Example sentences of "[vb infin] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Judging from remarks between Mr Carnwath , Mr Steele ( QC for Dyfed County Council ) and Mr Burrell , the prevailing view is that the inspector will find against McAlpine , but that the company will seek a Judicial Review in the High Court , where the arguments will recommence at a rarefied legal level . |
| 2 | I can only compose at night , so that I ca n't get up early as well ; besides , one is not always in the mood for working . |
| 3 | He may act at times like a nasty prat , but he is still a legend . |
| 4 | But genes can act at a distance ; extended phenotypes can extend a long way . |
| 5 | To quote Kurt Vonnegut in Bluebeard : ‘ In the movies back then , just about any big-nosed person whose ancestors came from the shores of the Mediterranean or the Near East , if he could act at little , could play a rampaging Sioux or whatever . |
| 6 | When I look upon the wall of my room , the wall does not act at all , nor is capable of acting ; the perceiving is an act or operation in me . |
| 7 | The invisible powers of nature were analogous to the visible powers of the magnet , which could act at a distance and penetrate matter with its rays . |
| 8 | He really can not act at all . |
| 9 | He sought out — he did not summon — those he wished to consult , and if persuaded would act at once . |
| 10 | In Les quatre Souhais Saint Martin : ( Through this fabliau you may know that he does not act at all wisely who trusts his wife rather than himself : often he suffers shame and grief . ) |
| 11 | That is either voltage or ligands , in the cases respectively of voltage activated channels or ligand activated channels , both of those factors will act at the level of gating . |
| 12 | If a market surplus of liquidity is forecast , then the Bank will only act at 2.00 p.m. if it is large . |
| 13 | If you are going to fly your glider efficiently while turning steeply in thermals with other gliders , you need to know how it will behave at the stall . |
| 14 | It is one of the devious ways in which we all can behave at times . |
| 15 | ‘ Perhaps they are learning a little more about airmanship or the way they should behave at 40,000ft and above from the medical point of view . |
| 16 | If we look back to the middle years of the nineteenth century and to the debates about the extension of the franchise to the working class then hopes were expressed as to how voters should behave at the same time as there was anxiety and fear as to how they would actually behave . |
| 17 | In a quantum theory of gravity , as we saw in the last chapter , in order to specify the state of the universe one would still have to say how the possible histories of the universe would behave at the boundary of space-time in the past . |
| 18 | Suppose that the increase in the money supply is announced in time to be included in that agents fully believe the central bank , and that the central bank behaves in period t in the way that it announced it would behave at the end of t - 1 . |
| 19 | In view of the possibility of recovery from the aircraft owner you should seek at intimation the advice of HO Home Claims & Support . |
| 20 | Even forgetting the fact that the Cobra was the fastest accelerating car you could buy at the time , that only puts it between the £21,620 Elan SE and the entry level £26,400 Excel SE , close to the £22,363 Morgan plus eight and even closer to the £23,526 Toyota Supra Turbo . |
| 21 | Why did they buy at that time ? |
| 22 | Here you can buy at duty free prices all the usual items . |
| 23 | When people did not use a form of credit they had considered , usually it was because they either did not buy at all , or paid cash instead . |
| 24 | Monsieur de Levantiére decided that , as a reward for modelling , Constance could buy at cost two of the previous season 's models . |
| 25 | A better buy at Boots |
| 26 | They produce beef that no one will buy at the price at which they want to sell it , so they are subsidised by the European taxpayer to dump it in West Africa , where it destroys the livelihoods of poor farmers . |
| 27 | At Wentworth Woodhouse we advised on what we thought the West Riding should buy at the sale to keep in the house . |
| 28 | You can always buy at auction later . |
| 29 | Last but by no means least , everyone should buy at least one copy of Olive Geddes ' fascinating Swing Through Time — the perfect Christmas present for golfers everywhere ! |
| 30 | If you could n't afford the original records , there were smaller ones you could buy at the Woolworths in the King 's Road , which sounded quite like . |