Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] at [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the one hand , some clients may prefer a structured day with routine care , which everyone receives given at set times , very probably by a succession of nurses . |
| 2 | The importance of these statutory provisions appears to me to be that Parliament has considered at various times and in various contexts the need for recovery of imposts paid but not due and has legislated in a manner which suggests that no such general principle as the Woolwich contends for was thought to be in existence . |
| 3 | Strictly speaking , though , the possibility remains that heritable cancer genes may exist : no-one else has looked at normal tissues from cancer patients . |
| 4 | Accordingly , recent work has looked at new ways of defining rural deprivation over and above the arithmetic of woe shown in Tables 6.5 and 6.6 . |
| 5 | The strange thing is that the SERC itself has looked at similar issues in a report on the ‘ decline in physics ’ ( ie ‘ little ’ as opposed to ‘ big ’ physics , which includes the solid state physics that underpins materials science and microelectronics ) . |
| 6 | He has looked at marginal rates in some cases , but not in others . |
| 7 | Like most young people Sarah Jacobs loves looking at fashionable clothes . |
| 8 | Festival spokesman Joe Leddin said : ‘ The Japanese man was born in 1903 and intends to play , as he has done at previous festivals . |
| 9 | Laing feels strongly that the chief executive of a company should define , as he has done at United Biscuits , exactly what its responsibilities to the community are . |
| 10 | Thus the problem of splitting a program between two storage media , one fast but small and the other large but slow , has reappeared at different times and at different storage levels . |
| 11 | The basis for the proposition that individual women may improve their own prospects and those of their young children as regards health and mortality is the evidence that age at marriage and at childbearing , the amount of time that elapses between births and the total number of children that a woman has borne at various ages have a pronounced influence upon maternal and child health , and that a child 's birth order may be a factor in its survival chances . |
| 12 | The murderer has to wink at other children in the room . |
| 13 | This cycle was revived in 1980 and has appeared at varying intervals since then , with some of the plays being performed on pageant wagons outside the cathedral . |
| 14 | His journals , which he has published at regular intervals ( the fourteenth volume appeared recently in France ) bear witness to the enormous interest he takes in everything that happens in the world outside him , and to a human being scornful of bourgeois conformity , almost an anarchist , and a convinced pacifist . |
| 15 | In the last chapter we looked at how the social institution of marriage has changed at different times in history . |
| 16 | It was such an idea of modularity that Minsky intended in the quoted passage above , and he has suggested at various times that an organism would be more efficient , in terms of its ability to survive , if it had , as a separate module , a model of itself , which might of course be totally false as to the facts of the self 's reality : alcoholics who believe themselves to be merely social drinkers probably survive less well than those who believe themselves to be alcoholics . |
| 17 | It is no wonder that ordinary men and women throughout the country wish that Guy Fawkes had been successful when they consider the punishment that this House has levelled at ordinary men and women in a state of poverty . |
| 18 | Land in this category tends to sell at inflated prices , over the current use value , varying from a marginal surcharge , to perhaps 50% over the value of building land , depending on the degree of hope that the site will receive planning approval in due course . |
| 19 | A guide price of $8,000 is being quoted for the router , which can support one or two local network connections and up to four SDLC links running at T1/E1 speeds . |
| 20 | Again , part of men 's extra earnings comes from their greater tendency to work shifts for which they get paid extra , and overtime which gets paid at premium rates . |
| 21 | Whatever the exact mechanism for U/Pb fractionation , it seems to occur at shallow depths in the mantle at about the time of formation of the local oceanic lithosphere . |
| 22 | Studies of the 700-km 3 Bishop Tuff eruption and its precursors from Long Valley , California reveal distinct Sr-isotope differences between crystals and their host liquids and between melts erupted at different times . |
| 23 | He wishes to inspect at close quarters all the actors in this drama . |
| 24 | There is evidence to suggest that unprotected vaginal intercourse with an infected woman is particularly risky for the man during the woman 's period , though transmission can and does occur at other times . |
| 25 | John Rawls , in A Theory of Justice , seeks to arrive at abstract principles of justice by means of a device which strips the procedure of arriving at principles bare of all reference to the particular and concrete . |
| 26 | Now as someone who 's taught at other institutions — I 've taught at the University of Kent and at Middlesex Polytechnic — I think I was aware of the level of harassment which erm was there in those institutions , there certainly was sexual harassment , it certainly was a problem , but I have to say it did n't seem to me to be the problem that the students have identified it as being in Oxford and I think that 's striking and it 's something that erm as tutors and as a university we really do have to think about . |
| 27 | So wherever you are in the country , it 's charged at local prices . |