Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] at a " in BNC.

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1 The tentacle scales may be distinct from the oral papillae being either separated by a gap or placed at a higher level as viewed from the ventral side as in the genera Ophiotoma and Ophioblenn .
2 Continuing on the subject of getting involved , the committee are always delighted to hear from anyone wishing to help in any way ( half an hour once a year on a stall or helping at an open coffee morning would be tremendous ) .
3 Brian , a cabbie for 25 years , could now face having his licence suspended or withdrawn at a tribunal .
4 ‘ And I could n't see , so we could n't do any more the things we used to — just little things , like watching the sunset , or laughing at a holopic when we turned out the lights in bed , or me reading a poem to her .
5 When you have finished with the artwork , it can be stored in a stiff envelope or a file , along with the component layout diagram , so that it can be modified or re-used at a later date .
6 Then , where δ is the fraction so that the Goldbach–Rehage formula above becomes or This can be written in terms of , the relaxation time at the glass temperature , since where is a shift factor and Hence or , if the material is being heated or cooled at a rate we have where is the decrement of the expansion coefficient of the glass and , as before .
7 For ‘ Paris ’ add Prague , London , Venice , anywhere beautiful and foreign and not of the everyday , and for ‘ young man ’ insert ‘ or middle aged woman ’ and for ‘ lived ’ and ‘ or visited at a time in your life when you most needed it . ’
8 Every actual utterance is spatiotemporally unique , being spoken or written at a particular place and at a particular time ; and provided that there is some standard system for identifying points in space and time , we can , in principle , specify the actual spatiotemporal situation of any utterance act .
9 Although these are sometimes slavishly historical , or played at a frenetic tempo ( as if over-eager to cast off the stately past ) , the benefits of such experiments are clear .
10 If the package is to contain modules which already exist , then each one must be referenced as LATEST , PREFERRED or SELECTED at a specified issue , resulting in ‘ MODULE-RELATIONS-ARE ’ references of the form :
11 All the nuclei in the body process at a , or rotate at a particular speed , according to whatever size magnetic field you put them in , and then you apply a radio frequency field to the body at the , at just that frequency , and if you tune things correctly , there is absorption of energy , and you can detect that .
12 Furthermore , children may be born with , or acquire at a relatively early stage , processing biases which will constrain the forms of adult input to which they will be most sensitive .
13 Most private sector employers advertise locally and in the nursing press , although some may run recruitment drives of their own , or exhibit at a job fair .
14 In 1891 the tenor bell was recast by the bell founders Mears & Stainbank at a cost of £30 , being shipped to London by barge and returned the same way .
15 This information can then be used to test experimental reconstructions of furnaces found in excavations in order to establish whether or not the metal could have been smelted in a particular type of furnace , or forged at a particular type of hearth .
16 He suggested that the Government were engineering or conniving at a high level of unemployment .
17 The cost of his travels and his books ( many of which were distributed free or sold at a subsidized price ) was heavy .
18 I dare say someone could cross a road with the best of intentions — to help an old lady perhaps , or to look at a fruit-shop — then slip on a banana-skin and cause a perfectly horrible accident .
19 Illegal uses often include shopping trips , collecting spare parts for the garage or calling at a public house along a journey .
20 So that 's another situation and as we 'll talk about and I hinted at yesterday er the dreaded vote of thanks situation and the the er giving of the gold watch and er and the being a best man at a wedding or even a bride or groom at a wedding er again is a is a way of helping this Aldershot method is a way of helping you to get your thoughts together and put them across effectively .
21 And although a green glow that is weaker than it ought to be might mean that some of the cells in the area are turning malignant , it might also mean that the operator has the end of the bronchoscope too far from the target , or pointing at an awkward angle .
22 Advantage of this can be taken by widely-held public companies to enable them temporarily to freeze the list of those who are entitled to receive an annual dividend or to vote at an annual general meeting .
23 Now they are more likely to spend their time sitting in front of the television , watching videos or staring at a computer screen .
24 Turn Pale or tremble at a losing Game .
25 Rights to either buy or sell at a specified price within a specified period ( 3 months ) .
26 Where a driver says ‘ I was blinded by the sun ’ or ‘ There was a patch of fog ’ or ‘ The road was covered with black ice ’ , he should have stopped , reduced his speed or driven at a speed which was safe .
27 However , where the goods have been destroyed or stolen at a time when they were at the buyer 's risk ( see paragraph 3–36 ) , then of course he is under a duty to pay , even though delivery is impossible .
28 ( This may be done on the spot or brought at a second visit . )
29 Today I had three of them in the back of Armstrong , the ideal vehicle for such a job as a cab was unlikely to get moved along or clamped at a delicate , or indelicate , moment .
30 In the event of a second conviction for a like offence , a member is liable , in addition to the penalties already named , to be adjudged to be for ever incapable of holding any public office , and to be incapable for five years of being registered as an elector or voting at an election either of members to serve in Parliament or of members of any public body .
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