Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Achieving a maths mark in double figures ( all tests are marked out of 50 ) was about as likely as Iceland winning the Eurovision song contest or Michael Jackson growing up to be normal ( or growing up at all come to that ! ) . |
| 2 | On a table in the hall was a pile of letters , addressed to officers who might be dead , or in prison camps , or coming back at any moment … . |
| 3 | ( iii ) That each site would be responsible for the accuracy of its own employees ' data and to this end input would be via local VDU 's from each site and output would be displayed or printed locally at each main site . |
| 4 | He did n't play music loud , drink to excess , have phone calls , watch television or go out at all at weekends . |
| 5 | For full details ring 0273 775454 or call in at any branch . |
| 6 | Unlike plants and animals we do not have to go to bed with the sun or to get up at each high tide ; our man-made environment is based on a 24-hour solar day of course , but it need not be timed to coincide with sunrise or sunset . |
| 7 | It does , therefore , seem to follow from Berkeley 's view , that ‘ bodies are annihilated and created every moment , or exist not at all during the intervals between our perception of them ’ . |
| 8 | If anybody wants a fire certificate and we had a recent case where a notable local solicitor asked us to issue a fire certificate and we refused , because his premises does not require one , or did not at that point require a fire certificate . |
| 9 | Who else has been planning anything , or thinking ahead at all ? |
| 10 | He congratulates himself on not fainting or throwing up at any of this and drinks heavily for the rest of the evening . |
| 11 | She would have stayed asleep , too , if not for the outrageous racket that erupted outside at that very moment . |
| 12 | Movement artefacts gave rapid fluctuations that occurred simultaneously at all recording sites and were easily differentiated from colonic contractions and discarded from analysis . |
| 13 | One can think of these fluctuations as pairs of particles of light or gravity that appear together at some time , move apart , and then come together again and annihilate each other . |
| 14 | ‘ Oh no , it was a miracle that came off at all . ’ |
| 15 | If their babies are to thrive , they must have a cave that is warm , humid and with a temperature that varies hardly at all between day and night . |
| 16 | In June 1976 the Labour Secretary of State for Education and Science issued Tameside a directive to proceed with comprehensive reorganization on the grounds that to do otherwise at such a late stage would be unreasonable . |
| 17 | He drove her back to Greystones , still talking fluently of things that mattered not at all . |
| 18 | There is n't very many soldiers that grew up at this school any more . |
| 19 | To detect any contamination of samples before breaking the code , negative controls of sterile water were included with the samples in a ratio of one negative control per three samples and treated identically at each stage . |
| 20 | Now a man may marry his stepmother or stepdaughter , or a woman her stepfather or stepson , provided that the younger person is aged at least 21 and has not at any time before reaching the age of 18 lived as a child of the family of the older person . |
| 21 | He had businesses in the North and used regularly at this time of year at the end of the summer sales , to go the rounds of his shops , take stock , examine the books , and so on . |
| 22 | So I gave myself just half an hour to get to the theatre and prepare for curtain up — and phoned home at each interval . |
| 23 | It was only as we were doing this and grinning inanely at each other that I noticed the red Transit van turning out of the other end of the street . |
| 24 | The stable , dry pedal boats can be picked up and dropped off at any of 5 moorings in the heart of the City . |
| 25 | She grimaced a smile at each of them , and nodded hurriedly at any remark directed at her . |
| 26 | ‘ And then finally , Cadfael , for the leaves to turn of themselves , and open again at that same place . |
| 27 | Before I thread the rod with a line from the fixed-spool reel 1 hesitate and look again at those blackened roots that reach into the undercut . |
| 28 | These pages present highlights of the financial results and look particularly at those areas which affect all staff and the future growth of the company . |
| 29 | As you read through a book or long article , pause after each chapter or section and look back at any notes you have taken . |
| 30 | Which talks about de organizational development plans , team development plans , personal development plans , and signed off at each |