Example sentences of "[noun] be [verb] at [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of these aspects are looked at in the following chapters . |
| 2 | So all lines of enquiry in regard to body stance are amenable to alternative explanations , perhaps because the issue is looked at from the wrong perspective . |
| 3 | Further fuel to the drive for competitiveness was added at about the same time by inter-provincial rivalry . |
| 4 | The role of finds in dating is looked at in the next chapter , but perhaps the most obvious way in which finds can tell us about the past is by providing evidence about ancient technology . |
| 5 | Where standard discussions of the self talk about memory and unity , brain transplants , the rational agent acting on his beliefs and desires , or the self in its public aspect as citizen , here the self is looked at in the context of the past history of a person , unconscious or fantasy relationships with others , the importance of feelings , or the body . |
| 6 | American ( and , to a lesser extent , British ) criticism has tended in the past to be less hierarchical than Italian and at the same time more alert to very minute differences in the type of product and the type of consumer being aimed at by the literary market . |
| 7 | Each covenant is looked at in the light of the people , the business or the profession and all the circumstances involved . |
| 8 | Each cluster of features is acquired at about the same time , but not all speakers — now seen as " learners " — go through all five stages . |
| 9 | Account men make it their business to learn everything they can about the client 's product and how it compares with others on the market , and a strategy is arrived at with the help of the researchers and planners , and sometimes with the creative team on the writing and art side . |
| 10 | On 27 June the Attorney-General sent to Buckingham warrants for the sale of Neroche , Selwood and Feckenham Forests , and the disafforestment of Braydon was begun at about the same time . |
| 11 | there was general consensus among Scottish drivers that current speed limits are set at about the right level . |
| 12 | The Civil Justice Review recommended that the suggestion of Lord Donaldson M.R. That the subject be looked at in the round be taken up . |
| 13 | Coun Hughes said the emergency services were called to Barnard Castle shortly before 2pm , while the nearby health centre was contacted at about the same time . |
| 14 | Declining mine output in Anglesey , opposition by Birmingham consumers , and an improving international copper market prevented the monopoly persisting , but Williams continued to influence the industry strongly till his death , and his activities were looked at by the select committee on the copper trade of 1799 . |
| 15 | The p0·75 and p0·875 points are arrived at in the same way . |
| 16 | The p0.75 and p0.875 points are arrived at in the same way . |
| 17 | People were tiring of old-style ‘ workerist ’ ultra-left politics and standing at factory gates being laughed at by the very workers they were supposed to be leading to the new Jerusalem . |
| 18 | So an interval of 10 years will have gone by without his situation being looked at by the local review committee or the parole board . |
| 19 | Sometimes the similarity is hinted at in the question itself ; for example , you may have looked at another passage involving characterisation and this will guide you in looking at this one . |
| 20 | The same kind of problem arises if the system is looked at from the angle of the natural sciences . |
| 21 | The problem is hinted at in the uneasy combination of the two descriptive terms , one signifying natural complexity and even contrariness , the other , mechanical order and simplicity . |
| 22 | But when the problem is looked at from the miners ' point of view a rather different history comes into view . |
| 23 | A constituency operation in south-east London was begun at about the same time . |
| 24 | Er that the fires were set at about the time that the erm er that the armoured began breaching the walls of the compound . |
| 25 | Three guerrillas were executed at about the same time for offences against civilians , according to the INPFL newspaper Scorpion on Aug. 2 . |
| 26 | Sexual deviance is hinted at in the use of the term ‘ bachelor ’ which manages both to describe and to cast doubts on the celibate state of the priest , and the general honesty of Catholic priests is challenged by branding Murphy as a liar . |
| 27 | Your Big Mac index , and William Burke 's letter in the same issue about the yen-dollar exchange rate , brought to mind an explanation , which may be apocryphal , of how the exchange rate of ¥360 to $1 was arrived at during the occupation of Japan . |
| 28 | Randy Hansen 's stage show is an extension of what Jimi Hendrix was doing at around the time of Woodstock and the Isle Of Wight festivals . |
| 29 | In France , for example , the domestic CP market was launched at around the same time , but by the end of 1990 it had grown in size to FF165 billion , around four times the size of the UK market ( see Table 6.10 for a comparison of commercial paper markets in Europe , the ECP market and the US CP market ) . |