Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] at " in BNC.

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1 It is a case of dramatic irony when we as readers recognize and share with the fabliau author a knowledge of the " realities " of the fictitious situation denied to the merchant of Orléans and may laugh at the merchant 's misguided belief as a result .
2 You may laugh at this rvolutionary theory BUT I speak from experience .
3 There are , for instance , mnemonic devices in oral cultures which offer some resistance to this process : ‘ formalised patterns of speech , recital under ritual conditions , the use of drums and other musical instruments , the employment of professional remembrancers — all such factors may shield at least part of the content of memory from the transmuting influence of the immediate pressures of the present ’ ( 1968 , p. 31 ) .
4 Any worker may eat at any of the canteens or special selection dining rooms .
5 Both types of mutation — harmful or useful — may arise at different rates depending on stresses inherent in the environment .
6 Moreover , different configurations may arise at various times .
7 Kay O'Neill , who lives in the street , said her house was worth much more than one may think at first glance .
8 " We ought to go at once , " said Fiver .
9 The minder may interject at times , but will allow a relationship to build up between the client and the trainee .
10 The point I keep making is that in a press release they ought to include at least enough information briefly so that whoever 's reading it can pick up the angle or the possible use .
11 Our combined age is 151 so we think we can cope with any problems life may throw at us ! ’ he jokes .
12 Leadership is also apparent in many different spheres of activity — the military , the political , the organisational and so on — and it may exist at different levels .
13 The best attested case is the temple complex west of the mansio at Godmanchester , though comparable examples may exist at Chelmsford and Water Newton .
14 Because expression may exist at various levels of abstraction ( for example , in the program 's structure ) the courts have to be able to distinguish between idea and expression .
15 In his poetry , Wordsworth uses the language of faith years before his ‘ prose mind ’ can accept Christian doctrine ; this is why his ‘ conversion ’ is impossible to date , and why there is so much divergence between the poetic and prose statements he may make at any stage in his progress .
16 Words flung out in temper , for instance , do not carry lasting conviction although they may wound at the time , whereas a calm statement , arising from inner knowledge , is likely to come from the centre of one 's being and to hold fast .
17 These benchmarks would indicate to teachers the things which all children ought to know at a particular stage of their development .
18 Conan The Librarian is not now considered E7 and has been reported at possible E5 , so let's compromise at E6 .
19 Sceptics may baulk at such an idea , but given the attested presence of such equally implausible-sounding objects as a block of portable eighteenth-century soup ( ex Captain Cook ) , Inuit seal-gut underwear , African cobweb hats and other equally exotic objects , the concept of dressed fleas may seem more acceptable .
20 Some may baulk at the name though : Converse Rear Entry .
21 For one thing , the government may baulk at giving the financial guarantee .
22 The story — accompanied by more than 150 colour paintings — of how they find a land where humans and dinosaurs live in harmony is an imaginative and interesting read , although adults may baulk at the price .
23 Some may baulk at such a suggestion but it is only making explicit what archivists do implicitly .
24 The diplomatic or business historian may gaze at the e-text archive and ask who decided what , but in situations which involve rule based elements in a Decision Support System ( DSS ) , the historian may well ask whose decision ?
25 Some of the latter may excel at specialised subjects such as engineering or finance .
26 Fewer teachers have difficulties in responding to reminders that children share substantial common ground regardless of whatever special attention they may need at any one time .
27 It will be shown how conclusions based upon the analytical economic framework may need at least some qualification when these other matters are brought into account .
28 Although patients with infarction may vomit at presentation or secondary to opiate administration , this usually settles with antiemetics and may not interfere with oral therapy .
29 He may act at times like a nasty prat , but he is still a legend .
30 Some executives may resign at a Daiwa board meeting that is due to be held on May 18th .
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