Example sentences of "at [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marketers have proved adept at catching the mood of the age range sixteen to twenty four , supplying products like jeans , cola drinks , music , cars and motorcycles which become the mode , the " in thing " , the product to have . |
| 2 | The dust particles might be better at catching the wind , like fluff on a willow seed . |
| 3 | Some ingenious souls have even gone so far as to suggest that the correct attitude to fat , which makes sense in nutritional , agronomic and culinary terms is to aim in general at eating a low-fat diet , and at one in which most of the fat in the diet is polyunsaturated : but to ensure that the small amount of saturated fat that did creep in is as delectable as possible , which , of course , with slight deference to beef dripping , means butter . |
| 4 | Every other Government in the European Community know that , for months past , the British Government 's negotiating energies have been directed not at shaping the future of the Community but at papering over the cracks in the Tory party . |
| 5 | ( First Edition ) THE Prince of Wales is to help to fund a £5m inner city regeneration project aimed at transforming a derelict area of Birmingham into a small business centre . |
| 6 | The job losses were part of a masterplan aimed at transforming the structure of the oil group . |
| 7 | It was funny how good Adam had been at naming things , the rooms in the house , the house itself even , or at naming the idea of it , the concept , Ecalpemos . |
| 8 | This is a project aimed at building a computer which can process one million floating point operations per second . |
| 9 | Instead , we 'd uncovered , one by one , the inherent flaws that tarnish Dodge 's brave attempt at building a Euro-style sporting saloon . |
| 10 | ‘ When you think about it in those terms , you realise climbers are very clever at building a rationale to avoid facing the truth . ’ |
| 11 | But even the new " world-convulsion " did not impede attempts of this kind at building a new professional synthesis within English studies . |
| 12 | For Bateson the operative principle of democracy is " a balance or reconciliation of opposite or discordant qualities , In fact , this might be taken as a most apposite description of his own attempt at building a new consensus for English . |
| 13 | It aims at dispelling the myths about old age and at building a network of associations concerned with the issues of aging . |
| 14 | Oh it was it was yes , some people were considered to be very very good at building a load . |
| 15 | On Feb. 9 , 1990 the Polish Economic Party , aimed at building a strong economy , held its founding congress in Poznan . |
| 16 | It 's the Department of Transport , who have commissioned consultants to look at building a dual carriageway . |
| 17 | ‘ We are currently looking at building a relationship with the Festival Theatre management so we have complementary programmes . ’ |
| 18 | They chose a spot by a river , on the side of a mountain , they called three hundred workmen together , and for three years they toiled at building the city . |
| 19 | Likewise it is sometimes difficult for adolescent boys who work hard at building an image of toughness within their peer group to drop that image for the sake of the drama . |
| 20 | The first attempt at building an earnings-related element into the flat-rate retirement pension came in 1958 . |
| 21 | She drew the line at mowing the lawn . |
| 22 | On Sept. 13 the government approved a new economic plan presented by Finance Minister Moda'i and aimed at financing the massive influx of Soviet Jewish immigrants to Israel . |
| 23 | Current efforts are aimed at finalising the gas price and sales contracts and gaining approval for the field 's development plan . |
| 24 | We want to ease the adjustment from the present price support mechanism towards market prices and direct support aimed at assisting the farming industry in transition and at environmental and social goals . |
| 25 | Few , certainly , espoused revolutionary ideas in 1931 ; the party 's immediate task , it was generally agreed , was to press for legislation aimed at assisting the working class and , in particular , the impoverished landless labourers of the south . |
| 26 | Patients suffering from skin cancer are to be asked to take part in research aimed at proving a link between the disease and the radioactive gas radon . |
| 27 | It will be followed by a " demonstration plant " aimed at proving the commercially-viability of the fast-breeder route . |
| 28 | He opens with a history of homebuilts dating from Sir George Cayley ( who would have approved the sage advice to get an experienced hand to make the first test flight of your creation , though in his case the unfortunate man was more adept at handling a coach-and-four than a flying machine ) and proceeds through the Flying Flea era to the post-war rebirth in France and the USA , thence to Rutan and the foam/fibreglass revolution , and on to the 1980s emergence of IFR-capable alabaster-smooth hot-rod kitplanes that will blow the socks off anything Vero Beach and Wichita are ( or more accurately are n't ) building . |
| 29 | Some 42% of them thought that economic liberals were best at handling the economy ( against 18% who thought social democrats were ) ; and 50% thought unions should be independent of social-democratic parties ( though 39% thought the opposite ) . |
| 30 | Mr Bruce Page , of accountancy recruitment specialists Llambias Douglas , said : ‘ All the big firms are suffering equally — just some are better at handling the public relations side of it . ’ |