Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] at this " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when she opened her mouth to protest at this treatment she saw that her objections would have to wait . |
| 2 | Isabel opened her mouth to protest at this cavalier treatment of her clothing , only to shut it again in alarm when he took a step forward and leaned over her , bracing his hands on the mattress and trapping her between them . |
| 3 | Do not allow the leash to slacken at this point , but try to keep it taut as this will help to ensure the puppy adopts the required position rather than jumping up . |
| 4 | There is a further aspect of financial management to consider at this stage : the impact of different legal structures on the way in which firms manage their financial affairs . |
| 5 | The church does have an important part to play at this significant stage in a family 's life and can use this opportunity to meet with people in distress by offering hope . |
| 6 | Partly due to this , the long end of the yield curve has been rather stable in the UK , and the need to hedge at this end of the term structure was diminished . |
| 7 | A program could allow the teacher to start at this level and offer as its flexibility the opportunity to introduce a random element into the problem and also to have varying levels of ‘ noise ’ fed in , so that we gradually move towards a suitable environment for real problem-solving . |
| 8 | It 's not a duly-made objection , it 's not one that he has any right to raise at this late stage . |
| 9 | Labour members of the Select Committee on Procedure obtained permission from the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Chief Labour Whip to look at this omission in the 1968–9 session . |
| 10 | And I think this one is better for several reasons , I think you can quite clearly see now once you 've had a chance to look at this , the other one we saw , we , we eliminated this boat , we eliminate that post and this boat , or rather we just have this post and the sea beyond . |
| 11 | It 's going to be the very devil to disentangle at this late date . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ There are 1,001 possibilities as to why this accident happened and it would be pure speculation to say at this stage what could have caused it . |
| 13 | The lady was so impressed , she called her assistant to look at this miracle ‘ All done in one week ! ’ |
| 14 | The the documents that my learned friend and I think would be most useful to your Lordship to read at this stage would be pages one seven eight four two five . |
| 15 | The Court of Appeal , overruling the High Court judge , granted the injunction on the ground that in ‘ the balance of convenience ’ the wish to strike at this time was more than counterbalanced by the financial loss to the employers and the inconvenience to the public . |
| 16 | A spokeswoman for Simpson , Coulson and Partners , said : ‘ We have absolutely no comment to make at this time . ’ |
| 17 | See they 've offered me more money to stay at this one cos I 've got it running quite well |
| 18 | Here the actual process of perception by the audience is less important than the knowledge resulting from perception which the playwright wants the audience to receive at this point in the play . |
| 19 | This was a typically fashionable thing to do at this the height of the ‘ Picturesque Movement ’ , when romantic thoughts could be conjured in an instant by the sight of a castle , but the reality was of course a different matter . |
| 20 | ‘ That was a damn silly thing to do at this time of night . ’ |
| 21 | If you hike down here ( a much wiser thing to do at this time of year ) the Grand Canyon Department of Arbitrary Silly Rules and Regulations have erected signs that read ‘ Do not go beyond this point without water . ’ |
| 22 | He 'd already escaped twice and three prison officers were with him … but as the taxi drove along the A34 he pulled a knife and ordered the driver to stop at this layby near Bicester . |
| 23 | Now in order to look at this relationship between labour and capital and output total product simultaneously we need to draw a 3 D diagram , alright , but because my diagrams are bad enough in 2 D what we are going to do is we are going to constrain one of these factors , right , so what we will do is we will pick a level of ou a level of capital input , right , and we will see what happens to total product as we vary labour . |
| 24 | But I would say that the way to look at this site is to ask whether it is part of the built area , in other words whether it is built on , or whether it is not part of the built area , in other words it is not built on . |
| 25 | Yes , er er I mean I agree with you Chairman entirely , I mean the arguments have been made before and I will just say them again , that I think the District Council are quite remiss er in asking for this sum of money , particularly in view of the reason that the , the , the field is there , which is for the recreation of the people who live in the estate , and the back end of Southwell , and it always has been , er and that is a responsibility that has been taken on by this Parish Council , and if , if , if they feel that they , they wish to persist in asking an unreasonable price , and let's face it , the District Council is in a position to look at this situation and say , the Parish Council is doing an excellent job , we will sell them this land for a figure that they can afford . |
| 26 | They have just given me the reasons why , which , as I see it , I am not at liberty to reveal at this stage . |
| 27 | Erm the overall picture as you can see in June is that we revised the budget to show at this moment if this trend continues a deficit of two thousand pounds . |
| 28 | This study highlighted a number of problems that family farmers faced when a member of the family came to work on the farm so perhaps it was an opportune time to look at this in more detail . |
| 29 | And it is worth taking a little time to look at this personage . |