Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Checking his purchases against her list as he approached the checkout , he was pleased to find that at no point did the two coincide . |
| 2 | In his autobiography A Little Learning ( 1964 ) Waugh was to observe that at the age of sixteen he noticed that his publisher father , ‘ whom I had grown up to accept with complete simplicity ’ , was in fact a highly gifted actor in everything he did . |
| 3 | ‘ Maybe there will be someone to fill Lineker 's shoes in years to come but at the moment the replacements must be given a chance to do it in their own time . ’ |
| 4 | … a set of men who live by death and never care to appear but at the End of Man 's Life … their Business is to watch Death , and to furnish out the Funeral Solemnity , with as much pomp and feigned sorrow as the Heirs or Successors of the Deceased chose to purchase : They are a hard-hearted Generation , and require more money than Brains to conduct their Business ; I know no one Qualification peculiarly necessary to them , except that is a steady , demure and melancholy Countenance at Command : I do not know , that they take Apprentices in their Capacity as Undertakers , for they are generally Carpenters , or Herald-Painters besides ; and they only employ , as Journeymen , a set of Men whom they have picked up , possessed of a sober Countenance , and a solemn melancholy Face , whom they pay at so much a Jobb . |
| 5 | Of course , like Marshall , Boogie 's reputation is built on tone , so it 's good to see that at the centre of all this gain and distortion is a fundamentally great sound . |
| 6 | You 've got to remember that at the time , deregulation was looked on as an open cash-register . |
| 7 | It is probably fallacious to assume that at every level a pebble beach was formed : if the rocks eroded are weak , such as clay , or both fairly weak and chemically attacked by the sea , such as certain types of limestone , there may well have been no or very little beach material formed . |
| 8 | Laing was at pains to stress that at no time did he feel under pressure : ‘ It was that I 'd never been caught before and I did n't know what to do . |
| 9 | As we are discussing groundstroke skills , I think it is important to stress that at the beginning , according to the shape of shot that you have — whether it be topspin , slice or flat — you can insist on slice only , topspin only , or on hitting your favoured shot . |
| 10 | I concede that it will do for judging in retrospect the spontaneity beyond the margins of my rationality , as when jumping like an instinctive animal for the side of the road , and for such primitive choices as the child 's refusal of another helping ; but I continue to insist that at the centre of me I differ from the child in having escaped being restricted to choice between spontaneous goals . |
| 11 | There were so many things to do but at the back of her mind she knew she would never do any of them . |
| 12 | The intensity of these hatreds was such as to ensure that at the christening of a male child his right hand was kept clear of the water so that it would be free for unhallowed retribution upon family enemies . |
| 13 | Accommodation should therefore be available both to assist them in the personal adjustments they will have to make and to ensure that at the outset they are suitably accommodated . |
| 14 | It is the users responsibility to ensure that at the time of the next offline run , the specified terminal is connected and not logged in — the offline system will not allocate a terminal to itself if it is already allocated to another VAX/VMS process . |
| 15 | Care is needed to ensure that at the time the group dividend is paid : ( a ) no " arrangements " or " option arrangements " exist whereby the parent company could cease to be beneficially entitled to more than 50% of both profits for distribution and assets on a winding up available to " equity holders " of Target ( see Sch 18 Taxes Act ) ; and ( b ) Target is beneficially owned by its parent when the dividend is declared and paid . |
| 16 | Even quite small companies parted with large sums to ensure that at the end of the line the fare-paying public would be greeted by an imposing terminal . |
| 17 | Except for the two years after Martin drowned I 've always been able to believe that at the heart of the universe there is love . ’ |
| 18 | However , another striking example of this type of mismatch arose when a student teacher CDL used a very simple program that asked children to estimate angles : it was simple to run and at the time had no documentation . |
| 19 | For the last two lines I usually get everyone to clap and at the end to raise their hands and shout ‘ Oi ’ |
| 20 | And he would you would really only have to verify because at the end of the day what you said about You you mentioned somewhere along there Ray about given the fact that they were inexperienced . |
| 21 | What they can do is to consider whether at the time the decision was made it was intended by the patient to apply in the changed situation . |
| 22 | Where a court is considering whether a provision does or does not cover X the rule will not admit the parliamentary history of the provision to demonstrate that at no stage in the parliamentary proceedings was there any suggestion that the provision covered X. It remains to be seen how long judges in the United Kingdom will be able to require negative evidence from parliamentary material to establish that an admissible statement is an expression of parliamentary intention , but exclude such evidence as an aid to construction . |
| 23 | His failure to appreciate that at the time is no more than a commentary on the absence of knowledge about child abuse generally among social workers . |
| 24 | Solicitors ' firms large and small have come to realise that at a time when competition is intense and growth is seen as essential in order to meet increased overheads and maintain profit levels ( let alone to increase them ) any policy which irrevocably rules out fundamental reorganisation of their practices is likely to prove short-sighted . |
| 25 | Though his popular image undoubtedly embodied the broad ideological prejudices and aspirations of the masses — including anti-Semitism — it appears hard to argue that at the time that Hitler was gaining his widest electoral support the ‘ Jewish Question , was the decisive element in his growing appeal . |
| 26 | It will probably not surprise the reader to learn that at the outset of the course serious gaps in participants ' knowledge were identified . |
| 27 | It is what they want to learn and at the speed they want to learn it . |
| 28 | Only even I could n't have known there 'd be nowhere to stay but at the Hall ! |
| 29 | It may be relevant for the Industrial Tribunal to investigate whether at the time he was dismissed and if not then when thereafter , he knew that he had the right to complain that he had been unfairly dismissed ; in some cases the Tribunal may have to consider whether there has been any misrepresentation about any relevant matter by the employer to the employee . |
| 30 | Suffice it to say that at the point of commissioning it is a good idea to know which you are planting ! |