Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a case of dramatic irony when we as readers recognize and share with the fabliau author a knowledge of the " realities " of the fictitious situation denied to the merchant of Orléans and may laugh at the merchant 's misguided belief as a result . |
| 2 | Words flung out in temper , for instance , do not carry lasting conviction although they may wound at the time , whereas a calm statement , arising from inner knowledge , is likely to come from the centre of one 's being and to hold fast . |
| 3 | These benchmarks would indicate to teachers the things which all children ought to know at a particular stage of their development . |
| 4 | Some may baulk at the name though : Converse Rear Entry . |
| 5 | The story — accompanied by more than 150 colour paintings — of how they find a land where humans and dinosaurs live in harmony is an imaginative and interesting read , although adults may baulk at the price . |
| 6 | The diplomatic or business historian may gaze at the e-text archive and ask who decided what , but in situations which involve rule based elements in a Decision Support System ( DSS ) , the historian may well ask whose decision ? |
| 7 | Some executives may resign at a Daiwa board meeting that is due to be held on May 18th . |
| 8 | And finally , they should explain at the very beginning of their conversation why they are phoning you . |
| 9 | First , variation in a character must exist at the outset of the evolutionary process . |
| 10 | In fact in Duru [ 1976 ] 1 WLR 2 the Court of Appeal thought that both charges in relation to the thing in action represented by the cheque and to the paper itself were to be upheld but the judges ' minds were not directed at this issue whether property must exist at the time of the obtaining . |
| 11 | Arranging to receive goods before they have been stolen does not amount to handling : Park ( 1988 ) 87 Cr App R 164 ( CA ) , because " guilty knowledge must exist at the time when the offence is committed " . |
| 12 | ‘ Trade union involvement must remain at the heart of the party but it must be based far more on individual choice and decision rather than through the exercise of a block vote , ’ he said . |
| 13 | One person must remain at the nets all the time to deal with the rabbits as they become entangled . |
| 14 | If a motor vehicle is stationary when the accident occurs the driver must remain at the scene until he has satisfied the section . |
| 15 | It would have been impossible to have brought an airliner into the gallery — they must remain at the Museum 's ‘ out-station ’ at Wroughton , Wilts , but the next best thing was achieved . |
| 16 | Until that time your child must remain at the place named on the supervision requirement . |
| 17 | Publication should remain at the editor 's discretion . |
| 18 | My view ( the view of a confirmed industrial privatizer ) was that the National Health Service should remain at the centre of our health-care system and that politically we would reap the whirlwind if we could be portrayed as moving away from it . |
| 19 | It is my considered opinion that we should stay at a safe distance and await further developments . ’ |
| 20 | She challenged Vi with her eyes , demanding she should stay at the table . |
| 21 | On Mr Clinton 's menu , deficit-reduction must stay at the top . |
| 22 | Both lines , on extrapolation to the axis , should intersect at the same point . |
| 23 | I 'll have a word with her when she 's awake , she 's still on a third dream I should think at the moment but she 's er , certainly good talking , I could , I could try and get her without her knowing about it and see what happens , just dinner time I 'll take it down and try it , oh you 're gon na take it round Steve 's ai n't you ? |
| 24 | When , on his final journey to the police station , Raskolnikov kneels down in the middle of the Haymarket and kisses ‘ the earth , the filthy earth ’ ( zemlya ) as Sonya has bidden , it is entirely calculated by Dostoevsky that a tipsy artisan should laugh at the strange young man who ‘ is bowing down to the whole world and is kissing the capital city of St Petersburg and its soil ’ ( grunt , the German Grund ) . |
| 25 | Ashley was glaring at me over the candle flame the way a hawk must glare at a field mouse the instant before it parts mouse from field forever . |
| 26 | The overriding principle , though , is that consultation must commence at the earliest opportunity . |
| 27 | This will help to avoid clouds of falling soot from blowing into the room through the air vent which you must install at the bottom of the closed flue . |
| 28 | Before we consider how these ideologies affected attitudes to death , we must glance at the social and economic changes that provided the context within which they operated . |
| 29 | At Wentworth Woodhouse we advised on what we thought the West Riding should buy at the sale to keep in the house . |
| 30 | Officials are particularly strict in the capital , Suva , where arriving yachts must wait at the quarantine buoy , or anchor nearby until visited by the medical officer . |