Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [verb] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The figures thus lend support to any intuitive sense we have that the effect of his ordeal in scene six is reflected in his being less willing to talk at length . |
| 2 | Secondly , it 's obviously impossible to look at endomembrane channels using this technique . |
| 3 | Delicious dates come from the Middle East , and are especially easy to obtain at Christmas time . |
| 4 | It was suggested in Chapter Four that people who possessed three specific characteristics would have been highly unlikely to remain at home for any length of time . |
| 5 | She was apparently able to win at will , despite a strong challenge from Raul Gardini 's Passage of Venice . |
| 6 | There have been few studies of office automation applications , but projections about specific skill requirements are extremely difficult to make at present because it is as yet quite unclear how office automation will be used . |
| 7 | David Parkin was obviously keen to preserve at work the image of a happy marriage despite , or perhaps because of , his affair with Nicola . |
| 8 | The outer surface of the ergosphere is in fact a spheroid of revolution with a radial coordinate r+ which is dependent on the polar angle θ with respect to the axis of rotation : At a radius r+ ( θ ) it is just possible to remain at rest . |
| 9 | They got their chance to delve into the details at a news conference … but Chris Dean also got the chance to say how pleased he and Jayne are to be in the region and finally able to stay at home . |
| 10 | This is most likely to occur at night . |
| 11 | It is not always possible to determine at time of intimation whether a carpet will clean satisfactorily or whether it requires to be replaced . |
| 12 | As is widely known , results showed that those in the experimental group were more likely to remain at home than those in the control group , that the scheme held no cost disadvantages , that levels of subjective stress in carers were reduced , and that there were ‘ significant improvements in a range of indicators of subjective well-being and quality of care ’ for the clients in the experimental group compared with the control group . |
| 13 | On the other hand the slaves were rather more likely to revolt at sea than anyone else , and they were much more likely to commit suicide or die of shock and despair . |
| 14 | It is much more difficult to get at property profits than at share profits — everyone has to live somewhere . |
| 15 | ‘ When everybody travels it will make it awfully pleasant to sit at home . ’ |
| 16 | If you do n't do so you are also likely to put at risk the closeness of your own relationship with them . |
| 17 | ‘ Football on the continent has changed and the results in both groups of the Champions League show that sides are now willing to attack at home or in their away matches . ’ |
| 18 | Hugo had been perfectly happy to talk at length on the Margie Llewellyn Show about the days when he had played on the streets of the Bronx , and how in this unlikely setting a talent for sketching had developed into an interest in designing clothes . |
| 19 | This table shows that those whom we predicted as unlikely to remain at home for long without project support were in general relatively expensive to care for at home . |
| 20 | Here it was even possible to freewheel at speed without the risk of the front wheel submerging into a pool of smelly black moss . |
| 21 | She talks all the time and craves company — something her family were simply unable to provide at home . |
| 22 | And erm , my wife who 's a teacher had erm a very devastating experience just after I retired so it was erm , it was as well that I retired when I did because I was then able to stay at home and er |
| 23 | We are quite keen to look at equity options , debt equity swaps er perhaps talk a to the government about an extension of the business expansion scheme , specifically into manufacturing industry er and generally look for innovative solutions , persuade to customers to take loans out instead of overdrafts . |
| 24 | ‘ Most of our land at Home Farm is on exposed hillside and is too frozen to plough at present . ’ |
| 25 | And how about yourself , you obviously were n't that happy playing at left back for Oxford United , and you 've slotted into the central defence , playing a lot happier and of course , driving forward when you can for these goals ? |
| 26 | She would n't give any explanation , so I assumed it was to collect a present that was too big to hide at home , like a bike or something . |
| 27 | The final two Ipswich cases were somewhat exceptional : one was a woman who was very difficult to find at home ; she was also being helped by two neighbours of whose motives the development officer and others in the psychogeriatric team , were suspicious . |
| 28 | It may not be politically correct to laugh at speech impediments but Simon Roberts ' excitable characterisation gets some of the biggest laughs . |
| 29 | It may not be politically correct to laugh at speech impediments but Simon Roberts ' excitable characterisation gets some of the biggest laughs . |
| 30 | ‘ We show boys how to understand girls ’ feelings and we get the teenagers to ask the questions they are too frightened to ask at home or of friends . |