Example sentences of "[vb infin] at [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we look back to the middle years of the nineteenth century and to the debates about the extension of the franchise to the working class then hopes were expressed as to how voters should behave at the same time as there was anxiety and fear as to how they would actually behave . |
| 2 | A trader seeking to buy dollars ( for example ) in the forward market will buy at a forward rate which is less advantageous to him ( that is , if the exchange rate is defined as the sterling price of a dollar , f t may be greater than ) . |
| 3 | So I must not jump at the first chance . |
| 4 | It was no use putting it off and she was sure that Ana should know at the same time . |
| 5 | Gosport was found to be ‘ virtually without defence , protected on the landward side only by an ill-maintained entrenchment … which would fall at the first assault ’ , while the Isle of Wight contained so few troops , so thinly scattered , that it was bound to succumb to a determined attack . |
| 6 | In a business where fees are usually paid on a success only , rather than an hourly , basis , this may come a bit hard to people who have worked hard for two or three months on a deal only to see it fall at the last hurdle . |
| 7 | As a result the DES ( 1983 ) forecasts assumed that mature entry rates would fall at the same speed as the fall in 21–25 years olds — who constitute the majority of entrants to HE aged over 20 . |
| 8 | The diplomatic or business historian may gaze at the e-text archive and ask who decided what , but in situations which involve rule based elements in a Decision Support System ( DSS ) , the historian may well ask whose decision ? |
| 9 | There we would gaze at the massive steam engines , all ready connected to their huge waggons , to make a quick getaway to The Market Place at dawn on the following day . |
| 10 | On the other hand , standard NT ‘ will include at no extra charge many of the same functions now handled by NetWare . |
| 11 | The other party would then win at a subsequent election , enter office and largely undo the work of its predecessor , implementing instead its own program . |
| 12 | FORMER Liberal leader Sir David Steel yesterday urged Labour to stand down for the Liberal-Democrats in seats they can not win at the next Election . |
| 13 | In Saunders 's view , the ‘ local state ’ can not simply be reduced to a functioning part of a national capitalist state , for within certain constraints ‘ non-capitalist interests can win at the local level in a way that is becoming increasingly difficult at national level ’ ( pp. 4 , 11 ) . |
| 14 | The mob , now several hundred strong , and going at it hammer and tongs , took time out to boo and jeer at the military presence . |
| 15 | I would n't bounce at the same time |
| 16 | His accuracy and stinginess with runs made him almost without equal as a one-day bowler , for he could both contain and attack at the same time since the bounce he got from his great height and the control he had over the ball gave him the extra penetration that brought wickets . |
| 17 | The Whites had vast total forces but the separate forces did not attack at the same time . |
| 18 | My previous relationships have all been with women I 've been able to like and respect at the same time as I 've desired them . ’ |
| 19 | Clearly individuals could survive at a low standard of physical efficiency and in housing which to those accustomed to greater comfort was grossly overcrowded and substandard . |
| 20 | Let us glance at a familiar passage of Scripture : 2 Corinthians 5.16–21 . |
| 21 | The boy did n't even glance at the folded franc notes . |
| 22 | One thing that he noticed ; every now and again she 'd glance at the uncurtained window , as if she was checking the progress of the oncoming darkness . |
| 23 | ( b ) Both matrix and fibril may deform elastically and yield at the same strain . |
| 24 | The overriding principle , though , is that consultation must commence at the earliest opportunity . |
| 25 | Piano music rippled out into the night as the richly costumed guests began to chatter and exclaim at the torch-lit façade and its huge swags of greenery laced with balloons and ribbons . |
| 26 | About 1,700 people were watching the weekend display at an 11th-century castle at Pevensey , Sussex . |
| 27 | LEADING Liberal-Democrat MP David Alton will quit at the next election in protest at the party 's decision yesterday to back pro-abortion policies . |
| 28 | There was little class consciousness in the European sense among the peasantry or urban workers in the nineteenth century , though occupational groups such as washermen , carters or fishermen could unite at the local level to protect their economic interests . |
| 29 | Yes , you could think and dance at the same time . |
| 30 | so that modifications could be introduced in the physical , social or educational environments of these children which would help them achieve at the same level of conceptual development as is found in children from western societies . |