Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adj] [to-vb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps we should not be so ready to sneer at the Close Brethren who deny unbelievers access to their domestic table , when we often do not share our holy table with believers . |
| 2 | He said he said erm he thought people might be less willing to speak at the meeting if they knew it was being recorded , which seems entirely reasonable . |
| 3 | In the context of nurses and health visitors returning to work it might be more useful to look at the ways in which regrading affects your application and appointment , and to provide you with general advice on what to expect from employers in due course . |
| 4 | Perhaps the scarcity is of trombonists keen to seek the front of the platform — it may be more appealing to lurk at the back , menacing one 's colleagues from behind . |
| 5 | Er and erm it 's difficult for people to maintain er not only as I say , but in their lifestyle over a particular period of time , so you could be more likely to get at the truth by this method , than by sending out questionnaires . |
| 6 | report and the management accounts because there are a number of things which have since , since these minutes er completed and we 'd like to bring up in the report but er I think that we 'd be as well to look at the |
| 7 | It might be as well to differentiate at the outset between the direct and the indirect effects which test-case litigation might be expected to achieve in promoting a change in the law on tax diversion . |
| 8 | I would , myself , be very keen to look at the possibility of such machines perhaps even going to third world countries , because it 's even arguable that the place for such intelligence systems is not to replace expert medical people in this country where we have such people , but to export them to developing countries which do n't have such people , and one could imagine , perhaps , a system of erm paramedical orderlies , who had some sort of medical knowledge and manipulative skill , taking a small expert computer in a shoe box — it would be no bigger — to villages and getting diagnoses of patient illnesses there on the spot . |
| 9 | It would be very difficult to arrive at the same conclusion in 1988 . |