Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] at [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone looks at each other , and somebody finally says : ‘ Floyd says you 'll drop dead in a year . ’ |
| 2 | Everyone looks at each other with the blank expression reserved especially for when someone who is off their trolley comes into the near vicinity . |
| 3 | A child is not to be taken as having a learning difficulty solely because the language ( or form of the language ) in which he is or will be taught is different from a language ( or from of language ) which has at any time been spoken in the house . |
| 4 | that he or she is or has been a director of a company which has at any time become insolvent ( whether while he or she was a director or subsequently ) ; and |
| 5 | But there is Company Standing Training Committee , which comprises people from divisions which looks at those issues , run by Jenny . |
| 6 | There is even a seasonal indicator which occurs at this time of year . |
| 7 | As we have seen an algorithm which prunes at point B ( Fig. 9. 2 ) can produce very similar behaviour to one which orders at these points . |
| 8 | Occasionally , we have a picture which survives at some depth , such as this description of the work the smith owed his lord , the Archbishop of Canterbury , on the manor of Tangmere in 1285 : |
| 9 | It postulates that the actual rate of inflation which prevails at any moment in time may be decomposed into two constituent parts : ( a ) an expectational component , measured by the variable , ( b ) an excess demand component , measured , as in the Phillips-Lipsey model , by the magnitude of f(U) . |
| 10 | There is no easy solution to this one , other than doing the first ones at a safe altitude , which means at some speed since it is difficult to fly slowly at any height or distance . |
| 11 | ‘ In the towns now they are so busy or so tired , poor souls , or so wretched and idle that there is no time for that calm contemplation of one 's existence which is the best part of our lives and which continues at all levels in a place such as this , among the peasantry as much as among those they call the Statesmen . |
| 12 | Rather I wish to draw attention to a particular exhibit in the gallery which is quite simply the best that I have ever seen and which appeals at many levels : intellectual , artistic and aesthetic . |
| 13 | Conversely , where existing competition is light and the traditional catchment area of the firm large , a wide restraint may be expected to be upheld ; and ( 4 ) a prohibition against accepting instructions from any person who has at any time , or over a long period , been a client of the outgoing partner 's former firm . |
| 14 | Yours will most probably be the arms she needs at this point , and the best thing you can do for her is to show that you share her grief , and that as far as possible you are going to be the rock on which she can lean while the sands of her life are shifting so frighteningly beneath her feet . |
| 15 | As far as I can read her argument , it is precisely this which allows recognition of it to model our human position as suspended between , as she says at another point , unconditioned actor … and conditioned agent . " |
| 16 | Although Joffre , who seems at this time not to have been in touch with military reality , even now expected his left wing to advance and halt the invasion . |
| 17 | It 's a question of who decides at this point in time with the government that 's making the decision that the workers in this country have to accept lower standards in almost anything not just wages and terms of conditions , now safety standards . |
| 18 | She decides at this point in the story , that nothing is too bad for those people who have tried to humiliate her throughout her life . |
| 19 | So the things are happening , and you 'll be talking in a moment to Jenny and the work she does at All Saints Convent . |
| 20 | Although pain is the dominant feeling she experiences at that moment , it is a pain that simultaneously makes her angry with the male , and she swipes out at him . |
| 21 | If one looks at these persons we agree are ‘ great ’ butlers , if one looks at , say , Mr Marshall or Mr Lane , it does seem to me that the factor which distinguishes them from those butlers who are merely extremely competent is most closely captured by this word ‘ dignity ’ . |
| 22 | Furthermore , when one looks at these paintings by Cézanne one is often struck by the closeness between the poses of certain figures and those of the ‘ demoiselles ’ . |
| 23 | No one looks at these buildings . |
| 24 | The littlest one leaks at both ends incessantly . |
| 25 | for example , to solve any design problem there has at some stage to be a switch from systems thinking to thinking in terms of physical entities because these are the things that can be created , precisely located and manipulated in the real world . |
| 26 | There seems at this point to be disagreement among the regulationists , with some hypothesizing that the decentralization within Britain was the beginning of a new phase of ( neo-Fordist ) accumulation ( Aglietta , 1979 ; Dunford , Geddes and Perrons , 1981 ) , while others ( Martin , 1988 ; Marshall , 1987 ) clearly see it as an attempt to use geographical restructuring to prolong the life of Fordism . |
| 27 | He laughs at this scenario but it carries the ring of truth . |
| 28 | The knowledge which it produces at any time is tentative and always open to challenge by further evidence . |
| 29 | The knowledge it produces at any time is tentative and always open to challenge by further evidence . |
| 30 | And the easiest way to ensure that — a readiness to criticise the Government at each and every turn — is the one temptation he has at all costs to resist . |