Example sentences of "[conj] [subord] [pron] [vb -s] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realize that if one looks at the matter objectively , one has to concede my father lacked various attributes one may normally expect in a great butler . |
| 2 | ‘ Papa , tell Belle Maman that if she looks at the baby like that , I shall get only her hat in the picture … ’ |
| 3 | It seems to me that when one looks at the brief findings and reasons of the justices given at the conclusion of the hearing , or even if one were to look at the more elaborate reasons which they have compiled subsequently for the purpose of his appeal , then their decision was plainly wrong . |
| 4 | What my , my honourable friend raises a very interesting point because er when I we studied er the law relating to partnerships one of the basic er er principals was the personal relationship between partners and I 'm bound to say that when one looks at the headed notepaper of these big multi national accountancy firms sometimes the names of which cover most of the letter and there 's very little room in fact left er for the message . |
| 5 | But nevertheless it 's im important to remember that this is a survey erm which is conducted at the time of year when most compan or many companies raise their list prices and if one looks at the past sort of record of this survey both at the regional level and the national level , one generally does see a bit of an upturn in the pr in the prices numbers at this time of year because people are raising their list prices erm and once you allow for that erm I think these numbers are er very good in terms of prices trends , very low for the time of year . |
| 6 | Death is a tragedy ( ! ) and whether it strikes at an eight-year-old youngster 3. ) or a senile old man , a scar is always left on one 4. ) of the survivors — a scar that does not heal quickly . |
| 7 | And when one looks at the individuals within the Royal Family , they are so magnificently unaccountably and unpardonably boring . |
| 8 | It is it 's the warmth and as he looks at the bush out of the front door I 'm sure he laughs . |
| 9 | She is offered a lift by a Black man , and as she gazes at the countryside slipping by , she reminisces about her childhood . |
| 10 | ‘ WESTERN EUROPE ’ takes many forms ; but whether one looks at a group of about 10 nations , or a more complete group of 20 or so , the crucial difference from both the USA and Japan is the presence of a jumble of nation-states of different sizes and distinctive history . |
| 11 | It was thought that Green took his large prepared copper plates out into the landscape and worked on them in front of the actual view , but when one looks at a print of a recognisable location the image is not reversed as would have been the case if a direct drawing onto the plate had been made from nature . |
| 12 | These results ( Bard et al 1987 ) appear to be very good , but when one looks at the ranking of the output utterances from which the recognition rates were computed , 30 out of the 79 best-matching utterances were not output first , although they ranked equal first in score . |
| 13 | For example , the word ‘ of ’ has the weak form in the following sentence : ‘ I 'm fond of chips ’ but when it comes at the end of the sentence , as in the following example , it has the strong form : ‘ Chips are what I 'm fond of ’ Many of the words given below ( particularly the first nine ) never occur at the end of a sentence , e.g. ‘ the ’ , ‘ your ’ . |
| 14 | But as he pulls at the silk of her sari , it just unwinds endlessly in a cloud of colour until he falls bundled in fabric . |
| 15 | Now this when when it comes at the end of a word |