Example sentences of "[verb] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I myself , not having much knowledge of computer electronics called for the services of a professional Computer Engineer , after explaining the symptoms he gave the PC a thorough check , he then informed me no fault could be found but suggested that as the problem was intermittent and the PC was somewhat old , it could be susceptible to noise not conducted but radiated at some external source , Radio Frequency Interference ( R.F.I. ) . |
| 2 | Music for entertainment … seems to complement the reduction of people to silence , the dying out of speech as expression , the inability to communicate at all . |
| 3 | The ability to communicate at all levels , and to retain the confidence of your clients is vital ; you have to work with each other , so this confidence must exist and must override any personality clashes . |
| 4 | This genetic cohesion of a population arises because , while the very slow processes of homogenisation are at work ( among copies of a family on the same and different chromosomes ) , the chromosomes in a population are being mixed at each generation . |
| 5 | In the reptilian heart most of the blood gets round the body on the first circuit , but with the four-chambered heart — in mammals , birds and ( imperfectly ) in crocodiles — the blood from the two circuits is not mixed at all . |
| 6 | Charles Laubscher recalls : ‘ My feelings were mixed at this news ( of the move to Malta ) . |
| 7 | After the third day of REM sleep deprivation little sleep at all was being achieved , and the symptoms that the subjects showed were a combination of the effects of total sleep deprivation and suggestion . |
| 8 | No need for you to worry at all . ’ |
| 9 | But I spoke with Mr about half an hour ago on the telephone , told him not to worry at all , that |
| 10 | There was 110 possible reason why he should have wished at that stage to foreclose his options between December and January , or January and the spring . |
| 11 | The drop down from Meall Corranaich and back up to Beinn Ghlas was a great deal more substantial than I would have wished at this point in the walk , keeping in mind that I was hallucinating from the effort of the chase and the subsequent lack of oxygen managing to get anywhere near my lungs via a mouth full of clenched teeth . |
| 12 | When I look upon the wall of my room , the wall does not act at all , nor is capable of acting ; the perceiving is an act or operation in me . |
| 13 | He really can not act at all . |
| 14 | In Les quatre Souhais Saint Martin : ( Through this fabliau you may know that he does not act at all wisely who trusts his wife rather than himself : often he suffers shame and grief . ) |
| 15 | This translates as ‘ Why are you marvelling at this exceptional house . |
| 16 | Alice stood marvelling at this thought : that only a couple of days ago Mary Williams had seemed to hold her own fate Alice 's — in her hands ; and now Alice had difficulty in even remembering her status . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm sure he would be proud of you , ’ Merrill said slowly , still marvelling at this new-found empathy . |
| 18 | Memory and imagination were grappling at each other 's throats , and these people would lose if he lay here much longer . |
| 19 | He did not put on his sword , for no weapons were permitted at such occasions , though Ratagan had told him a gory tale of a banquet where a certain disagreement had been settled with eating knives , which the victors had subsequently continued eating with . |
| 20 | Basically , however , the difference between these and other areas lies in the attitude to new development , either whether it should be permitted at all ( it often is not ) or , if it is , of what it should be constructed — the materials used generally have to be traditional , for example , stone in the Lake District . |
| 21 | This is appropriate and necessary on major roads if traffic is to be permitted at all . |
| 22 | Their 7 foot 6 inches-wide body was the widest permitted at that time , and allowed two-by-two seating on upholstered seats in the saloon . |
| 23 | Whereas a bottom-up or data-driven system such as HWIM can hypothesize any of the 1,000 or so items in its lexicon at the beginning of the utterance , HARPY can only hypothesize those words permitted at that point by the grammar . |
| 24 | Approaches to members of staff and to the company 's premises , customers and suppliers will not be permitted at this stage . |
| 25 | No leakages were permitted at any points nor were the canvas sides allowed to bulge inward to any greater extent than that caused by the slackness of the canvas specified on the drawing . |
| 26 | Climbers should note that as soon as agreement has been reached , climbing activities will not be permitted at these locations . |
| 27 | That deaf people marry other deaf people was not , as could be supposed at that time , a new phenomenon — it will be recalled from Chapter I that John Dyott married a deaf girl after the Civil War in 1645 . |
| 28 | Alner won on Ponteus Pilot , Lough Guitane and Seven of Diamonds , who has now won at all three meetings at Badbury Rings this season . |
| 29 | Why did they buy at that time ? |
| 30 | When people did not use a form of credit they had considered , usually it was because they either did not buy at all , or paid cash instead . |