Example sentences of "do [adv] at [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Or , at least , she had done so at the Young Conservatives ' Summer Dance in July .
2 So far as is known it had never been loaned for exhibition , it had never passed through an auction room and those few who had been fortunate enough to see it had done so at the private house in Oxford where it had been in the possession of the same family for many years .
3 That is not Mr Lawson 's fault , of course , but he has to live with the danger that while the world 's capital markets will duly bridge the gap between Britain 's domestic savings and investment , they will only do so at a lower price for sterling .
4 But assuming Collor 's Brazil makes it into the ranks of the developed world , it will do so at the lowest level of eligibility , on a par with the East European countries .
5 There is no doubt that the removal of the child by this mother was done precipitately at the very time when the child 's future care was already under consideration by the Ontario court .
6 They were done once at the other house were n't they ?
7 Do n't you think that perhaps it might have been better for the oil companies to have perhaps done more at an earlier stage , in the the safety side of things ?
8 They can do both at the same time .
9 What you can do both at the same time can you ?
10 In his view , there should be a clear test applied to ensure that the Community only does things which can not be done well at a national level .
11 That can no longer be done primarily at the national level ; it requires a socialist , European strategy .
12 Where the dealer acted as counterparty to the contract he may be willing to unwind the contract with a customer but there is no incentive for him to do so at a competitive price .
13 The basic assumption of geometric perspective is that although parallel lines never meet , they appear to do so at a vanishing point , on a distant backcloth .
14 The Lebanese army did not enter a nearby camp used by Dev Sol , the Turkish urban guerrilla group , but were expected to do so at a later date .
15 While it might be to your advantage to do so at the earliest opportunity , there is nevertheless no legal urgency for you to make the journey other than at your convenience .
16 Generally , however , anyone wishing to buy or sell listed shares will want to do so at the best price obtainable and for that purpose to use the facilities of The Stock Exchange instead of himself seeking out a willing counterparty .
17 Some are showing how to do both at the same time
18 The investigator is not at this point investigating how the child learns to program the computer although he shall be doing so at a later date .
19 Thus , even though the 12 member states are following the same rules , they are doing so at a different pace , which further complicates an already complex situation . ’
20 Everyone in the board room was either clearing his throat , or shifting position in his seat , or doing both at the same time , which is actually rather difficult .
21 Slater was silent for a second , gazing disdainfully at Graham 's snapping fingers , then he said tiredly , " Graham , either concentrate on searching for the title of the book you 're talking about or devote your full energies to practising calling for a waiter ; I 'm not convinced you possess the RAM for doing both at the same time . "
22 The cottar , subsisting on an inadequate holding , had a greater need for cash earnings and more time to spare , but because he accepted the hierarchical consumption ethic of the village community his aspirations were lower , so that , although working longer , he did so at a lower intensity .
23 When a coinage did reappear in the reign of the Northumbrian king , Eanred , in the early ninth century it did so at a lower silver standard which continued to decline .
24 By the late 1980s , the largest organizations were likely to operate most efficiently if they did so at an international level , raising capital internationally and supplying international markets .
25 He did so at the last moment when the Unionists agreed not to oppose Henderson .
26 Just over half of those who retired prematurely did so at the same time as their redundancy .
27 If you are scoring the tests yourself , rather than getting the computer to do it for you , then always do so at the same time of day — otherwise there would be variability due to time-of-day effects upon your scoring ability .
28 You do so at an unfamiliar garage and then discover that the one you had planned to stop at was closed .
29 The drama course for professional performers which does not at the present time qualify for a mandatory award , is fully accredited by the National Council of Drama Training as is the Acting Option of the Graduate Diploma course .
30 It does well at the lower temperature , and will take some time to adapt to the temperatures above 70°F .
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