Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] [noun] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have rules that executive share option schemes may grant options at a discount only if the employer also runs an all-employee scheme . |
| 2 | Minister of Science William Waldegrave , may have released the first major UK government White Paper on science and technology for over 10 years yesterday , but information technology professionals need n't hold their breath : while Waldegrave seems to think we should count ourselves lucky because we 've got our own research council for the first time , it would be more truthful to say we 've been stuffed into the miscellaneous section of the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council , along with the electronic , electrical and communications industries ; our body , together with the Particle Physics and Sciences Research Council , will replace the Science and Engineering Research Council ; as a result , we will benefit ‘ from the same building of bridges between research bodies and industry ’ as the rest of the reorganised bodies and should experience interaction at an earlier stage — on the Japanese and German model . |
| 3 | While this is not insignificant ( a weakness of the lecture or the teacher-directed lesson is that it must take place at a pre-set time irrespective of student readiness ) it is hardly Liberty Hall . |
| 4 | Experience in Leeds suggests that intervention must take place at an early stage in order to be effective . |
| 5 | But already one thing was clear : the heat could not simply be due to deuterium dd fusion as this process should produce neutrons at a rate a billion times larger than they were recording . |
| 6 | One of the first indications that this belief would have to be abandoned came when calculations by the British scientists Lord Rayleigh and Sir James Jeans suggested that a hot object , or body , such as a star , must radiate energy at an infinite rate . |
| 7 | Labour 's National Executive Committee agreed last night that the leadership contest should take place at a special conference on July 18 . |
| 8 | However , the studies also indicate a note of caution : Cohn and Daro conclude by suggesting that perhaps putting all resources into intervention after the fact does not make sense and that intervention should take place at a much earlier preventive stage . |
| 9 | Ideally , further education activities should take place at a time when the qualified staff can most easily be spared . |
| 10 | This should take place at a time when the individual is able to engage in detailed discussion . |
| 11 | ‘ I thought it odd an Englishman should visit Vienna at a time like this . ’ |
| 12 | So you should shed weight at an even faster rate . |
| 13 | But a body with a particular temperature must emit radiation at a certain rate . |
| 14 | OPTIONS : Any Mobs of spider riders may carry shields at an additional cost of +1 points per model . |
| 15 | OPTIONS : Any Mobs of Goblins may carry shields at an additional cost of +½ point per model . |
| 16 | OPTIONS : Any Mobs of Forest Goblins may carry shields at an additional cost of +½ point per model . |
| 17 | OPTIONS : Any Mobs of Night Goblins may carry shields at an additional cost of +½ point per model . |
| 18 | Analysing RFLPs may identify alleles at a particular genetic locus that are associated with a clinical phenotype . |
| 19 | For example storytime might take place at an established time towards the end of the school day , but in a follow-up session the next day questions could be asked to see how much they remember of the story , or one child could be asked to retell the story they heard yesterday ( see Boxes 4 and 5 ) . |
| 20 | In an interview last month Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison said that technical advances now make it possible to create relatively inexpensive public databases , with telephone companies acting as the backbone for what he termed ‘ a huge emerging market , ’ enabling subscribers to store and recall voice messages and receive what he calls ‘ home mail ’ electronically , and that by matching the latest parallel processors with Oracle 's software , new data services could deliver information at a tenth the current cost . |
| 21 | Now we could use plasterboard at a fraction of the price and put it up in the fraction of the time . |
| 22 | She could spend hours at a dressing-table , gravely staring at her reflection just as an artist might gaze on his work in search of a final gloss that might turn a merely pretty picture into a masterpiece . |
| 23 | There are few exceptions where human skulls have been found in wells and which could suggest violence at a later period . |
| 24 | Such effects could take place at a number of different levels within the political system : an individual 's relationship to another could change as a result of the media just as an individual 's relationship to an institution could change as an outcome of media work , and so on . |
| 25 | But if one could aim films at a European market of 300 million people , that would be a very different story . |
| 26 | Charles Merson , 59 , posed as a salesman for a tobacco firm and persuaded newsagents and off-licences that he could get goods at a discount price , John McGuinness , prosecuting , told Isleworth Crown Court . |
| 27 | Several years ago they could offer mortgages at an interest rate of roughly 4% , fixed for an initial period of four years . |
| 28 | When I was told this , I recalled hearing it said , back in the 1930s , that these visits had been observed by a young writer or two who , out of rather callous curiosity , would follow Eliot at a discreet distance , and observe him to turn round , as he approached the door , in order to see whether anybody had been spying on him . |
| 29 | This is because regular heroin use is likely to result in both physical addiction and a major psychological dependence , and these consequences would keep prevalence at a high level long after any drop in the level of social deprivation . |
| 30 | The sediment would allow diffusion at a rate of only I metre per 10 years , and ocean circulation would take 100 years to introduce radionuclides into the human environment once radionuclides enter the water column . |