Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [verb] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many relationships begin to fail at this stage , and are often allowed to do so by default because the difficulties of living through this stage of life are insufficiently understood . |
| 2 | Goody , however , claims that if the processes of political scepticism do occur at all in non-literate societies , they must always be limited and individual . |
| 3 | Indian companies tend to allocate at most two per cent of turnover to R&D as against 15 per cent by US firms . |
| 4 | The USA and IBM continue to lead at all levels — in supercomputers , in mainframes , in minis , and in micros ( IBM and Apple ) . |
| 5 | In fact those two countries fail to feature at all . |
| 6 | These ‘ eclectic ’ economists prefer to look at each element of the debate and assess it as dispassionately as possible in the light |
| 7 | Rottweilers seem to excel at this work . |
| 8 | Again we discussed in the first chapter a little of why such questions get asked at this stage . |
| 9 | Cud play to win at all times and no mistake . |
| 10 | Cud play to win at all times and no mistake . |
| 11 | But all managers have to negotiate at some time so it pays to learn about handling the process well . |
| 12 | ‘ Businesses have to look at all their costs during a recession , ’ says David Grayson , BITC 's managing director of operations . |
| 13 | In some ways it is surprising that smaller firms have survived at all , let alone increased their share of manufacturing employment . |
| 14 | ‘ Some people like to mix at these conventions , and some do n't . |
| 15 | Lots of well known people have called at this famous pub , and signed the visitor 's book . |
| 16 | Many people have looked at this before and they 've come up with various prognostic markers , some of which are extremely complicated . |
| 17 | And they have applied two rather unique techniques to study this question ; it 's a technique that 's er , er rather unique to Oxford , it seems that across the country , most people have looked at this particular problem of reducing the fluid in the lung . |
| 18 | Less than 4.25 per cent of Trust members seem to vote at all . |
| 19 | One of the one of the difficulties is that that that theatres up and down the country have faced over the last two years of the new target that were brought in with the eighty eight education act where schools were not allowed to make a charge it could only be a voluntary contribution now the council of Great Britain have looked at this it 's a problem cos of this decimated schools audiences . |
| 20 | This may well be why older children do succeed at these tasks — they have independent resources on which they can rely — but it seems less convincing as a reason for the failure of younger children . |
| 21 | Faxes have arrived at all hours from LA and London . |
| 22 | But it is not at all obvious to the audience how the couple have arrived at this happier state of affairs , neither is it entirely clear what Bill Alexander hopes to add by exercising his powers of invention on the play 's Prologue , in which an alcoholic tinker called Christopher Sly is persuaded by a group of gentry to think of himself an aristocrat — the story of the shrew being laid on as a suitable dramatic entertainment . |
| 23 | Do you in fact want to recruit at all ? |