Example sentences of "[verb] at [adj] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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1 | At the moment it is the ultimate loser who pays the costs even if he or she happens to have won at first instance and in the Court of Appeal . |
2 | Because you do not want a return to destructive two party politics and you do know at first hand that Liberal Democrats do put ‘ people first ’ ; that local income tax is a fair and predictable alternative to the poll tax ; that our stance on Hong Kong is morally right and that we realise the urgency of environmental action with targets for achievement away ahead of the other two parties . |
3 | Olwen did n't know at that time that the commitment was soon to become twenty-four hours a day , seven days a week . |
4 | across a lot of papers but in this paper it starts er and as Mr just said it starts as far as incr increments , erm do we know at this time or can we be informed as soon as were informed , where of what , whether implement are erm , like , are restricted by the , the Chancellor 's statement , do we know or , are have we got ta wait ? |
5 | With regard to the incident this morning , we do not know at this stage whether the injured man was operating a taxi or not . |
6 | We do not therefore know at this stage whether the station will meet the Government 's investment criteria . ’ |
7 | It should perhaps be stressed at this point that the three-element model , while modelling many of the features of solid polymers , remains only a model . |
8 | We were wined and dined at great expense and the next time I met Tommy he thanked me profusely for assisting him on that evening . |
9 | ‘ She said he was laughing at that time and she just wanted to frighten him . ’ |
10 | They were all laughing at such ineptitude when Wainfleet telephoned . |
11 | A taxi driver told Gloucester Crown Court that he saw two drivers laughing at each other as they roared past him nose-to-tail just before the crash . |
12 | Besides laughing with a comforting or gratifying sense of superiority when confronted with pictures of the incompetence of figures who the readers may recognize as representing their fellow men , the readers may also be regarded , she suggests , as laughing at common humankind and thus also ( unconsciously ) at themselves . |
13 | The fact that timing of the first births is closely related to age at first marriage or union is documented in Fig 1 . |
14 | The typical appellate judge will be at least 60 years of age , white , male and educated at public school and at Oxford or Cambridge and have lived in the insular world of the Bar for more than 30 years . |
15 | Cal-Volair did the work at both its shops located at Long Beach and Oxnard , California . |
16 | I now know that you do n't win at this level unless you sweat blood and tears . ’ |
17 | Meanwhile the Government tries to deny there 's a problem — apparently Thatcher even claimed at one point that no untreated sewage goes into British seas . |
18 | The problem , however , is turning phrases that are warmly applauded at rotary club or chamber of commerce lunches into serious investment . |
19 | Is property and plant at net book value or are they included at current valuation or depreciated replacement cost ? |
20 | Moreover , the relationship between mosaics need not necessarily be " direct " : a group of mosaics can be included at this level when the style of its members is relatable only by comparison with that of a third pavement ( a " distributed relationship ) . |
21 | The farmer approached at that moment and was angry with Tess for wasting time talking to a stranger . |
22 | Erm we used at one time as you remember to have a full time education officer and er for a number of reasons er that er is no longer the case . |
23 | The North Berwick line enjoys a spectacular claim to fame because it has at some time or other in its history been powered by every possible form of motive power ; horse , steam , diesel and electricity . |
24 | Now what I want to do is look at what was happening at that time and then try and explain using the determinants of demand what the patterns actually were . |
25 | I mean the idea of course is to try at some stage and run a trainer trainer 's course , so that we expand the number of people who can who can do the training . |
26 | More trees have been felled at this location and Councillor Brereton has requested that replacement trees be planted . |
27 | I trembled at that nakedness and read : |
28 | ‘ Mr and Mrs Gould are now in the Colony ’ proclaimed the Hobart Town Courier , ‘ to which they have come at great expense and sacrifice of comfort , purely with the view of making this work [ Birds of Australia ] still more valuable by taking their drawings from living specimens . |
29 | Well but I mean that 's an example and as I say at this end where you 've no arousal you 're either asleep or dead , there 's no sort of performance performance of any sort and we talk about having those butterflies in the stomach do n't we ? |
30 | She 'll rigid cos her pay stopped at one stage and it was wrong because she had n't been warned |