Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's more of the giant baby who has a neat vocabulary but still ca n't manage to stay upright , more discussions and observations on life in general , and yet another head-to-head where talking at cross purposes is turned into an art form . |
| 2 | Er I mean , all I want Win , is something to do for four years than sit at home being a housewife and hang yourself as well ! |
| 3 | What will they do , other than sit at home and press buttons and send messages to each other ? |
| 4 | The government 's priority is to construct more coal and geothermal plants as soon as possible , rather than looking at energy efficiency and alternative strategies . |
| 5 | Significantly more people are injured while working in their own homes or gardens than injured at work . |
| 6 | Astronomy may be a calling ; it is also a day-to-day job ( albeit done at night ) . |
| 7 | ‘ And it 's better than living at home . ’ |
| 8 | But Calero , for all his ‘ democratic armour ’ , wished more to fight wars than to play at politics ; the fragile political coalition of leaders did not survive , and there was no constitutional cruise . |
| 9 | In the ensuing debate , Alan Shatter , TD of Fine Gael , author of a book on family law , pointed out the better provision being made under the projected divorce law for a first wife than existed at present , and that children of the first marriage would maintain their present rights , though they would have to share with children of the second marriage . |
| 10 | The brochures claim it can be cheaper than staying at home . |
| 11 | It would have been better than staying at home but I did not want to wear a school uniform . |
| 12 | Secondly , there is a risk that higher prices charged by monopoly suppliers will result in DHAs being able to purchase a lower volume of services than provided at present . |
| 13 | Breeding is in fact more often suspected or assumed than proved at present , but six broods were recorded between 1964 and 1970 . |
| 14 | Worst match I 've ever seen ? losing away to Frickley Athletic in a pre-season friendly aa few years back — even worse than losing at home to Chester in the league/milk/littlewoods/whatever cup |
| 15 | There 's the often quoted comparison with our compatriots overseas that it 's cheaper to go overseas than stay at home , but I think , you know , with the range of accommodation , with the range of holidays now available in this country , I think the industry itself is competing very well and that the more and more people who find that they have n't yet discovered Britain will do so this year . |
| 16 | Than left at home , where you 've gone away somewhere without him . |
| 17 | But Jan said it was better working than sitting at home watching the dust settle , even if it was working with a bunch of loonies . |
| 18 | The study of mating systems is more question than answer at present , and the questions may not be well put , but Emlen & oring ( 1977 ) are good on birds . |
| 19 | It would be even more uncomfortable to associate with a character like that than to feel at home with our previous assessment , the hard man whose admirers compared him to a stone . |
| 20 | " He has n't done anything except fly at night , " was the answer . |
| 21 | Although aimed at student nurses , it would also be of interest to graduate nurses both for revision purposes and for the wide range of topics covered . |
| 22 | Leaving aside the possibility of the parental duty being satisfied by the child being efficiently ( and so on ) educated ‘ otherwise ’ than at school , in view of its relative practical insignificance , parents are under a legal obligation to ensure both that the child receives a proper education and , if registered at school , that s/he attends regularly ( Education Act 1944 , section 39 ) . |
| 23 | In sum , a reissue that would have had more of my blessing if offered at bargain price . |
| 24 | However , if staying at home is not possible , there are still many decisions to be made . |
| 25 | The main chain continues in an extended conformation held at the edge of the domain 2 β- sandwich by hydrogen bonds to strands from both β- sheets until kinked at proline 104 to commence the standard β- strand A of domain 2 . |
| 26 | While it is important to know that your sample size is big enough for safe conclusions to be drawn ( that effects are ‘ statistically significant ’ ) , this is secondary in comparison with the issue of whether a relationship can be given a causal interpretation or is merely the spurious result of the operation of third factors ; the relationship between the number of fire engines and the amount of damage caused could be derived from a sample size of ten thousand and still utterly mislead if taken at face value . |
| 27 | Because travelling at walking pace is so rare an experience for car drivers , the Woonerf must be well designed to ensure that the need for low speeds is made very clear . |
| 28 | The fifth-century kings of Macedon , and indeed those of the fourth century till Philip acceded in 359 , imported Greek culture — Pindar wrote a poem for Alexander I in the 490s — while keeping at spear 's length the Greeks who were actually manufacturing that culture . |
| 29 | It had fallen backwards into the narrow eight-feet-deep pipe while grazing at night . |
| 30 | It had been derailed at the entrance while approaching at speed with a sleeper service from Penzance ; miraculously there were no serious injuries , though much of the track at the station throat had to be relaid . |