Example sentences of "[is] [adj] [to-vb] [adv] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the winning bets on Jo N Jack were struck in Yorkshire and the horse is due to run again at Beverley to-morrow . |
| 2 | He left the previous evening to drive to Ipswich , where his own term is due to begin today at the University of Suffolk . |
| 3 | It is possible to work hard at a complete system and get very little from it because of interference by other predators . |
| 4 | It is possible to jump in at the deep end , buy a farm , and teach yourself , learning by your mistakes . |
| 5 | He spent a good deal of time in his satires , presenting himself as a satirist — unplaced , unpensioned , no man 's heir or slave he proudly describes himself as he tells us that he 's willing to lash out at even the most eminent public figures . |
| 6 | Warnock is favourite to end up at Sunderland if Malcolm Crosby goes . |
| 7 | erm By comparison in A-level grades it 's easier to get in at Sussex in Chemistry than it is in English . |
| 8 | What a way to spend the morning , hammering away at the base of a bomb that is likely to go off at any moment . |
| 9 | If the unholy alliance in favour of the National Curriculum is likely to come apart at the seams over the issue of resource , so also , given the very different aspirations of those who support its introduction , there is likely to be a parting of the ways over principles . |
| 10 | But remember that any increase in death cover is likely to come out at the expense of a lower retirement benefit . |
| 11 | Even on the premier franchises , the marginal operator is likely to compete only at the best times while the franchisee is left to operate the full seven day service . |
| 12 | There will be legal pressure to settle the case : successful defendants do not recover all of their costs , and the simplest of libel actions is likely to run up at least £15,000 in costs for each party prior to trial . |
| 13 | We do have a choice as to whether to make the connection or not , but , as I have said , unless one is aware of it forming at the time , the bond is likely to build up at the instinctive level . |
| 14 | It is hard to find much at Comdex and the companion Windows World show that is not NT-related this year , and Tivoli Systems Inc winged in from Austin , Texas to announce that it will develop a version of its product for NT , and brought along enough gear to demonstrate the Tivoli Management Environment for Windows NT in an early form : it says the product will make it easy for systems administrators to manage , configure , change , monitor , and enforce security of NT systems across large networks , and enable systems managers to manage Windows NT and Unix systems , as well as Windows and MS-DOS client machines , from a single , integrated systems-manager 's desktop ; it will start trickling out at the end of the year with a developer 's toolkit , and management applications will follow in early 1994 . |
| 15 | It is hard to find much at Comdex and the companion Windows World show that is not NT-related this year , and Tivoli Systems Inc winged in from Austin , Texas to announce that , as expected ( UX No 434 ) , it will develop a version of its product for NT , and brought along enough gear to demonstrate the Tivoli Management Environment for Windows NT in an early form . |
| 16 | It 's better to eat more at meal times . |
| 17 | In order to understand the effect that financial delegation is likely to have on schools , in terms of school management and the quality of teaching and learning in the classroom , it is helpful to look briefly at what has already happened elsewhere . |
| 18 | While many mothers rely on both , it is helpful to look briefly at each in turn . |
| 19 | In order to see what this involves , it is helpful to look closely at Poulantzas ' account of classes . |
| 20 | As with all drama work , it 's important to move forward at an appropriate pace , to aim for gradual progression . |
| 21 | With the franchise bids for Channel 3 close to completion and the date set for the advertising of Channel 5 franchises it is timely to look again at the possibilities in the new channel , and in particular at the potential for ‘ city television ’ . |
| 22 | The waveform detection scheme using motional voltage described in the previous Section is unable to operate successfully at low speeds , because the motional voltage is zero , or with chopper drives , because the phase current is almost constant . |
| 23 | Webb has constantly said he is happy to carry on at Old Trafford and fight for his place . |
| 24 | It is convenient to point out at this stage that , for colliding gravitational and electromagnetic waves , two of the scalar polynomial invariants ( Penrose and Rindler , 1986 ) are given by ( 8.2 ) It follows from this that , in order to prove the existence of a scalar polynomial curvature singularity , it is sufficient merely to show that the component 2 is unbounded . |
| 25 | It is difficult to see how at that point in history it could have been otherwise . |
| 26 | It is difficult to hear even at this end . |
| 27 | There is no easy solution to this one , other than doing the first ones at a safe altitude , which means at some speed since it is difficult to fly slowly at any height or distance . |
| 28 | In order to answer this last question it is necessary to look briefly at the type of anthropological work available to Marx and Engels at the time they were writing . |
| 29 | To appreciate the significance of this idea it is necessary to look briefly at some general features of the lateral arrangement of the brain as it relates to psychological function . |
| 30 | Before looking more closely at the reasons why children come into care , and at the numbers involved , it is necessary to look briefly at the main legislation in this field and the powers and duties of the child care service . |