Example sentences of "[modal v] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any applicant for a course of study who has a criminal record should at the time of application inform the Academic Registrar who will advise the applicant whether or not he or she is likely to be able to satisfy certain eligibility requirements for the course . |
| 2 | ‘ I must at the outset declare and interest . |
| 3 | Next year the British candidate gained the throne of the Carnatic ; the directors of the French Company decided that Dupleix had been wasting their shareholders ' money , and in 1754 they recalled him , which must at the time have struck everybody as a prudent step to keep expenses down . |
| 4 | ( 7 ) Rule 19.7 stipulates that copies of all documents and announcements bearing on an offer and of advertisements and any material released to the press ( including any notes to editors ) must at the time of release be lodged with the advisers to all other parties to the offer as well as to the Panel . |
| 5 | ‘ Success in television must at the end of the day be measured in terms of programme standards , and to achieve so much this year augurs well for the future . ’ |
| 6 | Er , and that , you , you 'll at the town cooking dinner , watching television , talking to my friend , or just roughly what you 're doing at that time that conversation took place , okay , at work , form , then make me a cup of tea , she was photo-copying , |
| 7 | A proviso stipulated though , that should the working produce a profit ( nett ) of £10,000 a year , then be could at the beginning of any of the sub-terms enter as a partner and receive one-third of the nett profit instead of the aforesaid one-quarter ; and to pay a third of the expenses . |
| 8 | Then I heard how he lived hand to mouth in the Bronx , lobbying whom he could at the talking-shop . |
| 9 | It was by then too late to make for the safety of the mountains , and the scattered groups of jeeps had to hide as best they could at the foot of the escarpment . |
| 10 | He washed himself as best he could at the sink in the bathroom . |
| 11 | For the next 2½ years we spent as much time as we could at the melin . |
| 12 | As she reached her father 's house she walked straight in at the gate , which she hardly bothered to open quietly , and flung the stone as hard as she could at the glass of the bedroom window . |
| 13 | If today we can see better than we could at the time the agonized grandeur of the figure of Pope Paul , the one almost ‘ liberal ’ pope of modern times , we can also see how deeply uncertain was the Church he left behind him and — after twelve years — we begin too to be able to assess in its very different character the pontificate of John Paul II . |
| 14 | ( It is true that to say " women " could at the time , and even today for many people , be regarded as discourteous . ) |
| 15 | and that it was er er obviously going to be a cost-effective exercise to do it there and then , and er you both er canvassed as many councillors as you could at the time , all the committee Chairmen were , were involved , I do n't see that you could have done any more in the circumstances . |
| 16 | I Call 'd at the House , where you said I shou 'd dine , |
| 17 | He assumed , as he had been led to believe at meetings with General Helmuth von Moltke immediately prior to the war , that Germany would at the outset deploy some eight corps in East Prussia . |
| 18 | Where the petitioner is found not to be entitled to have presented a petition or wished to withdraw his petition or allow it to be dismissed or fails to attend on the hearing , the court may substitute as petitioner any creditor who has given notice of intention to appear , wishes to prosecute the petition and is a creditor who would at the date of presentation of the petition have been in a position himself to present a petition against the debtor ( ie is presently owed more than £750 ) ( r 6.30 ) . |
| 19 | A learned paper from Paris has confirmed this opinion by declaring , after an exhaustive description of my son 's genius , that there was no doubt that this child would at the age of twelve write an opera for one or the other of the Italian theatres ; but everybody thought that a German should reserve such glory for his own country alone . |
| 20 | But remedies involving , for example , an extra tax payable by each person in a household would at the moment be madness : many councils would be left struggling with exactly the enforcement difficulties that have made the poll tax so hard to set up and administer . |
| 21 | But there was no one more popular than Rambling Sid Rumpoe , the folk singer , who would at the drop of a mangelwurzel sing ‘ The Runcorne Splodcobblers Song ’ , sung by the splodcobblers of Runcorne as they thump their cordwaggle bellow afore cobbling their splods . |
| 22 | ‘ ( 1 ) The bankrupt shall at the hearing be examined on oath ; and he shall answer all such questions as the court may put , or allow to be put , to him . |
| 23 | Arran himself had joined Beaton and the dowager at the end of 1544 , when they ‘ promised and made bond to the French ambassador , that the French king shall have the young queen , to marry where he list … and also that they shall at the spring of the year , send both the young queen and the old ( Mary of Guise ) into France ’ . |
| 24 | 10.1 The Academic Parties undertake that as respects copyright and other intellectual property rights in any items comprising technical information in respect of their results they will at the request and cost of the Non-academic Parties to this Agreement assign to and execute and do all such deeds acts matters and things as may be requisite for vesting such rights in an Non-academic Party either along or jointly with other Non-academic Parties to this Agreement . |
| 25 | Where the agent has a retainer of the type which I have previously mentioned he will at the beginning of the session report to the clients on the latent , as well as the obvious , dangers to that client of a-particular Bill or order . |
| 26 | Persons who are unable to satisfy the conditions for enrolment at the appropriate time , being the time laid down by the Senate under Section 3 , may at the discretion of the Senate be provisionally enrolled for such period not exceeding three months as may be authorised by or on behalf of the Senate . |
| 27 | Diversification may at the time appear to be the only way that the company can maintain its profits growth and defend the value of its shares . |
| 28 | A Contracting State may at the time of signature , ratification or accession , declare that it will not execute Letters of request issued for the purpose of obtaining pre-trial discovery of documents as known in Common Law countries . |
| 29 | You can at the back . |
| 30 | I run fast as I can at the window , but it still wo n't break . |