Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [conj] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | That does not guarantee results , but I want to see than at Bramall Lane . |
| 2 | It was also couched in language designed to satisfy or at least not to alarm a multitude of constituencies at home . |
| 3 | Solicitors ' firms large and small have come to realise that at a time when competition is intense and growth is seen as essential in order to meet increased overheads and maintain profit levels ( let alone to increase them ) any policy which irrevocably rules out fundamental reorganisation of their practices is likely to prove short-sighted . |
| 4 | It is what they want to learn and at the speed they want to learn it . |
| 5 | In a modern society , it is — more or less — up to the individuals or couples to choose the age at which they marry or enter into one kind of conjugal union or another , to decide whether they should have a child or children or not , mow many children they want to have and at what intervals , and to opt for an age at which they want to cease childbearing , etc . |
| 6 | And on the other hand , what are changes such that we want to say that at the end of the change there is just no me left there at all and I 've been replaced by something else . |
| 7 | Anthony and I 'm from Shildon and learnt to play when at King James 's Grammar school , Bishop Auckland . |
| 8 | For these reasons , Coffin is perhaps better seen as a case in which the Divisional Court , contrary to the evidence , concluded that the situation was such that a breach of the peace was likely , and that the officers were seeking to prevent that at the time when the assault took place . |
| 9 | In the 1980s , sections of the ruling party have also adopted a strategy of attempting to co-opt or at least pacify the small black middle class . |
| 10 | Consequently , pseudo-costs can be calculated early in the solution and used to estimate and at nodes further down the enumeration tree . |
| 11 | You 've got to remember that at the time , deregulation was looked on as an open cash-register . |
| 12 | A system exists to ensure that at any time , day or night , the consultant 's wishes are followed . |
| 13 | Care is needed to ensure that at the time the group dividend is paid : ( a ) no " arrangements " or " option arrangements " exist whereby the parent company could cease to be beneficially entitled to more than 50% of both profits for distribution and assets on a winding up available to " equity holders " of Target ( see Sch 18 Taxes Act ) ; and ( b ) Target is beneficially owned by its parent when the dividend is declared and paid . |
| 14 | There was a moment when I was convinced I was going to die but at last a long wailing respiration came to my aid and I struggled painfully into a sitting position . |
| 15 | I 'd like to think that at least one of my travelling companions had a functioning intelligence . ’ |
| 16 | I am going to say that at the deep level there is not but at the ordinary , everyday level there often is and we need to take it quite seriously . |
| 17 | I would like to say that at this point everything changed : I stopped dieting , bingeing , fasting and taking laxatives and being obsessed with food . |
| 18 | My store of money began to dwindle but at last I found Le Coq d'Or , a dingy , two-storey building which stood at the mouth of one of the runnels on the far side of the Grand Pont opposite the elaborately carved Notre Dame Cathedral . |
| 19 | As the town began to grow and at the same time fragment in strange , squalid and unforeseen ways , the gardens became symbolic in a different fashion . |
| 20 | Ten minutes later the staff began to arrive and at nine o'clock Fred Workman walked in to introduce me to the staff and show me around the building . |
| 21 | From the last years of the nineteenth century a number of notable British figures began to advocate or at least speculate on the possibility of a close relationship with the United States . |
| 22 | The Bishop said the translator had attended very carefully to all the criticisms and it now seemed likely that we would have to wait until at least the end of the summer before the English edition appears . |
| 23 | But the frequency with which I receive such public congratulations ( to the great embarrassment of my nine-year-old son ) seems to indicate that at least a proportion of those who buy the book actually do read it . |
| 24 | What research and evidence there is appears to suggest that at school level at least their educational achievements are higher than those of Afro-Caribbean boys , and that they exhibit a greater tenacity in the pursuit of educational qualifications than white girls . |
| 25 | I concede that it will do for judging in retrospect the spontaneity beyond the margins of my rationality , as when jumping like an instinctive animal for the side of the road , and for such primitive choices as the child 's refusal of another helping ; but I continue to insist that at the centre of me I differ from the child in having escaped being restricted to choice between spontaneous goals . |
| 26 | But this means that he will have to concede that at least some propositions are " irreducibly " existential , and if he does , he will have disavowed his own argument . |
| 27 | To avoid these problems , addition and deletion algorithms will have to ensure that at least one home record remains in any bucket to which any records randomize . |
| 28 | And he would you would really only have to verify because at the end of the day what you said about You you mentioned somewhere along there Ray about given the fact that they were inexperienced . |
| 29 | Sheep slaughterings continue to rise and at almost 49,000 head were a third up on the same month last year . |
| 30 | Yes oh I ee I , I 'm led to understand that he , he built that church and I 'm led to understand that at the same time he started , he came as a curate to St Matthew 's and then he came to Street into a house and he had a little , he started a little church down there in a private house and then he built the church . |