Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] at this [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | at our next meeting is there anyone else you need to consult before making the decision to proceed now at this point , it 's coming to the end of the first appointment , you 're pretty sure you 're on your way so the pressure is off , he 's feeling fairly relaxed and hopefully he 's enjoyed the whole sale process with you , so what should his re his response be ? |
2 | For a drainage level to come in at this depth would have required some 600 ft. of tunnelling and of course , since the art of blasting was not yet introduced , it would have been a protracted and costly operation . |
3 | The speeches are short ( perhaps the school prize-giving metaphor breaks down at this point ) and the polished public school tones of the Synod have given way to nasal northern echoes . |
4 | There are many other more elaborate braids and edgings which are great fun to knit if you keep your machine set up at this time of year , as it is a good time to play with new ideas and perhaps to knit enough to edge that beautiful Chanel-type jacket you are going to knit later , but the simple knitted binding or a simple rouleau takes a lot of beating and always loos fashionable , elegantly simple and stylish . |
5 | Other members of the group shift awkwardly at this picture of Arcadia in Southall , until an economist announces coldly that ‘ it is axiomatic that anything the state does it does worse than the private sector . ’ |
6 | She wrote , with an unaccustomed fluency , which made her sister wonder if the words had been thought up by her alone , that : — it would not be good for Oreste to leave here at this moment since he has been ill and though he is making a good recovery the doctor who you can be sure I was quick to call and no expense being spared but your money put to good use has said it would injure his general well-being to travel in his weakened state . |
7 | Another character turns up at this stage in the obese and blustering form of Judge Sir John Popham . |
8 | But the Board now asks the general assembly to look again at this part of our remit and to form a judgment about where this work should be most effectively done in future . |
9 | Tess seemed like a queen to Clare , perhaps because he knew that she was the most beautiful woman walking about at this time of day . |
10 | Her father chuckled heartily at this admission , his work-hardened shoulders shaking comfortably . |
11 | The government has not at this stage , legislated in this area , but I understand in their next White Paper , they probably will take away the ceiling that presently exists , so that a rich offender could pay a lot more for his fine than er a person of average means . |
12 | I beg the Foreign Secretary to look again at this issue with the utmost scepticism . |
13 | In these difficult times it makes sense to look again at this post . |
14 | They do n't want a completely unknown counsellor to come in at this time . |
15 | A year ago at Unix Expo time we said IBM Corp was interested in moving AIX on to PC platforms other than its own to dispel its proprietary air ( UX No 359 ) : true to the promise , Blue turned up at this year 's Expo with AIX PS/2 Version 1.3 supporting non-Micro Channel boxes and running on Dell Computer Corp , AST Research Inc and Compaq Computer Corp . |
16 | At the county level representatives from lower levels were permitted to vote for candidates ; the secret ballot obtained only at this level . |
17 | The school owed much at this time to the support of William Smyth , Bishop of Lincoln , who was one of the founders of Brasenose College in 1509 . |
18 | Her aunt 's house was all of seven miles away and darkness fell early at this time of the year . |
19 | Moreover , the latest available data on more local patterns of employment growth in the 1980s indicate the sharpness of the boundary between the two parts of the country , because they show that , though more rural parts of the North performed well at this time , the greatest concentration of rapid job growth occurred south of a line running from the Severn estuary to Lincolnshire ( figure 8.1 ) . |
20 | How many feet does the tide rise down at this dock ? |
21 | Skills such as note-taking come in at this stage , and one way of approaching this is to use the questions originally formulated as a structure for notes taken , so that children are noting down things they need to know , rather than every conceivably useful point . |