Example sentences of "[vb base] at [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Experience consists of four young men who look , talk and act as if they 've grown up in good families , graduated from decent schools , and dress as if they shop at just the right places — Paul Smith , say , or Emporio Armani . |
| 2 | As Bosnia pulls back from the brink of peace , we look at why the Bosnian Serbs rejected the Vance-Owen peace plan , at what the West might do next , and at the possibility now raised of a wider Balkan war |
| 3 | Only stare up at the gaping hole in his cage and feel the terror of the sky beyond and look at where the broken end of the great branch that had fallen spiked out into the wild sky above as if broken part lay about him , its smaller branches and torn bark fretting on the cold wind . |
| 4 | Yeah but look at where the weight is though darling . |
| 5 | Look at how the stage is positioned and its depth , or whether there are pillars or any other view-blockers . |
| 6 | Tonight in a special report we look at how the Forest has been abused in the past , and how it 's still going on today . |
| 7 | Refrigerated display cabinets are micro-processor controlled to ensure that they run at exactly the correct temperature — cold enough to preserve food properly , not so cold that they waste energy . |
| 8 | You know at least the erm |
| 9 | Summer holidays arrive at just the wrong time for gardeners . |
| 10 | They guess at only the tip of the iceberg of what is going on in these firms . |
| 11 | On television , detective series end at just the right moment , after the criminal has been caught and before the courts turn him loose . |
| 12 | In game shooting , some people consistently shoot badly because they always shoot at where the bird has been rather than where it has got to . |
| 13 | you all start at exactly the same level whereas where Claire went I mean , it 's ridiculous to say you should be county standard sports ! |
| 14 | Cold dark-matter particles move slowly — hot ones move at nearly the speed of light . |
| 15 | I do not claim any more for these criteria than that they raise at least the possibility of a belief being affirmable . |
| 16 | According to social security legislation , a " seasonal worker " is a " person whose employment is for part or parts only of the year and those parts fall at approximately the same time each year . " |
| 17 | Before a module is accepted by LIFESPAN , its header is checked to ensure that all its constituent keywords are present and that they contain at least the minimum amount of information required . |
| 18 | However , since it is possible that there will be future changes either to the format or the contents of the module header , LIFESPAN will allow the entry and approval of modules which contain at least the latest and the immediately preceding version of the module header . |
| 19 | The free Church Council , special emergencies apart , will therefore best serve the administration of its city or town , neither by meddlesome interference with it , nor by attempting to be represented as such in its political caucuses , or even on its administrative boards ; but by training men who , representing its views and coming under its influence , have at once the strength of character and the breadth of conception , which will cause them to secure its great ends … in the ordinary arena of public life . |
| 20 | We have at least the mental equipment to foster our long-term selfish interests rather than merely our short-term selfish interests . |
| 21 | Evil men may be reborn as sub-human animals , but virtuous men have at least the prospect that they may escape from the cycle of rebirths into the nirvana of final extinction . |
| 22 | Hibs , while not exactly setting the place alight , have at least the comfort of knowing that a win would lift them above St Johnstone and back into the top half of the table . |
| 23 | Graham , John Taylor and I spend at least the equivalent of a day a week on cycling matters . |
| 24 | It is interesting to note that high spring tides occur at approximately the same time of the day every year in each location on the coast . |
| 25 | Parallel upheavals occur at roughly the same time in jazz , where modern styles , and , in a different way , the revivalist movement , challenge the hegemony of crooners and commercial dance-bands ; and in elite music culture , where the earlier modernist outburst , headed by Schoenberg and Stravinsky , is matched by the iconoclasm of the post-war avant-garde led by Boulez , Stockhausen and C age . |