relays , actuators and other microprocessor-based products : they can be used to monitor conditions at particular points within a building ( or group of buildings ) and employed to regulate or reduce fuel consumption as required . |
| 24 | We change the sets often , so you learn how to do things at different venues as you go along . |
| 25 | By encouraging the private builder to build houses at low cost to be let or sold , houses were provided at the least cost to the community . |
| 26 | ‘ People will want to do things in different ways , they will want to run trains at different times , they will want to act competitively , they may want to run a bus service at the end of the train service so they may not be too interested in timetabling together . ’ |
| 27 | The federal government proposed to buy surplus agricultural produce from farmers in order to keep prices at agreed levels , although this would cost 1,000 million crowns ( US$33,000,000 ) in grain subsidies alone . |
| 28 | He added : ‘ People from all over the country , people we have never heard of , have been good enough to sit down and write lengthy letters , to send flowers at great expense to a boy , just saying Tim Parry , Warrington , Cheshire , and it is getting to the house . |
| 29 | That sounds humane enough in theory , and no doubt it saved many hundreds of families from starvation during the years of the French wars ; but it positively encouraged employers to keep wages at rock-bottom levels , while anyone who wanted to do an honest day 's work for an honest day 's pay was subject , instead , to the ignominy of accepting supplementary alms in order to live . |
| 30 | Choose teams for bulk work providers that are large enough to include lawyers at different levels , and small enough for expertise and client contact to build up . |