Example sentences of "at the prospect of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus Pound in January 1946 , in his first days at St Elizabeth 's , appealing in terror at the prospect of losing whatever sanity remained to him . |
| 2 | He said : ‘ Look at the problems 12 years of Tory mismanagement will bequeath to us ; a balance of payments deficit financed by hot money , casino-type operation — money which will fly away at the prospect of a Labour victory . ’ |
| 3 | The US Navy , distraught at the prospect of having its own timetable for deploying the new missile delayed by budget cuts , has emphasised that relations with Britain could be affected if the money is not restored . |
| 4 | No longer the prop of an unjust social order , the God of the Magnificat was to be found on the side of the poor while the mighty trembled at the prospect of being toppled from their insecure thrones . |
| 5 | It makes me want to roll up my sleeves , ’ McQuaid said in praise and plain enjoyment at the prospect of it as the plates were put on the table . |
| 6 | Nathan cheered up a touch when he had eaten his way through half the menu , and was even able to smile at the prospect of spending the night in our corridor-like room . |
| 7 | Police shudder at the prospect of facing a population which has anti-aircraft guns and rocket launchers at its disposal . |
| 8 | Sterling lost ground against a buoyant German mark as dealers took fright at the prospect of a fall in exports leading to a widening of the current account deficit last month . |
| 9 | He shuddered , for instance , at the prospect of school textbooks containing anything of a ‘ salacious , blasphemous or subliminal political nature ’ . |
| 10 | Labour councils , desperate to avoid the final sanction — a sale of goods in a debtor 's home — are now agonising at the prospect of taking legal action against their own supporters . |
| 11 | Clearly rattled at the prospect of a confrontation with the spiritual father of 52 million US voters , the White House said yesterday that the Church ‘ is playing a very serious and constructive role ’ . |
| 12 | In which case the member for Huntingdon could deliver a 1992 budget of generous tax cuts and more spending , with the markets roaring at the prospect of another Tory triumph . |
| 13 | Poland may well be worried at the prospect of a unified Germany , given its past history . |
| 14 | Advocates of capital punishment are unmoved at the prospect of the United States being increasingly isolated among developed countries : such countries , they argue , have less violent crime than America has . |
| 15 | But it has supplied this help without objection from Arab governments which , though alarmed at the prospect of Shia ascendancy in Iraq , want most of all to see Mr Hussein out . |
| 16 | Yet little had changed : Richards was still executioner-in-chief and England still seemed mesmerized at the prospect of playing the world champions . |
| 17 | The reticence of the General Council was deliberate for it feared the violence which might ensue if all workers came out and was alarmed at the prospect of mass defections leading to the rapid collapse of the dispute if it did not immediately meet its objectives . |
| 18 | Already his mouth was watering at the prospect of sinking his teeth into a thick slice of bread liberally spread with best butter and sprinkled with sugar from one of the big sacks standing in the corner . |
| 19 | Already his stomach heaved at the prospect of swallowing and digesting the hateful thing . |
| 20 | In this season of conserted garden activity , Nigel Colborn remains faint-hearted at the prospect of springing into action |
| 21 | The boy stared at the notches and gnarls in the trunk of the oak , afraid to face the voice , terrified at the prospect of looking upon the Almighty . |
| 22 | His excitement at the prospect of exploiting that potential is palpable , though he has no illusions about current difficulties . |
| 23 | The financial markets , jittery enough at the prospect of a Labour victory , would dive further in the face of uncertainty , putting pressure on the pound and raising the spectre of an immediate interest rate rise . |
| 24 | They are dismayed at the prospect of what would be one of the most highly leveraged tax-grabs in the West , gaining the gainers very little , but losing the losers much . |
| 25 | There was also some nervousness at the prospect of the next government deciding to adopt narrow bands for sterling as a way of underpinning the currency . |
| 26 | The alternative was a Labour government led by Mr Kinnock , a man ‘ grasping desperately at the prospect of power ’ , and the collapse of everything the Tories had worked for . |
| 27 | But with the business community apprehensive about the election outcome and worried at the prospect of a Labour government there is no comparable improvement in business confidence . |
| 28 | Llanelli are concerned at the prospect of playing the most important game of their season without four players involved in the Wales Under-21 match against Scotland , and three others who are injured . |
| 29 | The deputies , many from the old communist establishment of factory and farm managers , took fright at the prospect of losing billions of pounds of Western aid , which was conditional on continuing reform . |
| 30 | He seemed greatly cheered at the prospect of my arrival and held out his glass . |