Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] at [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was agreed Somerville and McCrea would stay on at the apartment in case Quinn called in . |
| 2 | It is understood that the companies set out in Schedule 2 , are , other than ABC GmbH and ABC Corp , wholly owned subsidiaries of ABC and will remain so at the time of the acquisition of ABC . |
| 3 | Both laboratory experiments and numerical simulations have demonstrated that plumes can arise only at a boundary between convective regimes , such as that between the Earth 's core and mantle at a depth of 2,900 km . |
| 4 | Man 's cultural development can arise only at the cost of a persisting lack of satisfaction of those sexual impulses which are seen as improper by men and women — the higher the degree of civilization and education , the greater the number of unsatisfied impulses . |
| 5 | Which was supposed to open and flap back at the end of the world and let her out , resurrected . |
| 6 | Even a pious man like Jovellanos could feel bitterly at the attempts of the Inquisition to sabotage his plans for establishing a modern technical institute at Gijon . |
| 7 | However , they will break down at the end of the black hole 's life when its mass gets very small . |
| 8 | But a bowler who does not break down at the end of every other over and who can finish each season with an average around the 25 mark would be worth his weight in gold now . |
| 9 | Moreover , if the tables are to be turned , the USSR will do so at a time of her choosing , rather than wait for the hour of maximum danger to herself . |
| 10 | 624 ( see above , p. 41 ) , he did not do so at the court of the king of the eastern Angles but at that of the still-powerful Eadbald , king of Kent , whom he seems to have continued to treat with considerable respect . |
| 11 | Joshua 6 ends with a curse pronounced over the charred corpses of the city 's inhabitants , promising anyone who might rebuild the city that he will do so at the cost of the lives of his own children . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | Another thing , sociology would seem to be saying that those who have wealth and do well do so at the expense of the poor unfortunate . |
| 14 | If a meme is to dominate the attention of a human brain , it must do so at the expense of ‘ rival ’ memes . |
| 15 | The firm which wishes to increase its market share in a static market must do so at the expense of its competitors . |
| 16 | They say that if they create Regional Government they will do so at the expense of National Government and not Local Government , but that is n't true because Mister has already said that erm strategic services such as passenger transport will b will be handed over to regions and if that goes obviously fire , police and strategic planning will be lost to us . |
| 17 | There is nothing but House and Seven , hence the House can grow only at the expense of the Seven . |
| 18 | The moral of this tale you can carry away at the end of my story of two Corbetts . |
| 19 | Could I just ask you , did those bodices do up at the back with hooks and eyes ? |
| 20 | One party can only do well at the expense of another , in competition for resources , recognition etc . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Unless we are prepared to defend it ourselves we will stay forever at the mercy of the moralists , their inquisitions and their laws . |
| 23 | The original bricks and mortar might be pulled down but Leatherslade Farm will remain forever at the centre of the legend . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He regarded all existing churches as false , believing the true church would emerge only at the end of the 1,260 years in the wilderness ( Revelations xii . |
| 26 | All the same he felt that he must look in at the hall before going to his hotel . |
| 27 | Sipping an evening martini at the Top of the Mark ( the glass-encircled roof garden of the Mark Hopkins Hotel high on Nob Hill ) one could look down at the lights of that most cosmopolitan city — over the warehouses and docks of the Embarcadero , over to Grant Avenue and Chinatown , down the cable-car track to Fisherman 's Wharf and beyond to the lights of the Golden Gate Bridge which crossed the bay to Sausolito . |
| 28 | The changes will take several months to make much difference to most people 's lives ( price controls remain on basic foods , heating and transport ; the auctions of small businesses will begin only at the end of January ) . |
| 29 | Erm and I really would ask the panel on this particular issue erm to er look critically at the suggestion in P P G three , paragraph thirty three that a new settlement could upgrade areas of low landscape value . |
| 30 | ( Jockeys do not often look backwards at the beginning of a race . ) |