Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] [adv] at the [noun] " 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 | Those of us who are involved with the courts should look closely at the options available , specifically in the sentencing of cases involving violence . |
| 7 | They should look again at the literature , and they should listen to their patients . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | So perhaps we should look harder at the plants we keep with out fish . |
| 10 | Gripping and polished — it should clean up at the box office this autumn . |
| 11 | All investors must look carefully at the safety of any offshore investment as protection arrangements may be less rigorous than in the UK . |
| 12 | All the same he felt that he must look in at the hall before going to his hotel . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But things have come to a pretty pass when obesity is confused with the wobbly bits the good Lord designed for girls — the bits that should stick out at the front and back of a strapless ballgown . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , just a tiny little doubt should lurk somewhere at the back of your mind . |
| 16 | Yes , you should go right at the beginning |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | Fear slowed his thoughts , and grudgingly granted him one consolation : at this speed they must come out at the bottom a damn sight faster than they went through at the top . |
| 19 | ( 1 ) It is a well-known custom that as soon as the siren of a fire-engine is heard , other vehicles should pull up at the side of the road , in order to afford free passage . |
| 20 | Joy said that this really was n't on and that they must pull up at the side of the road and try to find some stones or something with which to wedge the coffin . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | To generate this distribution of viscous stress , the mean velocity profile must rise steeply at the wall and then become comparatively flat . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | But we 'll know more at the PM . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | While the media , still mesmerised by a possible price war , might look askance at the group , the City seems to approve . |
| 29 | I did n't know whether you might stop off at the pub or something . |
| 30 | did n't know whether you might stop off at the pub . |