Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] [verb] [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The accumulation of life 's experience should make us at our wisest when we are old . |
| 2 | ‘ The car will collect you at the airport and then you will be brought to the Hacienda de Nieve . |
| 3 | You can use a stronger line which is less likely to be cut ; but , inevitably its extra weight and drag will put you at a disadvantage in terms of manoeuvrability . |
| 4 | That fundamental divide will put them at a permanent disadvantage in endeavours to provide quality services to the citizen . |
| 5 | This passes through a mile-long avenue of noble Scots pines ( denuded by a recent fire ) soon after leaving the village , crosses a bare upland with views of the mountains of Coulin Forest , and is joined by a road from Applecross for the last stage of the journey to Lochcarron ; our itinerary will join it at the junction after a tour of the Applecross peninsula which follows below . |
| 6 | Those who live in a high-spending authority , inhabit an expensive house and are part of a small household will find themselves at a triple advantage . |
| 7 | A column was the rubric under which the writer could put anything at all . |
| 8 | * At the present rate of destruction many countries whose only real asset is the forest may have none at all by the year 2,000 . |
| 9 | Systemic application and Bordeaux mixture in the dormant period should keep it at bay . |
| 10 | Lock your door , set whatever device will rouse you at a definite time ( cooking-timer , flashing alarm clock , vibrator ) — set it to go off in eight minutes . |
| 11 | A friendly face and a wealth of knowledge will greet you at Hastings Tourist Information Centre . |
| 12 | The 36-year-old player-manager will play himself at the expense of either Steve McMahon or Rick Holden , both of whom cost £900,000 . |
| 13 | If a yogi could tell us at any given moment what his digestive organs were doing , in chemical terms , and some constant monitoring apparatus attached to his intestines confirmed everything he said , then we might want to say yes ; for the performance would seem to show just that immediate awareness of goings-on that we think of as intuitively necessary for a Conscious process . |
| 14 | Most routine sale and purchase orders will not give rise to such firm commitments , as the entity could cancel them at will without incurring a severe penalty . |
| 15 | It was better , but not a lot , and McLeish who knew her to be in her late fifties decided any casual observer would put her at nearer seventy . |
| 16 | He was pessimistic about Britain 's economic prospects and felt that a free-trade policy would leave her at the mercy of economic storms like that of 1931 . |
| 17 | High interest rates are crippling and an unstable economy can produce them at any time . |
| 18 | Drug use can put us at risk of getting or passing on HIV through unsafe sex and through sharing works |
| 19 | The government should take him at his word . |
| 20 | If it is directed to his particular case , the Home Secretary should disregard it at this stage unless it was evidence at the trial ; if directed to penal policy in general , it is merely a small part of his information as to public opinion . |
| 21 | Anyone wishing to buy furniture out of income rather than capital could have it at the cash payment price plus 5 per cent commission , a quarter of which they had to deposit before the goods were delivered . |
| 22 | But sometimes the Earl would ring me at home at night and ask me to drive back to Althorp because the Countess was in floods of tears . |
| 23 | Together with the abolition of the Wage Councils and the minimum wage , the working man will find himself at the mercy of the unscrupulous bosses . |
| 24 | The sections which resemble realistic narrative are either mocked through parenthetical comments , which reduce the passages to pastiche , or are phrased as hypotheses : ‘ Your uncle will meet you at the boat ( with his car — even threw that in ) . |
| 25 | So , with your agreement , Sir Vivien , your aunt and your uncle will entertain you at dinner chez vous . ’ |
| 26 | Blindness can strike anyone at any time , regardless of who they are or where they live . |
| 27 | A driver will meet you at Tegel Airport and take you to Dresden . |
| 28 | In Lothian , the Chairman will tell you at the end of the summing up of your case what the Committee proposes to do . |
| 29 | He took the girls to the swimming pool after midnight , and then persuaded the victim to come with him to a changing room , on the pretext that the manager of the swimming pool might find them at the pool . |
| 30 | Unlikely , thought Jaq , that the Astropath would mention anything at all ever again … |