Example sentences of "[to-vb] at [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Speedier technological change will increase the need for most people to retrain at least once during their working life , which should mean more jobs for teachers of all sorts . |
| 2 | If possible , try to adjust at least partially to the local time of your destination by going to bed one or two hours earlier each night and getting up one or two hours earlier each day . |
| 3 | Those cuts apply not only to the group of people whom the Conservatives would like to have us believe are claimants — the little group of scroungers whom Labour Members wish to prosecute at least as much as Conservative Members do , because of the vast number of people in need who are tarred with the ’ scroungers ’ brush that the Government choose to use . |
| 4 | Most employers ' schemes are ‘ contracted out ’ of SERPS which means that the employer has agreed to provide at least as much from his scheme as you would receive from SERPS . |
| 5 | It was just as I had remembered it for over thirty years , it was just as it used to appear at least once a week at lunch in the Paris household where I spent two years of my youth with a greedy Norman family : two years of study interspersed with the most trying of family meals , endless and infinitely to be dreaded but for the blessed beauty of the food . |
| 6 | Suppose we get 204 , giving herd B ; the second of the systematic sample will be 204 + 293 = 497 which gives herd F. By this means we always obtain two different primaries unless one of the primaries accounts for more than half the secondaries , in which case that primary has to appear at least once . |
| 7 | Auguste strolled past the clap-boarded boathouse , on to the pier , determined to escape at least briefly from murder . |
| 8 | and erm er , we , and that there are various other erm we ways in which the parties should be protected , erm , which I have n't had a chance to look at today clearly the costs of investigating , the proper costs of investigating any structured settlement would have to be dealt with on a later occasion , that it is somehow awarded , instead of protected that the plaintiff gives the defendant notice , seven day 's notice before instructing any account on to advise on the structured settlement , so if the defendant thinks the plaintiff is being wholly unreasonable they can come back to court , quite at liberty to apply and get , make his point of the directions on the therefore within these context these are the sort of orders which , on the behalf of the plaintiff I can see and I would respectively suggest that we go away , draw them up and hand them in toy our Lordship and come back later in the day if we have difficult |
| 9 | The presentation and graphics are superb , interesting to look at yet still preserving the minimalistic simplicity of the coin-op . |
| 10 | I think it 's something that they probably have to look at fairly seriously because er I think you do the Government a a lot of favours by going self-employed . |
| 11 | Every roof has an individual character — so you can be sure of an investment that ; s lovely to look at as well as adding to the value of your building . |
| 12 | Tony Chivers reported that a number of villagers had volunteered to be footpath representatives and had been allocated two paths each , which they had agreed to walk at least twice a year . |
| 13 | Bill the dog always seems to walk at least twice as far as I do , running ahead for a while and coming back to check that I 'm following before he dives down a hole after rabbits that he never catches . |
| 14 | It is to be admitted that any particular conscious episode , in the moment of experiencing of it , seems to consist at least largely in but one thing — as , say , when the address " 4 Keats Grove " comes to mind . |
| 15 | The world 's dominant religions require members to worship at least once a week and to attend a major festival every three months . |
| 16 | On the other hand , it is necessary for the applicant for judicial review from the start to give at least as much attention to questions of remedies as to the question of whether the respondent has committed a legal wrong . |
| 17 | In fact , even as he spoke , the forces for change were there and rallying : the critique of the established constitutional authorities was eating into things below the froth of party politics ; the Liberal-SDP Alliance considered that the " key to … change lies in electoral and constitutional reform " ; and Tony Benn , generally recognised as leader of the radical left in the Labour Party , was telling large and enthusiastic audiences up and down the country that " constitutional questions are the key to power in a parliamentary democracy " and that " socialists need to give at least as much attention to the institutions of the state as to the power structure of the economy " . |
| 18 | Whereas the inexperienced glider pilot needs to fly at least once a month to be safe , more experienced pilots can go much longer without always becoming badly out of practice . |
| 19 | So , when the subject under debate is the country 's richest cultural jewel , feelings are likely to run at least as high as they did in Paris over the pyramid at the Louvre or in London over the National Gallery extension . |
| 20 | You are almost certain to land at least partially sideways-on to the opponent , so be wary of a possible foot sweep . |
| 21 | Today 's stage nine is 120 miles from Wrexham to Rotherham and the Milk Race comes to Liverpool city centre tomorrow , the first riders set to arrive at around 2.30pm. finishing line for the stage is situated at the top of the cobbled William Brown Street . |
| 22 | As the Welsh had been written off even by their most loyal supporters , the French media was at pains to try to explain to their bemused readership the concept of points differential , in other words point out that in order to win the cup France had to score at least as many points as England had in Dublin . |
| 23 | They then made two coded telephone warnings to Scotland Yard at 8pm claiming there were four bombs planted in a one-mile radius of the West End which were set to explode at about 8.30pm . |
| 24 | There are not constant outcries against the police , courts and prisons , so perhaps the Code works in a sufficiently balanced way , so as to blend at least reasonably well with the democracy so fervently fought for in Mexico 's history . |
| 25 | Compressed air does not have sufficient energy density for useful range : a flywheel would have to rotate at too high a speed for safety to ensure adequate range ; storing heat energy is limited by the temperature of the working fluid and by losses due to conduction . |
| 26 | How far this reorientation extended was likely to depend at least as much upon the responses of Western governments and the behaviour of the other states concerned as it did upon the Soviet authorities themselves . |
| 27 | Will the Minister introduce in the near future proposals enabling us to have at least as many national holidays as other European countries ? |
| 28 | And then lastly there is an obligation on us to review at least annually , the position of our advisors . |
| 29 | But though busy , there was time to swim at least twice a day in warm water , fanned by warm breezes , with an average temperature the year round of between 70° and 80° Fahrenheit , and always against a magical scenic backdrop that never ceased to enchant me . |
| 30 | The gel retardation assay is a rapid method which allows to compare at least semi-quantitatively the affinity of RNA polymerases for different promoters in the presence of heparin . |