Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [modal v] [verb] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or partners may look at each other across the breakfast table once the children have left home and ask themselves what they still have in common . |
| 2 | Essentially , the vulnerable times are the beginning and end of each journey , although danger can strike at any time . |
| 3 | Intuitively , one would guess that abnormalities could arise at many points in such a system and we will now consider severe clinical disorders which bear this out . |
| 4 | Some naturalists believe that tigers will mate at any time of year . |
| 5 | ‘ And I suggest that Diana will remarry at some point . |
| 6 | ‘ Yeah , but you can imagine the problems that Gus would have at that time , and I could see why he would react like that . |
| 7 | Let him think that Elinor may go at any minute . |
| 8 | Good dealers in shares and futures would laugh at this yardstick . |
| 9 | She complained that it was ‘ indecent that fellows and wenches should come at such hours as they do ’ to get her husband out of bed for the night watches . |
| 10 | Inflationary expectations will be revised upwards , eventually to 4 per cent according to Friedman , and the appropriate Phillips curve will shift upwards to curve B. As it does so , unemployment rises back to the NUP and the economy moves to point F. At this point , the actual and expected rates of inflation are 4 per cent , and inflation will stay at this rate so long as the new money supply growth rate is maintained . |
| 11 | An order came out from the Chief Constable : ‘ The following inspectors ( there were three of them — I was one ) and sergeants and men will parade at such-and-such a yard at Birkenhead at eleven o'clock for the launching of the Ark Royal . |
| 12 | None of these four and five-year-olds could read at that stage . |
| 13 | But fire can happen at any moment : the Red Watch was called to the King 's Cross Underground station fire . |
| 14 | Since delegation can occur at any time a basic question you the manager should regularly be asking yourself is : ‘ At this moment , am I making the best use of my time ? ’ |
| 15 | Newson and Newson ( 1.3 ) suggest that it is only in this century that questions about how to bring up children have been widely discussed ; hitherto the niceties of different child-rearing philosophies were set aside in the face of a more fundamental dilemma , whether children would survive at all beyond the first few years . |