Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fair-haired Jews from Moscow and Leningrad mingled with olive-skinned Georgians to read the Cyrillic slogans welcoming them and then sank down in rows of plastic chairs or gazed at the panoramic photograph of Jerusalem covering an entire wall . |
| 2 | However , when the risk-free asset is introduced to this situation investors will all either borrow or lend at the risk-free rate . |
| 3 | It takes effort on the part of the parent but can sometimes help them see that their child is eating more than they thought or eating at the wrong times of day . |
| 4 | In patients with oesophagitis Grade 0 , I , and II , this mucosal junction is very close or located at the proximal limit of the lower oesophageal sphincter . |
| 5 | Lives have been ruined because people have read the wrong books or looked at the wrong pictures . |
| 6 | If anyone starts talking about sex or looking at the Indian women , someone always says , ‘ Riddled with diseases I 'm sure . ’ |
| 7 | Or to jeer at the discredited Baltic Communists who rode in behind the thugs , proclaimed themselves in charge in Lithuania and Latvia and then scuttled for cover . |
| 8 | Soon all those who dare to smile or weep at the wrong moment will be sent to the poles … a cruel ruler will seize power , everyone who does not learn to keep silent will be put in prison and the extermination of mankind will begin . ’ |
| 9 | On the first day of his reappearance he contented himself with walking about , avoiding people 's eyes , or shovelling at the still melting ramparts like a man with a crime to expiate . |
| 10 | Ca can we just look at a I do n't know which way to be specific or to look at the general first , can I just |
| 11 | The second principle used in tone-unit boundary identification is a rhythmical one : it is claimed that within the tone-unit , speech has a regular rhythm , but that rhythm is broken or interrupted at the tone-unit boundary . |
| 12 | From the outside it is difficult to know whether to curse Bramante 's decision to demolish the original church — apart from the internal apse structure and the ( later ) campanile , — or to marvel at the soaring lines . |
| 13 | These cause more of a problem as it is thought that a scheme of arrangement under CA 1985 , s425 can not bind a member who did not have an opportunity to be present or represented at the court-ordered meeting . |
| 14 | Grom 's tribe was the Broken Axe , a tribe of Goblins that lived at the eastern end of Mad Dog Pass . |
| 15 | Earlier , Tanjug 's correspondent reported from Bucharest that armoured vehicles ran over students , while police turned automatic gunfire on crowds chanting ‘ Down with Ceausescu ’ and ‘ Down with the killers ’ during demonstrations that erupted at the government-organised rally in support of President Ceausescu . |
| 16 | ‘ 'T IS all very well putting on your old gown and pretending to be a serving-girl so we could pass that dolt at the solar door . |
| 17 | The temple illustrates the animal fetishism that lies at the dark roots of Egyptian religion and which it never really outgrew . |
| 18 | It is this conundrum that lies at the very heart of the Section 28 debate — not to mention Labour 's problems with it . |
| 19 | It 's done nothing to tackle the desperate need for a balanced energy policy that looks at the long-term needs of the country . |
| 20 | Because of the changed security situation and that type of er conflict not being envisaged in the same way now , what we felt was important was to be able to operate er apart from main operating bases , but also from sort of general purpose erm strips , flying clubs and those type of smaller airfields and therefore rather than looking at the damaged runway situation , we looked at the smaller strips and took a length that we could sensibly operate from erm and took that as the yardstick but clearly notwithstanding that , there is the prospect of damaged runways and therefore the slight relaxation would also apply to damaged runways but perhaps damaged to a lesser extent . |
| 21 | A Rose that faded at the rising Day , |
| 22 | Then I went through the samples in my kitchen and realised that , rather than look at the non-mainstream areas , I could look at wines from perfectly accepted areas that broke the usual conventions ; or in one brilliant example , I could see what great traditional winemakers — in this case a pair of Burgundian grandees — could do when they decided to rough it a bit in France 's far south . |
| 23 | The theory of the operation of a Pitot tube is contained essentially in eqn ( 10.19 ) , Bernoulli 's equation applied to the streamline that ends at the forward stagnation point of an obstacle placed in a stream . |
| 24 | It was a time when children were encouraged to fantasize about machines and outer space rather than marvel at the open spaces where the deer and buffalo roamed . |
| 25 | Result : even worse defeat , culminating in the degradation of last year 's 60-pointer by Australia and the shenanigans that followed at the post-match dinner . |
| 26 | It is also reflected in Tillich 's rejection of the superficial approach to religion which sees value in every religious tradition apart from one 's own , and in his rejection of the kind of approach that aims at the complete synthesis of all particular religions into one all-embracing whole . |
| 27 | But to our disgust , and as Nigel mentioned , also that we have seen a demise of factory inspectors , and this is borne out by the fact that figures at the present time show that an average workplace can be expected to be visited once in eleven years . |
| 28 | The fire was a mess of glowing embers that spat at the light rain . |
| 29 | Much worse to begin too soon and reach the end too quickly , typed Goldberg , squinting at the manuscript before him , than to begin at the right time and reach the end too quickly . |
| 30 | Much worse to begin too soon and feel one has begun too soon than to begin at the right time and discover one has nothing to begin . |