Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [to-vb] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | It is the small local business , as in the examples above of builders , carpenters and glaziers , who are most likely to balk at long-term clearance of a debt . |
2 | The result of both explicit and covert discrimination was that boys were far more likely to succeed at public examinations and to enter higher and further education ( Wilkin , 1982 ) . |
3 | This has not satisfied Essex County Council , which has produced statistics showing fatal accidents are four times more likely to happen at automatic gates . |
4 | However , so much of what is now being produced lacks these very qualities that it may be more useful to look at successful artists ' work to find an answer to this question . |
5 | It is a little more difficult to ski at high speed . |
6 | Most of the lads in the squad are still eligible to play at under-21 level and we do n't want it to break up . ’ |
7 | If some of those who resist and resent the imposition , opt out of the electoral system ( and the calculation is that these will be those who are thought , either now or in the future , likely to benefit from the present array of public services ) , while others are more inclined to vote at local elections for a party which offers to cut and reorganize services , the electoral outcome would be dramatic . |
8 | It 's also possible to play at Old Trafford ( applications are negotiable and subject to committee approval ) . |
9 | When necessary , it was also willing to strike at perceived threats , for example Iraq 's nuclear reactor in 1951 . |
10 | If Labour 's executive brethren are also disposed to look at new options and new deals today they will doubtless incur some internal wrath . |
11 | He 's also happy to officiate at mixed-religion weddings between Protestants and Catholics , or Christians and Muslims . |
12 | But we are perfectly prepared to look at scientific evidence — we are not afraid of that . |
13 | It is particularly useful to look at overall patterns which emerge from a sequence of activities and ( maybe ) to discover obvious gaps in the child 's experience . |
14 | Pipe organs are usually individually designed , but it is quite common to purchase at lesser cost one of the standard models offered by many organ builders . |
15 | I have already indicated in Chapter 2 that , even if we assume that true observational statements are available to us in some way , it is never possible to arrive at universal laws and theories by logical deductions on that basis alone . |
16 | Because you 're not , because you 're inside a lot , you do n't have to go out every day , you do n't , you do n't have anything very specific to do at different times during the day . |
17 | And they were very , very prepared to look at different department 's needs , and to have a very wide-ranging staff discussion on what the curriculum needs were , and to buy the books accordingly , and then to move on to how they should use them . |
18 | At Edgbaston , in his early days , it is hard to recall him as the skinny lad in wire spectacles who tried too hard to bowl at medium pace , and when he became depressed at his form , came out in eczema rashes and asthma wheezes . |
19 | It was all very well to laugh at ancient superstitions by light of day and in company . |