Example sentences of "[verb] at [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Looked at from the other side , it should be realized that blandly-flavoured foods reduced the strong and exotic taste of many herbs , and this is where the secret of using herbs in cooking lies — to use herbs in such quantities that the strength of their flavours balances the strength and flavour of the food to which they are added . |
| 4 | Looked at from the Overseas Groups point of view , the pattern would look something like this : |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Thus , as with biological theories , crime is seen as pathological ( a disease ) , as something to be looked at from the medical point of view . |
| 7 | Many of these aspects are looked at in the following chapters . |
| 8 | The concern of the writers that we have looked at in the preceding pages are with a number of organisational variables : |
| 9 | Areas to be looked at in the short term are : |
| 10 | If we are troubled by the fact that the corporatist countervision we find hinted at in the legal materials might become simply a mask behind which corporate managers exercise unconstrained economic and social power , an alternative avenue for research is available to us . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | part of the area that we would be looking at for the new settlement . |
| 13 | Everything is smaller down there — including their eyeballs — to the same extent-so the eye still gets filled up with what it 's looking at in the normal way . |
| 14 | The pile of three blocks shown in the drawing would be stable if pushed at from the direction of one of the arrows and very unstable if pushed at from the other direction . |
| 15 | For days afterwards , he was unable to make a telephone call without imagining he was being laughed at on the other end of the line . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The patterns in the hewn rock were evocative , thin traceries of crystal , she imagined , beautiful whorls and arches , as fine to look at as the fine lines on a mother 's face . |
| 18 | The conclusions arrived at in the brief analysis which follows have necessarily , therefore , to be seen as no more than tentative and hesitant deductions . |
| 19 | The answer is the one that we arrived at in the previous paragraph . |
| 20 | Non-sexism can only be a utopian or post-revolutionary state arrived at after the massive change in social relations and ideas demanded by an aggressive anti-sexist policy . |
| 21 | Conclusions arrived at from the interim report following Semester 1 interviews pointed to an apparent need ( indeed , a desire ) on the part of students for them to be told of the Enterprise Content in each module in advance and for a level of understanding about transferable skills to be attained by students upon their arrival at Napier . |
| 22 | Nothing no I 've seen the bread coming out on a Monday morning warm and landed at from the big houses and that was before the days of the cooling of the bread . |
| 23 | there was general consensus among Scottish drivers that current speed limits are set at about the right level . |
| 24 | An understanding had been arrived at with the Danish Tourist Board that nothing of the fabric or the furnishings and fittings in either the Tuscan Villa or The Tamarisks should be altered ; the houses had been complete works of art when they were taken over and were to be respected as such . |
| 25 | It shows how these different styles are likely to have a marked effect on the crime statistics collected by particular police forces , an issue we looked at in the previous chapter on criminal statistics . |
| 26 | Then you tell the story of the murder and the subsequent investigation , adroitly working in the fact that there was a red light shining at the vital time and place , using one of the ways of tricking your reader into " noticing and not noticing " this that we looked at in the previous chapter , and you also harp like mad on the impossibility of a person in a black dress or suit having been on hand at the moment the murder was committed . |
| 27 | We can see the similarities here between the scientific approach to organisations and its similarity to bureaucracy that we looked at in the previous chapter . |
| 28 | In India , dowry deaths — the murder of a wife for a disappointing dowry — are not uncommon and almost invariably connived at by the legal system . |
| 29 | It is this that I was hinting at in the previous chapter , when I referred to the queen ant as the central data bank . |
| 30 | The new variable values become for forward x i j , for reverse x i j and remain at for the remaining variables . |