Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [adv] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If a husband or wife wants a family deep down , then it may eat away at the relationship and they may blame their partner for not allowing them to fulfil their needs . ’ |
| 2 | So down at squadron level we had this very much in our minds when in time the orders came down through Group , through station , right to the people who had to do the carting and the bombing , I feel I should explain right at the outset that I can only view at the later stages of the war the state of morale as I saw it in the entire Pathfinder Force . |
| 3 | ‘ it is , in my view , clear that the court , in considering whether a continuing situation of one or other of the kinds described in section 1(2) ( a ) exists , must do so at the point of time immediately before the process of protecting the child concerned is first put into motion . |
| 4 | If a meme is to dominate the attention of a human brain , it must do so at the expense of ‘ rival ’ memes . |
| 5 | The firm which wishes to increase its market share in a static market must do so at the expense of its competitors . |
| 6 | They should look again at the literature , and they should listen to their patients . |
| 7 | I bear fully in mind Mr. Philipson 's salutary warning , based on statements by Sir Nicolas Browne-Wilkinson V.-C. in E.M.I . Records Ltd. v. Spillane , at p. 973 , that where the court is considering powers of a draconian nature , which gravely impinge on the citizen 's ordinary rights , the court should look jealously at the legislation , and if there is any ambiguity , resolve it in favour of existing legal rights . |
| 8 | All investors must look carefully at the safety of any offshore investment as protection arrangements may be less rigorous than in the UK . |
| 9 | The tin-hatted soldiers who were sent into to quell riots on the troubled streets of Londonderry and Belfast must look enviously at the gear provided for the modern soldier . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , just a tiny little doubt should lurk somewhere at the back of your mind . |
| 11 | Yes , you should go right at the beginning |
| 12 | Obviously , the content of a shot has a bearing on its length ; ideally , it should end just at the moment when the viewer has absorbed all the information in the scene , and is beginning to wonder what happens next ? |
| 13 | While it may seem intuitively obvious that lexical access should start right at the beginning of the utterance and soon after its onset , the four systems tried a number of different approaches . |
| 14 | To generate this distribution of viscous stress , the mean velocity profile must rise steeply at the wall and then become comparatively flat . |
| 15 | Circuit roads closed this morning and motorists travelling to Portrush from the Belfast and Ballymena direction should turn right at the end of the Ballymoney by-pass , and travel via Ballybogey and White Rocks . |
| 16 | It is approached along a forty-mile-long fiord and the approach instructions are that the pilot should turn left at the entrance by the sunken freighter that sticks up in the fiord , or else run out of airspace and crash into the sheer mountains that rise to seven thousand feet at the end of it . |
| 17 | For example , they may coexist in a " stable diglossia " ( Ferguson 1959 ) — with a strict differentiation of function between the " high " and " low " languages , or one may decline steadily at the expense of the other . |
| 18 | But we 'll know more at the PM . ’ |
| 19 | The police authorities might look askance at the bottle of beer but to the constables it was seen as a legitimate reward for a little extra service . |
| 20 | While the media , still mesmerised by a possible price war , might look askance at the group , the City seems to approve . |
| 21 | Identifying particular individual predators may be useful given that certain animals might hunt regularly at the colony , and that some might well be more experienced and effective hunters than others . |
| 22 | He 'll go anywhere at the ring of a phone , and he spends much time on the road . |
| 23 | Before talking about the types of window you can choose , let's look briefly at the question of double glazing . |
| 24 | However , rearrangements may occur sequentially at the TCR- β and TCR -α loci , but with a causal relationship . |
| 25 | Basinwards of the zone of maximum thickness , a wedge of slope and basin plain sediments is present and porous dolomites may occur rarely at the foot of the mud-wedge . |
| 26 | The difference was that he could go home at the end of every shift . |
| 27 | You could get both at the Turk 's Head , and coffee and Horlicks and Tizer and Eccles cakes and jam doughnuts . |
| 28 | The purchaser may discover either at the outset of negotiations or from its due diligence exercise that the ownership of the assets it wishes to buy is distributed amongst various companies in the vendor 's group . |
| 29 | This may cost more at the time but could save a good deal of money in the long run . |
| 30 | He used to scream even at the idea of fresh air , but now he spends all his time outside in his wheelchair , with Miss Mary and Dickon Sowerby . |