Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He adds that at the other end of his society 's new building — a pink neo-classical palace — there are men in braces and loud shirts dealing on the Tokyo capital markets as they order pizzas . |
| 2 | Spare Rib , May 1977 , reported that at the national Women 's Liberation conference , the Fifth Demand group ( for Financial and Legal Independence ) opposed the demand that ‘ every individual person , whether in or out of employment , should receive a Guaranteed Minimum Income as of right ’ on the grounds that ‘ it would amount to implicit support for the Wages for Housework Campaign ’ ( p. 11 ) . |
| 3 | Here 's not a day when folk forget and at the Baiting House pub just north of Bromyard , there 's not a pint pulled without passers by talking of Nicolaus Silver with his jockey ; now the Landlord . |
| 4 | These important studies , made at night with great patience ( Charles-Dominique and Martin 1972 ) , show that at the very root of the primate evolution we have an extremely loose kind of relationship between the sexes . |
| 5 | Mrs McWilliams had said that at the Royal Samaritan Hospital she had told the anaesthetist about her fears because of what had happened before but he had reassured her . |
| 6 | We have already seen that at the formal level Luxemburg 's thesis of the need for a ‘ third market ’ to realise the value of these consumption goods is not necessary . |
| 7 | Parliament is seen as at the controlling centre of the state . |
| 8 | The common-room was large and comfortably furnished and at the far end included pool tables , dartboards and table tennis . |
| 9 | Although I consider that at the relevant time Lautro 's Rules , and thus its procedure , were defective in the respects I have outlined , for the reasons I have given I conclude that Lautro were not required by law to afford to Winchester the opportunity to make representations as to why an intervention notice should not be served before deciding whether or not to serve such a notice . |
| 10 | Does n't he remember that at the General Election the tabloids and so-called quality newspapers slaughtered Labour leader Neil Kinnock who did not have an affair with an actress or take freebie holidays ? |
| 11 | Realeat marketing director Graham Keen predicted that at the current rate of growth there would be five million vegetarians by the turn of the century . |
| 12 | The second showed that at the other pole is the city . |
| 13 | It had been agreed that at the General Election which would follow the end of the emergency period , there would no ‘ coupons ’ , pacts or other Party arrangements . |
| 14 | Hahnemann and his followers left us a legacy of many hundreds of remedies and the number has continued to grow until at the present time there are between two and three thousand remedies in the homoeopathic materia medica , each with its remedy picture , some of which have been more extensively worked out than others . |
| 15 | Rather , our results imply that at the preheadfold time of treatment ( 7.5d.p.c. ) , a certain degree of regional variation has already been specified at the level of rhombomere pairs ; retinoic acid is unable to override the specification choice of an odd- or even-numbered character . |
| 16 | However , it must be recognised that at the current level of terrorist threat , full accompaniment of all patrols could be achieved only at the expense of aborting necessary anti-terrorist operations with a consequent increase in terrorist activity . |
| 17 | At the A.G.M. , the committee meeting that followed and at the Annual Dinner that evening , contributions for Judith 's leaving present were asked for and it very quickly became apparent how highly Judith had been regarded . |
| 18 | The centre-piece was a perspiring bloke who was plainly at the end of his tether and at the other end of the tatty tether was a huge hairy bundle who 'd decided he was now one of the family and acting in a suitably demented manner ; noise effects included whoops , cheers , shrieks , curses , admonitions and deep explosive barks which provided punctuation in the manner of the cannon fire in the 1812 Overture . |
| 19 | This also meant that at the opposite pole of this evolutionary sequence there had existed a stage which was the exact opposite , a stage when men or women paired freely with whoever they took a fancy to , irrespective of any rules or regulations . |
| 20 | He cold-shouldered Ho , who insisted that at the national parade on Bastille Day he be placed next to Bidault . |
| 21 | ‘ We will tackle that at the appropriate time , ’ said Aycliffe , adroitly side-stepping this issue . |
| 22 | There is a law of scholarship which stipulates that at the precise moment when the production of a book has reached the stage where no changes are possible , new source material appears . |
| 23 | This means that at the European Top 12 tournament , which started in Copenhagen yesterday afternoon , players will still be able to use many types of glue — but probably for the last time in a major European event . |
| 24 | He said that at the recent mission in Cambridge Billy Graham had taught the grossest doctrines . |
| 25 | Addressing the Assembly , Yeltsin said that at the forthcoming Congress he expected an attempt to retreat from reforms . |
| 26 | He said that at the original trial , the magazine had no idea £25,000 had been paid to Mrs Sutcliffe by Mail on Sunday reporter Barbara Jones - and nor had the jury . |
| 27 | I think it true to say that at the present time it is not at all difficult for academics to appear in print . |
| 28 | I am going to say that at the deep level there is not but at the ordinary , everyday level there often is and we need to take it quite seriously . |
| 29 | Provided Mr X was not domiciled in the United Kingdom when the settlement was created and at the relevant time , eg the death of the son , the assets were not located in the United Kingdom , inheritance tax would not be in point even if the son is domiciled in the UK . |
| 30 | If you approach the village from the north , however , along the D9 or D33 , you see that at the northern edge of the village , the vineyards bank up on both sides to form a hollow where the vines dip down to 120 metres , giving east and west-facing exposures on either side . |