Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] [modal v] [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | We had barely enough food for three months , let alone the four and a half it would take at fifteen miles a day . |
2 | In section 4.1 we shall look at each of these in turn , devoting a sub-section to each . |
3 | Each day we used to do say an hour in the morning , whatever time was available between leaving school and getting back , dinner time , then in the evening you might have two , two and a half hours you left you , you finished school , and er you might finish at eight o'clock if you were lucky you 'd finish at half past seven . |
4 | All I shall do at this stage is to give a summary of how I see effective religious education . |
5 | And all I could do at this terrible invasion was to rise and stand mutely , with my hands by my sides , staring up at this tremendous being — whom I now saw clearly for the first time . |
6 | But all I can do at this moment in time is tell you where I stand today . |
7 | ‘ That is all I can say at this stage , as these things take some time to arrange , ’ he said , adding : ‘ There is obviously a fair lot to do and it will take a few months . ’ |
8 | There are manifest dangers in the way a relative norm is chosen , but once it is accepted that relative validity is all we can aim at these need not worry us unduly . |
9 | The problem is largely an insuperable one , and all we can do at this stage is to bear it in mind . |
10 | I think that 's all we can say at this stage . |
11 | In Chapter 3 we will look at specific examples of criminal behaviour , and will discuss and criticise some of the common assumptions about the nature and extent of crime in contemporary society . |
12 | I actually became interested , not so much in the women locally but my o , my own grandmother Greta , was a herring gutter from Wick I never knew her , I have one photograph of her taken with her two children , and when my children were small I used to look at this and think , how did she get away for weeks to work and follow the boats |
13 | But first I will look at some other changes in form , particularly those involving changes in shape in cell sheets , changes in contact , and cell migration . |
14 | He thought he had probably broken it , but there was little he could do at this time of night . |
15 | It was a flimsy pretext and might not get me anywhere , but it was the best I could do at such short notice . |
16 | ‘ Yes , it was the best I could do at short notice . ’ |
17 | Although he avoids arguing that capitalism created a sexual morality to serve its own imperatives — it has no master plan — ‘ the best we can do at this stage is to suggest that the articulation between sexual mores and capitalism occurs through complex mediations — through moral agencies , political interventions , diverse social practices ’ . |
18 | In section 3.4 we shall look at some of the factors constraining monetary expansion . |
19 | It was the best he could do at short notice . |