Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is because the European Community dumps low-quality beef , at great cost to the European taxpayer , on West African markets , where it sells at half the price of locally produced beef . |
| 2 | Where it survives at all , belief in a special East European road may be strongest in parties with a nationalist tinge , like Hungary 's Democratic Forum . |
| 3 | There is training , though not enough , available at considerable expense to staff working for NGOs , but training for volunteers is patchy and unsystematic , where it exists at all . |
| 4 | However , although it seems at first sight that prospects for prevention associated with life events are bleak , there are nevertheless a number of realistic possibilities , and it is important to go through these . |
| 5 | The surviving corner showed that it had at some stage been thickened to 7½ft or possibly , as the plan suggests , extended to form a buttress or column base . |
| 6 | One is to telephone , or write to her beforehand , saying that things have been so hectic at your end recently that it seemed at one point that you might have to postpone your visit for a week or two , but that you are so keen to see her that you are absolutely determined to ‘ make it ’ somehow , even if it has to be just a ‘ flying visit ’ . |
| 7 | The amazing thing about this second ‘ Carry On ’ was not so much that it succeeded at all , but that it outgrossed the first in the series . |
| 8 | Still hammering away , the Institute has the satisfaction of knowing that it has at last brought home to the Ministry of Health , within whose purview this question comes , that things are not what they ought to be , and Dr Eichholz , who has just retired from the Chief Inspectorate of Special Schools , is at its request making a special enquiry . |
| 9 | In fact , the Report makes clear that it aims at much more . |
| 10 | The only interesting thing about it is that it happened at all . |
| 11 | That it happened at all was historic . |
| 12 | Where did you get the impression that it started at seven ? |
| 13 | As Mr Cameron puts it , ‘ At the very time when most people want and need mobility — during the morning and evening peak periods — the system actually carries fewer of them than it does at various off-peak times . ’ |
| 14 | This is a more generous protest even than it seems at first sight , for Jacob 's possessions include Esau 's birthright , and Isaac 's blessing that had been meant for him . |
| 15 | The debate about using readmission to measure quality of care is obviously much more complex than it seems at first sight . |
| 16 | For example , as we noted , the definition of pragmatics as concerned with encoded aspects of context may be less restrictive than it seems at first sight ; for if in general ( a ) principles of language usage have as corollaries principles of interpretation , and ( b ) principles of language usage are likely in the long run to impinge on grammar ( and some empirical support can be found for both propositions ) , then theories about pragmatic aspects of meaning will be closely related to theories about the grammaticalization of aspects of context . |
| 17 | But the horizon no longer has any black skies , and it looks more forgiving than it has at any point until now . |
| 18 | Set against the background of inflation this rise is less impressive than it looks at first sight . |
| 19 | Once they got there , however , they found the police would not allow them onto the tarmac with the welcoming VIPs and it looked at one point as though they were not going to get any pictures . |
| 20 | She was polite about the leeks and lumpy cheese and said a similar thing could be done with endives and it looked at first as if the lunch was going to prove a slightly awkward affair . |
| 21 | And it goes at sixty revolutions to the minute . |
| 22 | I always knew it probably could n't last because nothing goes on forever , but in that time , I had a great time in New York , and it seemed at one point that everyone was there when David was doing the week at the Universal Amphitheatre . |
| 23 | The conclusion we are entitled to draw from these findings is that , in general , female usage tends towards the more ‘ careful ’ end of the stylistic continuum and male usage towards the more ‘ casual ’ , and it seemed at this stage of our research that we had some justification for the claim that in linguistic variation , sex-differentiation is prior to class differentiation and need not be interpreted as subsidiary to class ( as it normally has been ) . |
| 24 | shall we just look at er item four on one , five , three , because this is er sent out on the seventeenth of June eighty five , right , see that at page one , five , two , and it says at four the service charge , the estimated service charge for these flats for the year ending thirty one August eighty five is and then the flats are set out there , three hundred and eighty two , five , seven , five and seven , six , four , that 's all in respect of because we know this was an flat , we can see that from page one , five , two , but when , whether or not the brochure is updated when that letter goes out to their solicitors , have you seen other similar letters of this sort going out ? |
| 25 | And , it 's not a text but perhaps a verse that we could use as a , as a springboard is verse twenty seven , and it says at this point his disciples came and they marvelled that he had been speaking with a woman ! |
| 26 | On the other hand , when television coverage of unemployment almost ceased in the third week , public demand for political debate on the issue also dropped slightly , from 66 per cent to 56 per cent , and it remained at this new lower level thereafter . |
| 27 | Acne in adolescents often appears around the age of 12 or 13 in girls and about 16 in boys , and it peaks at 17–18 in girls and 19 in boys , who suffer more acutely . |
| 28 | In polar regions , as the heat is lost to the atmosphere the surface water naturally gets denser and it sinks and it spreads at some level in the ocean into the rest of the world ocean . |
| 29 | Elsewhere , FT-SE 's four-day record run halted and it closed at 2764.5 , down 27 . |
| 30 | For the opportunity , if it existed at all , to make such a change would have occurred only in the context of a much more broadly based revolutionary movement . |