Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since many people are unable to meet the costs of litigation from their own resources , the availability of representation under the legal aid scheme will often be the crucial factor in deciding whether the case goes on at all . |
| 2 | As I have already noted , some kind of political change goes on at all times , produced by the succession of generations , the rise and fall of dynasties , competition among various social groups , economic and cultural developments , changing external circumstances , and more idiosyncratic factors , which can only be understood fully through detailed historical studies . |
| 3 | Oh he goes on at five , he leaves house at five Al , and he must be in at one |
| 4 | What goes on at these ‘ ends ’ is intelligible only to those involved . |
| 5 | He goes on at some length referring to the machinery used for scribbling , spinning , fulling etc , all of these processes carried out under one roof . |
| 6 | It goes on at some length to persuade people not to climb up this waterfall and muck about in it . |
| 7 | ‘ You do not know what goes on at this school , ’ said Rafiq . |
| 8 | By the close , the index was just 4.5 points down at 2,277.1 . |
| 9 | But by the close of business , with the Chancellor still speaking , it was just 3.1 points down at 2919.3 . |
| 10 | Johannesburg : Interest was minimal and the market closed weaker , with the general index 19 points down at 2,710 . |
| 11 | ‘ The action goes along at break-neck velocity to reach its conclusion and so there is no problem with the audience fidgeting . ’ |
| 12 | Right it is a hundred miles from King 's Lynn to London , the train takes two hours to do the journey the train does not go at a constant speed , it speeds up sometimes and slows down at other times it also stops at stations on the way and on once of course as it , as it 's stopping it 's going more and more slowly and as it 's er moving off again it starts slowly and starts to go quickly but because it takes two hours in all the train goes a hundred miles in two hours we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 13 | Well that he does he usually goes down at half six quarter to seven . |
| 14 | There is nothing more annoying than a computer system that works beautifully , say , in a library , and then one goes in at nine thirty in the morning and you ca n't get books out because the power has gone off , and if we are sure to go on having a society with industrial disputes , we want a system that is not capable of being completely ruined by one small section of workers deciding not to work on a particular day , and so I think while we 're putting them in , while we want to put them in in a way which that is compatible , we also need to think of having a kind of fail-safe system , particularly in the sort of more serious applications such as medicine and transport and so on , whereby we ca n't be held to ransom by very a small group of people , or indeed by just some technical fault , such as a power failure or something of this kind . |
| 15 | Goes in at one of his ears and out at the other . |
| 16 | Yes , one that kicks in at six month 's half salary , the other one that kicks in at twelve month 's on half salary . |
| 17 | Yes , one that kicks in at six month 's half salary , the other one that kicks in at twelve month 's on half salary . |
| 18 | SPURS boss Terry Venables looks down at controversial new skipper Neil Ruddock , sent off during Saturday 's 2-2 draw against Palace . |
| 19 | God looks down at this cooperative effort of man trying to make himself god-like , and sees it as the beginning of worse rebellion against him . |
| 20 | At £699 , the Olivetti PG404 clocks in at less than half the price of the LaserJet 4 , and it ai n't half bad . |
| 21 | The va n't Hoff equation is only approximate and holds only at low concentrations . |
| 22 | This produces a hypsometric curve which shows the elevations of those regions lying between the continental platforms and the ocean basins and suggests that the true break between the continents and oceans lies not at present sea level but some 200 m or so lower . |
| 23 | This system , generally known as the Cabinet system , has been , in its broad features , adopted by most European constitutional states , and it matters not at all whether they are called monarchies or republics . |
| 24 | The fact that none of them could decipher it matters not at all . |
| 25 | This record though , has not at all reduced the importance of output and employment in small units of production . |
| 26 | China 's initial response was that the speech could not be considered as a basis for talks " because it has not at all relinquished the concept of the independence of Tibet " , but on Sept. 23 disclosed an offer to hold direct negotiations to which the Dalai Lama responded positively . |
| 27 | Williams , Textbook of Criminal Law , 2nd edn , Stevens & Sons , 1983 , 764 , criticised Pitham : if a butler invites the maid to join him in stealing the Duke 's silver when he has found the key to the safe , surely he has not at that time appropriated the silver . |
| 28 | The government has not at this stage , legislated in this area , but I understand in their next White Paper , they probably will take away the ceiling that presently exists , so that a rich offender could pay a lot more for his fine than er a person of average means . |
| 29 | Now a man may marry his stepmother or stepdaughter , or a woman her stepfather or stepson , provided that the younger person is aged at least 21 and has not at any time before reaching the age of 18 lived as a child of the family of the older person . |
| 30 | It starts off at zero voltage at |