Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] at the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the fact that I succumbed to a mild form of food-poisoning through eating at the cheapest restaurants — a meal could he obtained for ten ( old ) francs or less , but less meant the more chance of prostration — I have never known Paris so surpassingly beautiful as that year . |
| 2 | ‘ However , after looking at the still pictures I realised that Gerrard and Obolensky were in excellent positions for the pass to the right . |
| 3 | After staring at the two chaps with ‘ you 'll do for a light snack ’ eyes , the lion started to wander towards them . |
| 4 | I spent the rest of the evening pretending riveted attention on the discussion while all the time practising ways of looking at the two women without them catching me . |
| 5 | Figure 4.1 suggests one way of looking at the emerging relationships . |
| 6 | Even worse , some think public relations stands in the way of getting at the real facts . |
| 7 | AT ABOUT this time of the year and for every year since 1973 , the Laing Construction Company has set about the long and complex business of arriving at the six illustrations that will ultimately grace its calendar . |
| 8 | Quite often , this begins with looking at the enticing pictures in the catalogues . |
| 9 | Then swiftly she launches into a staccato attack on political buffoonery and the Government in general before lashing at the crass assumptions that men make about women , and reaching the parts of chaps ' angst-filled sexuality that mere innuendo could never find . |
| 10 | Before looking at the two conferences under consideration , it is useful to construct an outline income and expenditure account , which might look something like |
| 11 | Before looking at the different propositions of the theory , it is necessary to describe briefly the two forms of government financial assistance : income tax rebates and supplementary benefit . |
| 12 | There is little to be gained from looking at the past achievements of a school if the head and the governors treat their task as having been totally defined by the Education Reform Act . |
| 13 | This is because economic and monetary union will cause a very complex chain of reactions : the systemic changes will lead to policy changes , and both will condition behavioural changes in the economy , before arriving at the final impacts in terms of economic well-being ’ . |
| 14 | Although in Burmah Oil there was a reluctance to accept the " class " arguments without looking at the actual contents of the documents in question , subsequent cases have accepted class arguments without question . |
| 15 | He walked down the hill without looking at the dead men , slowly and with difficulty and pain . |
| 16 | Without glancing at the two men , he drove out of the warehouse , through the metal gates and back on to the street . |
| 17 | On arriving at the Imaginary Universes Laboratory , Gedanken immediately took a look into the experimental box . |
| 18 | They passed a few farms , and Lucy tried to control her nervousness by gazing at the lonely homesteads , but in some strange way it conveyed itself to Silas . |
| 19 | A causal explanation for these events is not to be found by looking at the mental processes of particular social groups or categories involved in them since any traits so identified are as likely to be effects as causes . |
| 20 | In particular , it would be a mistake to suppose that the causes and remedies of the prison numbers crisis are to be found simply by looking at the final stages of the process , namely the custodial decisions of the courts . |
| 21 | What is the solution to these problems of unity and sustaining interest ? I think it can best be found by looking at the visual arts , and having myself once been an architect I would like to use an architectural illustration . |
| 22 | explain this by looking at the political reasons why many women do not receive the pensions that would raise them economically ; that is , they are excluded from key decision-making structures . |
| 23 | Brenda Denvir takes up one of the most pressing contemporary issues , that of the multiple roles of assessment in schools , by looking at the intimately-related questions of ‘ what are we assessing ? ’ and , ‘ what are we assessing for ? ’ |
| 24 | ALEXANDER ARROWSMITH continues our in-depth Koi series by looking at the many diseases which may affect Koi . |
| 25 | Now we continue by looking at the inside workings of the process at the national level , beginning with a discussion of executives and assemblies . |
| 26 | We begin by looking at the negative emotions . |
| 27 | The associated jargon and rates may be introduced by looking at the following figures for 1984 extracted from Tables D1.1 and D2.1 of the 1984 Annual Report of the Registrar General for Scotland . |
| 28 | You can tell whether a text you have is a critical or a popular edition by looking at the following features : — Does it have a note on the text , explaining spelling conventions used , etc. ? — Does it have an introduction by an editor ? — Does it have footnotes or endnotes ? — Is it a numbered part of a multi-volume edition ? |
| 29 | No longer can the worth of an investment proposal be evaluated by looking at the immediate terms of the deal : the longer lasting impact of the structure of alliances must also be taken into account . |
| 30 | Yet this shift of interest away from ‘ primitive ’ societies has not provided us with a new framework of analysis for we still tend to ‘ tribalise ’ complex societies by looking at the simpler aspects e.g. rural communities only . |