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

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1 53 ( 1 ) ( c ) [ A ] disposition of an equitable interest or trust subsisting at the time of the disposition , must be in writing signed by the person disposing of the same , or by his agent thereunto lawfully authorised in writing or by will .
2 a standard Anglepoise lamp er which it 's been going for a number of years , you can get it in about six different colours to match different designs of , er put colour into your room , now if somebody was spending a lot of time sitting knitting and has to look at the knitting or has to look at the pattern then er a good strong light which wo n't get in their eyes but goes straight on to what , whatever they 're doing , is by far the best thing for them , er but they say oh I do n't like it , it 's a bit angular is n't it , erm , modern sort of thing , er but because it 's angular it does n't mean to say it 's not gon na fit into the room it 's the right thing for it , er for the person doing that work .
3 Unless you have only very few Windows applications , or enjoy looking at the background ( which may be changed to something prettier ) enlarge the Program Manager to fill the entire screen .
4 The second thing productive I do n't think it 's productive for people to interrupt start shouting at me and chairing at me or shout shout at the platform cos I think all that 's gon na happen there is the meetings gon na disintegrate and nothing will be as right .
5 In these subjects the OR continued to occur at a high level throughout training , a result suggesting that a stimulus that fails to predict its consequences reliably will continue to receive some form of processing .
6 See more of this beautiful country estate and its wildlife on a Ranger-guided walk , or learn to ride at the Earl 's former stud stables .
7 No one had asked how they were coping , or attempted to offer at the very least a listening ear .
8 Subsequent legislation and regulation have only supplemented the 1974 Act that made directors , managers and other officers liable to prosecution where they have consented to or have connived at the committing of any offence or where an offence has been caused by neglect on their part .
9 These were deposited in shallow marine barrier/lagoon complexes that became established at the edge of the basin on top of the marginal platform of the Z1 Anhydrite .
10 These sediments were deposited in a coastal sand-barrier complex that became established at the edge of the platform .
11 He 's the one that got busted at the
12 In Britain and America , for example , wine has grown at the expense of beer and spirits whilst in Spain and Italy , it is beer that has grown at the expense of wine and spirits .
13 Using a proper name for a subject search may be easier for the user than attempting to guess at an appropriate subject heading , particularly if the object is to extract a class number to pursue subject searching at the shelves .
14 After that you wear paper overalls that get combusted at every stage . ’
15 3 It hopes to allow , and induce , students to work at the pace best suited to them as individuals , rather than having to proceed at the standard class rate .
16 One approach that seems appealing at a common-sense level is to facilitate the evolution of natural groups of clinicians who work together because their specialities and interests are common .
17 Though most merchants say it is too early to come up with a firm idea of the trade , the initial reports on quality suggest some low nitrogens and good bushel weights , at least for the Puffin that seems to predominate at the moment .
18 I drove via Barking to call in on Duncan the Drunken before the traffic built up , but his garage was locked and that meant calling at the house .
19 Nevertheless , the greater majority of bream waters hold bream that do roll at the surface sometime in the course of feeding .
20 And that means looking at the audit schedule out front so that you , you 're not .
21 The white Mercedes bus that had waited at the end of the line for the red-shirted storm-troopers left twenty minutes after the attack started .
22 He looked lovingly at the paints and brushes and swallowed a pain that had risen at the back of his throat .
23 Leila settled to tell him the story of Nathan 's condition and all that had happened at the farm , with certain omissions .
24 Only two of the party that had arrived at The Randolph , some fifty hours earlier , were no longer in their original seats — the seats immediately behind Mrs Roscoe .
25 She could see Ana , though , and the face that had drooped at the idea of these visitors was now having great difficulty in not breaking into wide smiles .
26 My husband was going out to Qatar , that pear drop of moonscape pitted with rich oases and edged with ancient trading posts , the Emirate that had refused at the last moment to join Sheikh Zayed 's dream of unity .
27 Perhaps part of the fascination of movies has always been that they trigger off so many memories but what is interesting about so much film-making in the 1920s is that movies are so closely associated with that age of the masses that had come at the end of one century and the beginning of another .
28 Conchis was no more than the chance agent , the event that had come at the right time ; just as in the old days I might , after a celibate term at Oxford , have met a girl and begun an affaire with her , I had begun something exciting with him .
29 For companies that have kept at a specified size over the years , working to budgets that they know and understand , are forced to expand to deal with the increased flow .
30 Partners and competitors of IBM Corp that have suffered at the company 's hands will feel a sense of schadenfreude that the company is brought so low , and will reflect on how right they were when they said back in the late 1970s and early 1980s that if the US Justice Department split the company up as it was then threatening to do , they would have four or six IBMs to compete with rather than just one .
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