Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | OKI ELECTRIC INDUSTRY TO SUSPEND OPERATIONS AT TWO FACTOIRES IN EAST JAPAN |
| 2 | A Malaysian court has ordered the Japanese chemical manufacturer , Mitsubishi Kaese , to suspend operations at its joint-venture plant in Ipoh , because of allegations that radioactive waste from the plant was contaminating the area . |
| 3 | Speaking in a debate on the food question , J. R. Clynes , Minister of Food in the Coalition Government , used the apparent progress on the international front to preach patience at home : |
| 4 | Of course it is good to see artists at work and artists discussing their work on TV , but so many of the programmes have been disappointing . |
| 5 | Lecturer Jane Wirgman began teaching the Bard 's insults as a way of introducing Shakespeare to remand prisoners at her English classes in Norwich Prison , Norfolk . |
| 6 | Drama provides another major resource in overcoming passivity , in stimulating children to become actively involved in thinking about language , and in helping them to enjoy literature at school so that they will continue to read and to act and to attend theatrical performances for the rest of their lives . |
| 7 | AS SOME 7,000 exhausted but happy East Germans arrived in West Germany on special trains early yesterday , hundreds who missed the trains joined the queue to go west at embassies in Prague and Warsaw . |
| 8 | Most of us need to borrow money at some time or another . |
| 9 | Nor , said Thomas Gisborne in 1795 , must he himself disdain to borrow money at the appropriate moment if he is not to put his credit to real and serious hazard . |
| 10 | It would still be reasonable to suspect that someone prepared to borrow money at high rates of interest was likely to be particularly vulnerable , even if there is now little surviving residue of the old suspicion or disapproval of interest-bearing credit on ethical grounds . |
| 11 | Very few of us go through life without needing to borrow money at some time or other . |
| 12 | " Then they have to go to the Chinese to borrow money at highwaymen 's rates . |
| 13 | If people do not pay the Council will have to borrow money at current high interest rates to pay its bills ( including bills for trying to collect the tax ) and that can only mean higher poll tax bills next year . |
| 14 | If the terms of redemption merely provided for their redemption at par , their holders would be highly vulnerable ; for if interest rates fell since the date of issue it would clearly pay the company to redeem them and to borrow money at a lower rate of interest than the fixed dividend . |
| 15 | From the late 1620s onwards , a significant number of courtiers had begun to attend mass at the queen 's chapel and a steady stream of them subsequently became converts to Roman Catholicism . |
| 16 | Sales are going very well and Professor Jones was delighted to see copies at every location he visited in Brittany last summer . |
| 17 | Ingratiators in low power positions use favours , self-promotion and flattery to induce superiors at least to listen to the ‘ rational ’ case . |
| 18 | It is up to the Secretary of State , if he keeps internment on the books as he has told us he will , to begin to educate people throughout this kingdom about the need to implement internment at a time that he judges correct — when he is advised by the Chief Constable and the GOC to do so . |
| 19 | I went down to see Will at ten o'clock after |
| 20 | It is common for pupils to grow in height as much as an inch and a half ; they appear to lose weight at the same time . |
| 21 | But future Landsat craft can be expected to carry sensors at least as sensitive as the thematic mapper . |
| 22 | A £15,000 appeal to erect floodlights at Pickering Town FC 's ground is now just £2,000 short of its target . |
| 23 | The woman looked down on them for a moment ; not seeming to see Lucy at all , she was looking at Josie . |
| 24 | The news of the cost overrun caused Eurotunnel 's share price to fall 100p at one stage , although it recovered slightly to close 45p down at 650p . |
| 25 | She used to regularly get tickets for Hancock 's Half Hour radio shows simply for the chance to see Ken at work — ‘ Men used to fight to escort me to the broadcasts . ’ |
| 26 | For example , I have not concentrated much on the work of Steven Jones and related experiments that claim to see neutrons at levels near to background ; if real , they are of interest to science but have nothing to offer as such solutions to the world 's energy problems , at least not in the grandiose form claimed on behalf of Fleischmann and Pons . |
| 27 | A MAN with a compulsion to drive cars at high speed was sent to young offenders institution for a year . |
| 28 | The whole time that I was working at Erith with Wartberg I would journey right across London every Friday afternoon to see Gyggle at his new office . |
| 29 | Darlington council yesterday agreed to demolish sheds at the motive diesel works east of Melland Street and landscape the site as part of the Railside Revival scheme . |
| 30 | Social workers visited Celia and Danny to arrange sessions at a family centre , but the couple announced they were going to spend two weeks in Hackney with Danny 's mother . |