Example sentences of "[adj] [modal v] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , I 'm sure that it will be only a short time before the imaginative gentleman of this funeral business ( or after-care service , as it apparently now likes to be called ) will overcome these problems that in any case may be outweighed by one great advantage to which he points with pride : namely , that it is above all discreet , in that the girlfriend of the departed may view at any time , giving any name , and the wife and family will be none the wiser ! |
| 2 | We can not enjoy a happy life with God unless we are willing to be disciplined — unhappy though that may appear at first . |
| 3 | When buying young blackcurrant bushes , each should have at least four or five stems arising from ground level . |
| 4 | Erm , that should go at the very front of your binder , if you really want to keep that information in your binder . |
| 5 | The Laws of Manu , an ancient law book of the Hindu way of life , which discusses the customs , conventions and laws , that should operate at each stage of life and govern the relation of the different orders with one another , regards the four āśramas as the best means of attaining co-operation For the common good . |
| 6 | And it was then she had decided that war work or not , her daughter 's excursions with convalescent wounded must stop at once . |
| 7 | Some may leap at the chance . |
| 8 | Some may baulk at the name though : Converse Rear Entry . |
| 9 | Some may baulk at such a suggestion but it is only making explicit what archivists do implicitly . |
| 10 | This may start at any position in the line . |
| 11 | This may occur at the exposed soil surface as raindrops selectively erode fine clay particles , leaving heavier sand particles : with time this process can affect deeper parts of the soil profile , impairing its water-retaining capacity to such an extent that even after agriculture has been abandoned the forest may be unable to recolonise . |
| 12 | The first problem is identifying a pair and with no external differences , this may provide at least you with the proverbial headache . |
| 13 | Change from one state of a system to another may occur at different rates at contrasting levels . |
| 14 | This should ensure at the very least that video taping is efficiently done using equipment which produces a clear picture and clear sound ; a requirement stressed by Douglas Brown J in the Rochdale case cited above . |
| 15 | It was scarcely credible that this should happen at so late a stage and I asked the department to get the minute to me at once . |
| 16 | But while it seems at first quite normal that this should happen at an inquest involving the opera 's central character one soon notices that the process is in fact highly artificial , like the narrations which open several of Britten 's later operas , designed in this instance to have the dramatis personae stand up and be recognised but in a context which fits the story . |
| 17 | ( Readers who doubt this should look at the bewildering array of welfare benefit leaflets in their local post office . ) |
| 18 | Anyone doubting this should look at the size of the GEM menus on a 19″ monitor ! |
| 19 | Anyone interested should call at the station at 7pm on a Thursday evening when an officer will be available with more information . |
| 20 | There is compulsory sex education in schools and this must include at least half an hour on the sexually transmitted diseases . |
| 21 | This must happen at the level of both ideas and organisation . |
| 22 | This might seem at first sight to express the naive view that onomatopoeia and other kinds of sound symbolism constitute essential features of poetry , but Wimsatt 's conception of the iconic function of language embraces a great deal more than this . |
| 23 | One of the problems for local government is that it is easier to see how this might work at national level where the interests are clearer and more easily identifiable . |
| 24 | In the retail organisation looked at earlier in this chapter , this could start at the sales office , then to accounting , warehousing , production , buying and personnel . |
| 25 | This could occur at all levels . |
| 26 | And experts have warned that this could kill at least ten people every year . |
| 27 | He is what they call the middleclass , which we who were foolish used to laugh at . |
| 28 | This would affirm at least one value of the book review as that legal force which covers up the work . ’ |
| 29 | Under the electoral system of 1918 , the Unionists had a minimum vote of at least 38 per cent of the electorate , and this would bring at least 250 seats in a parliament of 615 ; in a political world of three parties this almost guaranteed that no other party would govern alone and that the Unionists would usually have a majority . |
| 30 | This would imply at least that the early fragment of language poses the problem of hierarchical analysis in a reasonably pure form . |