Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [vb pp] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may also be necessary to begin keyboard skills in the last year of primary school and to continue this as required at the secondary level . |
| 2 | Aside from the worthlessness of double negatives , aside from the fact that McGuinness was a far more accomplished safe-breaker than Meehan ( he had earned his nickname Tank because it was said he could penetrate even one of those ) , and aside from the fact that in all the verbiage spilled out by Meehan , Waddell and McGuinness to lawyers , journalists and others for over thirteen years , none of them had so much as hinted at the idea of a quartet , there was not a scrap of worthwhile evidence to support it : it was speculation with a vengeance and extraordinary to find in a report by a judge of his standing . |
| 3 | But nobody ever so much as hinted at the possibility that she might return . |
| 4 | McLaren boss Teddy Mayer as much as admitted at the end of 1975 that he thought Emerson wanted to move — or that he was in personal trouble of one kind and another — but the official news reached Hunt before it got to the team , and got to Hunt through Domingos Piedade , an eccentric figure close to the cheerful groupie Googie Zanon , a wealthy ( textiles ) Italian aristocrat whose support has been crucial to many drivers at critical points in their career , then ‘ manager ’ to Emerson and now to Ayrton Senna — a fringe career from which Domingos , hugely personable , but also often more a talker than a doer , has made a more than reasonable living . |
| 5 | Additional 12mm diameter cutting bits are available for £6.50 each if ordered at the same time as the Wallchaser . |
| 6 | Thus a stream of pulses lasting 1 second each and given at 10 second intervals could be the ‘ background ’ ( they could be sound pulses or pulses on a screen , for example ) ; the ‘ signal ’ being sought could be the absence of a pulse , one that was shorter or longer than the standard value or one that appeared too soon or too late . |
| 7 | She had hoped and expected to find the Garden Tower all but deserted at such a late hour , with the two guards half asleep in the guardchamber on the ground floor . |
| 8 | Muldoon had more than hinted at what was happening . |
| 9 | This paper has largely been limited to the processes within education — the ways they have been part of a wider process of economic and political domination have been little more than hinted at . |
| 10 | But it is deeply revealing that in neither of these paintings are the revolutionary perspectival implications of the Demoiselles explored or developed , or indeed more than hinted at , and that in the Basel painting figures have been transformed into still life . |
| 11 | It made 50 per cent more than expected at £5.5m and every lot was sold . |
| 12 | They more than pulled at this point — they just stopped communicating . |
| 13 | However , the reduction in railway employment was offset by the growth of activity in the Post Office , and changes in bus service employment were less than feared at the time of ‘ deregulation ’ ( 1987 ) . |
| 14 | Not surprisingly , the daughter and her husband were less than thrilled at this and the further suggestion that they could rent their home back ! |
| 15 | He supposed the women in his life would only stop this outrageous assessing of the women he went out with , when he finally stopped going out with any and settled at home with one . |