Example sentences of "[vb infin] at [art] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shortest priced favourite can stumble and fall at the very first fence while the 100–1 outsider can achieve the ultimate glory . |
| 2 | The hostility that siblings show can therefore commence at a very young age : 2-year-olds become increasingly adept at asking for mother 's help in a sibling conflict and can be quite explicit about what the sibling has done to them . |
| 3 | You will find that the brood will grow at a fairly constant rate and should be around 6mm in length in about five weeks . |
| 4 | PARENTS ' disapproval of their child 's friends can begin at a surprisingly young age . |
| 5 | The only certainty in today 's fast-moving home entertainment industry is that advances in product technology will occur at an even faster rate . |
| 6 | Okay , let's look at a slightly different style . |
| 7 | New guidance from the Standing Conference on Drug Abuse , Alcohol Concern and the Local Government Drugs Forum with input from other specialists and the DoH , aims to help authorities look at the most effective and useful ways of assessing the needs of alcohol and drug misusers and managing their care . |
| 8 | Let us look at the most common non-verbal signals which affect perceptions . |
| 9 | So if we can look at the relatively small numbers , albeit , I mean , tragic numbers of people who have been harmed or died , we do have to set it into perspective against risks in other walks of life and against the enormous benefits that medicines have done . |
| 10 | If we take the trouble to make a permanent magnet we would like to have access to the magnetic flux so let us look at the more practical case ( Fig. 3.11(b) ) when a narrow gap is cut into the magnet . |
| 11 | Having examined the indirect approaches to selling , we shall now look at the more direct methods . |
| 12 | The machine includes software that can look at the very precise estimates of molecular mass and relate this figure to a certain combination of atomic masses , thus establishing which amino-acid groups are present . |
| 13 | But the group is convinced that it is only a matter of time before someone discovers superconducting semiconductors that will work at the economically viable temperatures of liquid nitrogen . |
| 14 | A chalk stream , for example , may flow at a virtually constant level summer and winter , while flash floods may occur miles from a water course or in hollows well above the water table . |
| 15 | Another distinct possibility is that , although annual incidence appears to be declining , it may stabilise at a far higher endemic level than that characterising the population prior to the ‘ epidemic ’ in 1979 . |
| 16 | There is , for example , the cultural dictum in many societies that girls should marry at a very early age , often prior to puberty . |
| 17 | As the Prayer Book enjoined in the Notes appended to the Communion Service , ‘ every Parishioner shall communicate at the least three times in the year , of which Easter to be one ’ . |
| 18 | Ed 's comment : Kissing Gouramis are surprisingly tolerant of water chemistry , and farm-raised specimens can breed at a more manageable size than wild fish . |
| 19 | Anybody want anything he was there , his name was and he used to run up like er tally , tallyman he was you 'd pay at the most ten shillings down about two and six a week , something like that . |
| 20 | But the former will only switch at a relatively low speed ( 42MHz ) , and the latter produce complex , power-hungry circuits . |
| 21 | With the Punks , of course , this jumble-sale of fashion would arrive at a self-consciously surreal conclusion in that the scraps were now held together , literally and very visibly , with safety-pins . |
| 22 | ‘ The chance of a lifetime ’ did n't arrive at the most convenient moment for Helen Dobson ( seven months into a new job ) but when it came she grabbed it , in spite of the fact that it has left her biting her nails about future career prospects . |
| 23 | The loss of important relationships and retirement from a job , with its easy access to daytime companionship and the outside world , can also come at a particularly vulnerable time in life . |
| 24 | It can come at the least expected time as , indeed , can the end of the world and the Second Coming of Jesus . |
| 25 | Sustained flight could then arise at a still later stage through the evolution of a basal articulation and the development of flapping movements using tergocoxal muscles that were concerned primitively with leg movements ( Tiegs , 1955 ) . |
| 26 | The harm resulting from corporate discretion might lie in its impact on particular individuals or groups , or it might exist at a more abstract level , in the social disfiguration that the concentration of power in a small number of hands represents . |
| 27 | At the other end of the scale , romantic interest would only exist at a very superficial level , and certainly there would be no question of relationships forming between the TARDIS incumbents . |
| 28 | Therefore , high concentrations of soluble calcium can only exist at the relatively low pH of the proximal small intestine , or when no phosphate is present , as can be derived from the observed negative correlation between the logarithm of the solubility product of calcium phosphate and the pH of faecal water . |
| 29 | It is rooted in his own quite complex philosophy but if we really wish to understand his argument we must start at a rather abstract level . |
| 30 | As the formation of these smaller fullerenes seems to require extensive annealing of more disorganized clusters , they may form at a relatively late stage of clustering . |