Example sentences of "at [adj] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She peered out into the office , winding down now at the end of the first day : at the two constables scribbling notes at their desk , at another sitting at the HOLMES computer , at a WPC glancing through the actions book . |
| 2 | As has been shown above , the movement denoted by to can be intercepted at some point before its term to evoke a support at some remove from the position occupied by the representation of person at the beginning of the infinitive 's event , thus giving rise to the impression which we have called " subsequent potentiality " ( He struggled to get free ) . |
| 3 | The information will be compared with the picture of attitudes of the population at large gained from the annual British Social Attitudes survey ( supported by the Economic and Social Research Council ) and other sources . |
| 4 | Now , it 's not then that society does n't believe in the supernatural , we believe in the supernatural , society at large believes in the supernatural , the tragedy is that the natural man , the natural person however , as always is more willing to believe Satan 's mysteries than he is to believe God 's mysteries . |
| 5 | Perhaps the best one can say is that when such heroes die they go , in Tolkien 's opinion , neither to Hell nor Heaven , but to Limbo : ‘ to my fathers ’ , as Théoden says , ‘ to sit beside my fathers , until the world is renewed ’ , to quote Thorin Oakenshield from The Hobbit , perhaps at worst to wait with the barrow-wight ‘ Where gates stand for ever shut , till the world is mended ’ . |
| 6 | The neo-pagans say this is nonsense , their religion has nothing at all to do with the devil , because the devil is an invention of the Christians . |
| 7 | ‘ Very sick , and it 's got nothing at all to do with the sea . ’ |
| 8 | It has nothing at all to do with the cure of Legion . |
| 9 | This had , and George Eliot knew it , little or even nothing to do with Christ 's injunctions to his followers , and certainly nothing at all to do with the Incarnation which was now being celebrated as the congregation sang " Unto us a Boy is Born " as Daniel at the white-draped altar , with its lovingly embroidered white cloth , watched with Mr Ellenby over the bread and wine . |
| 10 | Interesting facts culled from a meeting with the leading lights of both Aldus and Adobe at last year 's Appleworld show indicate that the main problem with PostScript on the Macintosh is the QuickDraw to PostScript conversion process and has nothing at all to do with the LaserWriter or PostScript . |
| 11 | They probably have n't anything at all to do with the case . |
| 12 | Because of one of the two mentioned here in this note has nothing at all to do with the environment . |
| 13 | When they were not in chapel , at the dinner table or in their beds , there was nothing at all to do in the house except join the endless gossiping sessions with which João 's sisters and cousins filled their idle hours . |
| 14 | But we are concerned with a fundamentally different matter , the possible ways in which some entity ( or property ) , already accepted mentally , might be identified by a speaker , either for the purposes of his own thought or for communicating some idea to an audience ; in the latter case , there is no reason at all to object to the suggestion that the same item might be referred to either by ( 7 ) , or by ( 4 ) or ( 5 ) . |
| 15 | Neither Marxism Today , Socialist Review nor Tribune had anything at all to say about the programme . |
| 16 | The Bible does have quite a bit to say about Christians — all Christians — being witnesses for Jesus , BUT it does not have very much at all to say about the sort of ‘ Witnessing ’ being done by ‘ Damnation Derek ’ . |
| 17 | The fact that such debates about sex could even be envisaged at all testifies to the growing strength of sexual politics . |
| 18 | The Jewish law regarding sexual relations is not at all related to the Christian concept of sex being sin , or to women being sinful in some way . |
| 19 | There was no consideration at all given to the possibility of disincentives operating in the informal social context , and a total neglect of social and economic incentives of all kinds . |
| 20 | It was not at all neglected in the nineteenth century . |
| 21 | She had n't written to me for several weeks and I was beginning to wonder what stage her marriage plans had arrived at , but was n't at all prepared for the news that greeted me . |
| 22 | I had been fed on a diet of Enid Blyton and her boarding school series , so I was eager — even excited — to be joining one when I came over to take my ‘ A ’ levels in the late sixties : I was not at all prepared for the harsh realities of English middle-class racism . |
| 23 | With so many awkward questions hanging over the case , Coleman found it hard to imagine that the government would take it into court — and was not at all reassured by the thought . |
| 24 | Right , the , I was , about to er come to that , erm the erm , there is no reason why a group should not have more than one prisoner erm , the practical situation is that , that groups are queuing up to , to get a prisoner at the moment in fact , erm , not always the situation but at presently there is a waiting list for who have groups to have a prisoner allocated to them , erm , if we so wish er , ah , if , if a group comes onto the list who has er , ah , and their prisoner is released and , and we , we er in that situation we , and any group without a prisoner at all goes to the head of the list and be allocated straight away , but we could request a second prisoner and that case would be put to the bottom of the list , so when the other groups who , who 've got no prison will take priority now , but we , we could request a second prisoner if we so wanted so you are talking about a motion at the A G M , but it 's not really necessary |
| 25 | In Improving Secondary Schools ( Hargreaves Report ILEA 1984 ) , specific recommendations , aimed at all involved in the delivery of the education service , are highlighted to reduce levels of underachievement and disaffection . |
| 26 | With no daylight at all penetrating to the interior of the foundry , it looked more hellish than ever , its furnaces glowing fiercely in the smoky gloom . |
| 27 | Analysis of pre-war Japan is not at all characterized by the absence of attention to the state , quite the contrary . |
| 28 | The primacy of the individual 's ‘ right to work ’ has been upheld as sacrosanct , to be defended at all cost against the ‘ tyranny of the mass picket ’ . |
| 29 | It has operated on the rather inequitable basis of paying different amounts of money or none at all according to the source of disability rather than its extent . |
| 30 | Obviously she had walked into some sort of a secret and Felipe was not at all amused by the fact . |