Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [pron] [adv] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only an organisation of this kind was capable of doing justice to the cause of the deaf and dumb and of representing it properly at national level . |
| 2 | She is currently in the process of closing it down at considerable personal loss . |
| 3 | How do you stop a cockerel from waking you up at five o'clock on a Monday morning ? |
| 4 | So much of his part was cut there seemed hardly any point in leaving him in at all . |
| 5 | Therefore the problem for us is not necessarily to get clients to install a new identity , but rather to find out which ‘ corporate communications ’ are unintelligible , and then to ask — in today 's cost-conscious times — whether it is worth putting them out at all . |