Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] [adv] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For mortality , the intensity of selection in a stable population ( r=0 ) remains constant during the pre-reproductive period because the consequences of death for reproductive success remain constant ; selection intensity starts to decline only at the time of first breeding . |
| 2 | THE POSTMAN never has to ring twice at the home of Patricia Parsons he is her most welcome visitor of the day . |
| 3 | But the scattered activity of different parts of the nervous system seems to converge only at the cost of merging , and so losing , the components that come together in the process of convergence , rather in the manner of snowflakes joining a drift . |
| 4 | It is difficult knowing how far to credit such stories in twelfth-century sources , although given that the Ramsey chronicle is recording the history of its own house , and that the Peterborough source refers to trouble there at the same time , it is reasonable to believe that trouble of some sort there was . |
| 5 | Hardy also hopes to fight again at the McEwans Centre , Houghton-le-Spring on June 4 . |
| 6 | Across the oceans , Sotheby 's continues to plug away at the Japanese market with its Print sale in Tokyo , now bolstered by a few nihonga ( Japanese-style ) paintings . |
| 7 | To put it slightly differently , it is important to understand that the poverty of the Third World and the wealth of the West are the outcome of an interlinked process in which the rapid and massive growth in Western prosperity has occurred and continues to do so at the expense and underdevelopment of the Third World . |
| 8 | Sadly , in the second half , the play begins to fall apart at the seams as Harwood attempts to combine comedy with more serious themes . |
| 9 | When the track and the signals at the ageing junction were due for renewal , British Rail had chosen the cheapest option to enable InterCity trains to travel faster at the expense of local services , the inquiry into the 1991 disaster which killed four people and injured 22 , was told . |