Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [pron] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A system where the user presses a series of buttons without thought and gets exactly what he needs ( rather than what he at that stage thinks he wants ) is efficient but not entirely educational , any more than one so difficult that the user could only throw himself at the mercy of the person sitting at the reader 's adviser desk . |
| 2 | But remember it was Mrs Thatcher , who when she was arguing against the er European Monetary System , said you ca n't buck the markets , and ultimately that is true , or at least more precisely , you can only buck them at a cost , you can only buck it by buying or selling pounds , which messes up your money supply , or raising or lowering your interest rates at a time when you might not be wanting to do so . |
| 3 | Well Mrs Toad is having a sale in her shop + + she has laid out her caish + cash register + + an' a number of pots of tea + + it 's gon na be a special sale because + + so she has th' + a sign up saying + prices are slashed + so she hopes lots of customers will be coming along + to visit her + + while she ‘ s waiting for customers + she goes about setting out the rest of + of the shop + + for things in the sale + + an ’ she brings on + large cans of tin + of tea + + for + she can only carry one at a time + so she walks on with one and puts it on the counter + + |
| 4 | ‘ Our drivers can only negotiate them at a maximum of 15mph , ’ he said . |
| 5 | You 'll only spend it at the bar otherwise . |
| 6 | Because we can only understand it at a level of artificial instrumentation , and mathematical calculations on paper , we find it hard to imagine a little animal doing it in its head . |
| 7 | ‘ You 'd better drop me at the hospital . ’ |
| 8 | But then again , we can only hear them at the moment , but there are six of them . |
| 9 | Thus if my main concern is to have a vast stock of personal possessions and control over the lives of others , I can doubtless only have them at the expense of others . |
| 10 | He ca n't pay the television licence and tosses up every week between washing powder , toothpaste or soap : " I can only afford one at a time — personal hygiene is an expensive item . " |
| 11 | If mixing causes difficulties , will the dementia sufferers gain from a segregated day centre or segregated days in a day centre or hospital , or will this merely put them at a disadvantage ? b Literature Arie ( 1979 ) states that we need to know more of the pros and cons of integration in day hospitals . |
| 12 | This , of course , did not affect me at the time ! |
| 13 | So I read it and I gave a similar look back and I think I probably said something like that did n't happen or something along those lines , that 's hard to believe that had happened and passed it back to him and then that was it , we did not discuss it at the time … |
| 14 | ‘ We did not know it at the time but the torch we lit in Britain , which transformed our country — the torch of freedom that is now the symbol of our party — became a beacon that has shed its light across the Iron Curtain into the East . |
| 15 | Although we did not know it at the time , the next census figures were to show an over-all drop of more than 11% . |
| 16 | Corman , a young independent producer born of the post-Superior Court ruling when studios were cutting back on their own B-movie productions , did not know it at the time , nor did anyone else , but he was about to make a significant contribution to what later became known as the ‘ new Hollywood ’ through the personalities he gave work to on low budget films , either acting , writing , directing or all three . |
| 17 | Although he did not know it at the time , Hess 's work was to initiate a revolution in geological and geophysical thinking , and ultimately it became the foundation of a major new theory about how continents and oceans are related , and what part volcanoes play in the evolution of the Earth . |
| 18 | I did not know it at the time , but Helmut knew that Jean-Claude was still seeing Otto . |
| 19 | This was to be a momentous decision although he did not know it at the time . |
| 20 | I can not chuck them at the last minute . |
| 21 | You can not do everything at the same time . |
| 22 | Most countries organize censuses of their population on something like ten-yearly intervals , but not all do , and they certainly do not do them at the same point in time . |
| 23 | Erm but we 'll do the questions together as a class and I would like you to just speak one at a time , otherwise it will all get blurry . |
| 24 | You may not feel it at the moment because I 've blocked your mind from the pain . |
| 25 | She could not convince me at the time that anything bad could happen , now that I had finally ‘ solved ’ my eating problems , and for a short time I felt jubilant , relieved and ecstatic . |
| 26 | When taking notes it is important to write down any new words or concepts , even if you do not understand them at the time . |
| 27 | You may not see it at the back there a lot stronger , okay . |
| 28 | Though the hardpressed French could not see it at the time , something had in fact gone dramatically wrong with the meticulous German plans ; that is , with the Crown Prince 's plans . |
| 29 | In fact the Germans were firing into the air , although we did not realize it at the time , so there were no casualties . |
| 30 | However , she could not avoid it at The Tamarisks , for although Fru Møller offered a generous choice of hors d'œuvres and puddings she did not provide a choice of main course and Elisabeth would not have dreamt of placing herself at a disadvantage by drawing attention to her disability and pleading for something easier than steak to swallow . |