Example sentences of "at [adv] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE Prince of Wales was hissed at yesterday but it made him laugh . |
| 2 | It had less and less to say to a home-owning , share-owning , bourgeoisified population , at least so it seemed . |
| 3 | The only person he does n't learn from , or at least so it seems , is himself . |
| 4 | At least so it has been held by students of the origins of the statistical mechanics pioneered by Clerk Maxwell . |
| 5 | The second , and methodological , argument against historicism was that it was not ‘ rational ’ , or at least that it fostered irrationalism and mysticism ( Popper 1966 : 216 ) . |
| 6 | At least when it does bomb , Windows 3.1 usually lets you restart gracefully ; you do n't always have to resort to the three-finger shuffle . |
| 7 | He got closer to his goal than many , however , at least when it came to bringing ‘ joy ’ . |
| 8 | The book has one last virtue : it is , at least when it talks about people other than Mr Yeltsin , far more entertaining than most books by western politicians . |
| 9 | Finally , it is not entirely true that the wave is the independent variable and the beach the dependent one , because the form of the wave , at least when it nears the coast , is to some extent dictated by the form of the beach and the immediate offshore bottom . |
| 10 | At least when it comes to other members of the population . ’ |
| 11 | When that aim is interpreted , or at least when it comes out of the other end of the machine , it results in the odd ex-chief executive being appointed . |
| 12 | The habit of association among hand-loom weavers could last as long as the class of workmen itself , or at least until it became too unstable and diluted to preserve it . |
| 13 | Although it can not be worked on , it will still be available to be used as the basis for a new DC ( at least until it has been hard copied ) . |
| 14 | Whether you consider industrialists to be the unprincipled rapists of Mother Earth , or see environmentalists as idealistic nutcases , there is little question that opinion and judgement , even prejudice , are at the heart of the environmental issue , at least as it confronts managers . |
| 15 | The most important of these , at least as it appeared to those involved , was the discovery of sea-floor spreading , which was transformed from a brave conception to a probability in 1963 . |
| 16 | At least if it goes wrong with just one A&R person out front , there are plenty more to approach . |
| 17 | If the agency then acts differently it may be held to have acted unfairly and illegally , at least if it has not given the citizen a chance to make representations as to why he or she should be treated in the way expected . |
| 18 | Well at least if it pulls out it looks alright . |
| 19 | Failure to act , at least if it amounts to ‘ gross negligence ’ , may also result in a director being disqualified from office under the Company Directors Disqualification Act where the company has gone into liquidation . |
| 20 | What 's happened it 's the world again to use J B Phillips translation this time the Romans twelve two , that , that the world the precious around us has pushed us here and is as dented at there and it squeezed us out of the mould , the purpose the pattern that God had for us , into its own mould , a warped mould , a distorted picture , that has what has happened . |