Example sentences of "[vb pp] at every [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In rejecting traditional theory as a ‘ mathematical knowledge of nature which claims to be the eternal logos ’ he suggests that the self-knowledge of present-day man is ‘ a critical theory of society as it is , a theory dominated at every turn by a concern for reasonable conditions of life ’ ( Horkheimer 1972 : 199 ) . |
| 2 | We may notice too that since pleasures tend to fade unless varied at every recurrence it is difficult to distinguish in practice between the man who lives for pleasure and the man who lives for new experiences . |
| 3 | She did n't look back , and she did n't linger , but her ears were pricked at every step . |
| 4 | Rostov knew that he would not be able to understand even if he could hear , but due to the fact that Arghatun 's replies were clearly either affirmative or negative he thought that probably the officer 's account was being clarified at every stage . |
| 5 | Seen , heard and felt , and caught at every turn , |
| 6 | Indeed , as Amiss saw with fascination , his first act on sitting down to breakfast was to open the tabloid at page three , fold it and prop it against the sugar bowl in such a way that the topless pin-up of the day was there to be looked at every time he got bored with the Telegraph . |
| 7 | Table 1 highlights those topics which were omitted at every stage by primary or secondary schools . |
| 8 | The English Crown was trapped at every stage by the gentry , to the point where the king was beheaded and a military dictatorship established ( with , for the first time , a standing army , accompanied by a five-fold increase in the tax burden ) . |
| 9 | ‘ This case has been through the due process of law , has been carefully considered at every stage and reviewed at frequent intervals . |
| 10 | Effective planning for mission in Britain as in many other countries has been hampered at every level by lack of reliable data . |
| 11 | But bringing this back into my work , I see myself as good old anarchist Spence , blundering around between the different discourses between cultural politics and alternative health and mainline health and actually being silenced at every count . |
| 12 | His recommendations — which are contained in two handy posters exhibited at every rig site — are slightly different from conventional drilling practices . |
| 13 | The year-long process was threatened at every stage by continuing reports of fighting , which persisted during April and the first two weeks of May . |
| 14 | Supercomputing — High-performance computers costing millions of pounds can not be sited at every university that needs their computational power ; Yet the vast amounts of data they produce require advanced data visualisation techniques for their human understanding . |
| 15 | Literature ( in the same way as kinship systems ) is organized at every level like language , and it is a central part of structuralist purpose to reveal the similarity . |
| 16 | Even when a clear objective has been achieved ( and by a clear objective I really mean a single sentence which everybody can carry in their minds and which everybody can understand ) , it is necessary to ensure that this is known , understood and accepted at every level of the organization . |
| 17 | C. D. Needham ( 1971 ) gives examples of the filing difficulties that result ; he points out that a decision must be made at every stage — does L 7 file before or after L:7 ? |
| 18 | Checks were made at every interval and at the close of play . |
| 19 | Each time she finished a film , she would tell Mum the title and once it reached the cinema , Mrs Pilling was to be seen at every performance . |
| 20 | Art and sights straight out of the history books are to be seen at every turn , yet now these are modern cities too , alive with their own 20th century energy and enthusiasm . |
| 21 | But women always seemed to be in the majority and the proprietor and his wife , both of whom spoke excellent English and German , could be seen at every hour of the day advising parties of determined-looking women in sensible shoes how to get to St Peter 's or the Piazza Venezia or the English church , or which were the best shops to buy presents and souvenirs to take home . |
| 22 | The consequent problems are seen at every stage of subsequent development as the parents struggle to learn signing because their children were not ‘ good enough ’ to progress normally , and as the children have to come to terms not only with deafness but with the community of deaf people which has been shunned by their families . |
| 23 | She was ambitious , and I liked that — but if we 'd been married her ambitions and mine would have clashed at every turn . ’ |
| 24 | After that you wear paper overalls that get combusted at every stage . ’ |
| 25 | But all factions have leaped at every opportunity to attack others . |
| 26 | Hemmed in by restrictions in the UK and thwarted at every turn when it tries to expand overseas , British Telecommunications Plc faces steady erosion of its UK business as competition increases with no immediate prospect of filling the hole from abroad — so how can the company avoid slumping into persona of a dull , low-growth utility ? |
| 27 | Harriet often came to stay at Netherhampton to catch up on all the ‘ gossip of Salisbury ’ and to take her mind off her romance with Shelley , thwarted at every step by her brother Charles . |
| 28 | ‘ Their complacent attitude that unemployment is a ‘ price worth paying ’ needs to be challenged at every opportunity . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm the one the hospital have contacted at every stage . |
| 30 | Unbuttoning her coat , and unwinding her scarf , she reads over his shoulder : ‘ Day of Action … protest against cuts … erosion of salaries … pickets will be mounted at every entrance to the University … volunteers should give their names to Departmental representatives … other members are asked to stay away from the campus on the Day of Action . ’ |