Example sentences of "[to-vb] and at " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we could say that in any marriage it is important for both partners to be able to contain and at times to say ‘ enough is enough ’ . |
| 2 | For example , where an execution only customer ( whose relationship with a broker/dealer was that of principal in respect of decisions as to which securities to purchase and at what price ) starts to take and rely on the broker/dealer 's advice as to what to buy , a fiduciary element may be introduced into the relationship rendering the clause defining the relationship as that between two principals ineffective . |
| 3 | The different combinations of colour , beautiful designs , textures , fibres and weaves all add up to a vast range of fabrics from which to choose and at enormously varying prices . |
| 4 | She is God 's creative energy as well as His power to destroy and at the same time she is His saving grace . |
| 5 | This needs to be done skilfully , and is usually done by trained researchers , who are adept at getting people to talk and at avoiding asking leading questions — because that is not merely cheating , it will lead to you deluding yourself : in this type of interview people are only too eager to tell you what they think you want to know . |
| 6 | There are eight places to visit and at each stop there 's a game to play , a puzzle to solve or an exercise to carry out . |
| 7 | In other cases there is land to spare and at the same time extreme population pressure plus unequal landholdings , such as in Brazil , where there is a constant stream of immigrants to the marginal lands of the North-East and to Amazonia . |
| 8 | Consequently , pseudo-costs can be calculated early in the solution and used to estimate and at nodes further down the enumeration tree . |
| 9 | Whilst acknowledging that today 's six-year-olds are tomorrow 's workforce , what they require of their teachers is the opportunity to begin to learn how to think critically , to question , and to challenge and at the same time acquire the learning skills appropriate to particular academic disciplines . |
| 10 | As the town began to grow and at the same time fragment in strange , squalid and unforeseen ways , the gardens became symbolic in a different fashion . |
| 11 | ‘ The whole point of the incentive allowances system is for local authorities and schools to decide for themselves how many allowances to award and at what rates in the light of their particular circumstances , ’ Mr MacGregor said . |
| 12 | It is clearly marked , easy to use and at £59.00 remarkably cheap . |
| 13 | It was last to start and at this rate , will probably be last to finish . |
| 14 | Erm so Russia decides to intervene and at this point erm is especially concern of Britain . |
| 15 | However , another striking example of this type of mismatch arose when a student teacher CDL used a very simple program that asked children to estimate angles : it was simple to run and at the time had no documentation . |
| 16 | There are feelings of anger and resentment at being singled out by the disease , at being unable to achieve the control one fought so hard to obtain , at being forced to accept defeat , at being forced towards recovery by the sheer weight of consequences and sometimes by the final threats of others who have at last truly come to the end of their patience and understanding , at having to give up the " trusted friend " , at having to face up to issues one most wanted to forget and at having to make an inventory , admit one 's wrongs and make amends . |
| 17 | For the last two lines I usually get everyone to clap and at the end to raise their hands and shout ‘ Oi ’ |
| 18 | Ten minutes later the staff began to arrive and at nine o'clock Fred Workman walked in to introduce me to the staff and show me around the building . |
| 19 | Besides , if Derek continues to drink , at best he probably has a year left to live and at worst a matter of months . ’ |
| 20 | In a modern society , it is — more or less — up to the individuals or couples to choose the age at which they marry or enter into one kind of conjugal union or another , to decide whether they should have a child or children or not , mow many children they want to have and at what intervals , and to opt for an age at which they want to cease childbearing , etc . |
| 21 | It is what they want to learn and at the speed they want to learn it . |
| 22 | Now on the seventeenth of September Mr met Peter on the defendant 's firm er for the first time at his office , where they had er a general discussion about the business and about what needed to be done in order to secure it and er the plaintiffs at that stage told Peter that there should be er no problems over finance as he understood the bank were willing to assist and at that stage he wanted to move as quickly as possible to exchange contracts on the business erm , for two reasons . |
| 23 | These are only a few of the choices before them , but even these are very difficult to prioritize and at times some of them must be sacrificed at the expense of others in this play . |
| 24 | I should add here that even as a junior at Halton I was in the senior cross-country team — which only people in their very last year were normally eligible to join and at this stage I was in my first year of three , I was allowed to go out on any occasion , in running gear , to train as I was a bona fide member of the team and so on one of these occasions when I was out training — I always wore a sort of towel around my neck which looked very professional at the time and quite unnecessary — I managed to conceal the altimeter , which had become very very hot property by this time because it was known that several instruments were missing and we could have a visit from the gendarme . |
| 25 | True to form , the Valvestate S80 is more than happy to oblige and at low volume the Boost channel switched to OD2 handles everything thrown at it . |
| 26 | Sheep slaughterings continue to rise and at almost 49,000 head were a third up on the same month last year . |
| 27 | Sloane himself reckoned that such an opportunity to travel and at the same time pursue the practice of physic was too good an opportunity to miss . |