Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [noun] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An annual study day on topical issues in nursing is organised by the alumni of the department and departmental staff collaborate frequently with other professional and academic groups to mount conferences at national and international level . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | In reality husbands demand meals at specific times , small children cry when their stomachs are empty , the hour that might be spent cooking competes with the hour that ought to be spent washing the floor or changing the beds . |
| 4 | Leslie Reed , then Chief Inspector , told a House of Lords Select Committee in 1982 that the Inspectorate would ‘ almost certainly ’ require methods to reduce sulphur at new power stations but this had no immediate effect . |
| 5 | All parents need support at different points in their parenting careers , but parents with learning difficulties are frequently beset by additional problems . |
| 6 | Workers given news at mass meeting |
| 7 | There were also different conventions surrounding painting at different periods . |
| 8 | Moreover , subsistence plots produce goods at competitive prices by the working of long hours , using unpaid household labour and accepting low standards of subsistence . |
| 9 | The most controversial change of auditors of the past two years took place at Prudential Corporation . |
| 10 | In the following week US officials expressed concern at alleged fresh shipments of weapons aboard North Korean ships , reported to be Scud-Cs , surface-to-surface missiles or Chinese M-9s . |
| 11 | The initiative is also supported by Wilson Sporting goods who will supply Staff Coaches to give advice at regional Centres , not to mention the Wilson Radar Gun , which will be available at each tournament to enable competitors to measure the speed of their serves . |
| 12 | It makes all those dreadful school problems about taps filling baths at varying speeds seem easy ! |
| 13 | So , on the whole I am cautiously in favour of machines inspecting passports at great speed , a scheme experimentally working at Heathrow . |
| 14 | Firms select workers at random from the pool of union and non-union workers irrespective of their union status . |
| 15 | Two telephones permit students at opposite ends of the classroom to engage in conversation while the rest of the class listens . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The extent to which the process of privatization has involved major shifts to market provision at local level , then , should not be exaggerated , and public choice theory would suggest there is much more scope for the market provision of services currently handled through the state . |
| 18 | five bags of potatoes and 10 boxes of eggs from Hooks View Nursery at Great a radio from a Vauxhall Astra in Hebron Road , a radio from an Austin Maestro in Wheatlands , Great tools worth £80 from a garage at Eastfields , Stokesley . |
| 19 | Venous blood ( 10 ml ) was taken for serology tests and patients underwent endoscopy at random using 4–6 mg midazolam for secation , afterhaving given informed consent . |
| 20 | POLICE fired a number of baton rounds when about 150 youths threw stones at New Barnsley RUC station in west Belfast last night . |
| 21 | The latest variants on royalty structures use branches of a Dutch company , which operate in much the same way as finance branches , and rely on exemptions to avoid tax at full rates in the Netherlands . |
| 22 | Monitoring of lorries going through nearby villages takes place at frequent intervals and there are repeated calls for more potash to be transported by train . |
| 23 | And , unlike many firms , Dunedin charges dealing costs at institutional rates , usually around 0.2% to 0.25% as opposed to , say , 1.65% . |
| 24 | As Figures 10 and 11 show , the demand for items from the stacks reached peaks at particular periods of the day . |
| 25 | LEVEL CROSSINGS — Many accidents take place at level crossings simply because people lose patience and do n't wait for the barriers to open . |
| 26 | Children make progress at various speeds at different ages and by watching their activities and offering the next stage when they are ready for it teachers can give them the breadth of experience that will make the formal work of later years more meaningful . |
| 27 | Heroin haul … police seize drugs at illegal rave party site . |
| 28 | More than 7,000 young men spent time at American air bases in Alabama , Georgia , Florida and South Carolina , learning the arts of flying at a time when Britain was desperately short of qualified pilots . |
| 29 | If a school intends to operate a form of option system allowing pupils to drop history at Key Stage 4 or to opt for the short course or continue with the full course , pupils and parents will presumably wish to base their decision on performance to date . |
| 30 | For children receiving education at private schools , the structure is less pyramidal : A greater proportion of those educated at private schools proceed to university than those attending state schools . |