Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [modal v] [vb infin] 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 | Sooner or later we 'll all end up in Heaven , although this heaven is on earth and a really terrific disco where you can drink at one of four bars and dance beneath the stars . |
| 4 | ‘ Because some individuals might benefit more than others and the rule for public works is that all must benefit indifferently , or none may benefit at all . |
| 5 | You will either go to an antenatal clinic at the hospital , or to your doctor 's surgery or health centre , or you may attend at both places under a ‘ Shared Care ’ scheme . |
| 6 | Or who will arrive at any terminus , |
| 7 | This has often been criticised because we are told that in drawing an analogy we normally know ‘ both sides ’ that we are comparing ( eg ‘ does n't he look like a horse ? ’ , where we can look at both and judge ) , whereas in this case we can only look at one side , the object that we are comparing with God . |
| 8 | The option is to play somewhere where they can arrive at 2.45 and the ground is still empty . ’ |
| 9 | The draft reply contained one threat to report I M R O to the Securities and Investment Board for excessive enquiries er and for an unreasonable attitude and the other er bit of the reply was effectively a form of covering up presenting full financial information and disclosure to I M R O. Those replies were drafted by people inside the Maxwell organisation and you may want to comment on er the position , although I should stress at this stage that I like you have not seen the final version of any reply and I do not know whether I M R O persisted . |
| 10 | Not that I can remember at all . |
| 11 | I want something that that I can look at that for . |
| 12 | All this was meant to be experimental , but it would be better to describe it as speculative , as I have an idea that I could arrive at some sort of interesting effect if I kept trying , and the lack of certainty about the end result hardly mattered . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've had doubts that I could play at this level but I 've had great support from everyone . ’ |
| 14 | I 've got better odds than I 'd get at Russian roulette — twenty to one , at least . |
| 15 | She had awakened early , busied herself with her bags and , while she had waited for the taxi repeatedly told herself that men were a species that she would avoid at all costs from here on in . |
| 16 | ‘ That was very good of you , ’ whispered Isabel , rather surprised that she could speak at all . |
| 17 | We agreed that you would look at this to see whether there will be a need for something along the lines of your proposal once the Resource Book has been published . |
| 18 | And I hope when you go there e Aled that you 'll look at that because that 's all Welsh slate . |
| 19 | Er I think there 's a need to have a look at erm landscape character er across er Greater York on a consistent basis and er there are a number of ways that you could that you could look at this . |
| 20 | And something I have not seen anywhere else , though it makes good sense , is that in these mainly narrow streets , the shops have their signs strung out at right-angles across the way so that you can stand at one end and read their names from there , without having to go down to look at them one by one . |
| 21 | You need an anchor at each end of the punt , on a variable length of rope so that you can fish at any depth of swim on the water . |
| 22 | And the suggestion to this Committee was that it looked , that it looked further at the five hundred thousand pounds guideline that 's been set to address the apparent shortfall on community care funding , and also that you should look at further service reductions and their implications erm , of reductions of a further two hundred and fifty thousand , and those are again picked up later in the paper . |
| 23 | ‘ Is it important that you should know at this very moment ? ’ |
| 24 | Images scanned and printed on a 300dpi system using 32 levels of grey look surprisingly good ; better than you might expect at any rate . |
| 25 | They show more respect for OUR national anthem than you would find at any soccer match . |
| 26 | The crossing takes two and a half hours , so she 'll dock at three English time . |
| 27 | Some say that when data is damaged , its integrity is compromised , so you must look at each record before you automatically recover it . |
| 28 | That shows , so you can look at that and you can see how she 's spending her money . |
| 29 | And , and , and all , he 'd got all countries ' television er going , you know , so you could look at any country at the moment , the moment it was producing . |
| 30 | Because , hopefully , the product of this discussion is that we 'll look at each grant , judge it on its merits , and then come up with what we think 's the right figure . |