Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] [verb] [pron] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Castle , as it turned out , had opposed this allowance , again on the characteristically doctrinaire grounds that an allowance which made it necessary for the disabled to purchase motor cars would place them at the mercy of the commercial interests of motor manufacturers . |
| 2 | ‘ The car will collect you at the airport and then you will be brought to the Hacienda de Nieve . |
| 3 | You can use a stronger line which is less likely to be cut ; but , inevitably its extra weight and drag will put you at a disadvantage in terms of manoeuvrability . |
| 4 | Most London homes will find themselves at the top levels . |
| 5 | That fundamental divide will put them at a permanent disadvantage in endeavours to provide quality services to the citizen . |
| 6 | This passes through a mile-long avenue of noble Scots pines ( denuded by a recent fire ) soon after leaving the village , crosses a bare upland with views of the mountains of Coulin Forest , and is joined by a road from Applecross for the last stage of the journey to Lochcarron ; our itinerary will join it at the junction after a tour of the Applecross peninsula which follows below . |
| 7 | Anyone interested in that idea , or in the turning systems for schools can contact him at The Croft , Brough , Thurso , Caithness , Scotland KW14 8YE , ( 0847 ) 85605 . |
| 8 | Those who live in a high-spending authority , inhabit an expensive house and are part of a small household will find themselves at a triple advantage . |
| 9 | Next Wednesday , a score of television bigwigs will meet him at a special seminar at the Department of Trade and Industry , part of the D T I 's efforts to boost British exports . |
| 10 | Lock your door , set whatever device will rouse you at a definite time ( cooking-timer , flashing alarm clock , vibrator ) — set it to go off in eight minutes . |
| 11 | The 36-year-old player-manager will play himself at the expense of either Steve McMahon or Rick Holden , both of whom cost £900,000 . |
| 12 | When Inner City were taking off , people would phone me at the store and ask for Paris . |
| 13 | He was pessimistic about Britain 's economic prospects and felt that a free-trade policy would leave her at the mercy of economic storms like that of 1931 . |
| 14 | This belief , though not taught in the Old Testament , was widely held in the Jewish constituency among whom Paul worked : it is widely believed today that if only you try hard and do your best , God will accept you at the last . |
| 15 | I feel that the Angel Gabriel will ask me at the pearly gates : Ilsa , did you ever make a good Yorkshire pudding ? |
| 16 | Signed Danish is not Danish , when you can not hear/distinguish the words — but another type of sign language , which has the primary advantage that hearing people can use it at the same time as they use spoken language , and the secondary advantage is that some — and only some — rules applying to the spoken language are conveyed to the deaf child . |
| 17 | Anyone wishing to buy furniture out of income rather than capital could have it at the cash payment price plus 5 per cent commission , a quarter of which they had to deposit before the goods were delivered . |
| 18 | Together with the abolition of the Wage Councils and the minimum wage , the working man will find himself at the mercy of the unscrupulous bosses . |
| 19 | The sections which resemble realistic narrative are either mocked through parenthetical comments , which reduce the passages to pastiche , or are phrased as hypotheses : ‘ Your uncle will meet you at the boat ( with his car — even threw that in ) . |
| 20 | RICHIE Richardson will find himself at the centre of another bitter Yorkshire bust-up tonight . |
| 21 | In Lothian , the Chairman will tell you at the end of the summing up of your case what the Committee proposes to do . |
| 22 | If rail travel gets worse before it gets better , voters may dump them at the next general election . |
| 23 | The volunteers may find themselves at the centre of an even more important discovery . |
| 24 | He took the girls to the swimming pool after midnight , and then persuaded the victim to come with him to a changing room , on the pretext that the manager of the swimming pool might find them at the pool . |
| 25 | I should have realized that Clive would dump me at the first opportunity , that he had in fact been looking for an excuse to do so . |
| 26 | The children will perform it at the Edinburgh Festival . |
| 27 | NO SNOW fell during the night and at 10.00 , after Erika had run her five kilometres under a dazzling blue sky , Karl ran and said that he thought he rather did that a brief tour of Berlin would be possible and that he would be waiting in the lounge of the Palast at 11.00 ; adding that Paul should meet them at the television Tower at 1.00 |
| 28 | Anyone interested in learning more about this scheme should contact us at the address below , or on . |
| 29 | ‘ Yes , if Dad 'll meet me at the station — ’ |
| 30 | Both states were regarded as not only undesirable but criminal : after the Burgess/Maclean scandal in 1951 , police prosecutions against homosexuals reached a peak in 1953/4 , while the scare headlines accorded by the press to the Clapham Common murder in the summer of 1953 lodged in the public 's heads the equation that people who wore Edwardian clothes would knife you at the drop of a hat . |