Example sentences of "[verb] at the [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She still retained her English habit of noting each day 's weather , always expecting changes , marvelling at the hot sunny days which followed one after the other , almost with monotony . |
| 2 | Sufficiently stoned but not unreasonably so , we stand before the bathroom mirror , marvelling at the crisp clean surfaces of ourselves and one another . |
| 3 | He was educated at the Royal Agricultural College in Cirencester ( 1883–5 ) , graduating with honours in drawing and science . |
| 4 | He was educated at the Royal Commercial Travellers ' School , Pinner , Middlesex , and then , as a foundation scholar , at King Edward 's School , Birmingham ( 1896–8 ) . |
| 5 | Crum Brown was educated at the Royal High School , Edinburgh , and Mill Hill School . |
| 6 | He was educated at the Royal High School and the University of Edinburgh , after which he spent two years learning commerce with a London agency house . |
| 7 | The son of a post office worker in Edinburgh , he was educated at the Royal High School and at Edinburgh and London Universities . |
| 8 | He was educated at the Royal Academical Institution , Belfast . |
| 9 | He succeeded to his barony as a minor in July 1742 and may have been educated at the English Jesuit College at St Omer in France . |
| 10 | Young Archie was educated at the local National school until he was 14 and then apprenticed to Stephens & Sons , pioneers of the Stephens motor-car . |
| 11 | Peerages are for those who control industry , politics and the media and who invariably were educated at the top public schools . |
| 12 | He was educated at the Jewish Free School in Bell Lane , and followed his father 's trade . |
| 13 | MIDDLESBROUGH and Cleveland Harriers were third to take the bronze medals in the youths race at the national cross-country championships at Newark . |
| 14 | Our last port of call is at Chequer 's Buttress ( E1 5b ) , which fittingly stands at the far right end of Froggatt Edge . |
| 15 | The second section looks at the various legal provisions which can be said to be concerned with certain specific social and moral educational objectives : the law on sex and race discrimination , religious education and collective worship , sex education and the coverage of political issues in the classroom . |
| 16 | Vanessa looks at the familiar mucky mix of local political wheeler-dealing and multinational corruption with a Welsh village finding that embracing the entente cordiale fools them into having their lake turned into a French chemical waste dump . |
| 17 | This project looks at the global industrial context of the Single European Market . |
| 18 | Turmoil is a word that comes to mind when one looks at the evolving British education system . |
| 19 | Turmoil is the word that comes to mind when one looks at the evolving British education system . |
| 20 | ‘ Turmoil is the word that comes to mind when one looks at the evolving British education system , ’ wrote John Davies , director of the Educational Publishers Council of the Publishers Association , in The Bookseller in January . |
| 21 | The chapter looks at the formal regulatory approach as adopted in the UK and the US . |
| 22 | Here Nevile de Moraes of William Osborne looks at the FAB 3 story from the builder 's point of view . |
| 23 | What a pity Roman did n't take after any of them , she thought privately , smiling as Christian reached out a rather sticky little hand and tugged the poppy-flowered silk sleeve of her sheath-dress , and then caught at the heavy blonde plait at her nape . |
| 24 | The agents , who were sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment for sinking the Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior and killing one of its crew in Auckland harbour in 1985 , were released into French custody in return for $7,000,000 in compensation and a guarantee that they would be confined at the French military base on Hao atoll for three years . |
| 25 | Many Americans who lived through the war years and remembered quite vividly the virtual hatred and perceived Japanese treachery fuelled during the war probably stiffened at the presented Japanese viewpoint but it remains , for the most part , historically accurate . |
| 26 | The economic theory underlying this optimistic view of technical change is termed ‘ compensation theory ’ , and we will discuss this after we have looked at the competing rhetorical question . |
| 27 | WHEN THE originators of the Dart Valley Light Railway plc formed it in 1965 they always intended that it should be a commercially operated line rather than a ‘ preserved ’ railway , for having looked at the then contemporary scene they felt that there were enough preservationists at work already and that their nice for survival in an essentially holiday area should be revenue-earning profitability . |
| 28 | Today she did n't even glance at the cloudless blue sky . |
| 29 | A radiation leak occurred at the Russian nuclear power station at Sosnovyy Bor , 90 km west of St Petersburg , on March 24 . |
| 30 | Cardiff saw its wildly thrashing and monstrous arms , beating and tearing at the dented grey metal of the cabinet . |