Example sentences of "[vb -s] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He scratches at the spots on his arm , pulling soiled nails hard across the red blemishes . |
| 2 | Phyllis is very particular about cleanliness , which is why she always shops at the new branch of Safeways . |
| 3 | The seasoned rockers and cabaret bores at the local pub would appreciate the fact they have travelled up and down the country , playing every decrepit club and hovel on the way . |
| 4 | It also suggested that legislation should be brought in that required planners , designers and architects to consider future health and safety needs at the initial design stage . |
| 5 | Departments , being responsible for the subjects in which modules are taught , have information needs at the subject committee level . |
| 6 | Does he agree that such twin torture is the very last thing that British business needs at the moment ? |
| 7 | Harriet Harman , shadow Treasury chief secretary , said : ‘ The last thing the country needs at the moment is a dogfight in the Cabinet and that is what has been going on . ’ |
| 8 | Well I think we 'll have to re-look at the whole question of village envelopes in certain cases , where it is decided that low cost housing is desirable , and see if in some way , they can encourage the farmer to make land available so that he can make some money which he badly needs at the moment , as agriculture 's going through one of the biggest depressions it 's been through for years . |
| 9 | Best of south west waters at the moment . |
| 10 | We first met Pacific waters at the windswept village of Puerto Natales , and suddenly there were mountains all around us : mountains and glaciers , and curious seabirds and dolphins and spume-whipped sea , the water a vivid blue under a cloudless sky . |
| 11 | At British general elections , vote counts are reported at constituency level only , so that where a party gets its votes is largely unknown ( though party workers have efficient ways of estimating the geography of their support when acting as scrutineers at the count ) . |
| 12 | Viewers , it seems , buy the sets to watch action replays at the ball-game . |
| 13 | ‘ Did you know ’ , Matilda said suddenly , ‘ that the heart of a mouse beats at the rate of six hundred and fifty times a minute ? ’ |
| 14 | A pulse beats at the top of her long , white neck , under her chin . |
| 15 | I am used to the wind 's deep-throated shouts as it tears at the corners of our cottage in Cornwall , as it cracks branches and sweeps up leaves . |
| 16 | The Duchess of Kent , as Patron of the Royal Northern College of Music , presides at the launch of their Appeal ; opens Phase of the Manchester Science Park ; and attends the South Manchester Health Authority 's Annual Nurse Prize Giving Ceremony . |
| 17 | His bust , crowned with fresh bay leaves , presides at the side of the stage , and if he is looking down from Valhalla , let us hope he is pleased to be proved wrong . |
| 18 | Italy has at the moment no Bruce Chatwin or Paul Theroux , and the history of Italian travel-writing belongs more to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries than to the nineteenth or twentieth , but it is possible to discern an interest in the imaginative and expressive possibilities of travel-writing in the work of some contemporaries who are not travel-writers as such . |
| 19 | South Africa has at the moment six Rottweiler specialist breed clubs , who are affiliated to the Kennel Union of South Africa : one in the Western Cape Province , one in the Eastern Cape Province , one in Durban , Natal and three in the Transvaal Province centred in and around Johannesburg . |
| 20 | However , the demand for the relevant , the practical , and the vocational that was part of the raison d'être of the GCSE has at the same time been answered in a different way , which may in the end prove embarrassing to the DES and the SEC , and may seem to promise yet another shift of power . |
| 21 | From the pre-crisis level of DM2.83 = £1 and US$2 = £1 , the pound has at the date of writing declined by some 14% against the DM ( or 17.5% below its central rate of 2.95 ) , a similar amount against the US$ , and 12% against its trade-weighted index . |
| 22 | While attempting to give financial autonomy to schools the government has at the same time failed to help the market — that is , parents and pupils — to decide what subjects should be studied . |
| 23 | But — with exceptions of course — it has at the same time been unable or unwilling to devote enough time and effort to understanding and pursing financial and accounting matters , perhaps because these often lack the immediate and general glamour of other aspects of policies . |
| 24 | It displays the extraordinary virtuosity which this scheme encourages , but has at the same time great sculptural power . |
| 25 | Being a costly enterprise and having many uses to the modern state , research has at the same time come under increased scrutiny from the paymaster . |
| 26 | Whatever one may think of its application to the particular case , there can be little doubt that Banfield has at the very least described in an ideal form a society in which thrift , enterprise , trust and cooperation are impossible , and therefore one in which political and economic development along liberal democratic and capitalist lines are grossly inhibited . |
| 27 | And the answer 'll be no , cos nothing has at the moment . |
| 28 | Whilst guidance on suitable mechanisms for multidisciplinary collaboration has at the level of planning been published , the use of mechanisms to co-ordinate information and assessment at the level of practice has been actively discouraged . |
| 29 | You are the English guest that madame has at the farm , n'est-ce pas ? |
| 30 | He ought to swap the doctors that he has at the Serious Fraud Office for those who decide applications for disability allowance and attendance allowance . |