Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] at [pron] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Concern for the physical welfare of the police and the person resisting ( since the police are likely to be able to muster the greater force ultimately ) both dictate that a point must arise at which further resistance is not only unwise but improper . |
| 2 | However , I have to confess that as you were a new arrival and not one of us into the bargain , I thought I should glance at your first letter or two home … |
| 3 | Thus if the acoustic-phonetic rules and the accompanying normalization procedures work perfectly , lexical access should work at its maximal efficiency . |
| 4 | Top athletes , but not the general public , should exercise at their maximum heart rate level for at least 20 to 60 minutes each session . |
| 5 | If you get the green light from the Head , then get together with any friends who are ready to help and any teachers who have offered support to discuss what should happen at your first meeting . |
| 6 | In the present situation , the officers find themselves in a very difficult position , I can not imagine an officer saying no to a member and this is what has happened if we run out of money , then the very thing that we are seeking to do , in other words to implement the democratic process to allow people to come to meetings and speak will go by the way , and I can remember some time ago when I was a new member on here saying I would be prepared to attend property sub-committee briefings as a deputy and not be paid and I was very smartly brought up by a friend in the labour group who said that 's all right for you , you can afford it , but it 's not alright for some of us 'cause we can't. and the difficulty is if we run out of money and we either have to stop the allowances or we have to slash the allowances , yeah , knows who it was , we have to slash the allowances , then legitimately people will be able to say that the democratic process is being stifled because they are not going to be allowed to go to meetings , and therefore , I think that situations whereby a member attends to speak to a , an item , a specific item and then stays on for a double length meetings and claims double length allowances that sort of thing has got to be stopped , and also members attending just to nod approval at something that has happened that they 've been associated with , that should stop , if they want to come they should come at their own expense . |
| 7 | It leaves no fortune with regard to what the department of the environment might throw at us next year unless they completely lose their marbles , which after all is always possible . |
| 8 | A Martian viewing our race might wonder at our lemming-like ability to self-destruct by gobbling up nasty foods , smoking little chimneys and falling sideways as a result of consuming quantities of amber liquid . |
| 9 | Whatever he might fling at her this time , she would not sit bowed and tongue-tied . |
| 10 | let's , let's look at it this way , erm with a small pipe so much water gets out , okay ? |
| 11 | What what 's missing from this let's let's look at it this way erm differentiate erm no let's go straight for the integral integrate four X squared . |
| 12 | Well okay let's look at it another way . |
| 13 | Let's look at it another way , it would be folly to compare Levi 's Hartford victory to Norman 's win at Doral — who 's to say which is a tougher tournament ? |
| 14 | Now , the profits , the profits you 've seen where the profits came down , let's look at it another way and that is really to see er , the impact per the year before . |
| 15 | She 's so scared , she 'd jump at her own shadow . ’ |
| 16 | And then we could look at it that way . |
| 17 | Spokesman Paul Smith explained that students could work at their own pace and return their work to the centre for correction , annotation and comment . |
| 18 | You could sign up for a series of courses , which you could take at your own pace . |
| 19 | And told me of the fraternising between British and German troops on Christmas day in the trenches , and I could n't understand at first how you could shoot at someone all week , then make friends with them for one day , knowing you would try and kill each other again the next . |
| 20 | It is in this context of agnosticism that I shall look at my fourth question , ‘ what can we do about it ? ’ |
| 21 | Given symmetric behaviour aggregate output in this case too will remain at its natural level : the increase in output in one market cancelling out the fall in output on the other . |
| 22 | So in both cases aggregate output will remain at its natural level in the face of a change in the general level of prices . |
| 23 | Most of us will be average , and our children will remain at our socio-economic level or move marginally higher up the social order in line with an overall improvement in standards of living . |
| 24 | I saw him flush it down the toilet so that no-one will laugh at his spotty chest in the showers ! |
| 25 | Once it has been changed it will stay at its new value until set to another value . |
| 26 | The two of you — and your lawyers — will look at your financial position , at your wife 's , at how long you 've been married , whether or not she 's working ( and if she is n't , what sort of work she 'll be able to find ) and eventually come up with a sum which is supposed to be fair to both of you . |
| 27 | You will look at your own child , whose current display of skills is limited to marching around the house with a pair of knickers on his head claiming to be Postman Pat , and you will get restless . |
| 28 | Very quiet ; no one will stare at your black eye . |
| 29 | Soon the fibre will rupture at its weakest point , internal and external reagents will meet and film over to form a ‘ bud ’ on the fibre . |
| 30 | One only has to look at the achievements of David Gower , Monica Seles , John McEnroe and Jimmy White , to mention just a few , to realise that left-handers can excel at their chosen sport . |