Example sentences of "at the [noun sg] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hints at the price we 'd have to pay |
| 2 | Thus Castro was in dire need of a Soviet commitment to preserve his revolution , and in a speech given to the United Nations on 26 September 1960 the Cuban leader may have been hinting at the price he might have been willing to pay when he said , ‘ We understand how terrible the subordination of the economy and life in general of nations to foreign economic power is . |
| 3 | Dear at the price I would have thought . |
| 4 | That is the basis of the famous " niche " strategy which means that you secure for yourself a useful market by doing something which the big boys find uneconomical to do at the price you can manage . |
| 5 | The point you want to arrive at , is getting what you want at the price you can afford . |
| 6 | The shout made Peter unbalanced , he grabbed at the eagle which should have been fixed to the stone . |
| 7 | Though they ca n't be certain , Mrs Friel 's daughters believe that was the treatment their mother received , and they 're alarmed at the damage it could have caused her and many others like her . |
| 8 | Next morning the humour in this wore decidedly thin , as Marshall in particular sent down bouncer after bouncer , unchecked by umpire Constant and apparently unconcerned at the damage he might do — such as badly bruising Fowler 's arm and causing him to retire for a while . |
| 9 | For all we knew it could have been 12 feet , since the weather was so bad at the top we could see no further than someone wearing a ski anorak and wellingtons sitting beside us . |
| 10 | But the effort was worthwhile as at the top we could see Portland Bill in the east , Start Point in the west and inland to Marshwood Vale . |
| 11 | At the top he 'll turn you into the wind , count to three and you 're off . |
| 12 | At the top you can continue along the route described for Day 2 — a long day 's walk — or for a shorter route descend to Patterdale via Angle Tarn . |
| 13 | The journey takes about 15 minutes , but once at the top you can enjoy one of the best views in the Salzkammergut . |
| 14 | When Julia looked again at the judge she could see the family likeness . |
| 15 | When they were at the nursery I could take them at 7 a.m. and pick them up at 6 p.m . |
| 16 | If she could have admitted her folly at the beginning it would have been all right , but the longer it went on the harder it became . |
| 17 | The way you start is most important because if you lose your audience at the beginning you will find it difficult to win back their attention . |
| 18 | At the beginning I 'll say that . |
| 19 | So , where he 's done the extra year at the end if I do this extra year at the beginning I can start the teaching certificate . |
| 20 | And at the court I can remember this as a kid , at the court , of course I was n't in at at the court but I remember the story the blacklegs er picked out people and said they and they and they threw stones you see , through the window . |
| 21 | It was also important to think what she should wear , for if any of the Governors who had interviewed her only three months ago saw her at the service they would know why she was there . |
| 22 | The police would like to hear from anyone at the dance who may have seen the incident . |
| 23 | Not knowing what else to do ( though now , suddenly , there was an awareness in her of where the burrow lay , point nine of a klick to the south-south-east , and the trail unscrolled before her taking forty-seven metric minutes at the pace they 'd come ) , Jezrael drifted along behind his back . |
| 24 | You begin by running 16 to 17 minutes at the pace you would do your Sunday long run . |
| 25 | It 's as if he still lives there , so when I go past I look up at the window I 'd put him in . |
| 26 | BRAVE teenager Clifford Wilde took first place in a charity wheelchair race at the weekend which should help other people with disabilities become more mobile themselves . |
| 27 | At the outset we may note the following about the practice and theology of the early church . |
| 28 | At the outset we must state that the picture is still very unclear and that those forms of depressions which can be linked to an abnormal body clock are likely to form only a small proportion of all cases . |
| 29 | At the outset it may prove useful , if only to discover differences rather than similarities , to contrast Great-Russian nationalism with French . |
| 30 | AT THE OUTSET it must have seemed a superbly simple idea . |