Example sentences of "[indef pn] [vb mod] [verb] at the " in BNC.

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1 ‘ But it was three-and-a-half years in development and nobody could foresee at the start what the economy would be like now .
2 Well I do n't think , I do n't know , somebody will stay at the hotel with you I expect .
3 One may guess at the Spaniard 's dismay when Moctezuma passed him some lumps of greenstone enjoining him to hand them to none other than his prince .
4 These and a hundred other scenes one may witness at the departure of an important train such as this .
5 Apart from the dollars spent , one may wonder at the concealed costs of taking so many consultants away from their patients and research workers from their laboratories and clinics .
6 Porter argues that one should look at the areas of the value chain which contain the largest proportion of costs and then consider what cost-drivers of the ten he identifies cause those costs .
7 To overcome this barrier , I suggest , one must look at the approach in action ; only then will it be possible to see what it has achieved , and to assess what it might achieve if taken on its own terms .
8 One must look at the other side of the coin .
9 One must look at the quality of life that diabetics and their carers have .
10 And the sporting Volcane version , while hot , is not the scorcher one might expect at the top of so accomplished a line-up .
11 In the modern world , for instance , one might look at the development of the personification of Britannia as an index of the growing imperialism of Britain ( fig. 20 ) .
12 In a topic on industrialisation one might look at the effect of industrialisation on a rural community without work .
13 It was noted in the introduction to Chapter 21 that , if planning represented the route map for the journey , then organizing represented the means by which one could arrive at the chosen destination .
14 In general terms yes sir , one would look at the curtilage of a building , yes .
15 They produce beef that no one will buy at the price at which they want to sell it , so they are subsidised by the European taxpayer to dump it in West Africa , where it destroys the livelihoods of poor farmers .
16 One can guess at the winner 's reward . ’
17 As far as one can foresee at the moment , the IDP will make a valuable contribution to the development or fish farming , which is one of the natural growth industries for the area .
18 The plan was that everyone would meet at the cottage on Boxing Day , making their own way there and hopefully bringing enormous amounts of expensive food and drink if they did n't want to be turned back at the gate .
19 It is useful to establish within an institute that everyone will zero at the same point , so that the numbering starts from approximately the same place each time .
20 If people are n't interested in , in evaluation of something that concerns them , then nothing will happen at the end of it .
21 If people are n't interested in an evaluation of something that concerns them , then nothing will happen at the end of it .
22 An illegitimate birth in the degrading surroundings of the workhouse was about the deepest stigma that anyone could bear at the start of life .
23 The ceilings were so low that one wonders how anyone could get at the carding machines to clean them .
24 It 's actually quite a deep lecture theatre , I think it 's probably the biggest the University possesses outside the great hall , and er it it 's difficult to get them large enough so that everyone can see at the back .
25 Whether it will be better or worse no-one can tell at the moment , but the hands on the reins of administration will be more varied , more democratic and more in tune with the times — at least that 's the theory for this huge volte in the face of what has gone before .
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