Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [modal v] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On our popular , and well proven itinerary , you 'll visit PEKING where you can marvel at the Forbidden City and Imperial Palace , the Temple of Heaven , Ming Tombs and the world famous Pandas . |
| 2 | It is open to the public at 17.00 on Fridays and on Sunday mornings , or you can apply at the sacristy . |
| 3 | Or you can look at the star chart cast at somebody 's birthdate . |
| 4 | It is one of the requirements of any British Prime Minister that every Tuesday and Thursday between 3.15 and 3.30 p.m. he or she should appear at the dispatch box and answer questions from MPs on any subject . |
| 5 | That the arbitrageur can lend money at the riskless rate of interest appears sensible , but it is more questionable to assume that he or she can borrow at the riskless rate ( although if the marginal arbitrageur is a large financial institution , the assumption may be reasonable ) . |
| 6 | Where we may feel at a disadvantage compared with moral absolutists with fixed standards is not in the claim to objectivity but in the sense of certainty . |
| 7 | Thus we can examine any given sequence of events dramatically by seeing these events through different eyes , or we can look at the same events from a distance by framing our drama as an investigation or an enquiry : we , the participants in the drama , could be townspeople celebrating the history of our town , creating a pageant . |
| 8 | For the second week they 'll be whisked off to lively Barbados , where they will stay at the Discovery Bay Hotel on the fashionable West Coast of the island . |
| 9 | When the kitchen was clean and the children put to bed , Beth and David would go to the sitting room , where he would sit at the circular table , head bent over documents and rent books . |
| 10 | From there , it will be transported 1,000 miles overland to Chengdu , at the foot of the Tibetan Mountains , where it will reassembled at the site of a tube-making company . |
| 11 | The harm resulting from corporate discretion might lie in its impact on particular individuals or groups , or it might exist at a more abstract level , in the social disfiguration that the concentration of power in a small number of hands represents . |
| 12 | He claims to have absolutely no inkling of what will happen on his next page , or what will happen at the end of a novel . |
| 13 | The plan was that everyone would meet at the cottage on Boxing Day , making their own way there and hopefully bringing enormous amounts of expensive food and drink if they did n't want to be turned back at the gate . |
| 14 | It is useful to establish within an institute that everyone will zero at the same point , so that the numbering starts from approximately the same place each time . |
| 15 | It 's actually quite a deep lecture theatre , I think it 's probably the biggest the University possesses outside the great hall , and er it it 's difficult to get them large enough so that everyone can see at the back . |
| 16 | " But my mistresses go home to their husbands for Christmas , and although I could stay at the Covington-Pyms and ride out with the hunt on Boxing Day morning , and call round at the Moons on my way back to cheer up poor Marie … |
| 17 | However , that is not an accusation that I could level at the Leader of the Opposition , as he has not found time to say anything at all about the environment — true or false . |
| 18 | For what is being suggested is that I knew today and not yesterday , despite the fact that there was no difference between the two days that I could tell at the time . |
| 19 | My intention is that I should leave at the end of the year . |
| 20 | ‘ That I 'd jump at the chance of marrying you . |
| 21 | Although she 'd protest at the mere notion , she sacrificed a possible future career as a contralto — to put marriage and the family first . |
| 22 | Her mother was killed in a train accident and her father , without looking at her , for he very rarely looked at her , told her that she would continue at the local school . |
| 23 | She was seeking the next angle , the next approach , knowing that she 'd have at the most a couple of minutes to make her pitch . |
| 24 | She needs a style that she can transform at the flick of a brush or the twist of a curler to complement her every mood . |
| 25 | Det Sgt Stimpson said : ‘ She searches him every time he comes home or goes out , and she keeps his bedroom bare of the usual toys and clutter so that she can see at a glance whether he has hidden any stolen property . ’ |
| 26 | Harriet drove her to the local hospital as soon as the pains started in mid-afternoon and , knowing how hazardous the road back in the dark could be at this time of the year , brought an overnight bag so that she could stay at a nearby hotel . |
| 27 | I think you 're suggesting that the local government would do a lot more if the national government would allow it , and I suspect you 're a Labour member of the Oxfordshire County Council and I think that you would point at the Conservative central government as being , if not deliberately anti-women , then the effect of some of it 's policies seemed to indicate that that 's where it 's heading . |
| 28 | Well these were the hottest place that you could work at the ovens of dough in the bread ovens . |
| 29 | That 's right , that 's right , yes , how we consume these products , yes , I mean , you 're right , so a potato is a potato is a potato , but if it 's pre-packed , graded and washed , that is sort of intrinsically different from er , er , sort of , mouldy , scruffy old potatoes that you could buy at a greengrocer . |
| 30 | Why is it that you can arrive at an aerodrome ( they do not have the temerity to call them airports , let alone international ) with facilities such as NDBs , localisers , clean eating facilities , tar macadam runways , and where landing fees are minimum ? |