Example sentences of "to a [noun] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At 6 he was dispatched to a school at Great Dunham kept by the rector , Richard Ransome , where he remained , enjoying only very brief holidays , until he went to Eton ; nor did he go home for all of his holidays . |
| 2 | There are also references to a mill at nearby Lower Swell but this does not survive , having gone during the latter half of the 18th century . |
| 3 | ‘ When will an offensive odour amount to a nuisance at common law , in the absence of actual physical damage to property ? ’ i.e. ‘ When will the interference caused by the perception of the odour be ‘ unreasonable ’ in the eyes of the law ? ’ |
| 4 | Often odour nuisance is the result of emissions from several sources , none of which alone would amount to a nuisance at common law , but should the aggregate odour amount to a nuisance at law , it is no defence that the nuisance was caused by many . |
| 5 | A water authority will , therefore , be in breach of its statutory duty if it permits obnoxious odours , which amount to a nuisance at common law , to emanate either from its sewage disposal works , or due to any recycling of treated or untreated sewage sludge on to farm land , and it is open to a local authority or person aggrieved , in the absence of informal agreement perhaps via a Liaison Committee , to seek an injunction to restrain the water authority from causing the nuisance . |
| 6 | Such a construction put on the word ‘ nuisance ’ however renders the public health legislation ineffective in controlling odours which are neither prejudicial to health nor amount to a nuisance at common law but are still a source of annoyance and it still leaves environmental health officers with the task of assessing whether the odour complained of amounts to a common law nuisance . |
| 7 | He later said : ‘ The only inaccuracy in the article was that senior officers from the Northern Ireland branch were summoned to a meeting at Conservative Party headquarters a fortnight ago . |
| 8 | Twenty-sixth June — I accompanied an officer to a meeting at airborne H.Q near the River Orne . |
| 9 | Trevor moved to a farm at Horsted Keynes , Sussex , in 1897 . |
| 10 | The technique also enables them to opt for a 4 ohms working impedance ( as opposed to the norm of 8 ohms ) in the knowledge that this figure is much more consistent than the nominal figure given for almost all other loudspeakers ( in one or two notable designs the impedance dips almost to a short-circuit at certain frequencies , making them un-usuable with many amplifiers ) . |
| 11 | Such a corporation , it was held , should have the same power to maintain an action for a libel by which its property is injured as the law allowed to a corporation at common law , and the power to sue for libel or slander for the protection of its reputation in the carrying on of its business . |
| 12 | ‘ Listen , ’ Stephen said to a woman at Labour Party headquarters in Transport House . |
| 13 | Gloucestershire County Council has rejected plans to send two hundred thousand tons of rubbish to a site at Hempsted near Gloucester . |