Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [adv] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Papers are not necessarily priced according to their surfaces , Rough , Not or HP and it is worth looking carefully at the various makes and their qualities , as two papers may have similar characteristics but be quite different in price . |
| 2 | Moreover , attractiveness must be defined in terms of looking ahead at the likely state of the industry over the usual sort of investment time horizon for that industry . |
| 3 | Instead of looking carefully at the specific conditions in which particular women live , we are frequently tempted to appeal to some common denominator of female experience ( domesticity and motherhood are the commonest choices ) that is false to the facts of many women 's experience and — to the degree that we wish to eliminate such common denominators — politically counterproductive as well . |
| 4 | And indeed for the first few weeks there is a manic response of getting up at the usual time and finding things to do , but which gradually subsides into grief and depression . |
| 5 | Peter Dutton , Corporate Recruitment Manager at Procter & Gamble 's UK head office in Newcastle , wrote : ‘ We do not use Headhunters at all , because we have a policy of recruiting only at the first level of management ( usually graduates direct from university ) and filling all more senior management positions by promotion from within . ’ |
| 6 | Mr Stringer , a most gracious loser despite experiencing the disappointment of missing out at the penultimate stage for the second time in three years , asked : ‘ What more do you have to do to prove yourself . ’ |
| 7 | How many aircraft were they capable of working on at the same time ? |
| 8 | Slater was silent for a second , gazing disdainfully at Graham 's snapping fingers , then he said tiredly , " Graham , either concentrate on searching for the title of the book you 're talking about or devote your full energies to practising calling for a waiter ; I 'm not convinced you possess the RAM for doing both at the same time . " |
| 9 | She had seen him in the little town so immersed in looking up at the old buildings , that he ran into a lamppost . |
| 10 | Luke shrugged eloquently , his eyes like dark , dreamy pools of liquid as he favoured Fran with a lingering look before looking back at the older woman . |
| 11 | It takes perverse joy in getting hard at the wrong time , causing its owner no end of embarrassment and inconvenience . |
| 12 | So these dare devils have got 6 months to dry out before diving in at the deep end once again . |
| 13 | From here both ipsilateral ( uncrossed ) and contralateral ( crossed ) fibres pass successively upwards to the lateral lemniscus , inferior colliculus and medial geniculate nucleus before arriving finally at the superior gyrus of the temporal lobe . |
| 14 | So she got up slowly from the floor , the last few sobs still springing unbidden up her throat , and without looking round at the disordered room once more , she picked up her lamp and went down to her bedroom to change . |
| 15 | I am telling you about this … to remind you that one can try to give an impression of anguish without aiming straight at the historic Garden of Gethsemane |
| 16 | Mist is a swine , and on arriving back at the little lochan I started to become confused again . |
| 17 | And Anders , showing off his strength by tearing only at the thick material of Nina 's suit . |
| 18 | Some further light can be thrown on the importance of age by looking briefly at the differential performance of students with traditional qualifications in different age groups . |
| 19 | The important point to note as a summary here , is that the algorithms suggested for solving 30 out of 36 errors , would find the correct ( i.e. intended ) word by looking only at the top ranked candidate string , which neatly solves the problem described earlier of what to choose as a starting point for possible error correction , and avoids the potentially explosive situations . |
| 20 | But by looking back at the archaic phase of Greek history and forward to later autocrats , as we have done with the Sicilian tyrants , we can remind ourselves that the democratic interludes of Greek history were not merely short but untypical — in Syracuse , Macedon , Cyrene and satrapal Asia Minor one-man rule was normal for much of the period 479–323 BC . |
| 21 | You will rejoin the main leisure route by turning right at the next main T-junction . |
| 22 | Whenever you catch yourself speeding up in a car to get through a red light , deliberately penalize yourself by turning right at the next corner . |
| 23 | Hill was annoyed at not grabbing pole in the final qualifying session but said : ‘ I lost out in the traffic by going out at the wrong time . |
| 24 | You should be able to get copies of these codes of practice by telephoning your local British Gas office or electricity company , or by calling in at the nearest showroom . |
| 25 | Here the track ends and the rough and pathless western slope of Nine Standards Rigg directly ahead must be tackled , aiming left to score a bull's-eye by arriving exactly at the nine cairns . |