Example sentences of "[vb mod] at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Locke 's understanding of visual experience there is no means of explaining , in terms of what he experiences , why a perceiver should at one moment say ‘ a drawing of a duck ’ and at another ‘ a drawing of a rabbit ’ . |
| 2 | We should at this stage be as non-judgemental as possible about the things being expressed , however wrong , misguided or unjust they might appear to . |
| 3 | I do not consider that the fact that Parliament has legislated extensively in this area means that no principle of recovery at common law can or should at this stage of the development of the law be found to exist . |
| 4 | Erm and much of the point he 's making I think he 's covering , if you look closely , the resolution that we put , I should at this stage say I do accept the er the Charles suggested to start with into the first two lines . |
| 5 | THE Bank of England remains concerned that underlying inflation is still running at least 2 to 3 per cent higher than it should at this stage of the economic cycle , and repeats its belief that there is no real room for further cuts in interest rates while the pound remains so sensitive , writes Clifford German . |
| 6 | Should at any time the muscles feel fatigued , ‘ shake out ’ the arms . |
| 7 | One of the most fundamental is that the pain syndromes as described should at any time actually respond to opioids . |
| 8 | His promotion should at any rate warn against over-simplification . |
| 9 | Taiwan should revert to China and Korea should at some point receive independence . |
| 10 | So for example he 's Mill is very keen on the idea of local participation , that everyone should at some point in their lives play a role in local government in some level . |
| 11 | As well as books written specifically for school use , pupils should at some stage come into contact with biographies and memoirs , published diaries , historical fiction and some writings about local history . |
| 12 | His first impression was that somebody had started to construct a small harbour , but then he saw a shallow groove cut in the face of the cliff which must at one time have accommodated a pipe , and it occurred to him that it had probably been a sewage outfall . |
| 13 | I think we have to face facts , first fact is the the priority of the board must at this time be survival . |
| 14 | However , I must at this stage part from Amendment eleven on the method of their selection for two reasons . |
| 15 | Of course in order to be effective anti-viral agents they must at some stage be dependent on a viral enzyme to convert them into their active form , or they must selectively inhibit viral enzymes directly . |
| 16 | And , I suppose , if I 've been dethroned I must at some stage have been enthroned ! |
| 17 | The duties of the subscribers must at some stage be noted , and since we have already come across three of them , they can now conveniently be listed in full : |
| 18 | If Christianity is true and if religion affects culture , then non-Christian religions , whose creeds must at some point involve the denial of some aspect of Christian truth , will reveal cultural problems resulting from inconsistencies which are impossible to reconcile given their religious postulates . |
| 19 | The owner of 2041 must at some point have sold off a little plot , and this half-numbered , half-acknowledged house was put up . |
| 20 | ‘ Maybe so , yet any man must at some point question whether it is chance or fate that brings things to pass ; whether he is the author or merely the agent of his actions . ’ |
| 21 | In order for parents to express these worries , however , the child must at some time have produced actual behaviour . |
| 22 | Almost every effect of fluid motion must at some time have been tried as a means of measuring velocities . |
| 23 | erm Under the new erm system erm every G P must at some time during the visit erm persons over seventy-five . |
| 24 | This is perhaps a more useful analogy than might at first sight appear . |
| 25 | The passionate faith in the deep influence of the soil on man might at first sight appear to be an idea which a Marxist regime could easily harness to its own ideology , as was the Russian peasant 's deeply ingrained sense of co-operative toil on the land , a notion likewise derived from his dvoeverie . |
| 26 | Yet despite that authoritative vindication , the moment the PLO makes what might at first sight appear a slight regression to its old-style militancy , the US promptly joins the Israeli ‘ extremists ’ in pronouncing it a serious setback for the peace process . |
| 27 | One reason for this , which might at first sight seem paradoxical , was that , except in the aristocracy , the family unit had contracted . |
| 28 | Again , when the Irishman Scotus Eriugena , one of the two finest minds of the ninth century ( the other was Gottschalk , close student of Augustine 's works and initiator of the controversy on predestination ) , translated from Greek into Latin the Heavenly Hierarchy of Pseudo-Denis ( c .860 ) , he might at first sight have been engaged in something purely academic . |
| 29 | Indeed , the carbon-based molecules of which living things are constructed , and which they employ for life 's purposes , are so various and can be so complex that the study of biochemistry might at first sight seem quite impossible . |
| 30 | In their Narratives of love and loss ( 1987 , pp.1–2 ) they have set out ‘ to understand and … explain the astonishing emotional depth and moving power of works which might at first sight appear deceptively simple to adult readers , written as they are to be read by children ’ . |