Example sentences of "[conj] [vb infin] at [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | However , when the risk-free asset is introduced to this situation investors will all either borrow or lend at the risk-free rate . |
2 | Soon all those who dare to smile or weep at the wrong moment will be sent to the poles … a cruel ruler will seize power , everyone who does not learn to keep silent will be put in prison and the extermination of mankind will begin . ’ |
3 | Rights to either buy or sell at a specified price within a specified period ( 3 months ) . |
4 | lines of type that do not start or end at the same position . |
5 | Those who persisted discovered the drives ' disconcerting tendency to implode or deliquesce at the merest touch of a screwdriver . |
6 | At this stage either party can invoke a procedure introduced in 1980 , which can place pressure on the other side to withdraw or settle at an early stage . |
7 | You can forgive or punish at the same time ca n't you , you can punish somebody and say that is wrong and yet you forgive them , that is you do n't hold it against them but you later on . |
8 | The implicit assumption is that investors can borrow and lend at the riskless rate of interest . |
9 | ‘ It 's impossible to cry and inhale at the same time . |
10 | widen participation in higher education and to teach and research at the highest level ; in so doing to continue to innovate within Scottish and British Higher Education ; |
11 | For most of those who link computing and boredom , the explanation is that they have to spend many working hours a day behind luminous screens endlessly tapping a plastic typewriter keyboard , after which they are usually fit only to go and goggle at the luminous screen in their living rooms every night . |
12 | ‘ I was only asking why you waste so much time stealing stuff you ca n't eat and then waste more time stealing dogs when you could steal and eat at the same time , as it were . ’ |
13 | His accuracy and stinginess with runs made him almost without equal as a one-day bowler , for he could both contain and attack at the same time since the bounce he got from his great height and the control he had over the ball gave him the extra penetration that brought wickets . |
14 | The mob , now several hundred strong , and going at it hammer and tongs , took time out to boo and jeer at the military presence . |
15 | ( b ) Both matrix and fibril may deform elastically and yield at the same strain . |
16 | My previous relationships have all been with women I 've been able to like and respect at the same time as I 've desired them . ’ |
17 | Piano music rippled out into the night as the richly costumed guests began to chatter and exclaim at the torch-lit façade and its huge swags of greenery laced with balloons and ribbons . |
18 | Shortly after the end of the strike , Dobre left the valley to go and study at the Communist Party 's university in Bucharest , the Academy Stefan Gheorghe . |
19 | Yes , you could think and dance at the same time . |
20 | Try to push and lift at the same time — go on , try to get the back wheels off the ground as you go along ! |
21 | I want you to come and look at a week-old bull calf . |
22 | Bob felt obliged to go and look at a certain number of these places out of politeness . |
23 | When Rachel was finally writing up her reports at the end of the morning , Nina suddenly called her and asked if she could come and look at a young man who had come in with a skin rash . |
24 | They decide to go and look at a new house they passed earlier in the day . |
25 | Coun Taylor said : ‘ We are always ready to talk and look at the statistical evidence for increased safety measures . |
26 | In the daytime you can come back and look at the Old State House we 're coming up to and see the cobblestones which mark the place where blood was shed in the great Boston Massacre . |
27 | Hawley decided on an immediate attack by his dragoons on the enemy right wing before his own weary infantry had got into line , convinced that the Highlanders would break and run at the mere sight of the royal cavalry charging sword in hand . |
28 | ‘ Power and knowledge directly imply each other … there is no power relation without the correlative constitution of a field of knowledge , nor any knowledge that does not presuppose and constitute at the same time power relations ’ ( Foucault , 1977 : 27 ) . |
29 | Lecture notes should never consist of many words , for the presence of such a mass of words will make the notes difficult to assimilate and understand at a later stage . |
30 | And that 's telling 'em — Jess thought , wanting to cheer and boo at the same time . |