Example sentences of "at [adj] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the best one can say is that when such heroes die they go , in Tolkien 's opinion , neither to Hell nor Heaven , but to Limbo : ‘ to my fathers ’ , as Théoden says , ‘ to sit beside my fathers , until the world is renewed ’ , to quote Thorin Oakenshield from The Hobbit , perhaps at worst to wait with the barrow-wight ‘ Where gates stand for ever shut , till the world is mended ’ . |
| 2 | I mean I had nothing at all to do with t' business except I went in partnership with me wife and that . |
| 3 | The neo-pagans say this is nonsense , their religion has nothing at all to do with the devil , because the devil is an invention of the Christians . |
| 4 | ‘ Very sick , and it 's got nothing at all to do with the sea . ’ |
| 5 | It has nothing at all to do with the cure of Legion . |
| 6 | This had , and George Eliot knew it , little or even nothing to do with Christ 's injunctions to his followers , and certainly nothing at all to do with the Incarnation which was now being celebrated as the congregation sang " Unto us a Boy is Born " as Daniel at the white-draped altar , with its lovingly embroidered white cloth , watched with Mr Ellenby over the bread and wine . |
| 7 | Interesting facts culled from a meeting with the leading lights of both Aldus and Adobe at last year 's Appleworld show indicate that the main problem with PostScript on the Macintosh is the QuickDraw to PostScript conversion process and has nothing at all to do with the LaserWriter or PostScript . |
| 8 | They probably have n't anything at all to do with the case . |
| 9 | Because of one of the two mentioned here in this note has nothing at all to do with the environment . |
| 10 | When they were not in chapel , at the dinner table or in their beds , there was nothing at all to do in the house except join the endless gossiping sessions with which João 's sisters and cousins filled their idle hours . |
| 11 | But we are concerned with a fundamentally different matter , the possible ways in which some entity ( or property ) , already accepted mentally , might be identified by a speaker , either for the purposes of his own thought or for communicating some idea to an audience ; in the latter case , there is no reason at all to object to the suggestion that the same item might be referred to either by ( 7 ) , or by ( 4 ) or ( 5 ) . |
| 12 | Neither Marxism Today , Socialist Review nor Tribune had anything at all to say about the programme . |
| 13 | The Bible does have quite a bit to say about Christians — all Christians — being witnesses for Jesus , BUT it does not have very much at all to say about the sort of ‘ Witnessing ’ being done by ‘ Damnation Derek ’ . |
| 14 | As Kenny and Kenny suggest , the " position of the landlord is now very much strengthened " and the " question is whether licences have anything at all to offer to the landlord looking for an income from his residential property . " |
| 15 | Any intelligent man , once he has been given the opportunity to voice his feelings , will understand just what he has done and be able to see that it makes no sense at all to build upon an isolated failure when he has a lifetime of ‘ successes ’ about which he could think . |
| 16 | It does n't take them long at all to get in the outskirts of London , it 's weaving your way |
| 17 | Everything about him spelt self-assurance , the confidence of someone who had nothing at all to prove to the world . |
| 18 | She left the LCC school in Stockwell Road , Brixton , at fourteen to work as a shop assistant . |
| 19 | When a frottola is through-composed under textual pressure , and aerated and enlivened by polyphonic passages , it is indistinguishable in musical style from the earlier madrigal , particularly as the madrigal tended at first to cling to the note against-note style with a melodically more important highest part . |
| 20 | We closed rapidly and I opened fire at about 800 yards sighting a little high at first to allow for the distance and then dropping my bead to centre on the machine . |
| 21 | Julius needs to maintain a certain lifestyle , and you might find it difficult at first to cope with the demands he 'll make on you . ’ |
| 22 | On Aug. 5 leaders of the Maronite Christian parties , together with the Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Pierre Sfeir , gathered at Bkirki to call for the elections to be postponed " until the right circumstances and national conditions exist " , and to threaten a boycott . |
| 23 | Born Lynda Titchmarsh , she went to RADA at 15 to train for an acting career . |
| 24 | The young Haworth left school at 14 to work in the factory and was required to pick up a knowledge of dyestuffs . |
| 25 | True , they had been vassals of China for nine long centuries — but had n't their hearts " like iron and stone " enabled them at last to throw off the Chinese yoke when the Tang dynasty crumbled ? |
| 26 | Further , it is power and politics which enables those adept at both to get to the top of the hierarchy . |