Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [vb infin] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Right it is a hundred miles from King 's Lynn to London , the train takes two hours to do the journey the train does not go at a constant speed , it speeds up sometimes and slows down at other times it also stops at stations on the way and on once of course as it , as it 's stopping it 's going more and more slowly and as it 's er moving off again it starts slowly and starts to go quickly but because it takes two hours in all the train goes a hundred miles in two hours we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
2 | In a fixed date action , if the defendant has not delivered a defence within the time limited , or in any action where the defendant does not appear at the pre-trial review ( or preliminary arbitration appointment ) , evidence by affidavit is admissible without notice unless the court otherwise orders ( Ord 20 , r 7(2) ; Ord 19 , r 5(2) ; Term No 2 ) . |
3 | Now if the prediction that follows from this maze of premises turns out to be false ( in our example , if the planet does not appear at the predicted location ) , then all that the logic of the situation permits us to conclude is that at least one of the premises must be false . |
4 | The empirical evaluation of teaching/learning activities does not aim at the exact specification of causes but at increased awareness of different factors which bear upon the learning process in particular classrooms . |
5 | Firstly , as we have earlier shown , old people are not valued in the same way as children ; their suffering does not pull at the public heart-strings so strongly . |
6 | It is important that the medium used flows and fills all the air space , so that subsidence does not occur at a later date . |
7 | The choice of starting and finishing places was arbitrary — the desert does not begin at a defined line . |
8 | The conductivity does n't stay at a certain level then ? |
9 | rather than say if it does n't arrive at a set time |
10 | How do you make sure that everyone does n't speak at the same time ? " |
11 | It does n't dispense at the bottom level . |