Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parsley is hardy and can be sown outdoors in March , but takes several weeks to germinate if sown at that time in cool temperate regions , hence , it has earnt itself the reputation of needing " to go to the Devil seven times and back " before it will sprout . |
| 2 | We may notice too that since pleasures tend to fade unless varied at every recurrence it is difficult to distinguish in practice between the man who lives for pleasure and the man who lives for new experiences . |
| 3 | JOHN Joseph McGinn , 31 , of Hillside Avenue , Huyton , was jailed for 120 days by Wirral magistrates after admitting driving while disqualified at Wallasey , having consumed excess alcohol and having no insurance . |
| 4 | A Russian AN-8 transport plane crashed while landing at Chita airport , east of Lake Baikal in eastern Russia , on Oct. 30 , killing at least 14 people . |
| 5 | Little was done , or could have been done under the imperatives of war needs as interpreted at the time , to close down the schools on the Black List , long overdue for closure and replacement , or to rebuild inner-city schools . |
| 6 | ‘ Matter is poured into our universe from some other and entirely extraneous spatial dimension so that to a denizen of our universe they appear as points at which matter is continually created . |
| 7 | The initiating NTPs ( GTP and UTP ) , the dinucleotide GpU , or GpU plus ATP , were also added when indicated at final concentrations of 40 µM . |
| 8 | In practice it is better to show in evidence for the prosecution that the defendant was also asked to try to get the horn to work as explained at ( D ) ( b ) of offence number 20 . |
| 9 | Competitor DNA ( 100ng ) was also added as indicated at the top of the gel ; NSDS and ST are double stranded oligonucleotide competitor and NSSS , APSS , SSA and SSB are single stranded oligonucleotide competitor . |
| 10 | The first are the rich and well-born , the other the mass of the people " , Hamilton was reported as saying at the Federal Convention in 1787 . |
| 11 | This type of debate can only be resolved when looking at the functions in some detail . |
| 12 | Going by railroad I do not consider as travelling at all ; it ( s merely ‘ being sent ’ to a place , and Very little different from becoming a parcel . |
| 13 | Going by railroad I do not consider as travelling at all ; it is merely being ‘ sent ’ to a place , and very little different from becoming a parcel |
| 14 | The possible implications of this development are best considered when looking at the more general direction which the control on discretion is , and should be , taking . |
| 15 | There are a number of factors that are to be considered when looking at motivation and morale within public sector organisations and these operate at many different levels . |
| 16 | A number of pitfalls have to be considered when looking at diversification not least lack of experience in a new venture , the capital cost and working capital requirements , the cautious attitude of banks , and the marketing side . |
| 17 | However , as a consideration of the full list of Orpheus and saltire mosaics in section 3 , and then again in section 4 , would have been repetitive , mosaics which are closely related ( but not sufficiently close to be considered as related at this level of affinity ) will be examined in the preamble to a discussion of two putative , " integral groups " . |
| 18 | Mark , who worked at investment house Foreign & Colonial , evaluates all the ideas with the same attention to the bottom line he used when looking at applications to provide venture capital . |
| 19 | The plain fact is that the feeble PC beep , usually allied to a tiny ( and tinny ) speaker is the laughing stock of the computer world — almost every other type of computer has sound capabilities that make the PC more to be pitied than laughed at . |
| 20 | Accuracy is best ensured by writing an exact description of what is seen while looking at it and checking the completed description before moving on . |
| 21 | Mr Athulathmudali was shot while speaking at an election meeting . |
| 22 | In the post-war period , more universally than before , old age , and the socially accepted roles associated with it , was accepted as beginning at a fixed chronological age : the state pensionable age of 60/65 . |
| 23 | Finally , one has to wonder when looking at some of the Tour professionals ' clubs . |
| 24 | Until recently , this trend seemed as pronounced at American Telephone & Telegraph ( AT&T ) as at any other big company . |
| 25 | She estimates that the NVALA has the block support of organisations totalling up to three million people and , in defence of the NVALA 's ‘ mandate ’ , points to the memberships of the British Humanist Society and the National Council for Civil Liberties ( now Liberty ) which she quotes as standing at 2,000 and 6,000 respectively . |
| 26 | A good luncheon or supper dish — and very decorative looking when cut at the table , into the cross-slices of which Elizabeth Raffald notes that " the skin makes them look ribbed " . |
| 27 | Economies of scale are seen as operating at plant level and it is therefore argued that the growth of the multi-plant enterprise reflects narrowly financial considerations rather than any ‘ progressive development of the productive forces ’ . |
| 28 | In a small proportion of cells in both species , the sex chromosomes are seen as univalents at Mt , and such cells may occur with much higher frequencies in sterile cases . |
| 29 | An anomaly will be regarded as particularly serious if it is seen as striking at the very fundamentals of a paradigm and yet persistently resists attempts by the members of the normal scientific community to remove it . |
| 30 | As we have seen in an earlier chapter , by gentleman or noble person Spenser is thinking of a distinctive class of person , but his desire to fashion gentlemen nevertheless might be seen as directed at individual development . |