Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chair has to come to rest at the bottom of the stairs and you need room to get on and off at both ends . |
| 2 | In Vai script there are no spaces between either words or sentences and the reader has to become practised at separating out units of meaning without visual guides . |
| 3 | At the moment it is the ultimate loser who pays the costs even if he or she happens to have won at first instance and in the Court of Appeal . |
| 4 | In real life , the affliction tends to get laughed at — unless you happen to be a sleepwalker , or to live with one . |
| 5 | The office of collector of supply was one which held its value over time , for the salary appears to have increased at a rate which more than compensated the holder for the ravages of inflation . |
| 6 | His best-known work , Tetbury church , Gloucestershire ( 1777–81 ) , is one of the most elegant examples of late eighteenth-century Gothic and was widely admired at the time , the poet William Mason [ q.v. ] , for example , commenting that it gave him ‘ the very highest opinion ’ of Hiorne 's ‘ Gothic taste ’ ; and his approach to Gothic design also appears to have embraced at least the rudiments of scholarship as well as its decorative appeal . |
| 7 | This marks a long-term trend of declining fertility which appears to have stabilised at 1.8 births per woman , below population replacement rate . |
| 8 | His principal patrons were the family of the dukes of Argyll , his commissions from them including Combe Bank , Kent ( c .1726 ) — his first major independent work — Whitton Place , Twickenham ( c .1732–9 , demolished ) , and his largest undertaking , Inveraray Castle , Argyllshire ( begun 1745 ) ; and this was a contact which again appears to have originated at Marble Hill . |
| 9 | Only limited continental subduction appears to have occurred at this stage . |
| 10 | One that everybody seems to have played at some time is Tetris . |
| 11 | It is nice to follow the first Conservative Back-Bench Member who seems to have looked at the Bill without blinkers . |
| 12 | He seems to have taken at least nine apprentices , the last in November 1622 ; one , bound in 1610 , was John Shakespeare , son of a Warwick butcher . |
| 13 | The development of agronomic research into soil conserving practices also ( in four cases where the search discovered projects with this component ) seems to have occurred at the research station , and on the land of a handful of farmers . |
| 14 | Now that the $30 million project is completed , however , visitors will find not much seems to have changed at all . |
| 15 | Their financial status seems to have varied at different times in her life from the reasonably comfortable to the distinctly shabby genteel . |
| 16 | Everything seems to have come at once . |
| 17 | Although many years later Braque recalled how strong an impression tribal art made on him , it is hard to see any direct reflection of this in the paintings executed at the time when Picasso was reacting so positively to tribal sculpture ; even in a painting like the Nu any influence from tribal art seems to have come at second hand , through Picasso 's Demoiselles . |
| 18 | This was essentially a room for transacting business , though if Fournier 's picture is reliable , the Emperor seems to have sat at an inconvenient height at his desk in a small chair , covered in green plush , so low that once seated in it , writing must have been difficult . |
| 19 | The company expects to have shipped at least 50,000 NT developers kits by the end of the year . |
| 20 | On the one hand , the raising of the h = + 1 degeneracy permits self-pulsing at period tR , as described by Bonifacio and Lugiato { 7 } , whereas the Ikeda degeneracy splits to yield pulsing at 2tR/3 , 2tR/S , etc . |
| 21 | In his account Norton claims to have arrived at the Elixir of Gold but to have had it stolen by a servant . |
| 22 | Gradually a long lie on a Saturday comes to mean rising at 5 p.m. in time for the Brookside omnibus , your rucksack quietly grows grey mouldy bits at the back of a dark cupboard , and The Face seems more interesting than Tom Weir 's ‘ My Month ’ . |