Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [vb infin] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever the wedding organizers decide , it is important to let the toastmaster and the speechmakers know , so that they are prepared and do not disappear at the vital moment . |
| 2 | Some of these plate boundary configurations and stages of development are largely conjectural since clear examples do not exist at the present day . |
| 3 | There are however , a few strains of mice ( mostly inbred strains or hybrids between inbred strains ) whose eggs and embryos do not block at the two-cell stage ( Table 2 ) . |
| 4 | This division between planning conditions and site licence conditions highlights the need for co-operation between planners , waste disposal officers and other pollution control agencies , at a pre-planning stage wherever possible , in order to reach agreement on those conditions which are to be attached to the planning consent , and those to be attached to the site licence , thus ensuring that problems of control do not arise at a later stage . |
| 5 | The rains do not come at the same time each year and yet the guinea fowl always seem to know when the wet season is about to begin . |
| 6 | The first , golden rule is that children do not learn at an even pace . |
| 7 | As Levi-Strauss was to argue , different histories have different temporalities : the time scales of the sciences do not work at the same pace as other forms of history : they have their own dynamic , their own rhythm , their own times , sometimes fast , sometimes slow , that do not operate by the ordinary round of the year ; Bachelard was fond of pointing out that from a scientific point of view the ten years from 1920 to 1930 were as long an era as the previous five hundred . |
| 8 | But vinyl discs do n't spin at the same wave as evergreen-layered branches and an almighty crash occurred soon after . |
| 9 | I do n't pay at the many markets which are held in Cleveland . |
| 10 | This is why we do n't test at the ninety nine point nine nine nine nine nine percent confidence level because the higher you 'll , the smaller the probability making a type one error essentially er is significance level , right the larger the probability will make a type two error , right , a type two error denotes the power of the test . |
| 11 | ‘ We all marvel at the Red Kite , ’ says Gareth , ‘ But we do n't marvel at the little beetles which are the reason it 's there . ’ |
| 12 | They do n't occur at a uniform rate , but there 's nothing in Darwinism which implies that they should , but I was looking at some data on radiolarians recently in which about every sixty thousand years there 's a population sample — I mean you can estimate and see the rate at which this stuff is building up — and in no occasion in a period of sixty thousand years did the population change by more than about half a standard deviation . |
| 13 | ‘ The sort of people who can afford handcrafted learning toys do n't shop at the wrong end of the Pimlico Road . ’ |
| 14 | you know , I I I do n't , I do n't look at the first four pages in the Express cos that 's |
| 15 | Do n't look at the whole answer and then cover it up again and think right okay that 's a start and then try and do all I mean you 're not going to have the book to help you in the exam . |