Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] [verb] [adv] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those of us who are involved with the courts should look closely at the options available , specifically in the sentencing of cases involving violence . |
| 2 | Circuit roads closed this morning and motorists travelling to Portrush from the Belfast and Ballymena direction should turn right at the end of the Ballymoney by-pass , and travel via Ballybogey and White Rocks . |
| 3 | Identifying particular individual predators may be useful given that certain animals might hunt regularly at the colony , and that some might well be more experienced and effective hunters than others . |
| 4 | The leisurewear industry would come apart at the seams , literally , without this indispensable fastening . |
| 5 | And he said that he hoped manufacturers would look again at the instructions to see whether they could be made clearer . |
| 6 | All finalists will stay overnight at the luxurious Langham Hilton Hotel , 1c Portland Place , London W1N 3AA ( 071–636 1000 ) . |
| 7 | The research will operate both at the national and local level . |
| 8 | 1 am , Bath : As in Richmond and Barnes , there are few Labour voters left in Bath for the Liberal Democrats to squeeze and Chris Patten , clinging to a majority of only 1,412 , hopes Labour 's vote will go up at the Liberal Democrats ' expense . |
| 9 | The club will open only at the weekends , but the organisers eventually hope to extend the service to seven days . |
| 10 | The police authorities might look askance at the bottle of beer but to the constables it was seen as a legitimate reward for a little extra service . |
| 11 | Every year , in late October , she would arrive with her annual accounts , and she and Nigel would settle down at the dining-table with a bottle of wine and go through them . |
| 12 | A calm stance breeds a sense of trust and security , while a threatening pose will make creatures run , just as a dog will cower or a cat will flee merely at the kind of look expressed upon your face , even in the absence of words . |
| 13 | Unless someone can crack the problem of how to incorporate higher quality displays and graphics cards in an Amstrad PC it is unlikely that the machine will figure largely at the page makeup end of the market . |
| 14 | Taller columns will sway more at the top , causing the span to unseat itself . |
| 15 | However , such a transfer can happen only at the expense of the central authority . |
| 16 | The purchaser may discover either at the outset of negotiations or from its due diligence exercise that the ownership of the assets it wishes to buy is distributed amongst various companies in the vendor 's group . |
| 17 | To generate this distribution of viscous stress , the mean velocity profile must rise steeply at the wall and then become comparatively flat . |
| 18 | The outcome could swing dramatically at the last stage . |
| 19 | The guests would smile politely at the work and the information , often not quite sure how to take either of them . |
| 20 | The schoolboy team will set off at the end of the month . |
| 21 | Youth workers from all over North Yorkshire will meet today at the Galtres Centre in Easingwold for a special conference on smoking . |
| 22 | The conference will look closely at the common experience of Scotland and Ireland as peripheral regions and at the nature of their relationships — economic , social and cultural — with the metropolitan centre . |
| 23 | The 95 workers will clock on at the Gloucester factory for the last time at the end of the month … after that the British Forces will be dressed in uniforms made in Morocco … |
| 24 | So when we come up here to make a presentation let's put aside at the moment the content of what we actually say what do we what do we need to think about ? |
| 25 | So daunting is this prospect , that many taxpayers should look afresh at the best forms of taxation and the best destinations for the proceeds . |
| 26 | I bear fully in mind Mr. Philipson 's salutary warning , based on statements by Sir Nicolas Browne-Wilkinson V.-C. in E.M.I . Records Ltd. v. Spillane , at p. 973 , that where the court is considering powers of a draconian nature , which gravely impinge on the citizen 's ordinary rights , the court should look jealously at the legislation , and if there is any ambiguity , resolve it in favour of existing legal rights . |
| 27 | All investors must look carefully at the safety of any offshore investment as protection arrangements may be less rigorous than in the UK . |
| 28 | The hon. Gentleman should look back at the Labour party 's record in government before he starts to criticise ours . |
| 29 | Suitable scenes of red-faced hilarity would occur back at the office as someone always tipped off the entire staff to be ready at the front door . |
| 30 | The stem of this one was easily broken and often the head would fly off at the first stroke . |