Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [to-vb] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The figures thus lend support to any intuitive sense we have that the effect of his ordeal in scene six is reflected in his being less willing to talk at length . |
| 2 | Secondly , it 's obviously impossible to look at endomembrane channels using this technique . |
| 3 | Delicious dates come from the Middle East , and are especially easy to obtain at Christmas time . |
| 4 | The Butterley Company found that men whose wives could not find work were less likely to stay at Ollerton , and so planned the building of factories in the village which would ensure both that men were not lost and that family incomes could be supplemented . |
| 5 | It was suggested in Chapter Four that people who possessed three specific characteristics would have been highly unlikely to remain at home for any length of time . |
| 6 | She was apparently able to win at will , despite a strong challenge from Raul Gardini 's Passage of Venice . |
| 7 | There have been few studies of office automation applications , but projections about specific skill requirements are extremely difficult to make at present because it is as yet quite unclear how office automation will be used . |
| 8 | David Parkin was obviously keen to preserve at work the image of a happy marriage despite , or perhaps because of , his affair with Nicola . |
| 9 | It is not possible to deal at length with all of these problems in this single chapter . |
| 10 | But everything hinges on the fitness of the eight FA Cup final ‘ marathon men ’ of Arsenal and Sheffield Wednesday , who are not due to report at England 's Bisham Abbey headquarters until later today , plus the Italian-based trio of Paul Gascoigne , David Platt and Des Walker , who arrive after tomorrow 's Serie A matches . |
| 11 | The Lithuanian party , including 100 fans and 20 journalists , are not due to arrive at Dublin airport until 1.30 on Tuesday afternoon . |
| 12 | The outer surface of the ergosphere is in fact a spheroid of revolution with a radial coordinate r+ which is dependent on the polar angle θ with respect to the axis of rotation : At a radius r+ ( θ ) it is just possible to remain at rest . |
| 13 | The rest of the time , they were not disposed to look at Peter as a human being , but only as a rector , a creature of whom standards of motive and conduct were expected that they did not expect of themselves . |
| 14 | I have already explained , I think three times , in the hearing of President Delors why this Government are not prepared to put at risk the striking progress that has been made in industrial relations in this country since 1979 . |
| 15 | not content to sit at home and wait for things to happen to her . |
| 16 | NBT audiences are ‘ not content to look at rows and rows of identical girls doing the same thing , ’ he maintains . |
| 17 | She was not able to sleep at night , finding herself pushed about in bed . |
| 18 | Most of the English practitioners were not concerned to look at literature as a method of communicating . |
| 19 | They got their chance to delve into the details at a news conference … but Chris Dean also got the chance to say how pleased he and Jayne are to be in the region and finally able to stay at home . |
| 20 | And then they 're just not available to play at home th those |
| 21 | This is most likely to occur at night . |
| 22 | It is not always possible to determine at time of intimation whether a carpet will clean satisfactorily or whether it requires to be replaced . |
| 23 | As is widely known , results showed that those in the experimental group were more likely to remain at home than those in the control group , that the scheme held no cost disadvantages , that levels of subjective stress in carers were reduced , and that there were ‘ significant improvements in a range of indicators of subjective well-being and quality of care ’ for the clients in the experimental group compared with the control group . |
| 24 | On the other hand the slaves were rather more likely to revolt at sea than anyone else , and they were much more likely to commit suicide or die of shock and despair . |
| 25 | Your own recognition of improved living standards as key to stabilisation of numbers suggests that it will be more useful to look at livelihoods than fertility rates . |
| 26 | North America was still such a young country in 1700 that it will be more useful to look at Europe during this time . |
| 27 | It is much more difficult to get at property profits than at share profits — everyone has to live somewhere . |
| 28 | It is even more difficult to achieve at grassroots level , especially in those minefields with which both parties are well provided in countries such as Ukraine . |
| 29 | He knows one thing is certain — Forest will be much more difficult to beat at Wembley than they were against Wednesday , who joined Sheffield United as the only teams to have achieved a double over Forest this season . |
| 30 | ‘ When everybody travels it will make it awfully pleasant to sit at home . ’ |