Example sentences of "[to-vb] be [verb] [adv prt] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | All you have to do is turn up at the address shown between midday and 7pm . |
| 2 | All you have to do is turn up at the surgery of the doctor of your choice and ask to be registered . |
| 3 | The Porsche might be here , but initially what I 'd really like is a new car , and what I 'd like to do is get up at midnight on the first of August , and drive around in my brand new car in the dark . |
| 4 | When the British papers printed that Scotland Yard believed the silver to have been dug up at the Barbariga army base and smuggled by a Yugoslav diplomat , the Federal commission said , ‘ The press is to be criticised for all such insinuations ’ and ‘ the control of the diplomatic bag is so rigorous in Jugoslavia that it is absolutely impossible for the treasure or anything else to be smuggled out that way ’ . |
| 5 | Talks in Rome were reported on Feb. 1 to have been broken off at the end of January by the South African-backed rebel Mozambique National Resistance ( MNR or Renamo ) which accused the government of violating the ceasefire agreement signed on Dec. 1 . |
| 6 | Under its headline ‘ Mercantile Tricycles Denounced ’ , the Graphic described how , in default of paying a 10 shillings fine plus costs , this cycling desperado was sentenced to seven days ' imprisonment — and what is more , poor Thomas Duff had been estimated by the police to have been rattling along at somewhere between 8 and 10 miles per hour . |
| 7 | In a period of anxious entrail-gazing , practically anything that coincides with what post-hoc statistics show to have been going on at the time , will qualify for this accolade . |