Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [to-vb] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four former South African police officers were sought by the Namibian authorities to testify at the trial , but had refused to come forward , despite being offered immunity from prosecution . |
| 2 | Leave five minutes before each interview to look at the candidate 's application form/letter , and any particular questions noted down while first reading it . |
| 3 | The Institute 's Education & Training Directorate and the General Practitioner Board have been watching the falling numbers of students training in small firms with deep concern and both have set up working parties to look at the problems . |
| 4 | After 1986 , therefore , interest in EMU revived and in 1988 the Hanover summit set up another committee to look at the idea . |
| 5 | This enormous gift that , despite all the trying things that went with it , Phoebe had received ; this capacity to look at a thing and know that , because it must be done , it is the doing of it that brings freedom and salvation . |
| 6 | He wiped the sweat from his forehead , willing Graham to appear at the window . |
| 7 | Although the two never met , they both forged a figurative style out of the Abstract Expressionism raging all about them — not the most popular move to make at the time . |
| 8 | ‘ If it 's so easy for Rain Morgan of the Daily Post to get at the truth , it 's a secret which ca n't be kept . ’ |
| 9 | It does not take a well-qualified anthropologist to guess at the impact on self-esteem , relationships , and family lifestyles . |
| 10 | The ordinary canons of construction require this court to look at the words of the section and to give them their plain and natural meaning . |
| 11 | These situations may be characterised not by the actual risk felt in the situation but by the potential for risky situations to occur at the junction . |
| 12 | Then you came into this library to look at the books , spending perhaps twenty minutes here . |
| 13 | H3 is hard to study under trial conditions since any school agreeing to help with trials is making some commitment to look at the materials beyond the norm . |
| 14 | It simply would not be tolerated for the old style to continue at the expense of progress . ’ |
| 15 | He had always been a socialist and a pacifist , a brave position for a man in public life to adopt at the time , and he and his colleagues paid a heavy price for his principles when in 1940 the BBC banned the Glasgow Orpheus Choir from the air waves . |
| 16 | A ‘ birder 's bird ’ , it is one of the most difficult species on the British List to identify at a distance . |
| 17 | Moving the game to a new playing field is a great idea , but you need not only another team to play against , but some spectators to pay at the gate . |
| 18 | Moving the game to a new playing field is a great idea , but you need not only another team to play against , but some spectators to pay at the gate . |
| 19 | I picked out a selection , deciding on even numbers only because it seemed like a sensible thing to do at the time . |
| 20 | It was the taste of Spring at climax , of an afternoon in which , at the touch of the rising breeze , cherry-blossom floated from the boughs in a frail pink torrent of petals that drifted through the shimmering heat-haze to cling at the sweat on one 's skin . |
| 21 | ‘ Another thing to remember at the interview , ’ said Sukey pointedly , ‘ is to let Perdita do the talking . |
| 22 | It is also made aware , by this ability to feel at a distance , of the movements of other fish swimming alongside it , an important ability for those species that form shoals . |
| 23 | A game of darts at the local pub ; just as much a favourite way to relax at the end of the day 50 years ago , as it is now . |
| 24 | The men from the lorry picked their way through a graveyard of broken stones to pray at a sheikh 's white-domed tomb , while we made our way across a wide flood plain of gravel and cracked mud to the river . |
| 25 | Mr Whitty told delegates the NEC had given them ‘ adequate time to look at the reviews ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ It was felt it was in the public interest to look at the company which was already insolvent , ’ said a DTI spokeswoman . |
| 27 | Our experience of MCI Communications Corp 's MCI Mail service makes us feel that it has a quite impressively user friendly interface , whereas we find it difficult to believe that British Telecommunications Plc 's Dialcom — or good ol' Telecom Gold — is really quite as user-hostile as it appears , so having hit a snag in MCI and keyed ‘ help ’ at the prompt , and got a couple of screens of useful information ending with two phone numbers and a further option to key at the prompt , we wondered what Gold came up with if you keyed ‘ help ’ — here is the answer — Top-level directory not found or inaccessible . |
| 28 | The world championship is the ultimate ; any top player to lose at the Crucible can consider it a failure . ’ |
| 29 | The advantage however is accidental , and brings with it difficulties of its own ; assuming that matter , unlike ch'i , is inert until moved , it took some time to arrive at the thought of inertia as either rest or uniform motion in a straight line . |
| 30 | I tell you , she actually laughs at me — ; breaking off from this inquisition to laugh at the thought of me being a pacifist . |