Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | A MAN with a compulsion to drive cars at high speed was sent to young offenders institution for a year . |
| 4 | One possible future for biomedical engineering not essayed by Heinz ( but which is being taken seriously by electronics wizard Clive Sinclair ) is the sending of minuscule probes into the bloodstream to repair damage at distant sites . |
| 5 | Indeed , he confessed that he was deeply troubled by having to pass sentence at ill : ‘ Itis with feelings of great pain that I pass sentence upon you , the defendants , and I can make great allowance for the youthful spirit which has been exhibited by you . ’ |
| 6 | At the 1989 Annual Conference in Bournemouth it was resolved to support the RAF Benevolent Fund 's 50th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain Appeal , and Branches were asked to provide support at local level for what became known as the ‘ Reach for the Sky ’ Appeal . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The old Poor Law had always provided instances of parishes making allowances to able-bodied parishioners unable to secure work or , more commonly , unable to secure work at adequate wages . |
| 9 | North West Gas used the census variable ‘ dwellings with no inside wc ’ to find areas at serious risk from blocked flues . |
| 10 | However , this class may actually enter into economic activities for private gain using , for example , its privileged position to secure credit at favourable rates of interest , obtain monopolies and franchises in import and export businesses , start up industrial enterprises , speculate in urban property and so on ( for a debate about the bureaucracy in lesser developed countries , see Coulson 1975 ; Leys 1975 : 193f . ) . |
| 11 | It currently accounts for some 10 per cent of ozone loss , but this proportion is likely to rise to 16 per cent if present trends continue , despite the fact that at a meeting of Montreal Protocol signatories last November , it was agreed to freeze use at present levels [ see ED 68 ] . |
| 12 | On May 9 , 1991 , the governments of New Zealand and China signed an agreement to establish relations at consulate-general level . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | You are expected to pay your whack to benefit society at large . |
| 15 | Regions devoid of neutral gas are vital for astronomers who hope to observe stars at extreme ultraviolet wavelengths . |
| 16 | Bear half left , aiming 100 yds to the right of group of trees , to find gate at right extremity of hedgerow . |
| 17 | There is , of course , room for disagreement about how much independence to grant children at different stages of their development . |
| 18 | It was also frequently noted that staff were encouraged to request attendance at external courses , but likely to be nominated for attendance at internal courses ( normally developed in the frame-work of their perceived training needs ) . |
| 19 | The young man sat down beside her and started to pull faces at young Rachel . |
| 20 | The general secretary of the railway union is elected by the federal congress rather than by the railway delegates alone , and there is a growing concern to concentrate policy-making at federal level . |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Most health information systems were originally designed to support decision-making at national level . |
| 24 | This removes any temptation to sell articles at different prices in different Member States . |
| 25 | In fact holoenzymes reconstituted in vitro with truncated α-subunits , α-235 or α-256 , containing respectively the first 235 and 256 amino acids of the 329 residues of the α protein were perfectly able to initiate transcription at constitutive promoters , but were unable to respond to CRP activation at type I promoters [ 13 ] . |
| 26 | I pay the rent , the salaries , the insurance , this , that and the other , and meanwhile I 'm having to sell stuff at great losses . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | There , in a raised garden overlooking the drive , and sheltered by umbrella pines , the servants were waiting to serve food at little tables scattered around haphazardly . |
| 30 | 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 . |