Example sentences of "[to-vb] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , it is appropriate for those working with a child to try to communicate at the right level ; this means introducing language structures with which the child is already familiar and trying to ensure that the content of conversations is appropriate to the child 's ability to understand and to her interests . |
| 2 | If CFC emissions continue to increase at the current rate , they would cause an extra 2C of warming over the same period . |
| 3 | His suicide , in protest at the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the forces of the Warsaw Pact — only Romania declined to participate - seemed to catch at the Western conscience as somehow symbolic of those dreadful days , though it produced no result other than a further deepening of the Cold War . |
| 4 | But even though what was being contemplated was regionally restricted , it nevertheless went far beyond what these states , following the British line , had been willing to accept at the European level . |
| 5 | The old slate quarry here is one of the largest man-made holes in Britain , and such is the fascination that holes in the ground exercise on the mind of man that there are special viewing platforms where visitors may stand to gape at the awesome chasm . |
| 6 | They arranged to meet at the Blue Boar on the following Wednesday night , then Billy jumped on his bike to ride home . |
| 7 | One o'clock was agreed as the deadline when Mrs Wijsmüller and another refugee worker , Gertrud van Tijn , were to meet at the American Hotel to decide on their next move . |
| 8 | I think that it was during this visit that Peter Duval-Smith tacked on to us when we were going to dine at the Turkish harbour . |
| 9 | Zeuxis 's painted vine provoked the wonder and the applause of all his audience when it attracted birds to peck at the plump fruit . |
| 10 | William was forced by the lie of the land to come at the Saxon strongpoint from the south . |
| 11 | Charlie is unaware of the spirits alive in him , so that the narrator of the story is frustrated in his attempt to come at the uncluttered account of past lives . |
| 12 | Whichever way I try to come at the Unknown Substance it remains just beyond my grasp . |
| 13 | They crossed the room to stand at the other side of the bed . |
| 14 | Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA plans to pitch at the top-end of the volume workstation business with high-performance machines built around Digital Equipment Corp 's Alpha RISC that will compete with the likes of Sun Microsystems Inc , Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM Corp — if it can figure out how to market the things . |
| 15 | To make money in engineering contracting you have got to work at the blue chip end of the market , people who want a top class value-for-money service and are prepared to pay a reasonable price for it . |
| 16 | So what forces impeded the real wage rate from falling so as to bring into employment those willing to work at the going wage rate ? |
| 17 | The point of mentioning John is that he used to work at the massive Hoover plant in West London . |
| 18 | She paid him eight shillings — or 40p — a week to work at the 16-room house she had inherited . |
| 19 | On Monday morning , she reported to work at the Swift building on Des Voeux Road . |
| 20 | All staff in these offices were offered the opportunity to go to Bristol to work at the head office . |
| 21 | Having attended the first General Commissioners ' hearing on 10 April 1991 , the debtor and his accountant failed to appear at the adjourned hearing on 19 June 1991 . |
| 22 | Of particular interest here is the fact that though the play itself died out , the characters from it continued to appear at the annual feast . |
| 23 | BUFFALO TOM , THOUSAND YARD STARE and SKAW are confirmed to appear at the final night of NME 's Viva Eight gigs . |
| 24 | It will probably not go unnoticed if you appear well organized at this stage , and it will certainly help you to appear at the right place and at the right time looking calm and unruffled . |
| 25 | After John died , when the Girls were asked to appear at the Royal Command Performance , she saw no reason why this show should be any different from the others and stood in her usual place at the side of the stage , hissing corrections at the Girls . |
| 26 | But my real ambition was to appear at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre , which I did eventually . ’ |
| 27 | The regent has said , even if it takes all day , we are not to appear at the royal palace or the Savoy until we have something more to tell him ! ’ |
| 28 | Of Charles Hutton : ‘ For the accommodation of such gentlemen and ladies as do n't choose to appear at the public school , I propose ( at vacant hours ) to attend them in their own apartments . ’ |
| 29 | The cow , worth thousands of pounds , had been champion of several shows and was due to appear at the National Dairy Event in Warwickshire next weekend . |
| 30 | It is difficult even to guess at the actual figures , but probably even in these areas thought of as " largely black " less than half the population is Caribbean . |