Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] at [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ If they want to go at a certain pace and not become a Top Five singles band you have to respect them for it . |
2 | If you wait five years it gets slightly steeper so the force to you becomes that and so on and so forth , forty five fifty and you can see at fifty five if you want to retire at a certain age er what 's the age that you actually want to retire ? |
3 | If we want to work at a high level of stress , however , anywhere near the potential strength of glass for instance , we must be prepared to keep the surface free from even the most microscopic cracks for , if even one crack is allowed to exceed the Griffith length , which may be only about a thousand Ångströms , catastrophic failure will occur . |
4 | On the back of Wall Street 's overnight strength , the FT-SE 100 cash index rose 33 points at the outset and , with the futures index opening at a hefty premium , looked poised to turn in a record-setting performance . |
5 | Now I just want to look at a simple class of demand function , right , which we could write , if I can get a pen that works we write the demand function as P equals A over Q to the beta . |
6 | One , we 're going to look at why well trained staff are , are so important to the C U , secondly we 're going to look at things responsibility training is and lastly we want to look at a systematic approach that you can take as training . |
7 | In Chapter 5 I propose to look at a different aspect of metalinguistic politics : the way in which grammarians and linguists have projected a male/ female dichotomy on to the languages of the world , and their attempts to use grammar as a tactical weapon in the battle of the sexes . |
8 | If not , he argues , players should be able to opt for another country if — like John Gallagher or the Samoans playing in the All Black trials — they want to play at the highest level regardless of country . |
9 | ( I never cease to marvel at the continued confusion in the public mind between nuclear power and weapons : too many people stare at me as if I were some unnaturally hybrid creature when I mention to them that I am both a member of CND and a strident advocate of nuclear power stations to produce electricity . |
10 | In a dialect poem of 1730 on the West Riding the master clothier and his wife appear breakfasting at a common table with their family , a few journeymen , servants and apprentices before setting down to weave together from " five at morn till eight at neet " . |
11 | Unfortunately , the target market also want to smoke at every available opportunity . |
12 | The idea is to order everything you want to eat at the same time , then work your way through the tower of baskets . |
13 | We want to stay at the top level while doing the same things we did 40 years ago . |
14 | Those who want to get at the frozen part of their savings in the old currency will have to buy new currency from the central bank , at auctions where it will cost them well over its face value . |
15 | " We want to stop at the Bourgeois Gentilhomme , " she said , with the remnants of the French accent the nuns had carefully taught her . |
16 | Ah , well , we want to say at the bottom items one five seven and twenty four are two piece construction . |
17 | The field was chaotic now , the archers had done their part , and could do no more from this on but let fly at the occasional fugitive . |
18 | Kimberley let fly at the dangling men from a hopeless range . |
19 | Because the embryos begin to swim at the blastula stage they must be trapped in a nylon net to keep them still , the square holes providing micro-aquaria through which sea water is slowly passed . |
20 | In this way , all her eggs begin developing at the same time . |
21 | Like writing , paintings seem to hint at a topsy-turvy world in which , so to speak , time 's arrow moves the other way . |
22 | Paul calls his children the Tribbles , after the small furry creatures that make strange cooing noises and seem to reproduce at an alarming rate . |
23 | Some of these changes seem to occur at an early stage of the neoplastic process . |
24 | then you see or somebody you know looking at the long jump and they 're muttering away to themselves . |
25 | Cos you know to look at the bottom line of total design fees against what they would have been if we 'd gone in fixed price ? |
26 | But you start , or we like to start at the front door of what we call . |
27 | This chapter will follow up this theme , and remain focused at the local level . |
28 | For one thing he was an impatient sort of eagle , inclined to get angry and feel insulted at the smallest thing ; for another — and this took Creggan a while to realize — he was preoccupied with thinking about what had happened to Minch , not daring to hope that what Creggan had so boldly said about her coming back was true . |
29 | And if you decide to cancel at a later date , you 'll receive a full , and prompt refund on all unmailed issues . |
30 | If CFC emissions continue to increase at the current rate , they would cause an extra 2C of warming over the same period . |