Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Acyclovir given intravenously , orally or applied directly at the site of infection can accelerate healing and restrict the spread and recurrence of many herpes infections ( British Medical Journal , 1982 , vol 285 , p 1223 . ) . |
| 2 | Assuming that there is a perfect capital market , so that the individual can borrow or lend freely at an interest rate r ( about which he has confident expectations ) , a person 's expected lifetime discounted income is measured by , where W u and M u are expected wage income and capital receipts at time u , and P u denotes the survival probability . |
| 3 | Hormone replacement therapy consists of the hormones oestrogen and progesterone taken daily to help replace those lost or produced erratically at the menopause . |
| 4 | Is it really necessary for you to have no claim if you are indeed made redundant or treated unjustly at the time when the contract finishes ? |
| 5 | But much of what they buy ends up being returned or hidden away at the back of a drawer . |
| 6 | Using the Windows software supplied with the printer it is possible to setup , configure and maintain your printer from the comfort of your PC screen — no more fiddling about with mysteriously labelled buttons and switches , or peering hopelessly at a badly lit LCD panel . |
| 7 | No hair-stroking or sighing or staring sorrowfully at the ceiling , not for her . |
| 8 | Felicity had come out in a severe facial rash and spent the time either screaming or staring fixedly at the paperknife on her desk . |
| 9 | Everyone in the board room was either clearing his throat , or shifting position in his seat , or doing both at the same time , which is actually rather difficult . |
| 10 | Dexter sat back in his armchair , unsure whether to laugh outright or smile knowingly at the businessman 's practical joke . |
| 11 | It was shabby but civilised , alive with history but inhabited also by living poets and thinkers who could be found squatting on the slotted metal floors of the stacks , or arguing pleasantly at the turning of the stair . |
| 12 | Although probably built as a row by some Victorian property magnate , all the houses were slightly different from the front and all had been built on to or extended differently at the back . |
| 13 | Do n't choose a colour for its safety , because it is acceptable , or sells well at the art society exhibition . |
| 14 | The healthy stayed away , or hovered sceptically at the back of the crowd , talking as they waited for the first miracle . |
| 15 | The research seeks to assess how much of the business guaranteed by government export credit agencies would be declined by the private sector or accepted only at a higher price . |
| 16 | But on Monday night the audience at the Queen Elizabeth Hall appeared neatly divided — between those who were willing to prolong the applause indefinitely and those who either disappeared discreetly halfway through or scarpered quickly at the end . |
| 17 | I.C.B. was interested in our neighbours — particularly a large family that lived upstairs at the time . |
| 18 | Mangroves are trees that grow right at the edge of the sea , held and nourished through characteristic prop roots that grip the soft mud . |
| 19 | This in turn led to the arm and gun junction boxes being redesigned horizontally next to each other rather than grouped centrally at the front . |
| 20 | And the Mediterranean , the great pale green sea that sloshes away at the coastline of Phoenicia , this too still shaped our movements and our lives , provided the essential and unchanging link between that distant , unphotographed world of Roberts and the country in which I now lived . |
| 21 | lonnbergii , dominican gulls Larus dominicanus , blue-eyed cormorants Phalacrocorax atriceps , and a wider selection of petrels that breed both at the surface and in cavities among scree . |
| 22 | Even nationalists such as myself began to tire of it , until the modern British revival that came unexpectedly at the Sydney Football stadium in the Third Test 1988 . |
| 23 | Manchuria was known to be rich in raw materials , notably coal and iron ore , and capable of supporting a far larger population than dwelt there at the time . |
| 24 | A homogeneous population will eventually grow at a steady rate r , which is given by the Euler-Lotka equation , In an asexual population , or a population of sexually reproducing haploids that vary only at a single locus , the outcome of natural selection depends simply on the long-term growth rates associated with each genotype , in the absence of density- or frequency-dependent interactions , each genotype will eventually grow exponentially at a rate that depends on its own life history , given by equation ( 1 ) . |
| 25 | Our understanding is that the Scottish Office brief is far wider than to look only at the promotion of Scotland as a destination . |
| 26 | They are boring , grey-coloured , hamster-like devices that scurry away at the first sound of our Michelin Interroutes ; I suppose I would leg it too if some mad giant was riding his bike over my roof . |
| 27 | In other words , the theme of eleven bars has rhythms that turn backwards at the mid point . |
| 28 | It roared over the deck , detonating against the stacked containers , bursting upwards in geysers that reached hungrily at the armoured plate glass of the bridge . |
| 29 | Think of how surprised the well-heeled audience beyond the velvet curtain would be if it could see what was going on back here , the last-minute mayhem that came of packing a dozen models and heaven only knew how many assistants , hairdressers , make-up people , and general , all-purpose ‘ gofers ’ into the cramped space that lay backstage at the Sala dell'Arte . |
| 30 | In the narrow field that sloped upwards at the back between scrubby thickets Donald 's rake lay with its teeth in a swathe . |