Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And still , after Crime and Punishment , the idea of a confession novel or story tugs at the edge of Dostoevsky 's vision , and continues to do so for the rest of his life in the form of The Life of a Great Sinner which he planned on the scale of War and Peace , but which never got written though it fed previous material into his novels of the seventies , and especially Karamazov at the turn of the next decade . |
| 2 | A pie chart can help the retailer or business-person see at a glance exactly where the money goes . |
| 3 | And he loosed his grip suddenly , and stood back with an oath , his hand going up to his lip where blood appeared at the site of her teeth-marks . |
| 4 | Under s179 , which applies to accounting periods ending on or after 1 October 1993 , Target is again treated as disposing of assets acquired intra-group in the preceding six years , but the gain or loss accrues at the beginning of the accounting period in which Target leaves the vendor group ( see s179 TCGA and s89 Finance Act 1993 ) . |
| 5 | Havelock suggests three categories : the research and development and diffusion model , where an idea or practice conceived at the centre is fed out into the system ; the social interaction model , where change proceeds through formal and informal contact between groups ; and the problem solving model , where individuals are themselves involved in initiating , developing or modifying aspects of a programme at local level . |
| 6 | We now have to pass the wire all the way through the sleeve so that its bend or fold emerges at the other end . |
| 7 | Except where marriage occurs at a very young age , the earlier a woman marries , the younger she is when she bears her first child , and the more children she has when she reaches the end of her reproductive years , other things being equal . |
| 8 | Index cards are easily handled and shuffled ; they can be kept in alphabetised boxes , come in different colours , and can have a topic , keyword or reference written at the top , as an indication of what is on the card . |
| 9 | Small mammal faunas in the fossil record provide one of the principal methods of interpreting the ecology or habitat existing at the time the fossils were preserved . |
| 10 | Where an officer of government in the exercise of his office obtains payment of moneys as and for a charge which the law enables him to demand and enforce , such moneys may be recovered back from him if it should afterwards turn out that they were not legally payable even though no protest was made or question raised at the time of payment . |
| 11 | To be eligible an enterprise should be registered in an EC member country and have a product or process aimed at a transnational market . |
| 12 | It is most unlikely that a mother or father looking at a new-born child will be saying : — ‘ We have here a potential villain , who could , in a few years time be getting a living by robbery , violence or some other criminal activity . |
| 13 | Some dry leaves or grass scattered at the base of the pit will provide the ferret with some comfort . |
| 14 | Peat , clay or leaf-mould placed at the bottom with a layer of unwashed river sand or fine gravel should be provided . |
| 15 | Because people seem either to write or commission reports at the slightest excuse you must assume that in most cases a formal , written report is not in fact wanted . |
| 16 | The Christian psychologist Paul C. Vitz has said , ‘ From Freud 's example , one has reason to suspect that behind many an atheist , agnostic or sceptic of today lies shame , disappointment or rage directed at the father . |
| 17 | The category of ‘ further academic study ’ is a relatively broad one , comprising all full-time further education or training aimed at a higher or other degree at home or overseas . |
| 18 | The answer is that it is simply the degree of an experience 's pleasantness or painfulness taken at a moment , or its average pleasantness or painfulness over a period . |
| 19 | Although changes in global policy can not be made on the basis of the present study alone , the results suggest that a supplemental dose of IPV or OPV administered at the time of measles vaccination might increase a population 's immunity against poliovirus types 1 and 3 . |
| 20 | The physical body or matter vibrates at the slowest or densest frequency ; the subtle body , like electricity , vibrates much faster and for this reason we are usually unaware of its existence . |
| 21 | The small Year Niner usually looks a bit blank — possibly because she has never considered the possibility of either heaven OR hell lying at the foot of the ropes in the sports hall — and responds with a vague , ‘ Uh ? ’ |
| 22 | Firstly , any lingering gossip about scams or hype evaporated at an impromptu set for Windsor 's assorted scruffians last summer , where Flowered Up revealed themselves to be well drilled in jazz funk slinkiness ( ! ) . |
| 23 | However , a lot of detail is included in the brochure and prepared approximately twelve months in advance , so there may be occasions when a facility or entertainment advertised at the hotel or in the resort is not available during your own particular holiday . |
| 24 | There is spiritual value in the very handling of its primary elements to write a little song or dance , even an exercise ; even , as Bruckner used to show his classes , in a fifth or octave struck at a piano . |
| 25 | ‘ And the Angus men , I can tell you , were too busy to do more than yell insults at the other Angus men . |
| 26 | that neither angel nor devil came at the hour that he was dead . |
| 27 | You are the English guest that madame has at the farm , n'est-ce pas ? |
| 28 | Probability of life arising on a planet ( in , say , a billion years ) , if we assume that life arises at a rate of about once per solar system . |
| 29 | And , although Folly stared at the slip of pasteboard with the kind of intensity that fortune-tellers reserved for Tarot cards , she did n't know exactly what he had in mind … |
| 30 | We said no , I , I , I 'm doing everything that table says at the moment , so no , but I 'm going to give one to Shirley because she got most of the answer and then she came back with the right bit at the end as well . |