Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [vb -s] 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 | She had now reached the age when one starts looking for a husband rather more systematically than one does at nineteen or even at twenty-one . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The debate about using readmission to measure quality of care is obviously much more complex than it seems at first sight . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But the horizon no longer has any black skies , and it looks more forgiving than it has at any point until now . |
| 11 | Set against the background of inflation this rise is less impressive than it looks at first sight . |
| 12 | Okay , so he rings at ten o'clock , ten thirty in the morning . |
| 13 | Elliott said , ‘ She 'll talk to the police if she talks at all — who else ? ’ |
| 14 | No , she 'll come Sunday if she comes at all . |
| 15 | If one looks at one particular example of policy-making — the expansion of free or subsidised milk to children — one sees another striking demonstration of official reluctance to alter traditional patterns of thinking . |
| 16 | If one looks at that erm built area where we are now that looks perhaps like a heron on a perch , and looks immediately east of that , you have Strensall Common , most of which is a restricted area . |
| 17 | If one looks at seventh-century England , as described by the Venerable Bede , it is hard ( for all his efforts ) to see much difference between the pagan Penda of Mercia and the Christian Oswald of Northumbria as rulers . |
| 18 | If one looks at these persons we agree are ‘ great ’ butlers , if one looks at , say , Mr Marshall or Mr Lane , it does seem to me that the factor which distinguishes them from those butlers who are merely extremely competent is most closely captured by this word ‘ dignity ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ The baker works in the back , you see , so he does n't show a light until he opens at six . |
| 20 | The disappointing turnout of visitors to London 's Solutions for Workstations Show earlier this month has led to redundancies at show organiser EMAP Exhibitions , including show manager , John Howe : Sun Microsystems Inc has already declined a space at next year 's event — if it happens at all . |
| 21 | In this sense , the English-speaking world can be divided into two broad speech-communities : one in which [ h ] -dropping is widespread and has social significance , and one in which it is so rare ( if it happens at all ) that it is socially irrelevant . |
| 22 | The bud ( e ) has been burrowed into by the tortrix moth , and if it opens at all will be badly damaged . |
| 23 | A miracle , in other words , if it occurs at all , is a tremendous stroke of luck . |
| 24 | I do n't know if it shuts at five o'clock or what they do or if evening staff come on ? |
| 25 | If it goes at different times , it 's a different consignment . |
| 26 | ‘ If it helps at all , Colonel , it was apparently a heart attack your father died of . |
| 27 | So one is forced to conclude that the reason hundreds of dismayed tourists and walkers are stranded on stations up and down the length of the West Highland line at the height of the season , unable to squeeze into an already packed ‘ Sprinter ’ , if it arrives at all , is that somebody is doing this on purpose . |
| 28 | The question then arises as to how this pragmatic enterprise differs , if it differs at all , from the kinds of activity which are customarily carried out under the name of research . |
| 29 | It may have been a recurrent nova , and although it is probably unlikely that it will ever come within binocular range , if it reappears at all , there is no harm in looking for it . |
| 30 | The only fly in the ointment is if it starts at seven , it 's going to be a bit of a rush . |