Example sentences of "[Wh det] [modal v] [verb] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Every estate which must expire at a period certain and prefixed , by whatever words created , is an estate for years . |
| 2 | The timely award of an extension of time may avoid problems which might arise at a later stage when a contractor submits a claim for taking extraordinary measures to recover lost time owing to the late issue of an instruction , for example . |
| 3 | But these inconveniences can not be related to those which could result at a given moment from the capture by the enemy of three or four battalions , with a loss , by consequence , of several thousands of men . |
| 4 | The invisible powers of nature were analogous to the visible powers of the magnet , which could act at a distance and penetrate matter with its rays . |
| 5 | A progress chart , I 'd thought , which would show at a glance — ’ |
| 6 | On the other hand he would have a much enlarged Aquitaine , to be held in sovereignty , the ‘ perpetual liberty ’ which he had instructed the Black Prince to demand of his royal prisoner in 1357 , and which would remove at a stroke the threat of confiscation . |
| 7 | China says it wants to ensure its receiving equipment can pick up signals from Spot , which will transmit at a similar frequency to the thematic mapper . |
| 8 | In this respect the mantle rocks resemble pitch or brittle toffee , which will shatter at a sudden blow , but will bend easily if flexed slowly and continuously . |
| 9 | It is hard to imagine a greater contrast between two rock types than that between obsidian , a natural volcanic glass which will shatter at a blow into razor-sharp splinters , and pumice , a rock so light and frothy that it will float on water . |
| 10 | Modern microprocessors and computer technology have made such rapid advances that telecommunications and internal communications systems are now in compact units without plugs , switches , or buttons : just small keyboards with touch-sensitive depressions , some with small visual display units ( VDUs ) which can show at a glance the status of all calls being handled and prompt the operator through every procedure so that training can be reduced to a minimum . |
| 11 | A form of extendible hashing that does not suffer from oscillations and is claimed to outperform most indexing methods , was reported by Lomet He named the method bounded index exponential hashing ; it is not strictly a direct technique , and suffers from the drawback that the file packing density is generally low , but offers many advantages for files which can grow at a rate that can not be accommodated in a static system . |
| 12 | This is probably what will happen at a shareholders ' meeting on March 13th , thanks to a closing of ranks by Germany 's top industrialists . |