Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the one hand , some clients may prefer a structured day with routine care , which everyone receives given at set times , very probably by a succession of nurses . |
| 2 | Collapse breccias , however , are not related to any particular facies and potential reservoirs resulting from this process are most likely to be found around structural highs that became exposed at various times since , the Zechstein . |
| 3 | Tony Brough ( the Principal ) and I sat at High Table , but it was very democratic because the students also took it in turns to sit at High Table — and to be invited to the Principal 's office for pre-dinner drinks ! |
| 4 | The British tend to sneer at American house-building methods . |
| 5 | We suggest you find out where your newly-acquired friends and acquaintances tend to gather at different times of the day . |
| 6 | It means that the stressed syllables in an utterance tend to come at regular intervals with a varying number of less stressed syllables in between . |
| 7 | The importance of these statutory provisions appears to me to be that Parliament has considered at various times and in various contexts the need for recovery of imposts paid but not due and has legislated in a manner which suggests that no such general principle as the Woolwich contends for was thought to be in existence . |
| 8 | It may need hosing at high pressure to get rid of any surface slime . |
| 9 | Strictly speaking , though , the possibility remains that heritable cancer genes may exist : no-one else has looked at normal tissues from cancer patients . |
| 10 | Accordingly , recent work has looked at new ways of defining rural deprivation over and above the arithmetic of woe shown in Tables 6.5 and 6.6 . |
| 11 | The strange thing is that the SERC itself has looked at similar issues in a report on the ‘ decline in physics ’ ( ie ‘ little ’ as opposed to ‘ big ’ physics , which includes the solid state physics that underpins materials science and microelectronics ) . |
| 12 | He has looked at marginal rates in some cases , but not in others . |
| 13 | Wilson , born in Banbury and who qualified for Northern Ireland through his mother 's Co Londonderry birth , has operated at right back for Notts County in recent matches . |
| 14 | It has met at regular quarterly intervals since then and is possibly the oldest meeting of its kind in Ireland . |
| 15 | Like most young people Sarah Jacobs loves looking at fashionable clothes . |
| 16 | The marketing blitz has raged at full tilt for some time now , making it likely that this blockbuster will live up to its imperial ambitions . |
| 17 | Among those present either lunching , or braving the elements to watch the match , or both , were the new Argentine Ambassador Señor Mario Campora , , she is better known as TV sports presenter Sally Jones ; Mr and Mrs Brian Jenks , whom I had enjoyed meeting at Royal Ascot earlier in the week ; , Mr Brian Morrison , he owns the Royal Berkshire Polo ground ; Major Ronald Ferguson , who runs the polo here very efficiently ; . |
| 18 | Festival spokesman Joe Leddin said : ‘ The Japanese man was born in 1903 and intends to play , as he has done at previous festivals . |
| 19 | Laing feels strongly that the chief executive of a company should define , as he has done at United Biscuits , exactly what its responsibilities to the community are . |
| 20 | The Prime Minister gave no hint during her performance in the Commons yesterday that her language at Strasbourg will be any less caustic than the manner she has adopted at recent Commonwealth summits . |
| 21 | The Prime Minister gave no hint during her performance in the Commons yesterday that her language at Strasbourg will be any less caustic than the manner she has adopted at recent Commonwealth summits . |
| 22 | " A man who wants to talk at large about smoke may have to pick his words very carefully if he wants to exclude the suggestion that there is also a fire : but it can be done . " |
| 23 | The German government has approved at massive programme to clean up one of eastern Germany 's most polluted regions , the triangle linking Halle , Leipzig and Bitterfeld , formerly a major centre of lignite mining and chemical processing . |
| 24 | I want to look at new charges for home care and day care and transportation services for disabled people . |
| 25 | Interest cover , for example , would not be so appropriate — the shareholder would be more interested in dividends and may need to look at alternative investment opportunities as well as the possibility of selling their shares at this stage given the results of Belper . |
| 26 | The LEA will need to look at other routes as well . |
| 27 | Holding your breath builds up tension and shallow breathing denies your body the oxygen it needs to function at maximum efficiency . |
| 28 | Thus the problem of splitting a program between two storage media , one fast but small and the other large but slow , has reappeared at different times and at different storage levels . |
| 29 | Finally , an evaluation which was constrained to look at stated objectives alone would forego opportunities to develop theoretical and empirical models which have general application over and above the particular initiative under scrutiny . |
| 30 | The basis for the proposition that individual women may improve their own prospects and those of their young children as regards health and mortality is the evidence that age at marriage and at childbearing , the amount of time that elapses between births and the total number of children that a woman has borne at various ages have a pronounced influence upon maternal and child health , and that a child 's birth order may be a factor in its survival chances . |