Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she 's taking solids , she wo n't want much at each meal . |
| 2 | However , despite its successes , Newton 's law of gravitation is fundamentally flawed : it is time independent , which would mean that the gravitational force could act instantaneously at all distances . |
| 3 | After lunch ( at about two o'clock ) many of us feel tired and may take a short nap , even though body temperature does not nominally fall much at this time . |
| 4 | Er right so as I say it 's a lighthearted approach and on christian name terms and with that in mind would you detach one of these and just stick your name on so that at least if you do n't know then at some stage during the course you stand a good chance of getting to know each other because again the essence of this course is informality and talking . |
| 5 | The taxi was clattering away and I thought it would fall apart at any moment . |
| 6 | Luke 's nearness seemed to reach into her core , sparking off those treacherous currents again , so that to even speak coherently at this moment was monumentally difficult . |
| 7 | Mark , aware of the problem , records that the reaction of the chief priests and Scribes was to look for some way to get rid of Jesus , but that they could not do so at that moment because Jesus was popular with the people . |
| 8 | Does the Prime Minister agree that although there is scope for compromise on many matters at Maastricht , the one issue on which it is impossible to compromise is the difference between those who believe that Britain could and should join in a single currency and those who believe that we should not do so at any price and that we should never even have joined the exchange rate mechanism ? |
| 9 | A It can do so at any time . |
| 10 | ‘ Ordinarily I would have commented in some detail about our business , but can not do so at this time as we are in a closed period prior to the announcement of our 1992 results on 24 March ’ . |
| 11 | If we had such a network , we would be able to withdraw the support which we currently give to private practitioners , but the Minister knows that we can not do so at this stage because there is no body of effective legal advice and opinion to benefit people . |
| 12 | The storm may break again at any moment and you will be drenched . |
| 13 | Things get uncovered that you ca n't see easily at other times . ’ |
| 14 | Voronov-Vaux must see best at red wavelengths . |
| 15 | We have arrived at chapter 22 , but before we deal with it in detail , we must look quickly at another story that lies between Isaac 's birth and his coming so soon and so close to death . |
| 16 | 2 Do n't run directly at any dog or owner — run at an angle and watch the dog . |
| 17 | We must look also at other areas of privatised industry . |
| 18 | We must look carefully at environmental statements which accompany orders flowing from the legislation . |
| 19 | We should remember also at this stage that the circles themselves are the result of extrapolated figures which also have an error of ±0.5% which in real terms is within ±47 metres . |
| 20 | Let us look now at some problems of this neo-fundamentalism as I have observed them in modern church life . |
| 21 | For instance , it is not realistic to expect that trains will run regularly at fixed intervals throughout the day and night , nor is it true that the mean time between vehicles is the same over a 24-hour period . |
| 22 | Some may sound well at all times ; some may sound good or bad according to various circumstances ; while others may sound ugly wherever they are placed . |
| 23 | well can we look please at one brochure , er take er C thirty one , C page thirty one it actually begins at twenty nine I want to ask you one or two questions about this , have you got page twenty nine ? |
| 24 | The NAO also said : ’ The assessment of intangibles is an inexact science and we are sure the Ministry will look closely at these aspects . ’ |
| 25 | If the Home Secretary does not want the Bill to do serious damage to internal discipline in prisons , resulting in matters that should be dealt with by internal disciplinary procedures going to court and taking up the time of the criminal justice system — making it far more difficult for prison governors to run their prisons — he had better look again at that clause and amend it . |
| 26 | It may look again at relaxing restrictions on a repurchase market in gilts and on stock lending , both of which flourish in America . |
| 27 | In due course we might look closer at that episode with the Gilberd : she admits after much blushing and prevarication that he accused her in the High Street delicatessen of baby-snatching — did it openly , in a loud voice . |
| 28 | In this paper I shall thus look systematically at this break with the aura of high modernist art in the 1920s ' avant-garde and in more recent decades . |
| 29 | We did not look specifically at extracontractual referrals and the extent to which payment for these was refused by purchasing authorities , but there is no evidence from our results that the contracting system affected out of district referrals from this group of practices to any great extent . |
| 30 | I also promise that the Government will look seriously at all proposals for sensible reform . |