Example sentences of "it [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , although this huge deficit is in large measure a consequence of the fall in tax revenue and the cost of unemployment in the recession , the IFS expect it to remain at this level for some years even if a gradual recovery does take place . |
| 2 | This decision , to cease teacher training at the Polytechnic while allowing it to continue at West Glamorgan seems to have been based on political rather than educational considerations . |
| 3 | The aircraft flies comparatively slowly , at about 700 km/hr , but its big wings allow it to cruise at a height of more than 21 000 m — nearly double that of a transatlantic airliner . |
| 4 | At first I thought he was using it to wave at people , but then he bundled it up and threw it at a police car . |
| 5 | Its nail was a rose thorn ; she allowed it to scratch at her skin , making a faint red mark . |
| 6 | I swing round slowly , slowly , and slowly level it to aim at the spider , slowly push it forward against the pull of the concertina pipe behind . |
| 7 | The latter is imagined to be a snake-like movement that translates the chain through the tube and allows it to escape at the tube ends . |
| 8 | You were flashing it to look at the display in the window . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ You would n't think it to look at her , would you ? ’ |
| 10 | A UK company has a US parent , which often instructs it to look at possible acquisitions around the world . |
| 11 | If romanticism 's distorted view of the past clouds its view of the present , chronological snobbism 's myopic image of the contemporary world leads it to look at history ‘ through a glass darkly ’ . |
| 12 | We asked it to look at its promotion material again . |
| 13 | This series took four British families , all with the surname Smith , and used it to look at aspects of life in contemporary Britain . |
| 14 | ‘ And when your dad opens this next week , Joe , he 'll have his very own tree-house with you in it to look at , wo n't he ? ’ |
| 15 | Moreover , the closer a company moves towards computer-integrated manufacture ( CIM ) , the less possible will it find it to look at investments in isolation . |
| 16 | That she 'd removed it to look at , I mean . |
| 17 | ‘ She 's had a lot of knocks in her life , although you might not think it to look at her , perhaps . |
| 18 | You would n't think it to look at him now , but my Thomas was just such a one . |
| 19 | The research develops a method for analysing this question , and applies it to look at change in manufacturing industry in London in the period 1976-81 . |
| 20 | Dave as the horse is known gets excited although you would n't know it to look at him now . |
| 21 | The plain fact is , if a PC does what you want it to do at a speed you 're happy with , then its performance is perfectly acceptable . |
| 22 | ‘ This is all quite fascinating , ’ he said , drawing his umbrella from his starsuit and using it to point at the terminal entrance . |
| 23 | Although the computer industry enjoys getting into a tizzy about the ever-increasing number of processors , anyone buying a 386SX 18 months ago would have wanted it to last at least three years . |
| 24 | Lot a hundred and thirteen there it is now the Rochat and I have two thousand for it to start at two thousand , two hundred two thousand four hundred two thousand six hundred thousand eight hundred , three thousand three thousand pounds , any more ? |
| 25 | Since the kite has a lift component to enable it to accelerate at certain positions around the hemisphere it also has what is known as an ‘ apparent wind ’ and it is this which sustains the motion within the flight envelope . |
| 26 | There appears to be a gimmick on the throttle causing it to idle at some 1200 rpm when cold , although it drops back to 600 rpm when hot . |
| 27 | One possibility was to force it to land at an army base remote to Teheran . |
| 28 | Two dissident Myanma students hijacked a Myanma aircraft on a domestic flight and forced it to land at U-tapao military air base in Thailand on Oct. 6 , 1989 . |
| 29 | This replaces standard radiator brackets with two pivoting brackets that lock a radiator in place , yet at the flick of a catch , release it to hang at approximately 15° to allow easy cleaning and redecoration . |
| 30 | One has to understand it to live at all . |