Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [modal v] [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean if you put your hand up to the sun you can feel it , you detect it , your eyes detect it , well you have detectors which detect them and , for example , if I want to detect something like an electron well then I can make a counter which is sensitive to charged particles like electrons , and I can allow these electrons to hit this counter and it will produce erm an identifiable electrical pulse and I can look at that and I can say this is an electron , or I can look at other particles , say , for things like helium nuclei which are called alpha particles , and I can make counters which will detect these and I can put a little piece of paper in front and I can stop off the alpha particles . |
| 2 | The outcome of the exercise in the White Paper , I think , had three main parts : one was a new think-tank , the Central Policy Review Staff , which presumably reflected some of the stuff you 'd seen in the United States at Rand and so on ; the other was a new system of , I suppose you would call it , zero-based budgeting , where you would look at longstanding government commitments and see if they should stagger on — that was Programme Analysis and Review ; and , to reduce the weight on Cabinet , there were to be big conglomerate departments , which led to the Department of Trade and Industry and the Department of the Environment . |
| 3 | I 've got better odds than I 'd get at Russian roulette — twenty to one , at least . |
| 4 | So we want to get bright objects that we can see at great distances , but we also need to know something about what it is we 're looking at . |
| 5 | Investors are so willing to believe in recovery around the corner that they will clutch at false hopes almost indefinitely . |
| 6 | Its adaptability means that it can survive at high altitudes , in semi-arid areas , and in rocky areas as well as in forests . |
| 7 | I shall draw from studies of nineteenth-century medicine which show how the Female was defined in certain ways , and I shall look at early psychoanalytic theory in the light of this , to show how the demands of female desire continue to be a problem for modern culture . |
| 8 | I 'll come tomorrow and we will play at Indian princes and elephants — ’ |
| 9 | Erm you can phone them up and ask them for a Yellow Pages listing and they and they 'll give at random a listing from the Yellow Pages in whatever area you ask for . |
| 10 | Leadership is also apparent in many different spheres of activity — the military , the political , the organisational and so on — and it may exist at different levels . |
| 11 | To quote Kurt Vonnegut in Bluebeard : ‘ In the movies back then , just about any big-nosed person whose ancestors came from the shores of the Mediterranean or the Near East , if he could act at little , could play a rampaging Sioux or whatever . |
| 12 | Because they can borrow at subsidised rates , government-sponsored enterprises tend to grow until they dominate their field . |
| 13 | They stared at him as you might stare at orange rats trying to get into bed with you . |
| 14 | Would Sir Alexander Ramsay , of his goodness and in his leal duty to the King 's Grace and his Regent , come to Lochmaben Castle in Annandale at his earliest convenience , bringing with him such armed and horsed supporters as he could raise at short notice ? |