Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] at [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , being left-handed I 'm well used to the pitfalls : reading reviews of great-looking and top quality guitars only to find at the end of the review , ‘ No left-handers available ’ or , more niggling , ‘ 10% extra ’ . |
| 2 | On each of her periods at Hillmarden he had still clung to the faint hope that she was improving , only to find at the end of a week or a fortnight she had made no progress at all and that when Harry — good baby that he was — occasionally cried , this was enough to make Celia so distraught that Brian was forced to accept that it was better for all concerned if mother and baby remained parted . |
| 3 | One has only to look at the regularity with which courses on modelling now appear on the MRS lists . |
| 4 | But this is only to look at the question as a matter of law . |
| 5 | This is n't the case at all , and to see why , one need only to look at the composition of the rocks involved . |
| 6 | We have only to look at the string of sell-offs of assets of the former National Bus Company groups after privatisation to demonstrate conclusively that those are not far-fetched fears or exaggerated concerns . |
| 7 | The illegals have only to look at the plight of the large Korean minority — 690,000 of Japan 's 1.1 million registered foreign residents — to know they will never be accepted in this xenophobic land . |
| 8 | To illustrate this one has only to look at the account of a pupil pursuit in a school which had thought through clearly its broad curriculum and made plans accordingly . |
| 9 | When the ‘ cruise ’ to Bordeaux was over he was good-humoured enough to laugh at the joke with the rest of Highbury . |
| 10 | One Sunday , he went hunting with his fierce black mastiffs , stopping only to swig at a flask of strong drink . |
| 11 | Her eyes flashed swiftly to fitzAlan , only to recoil at the look of blazing fury and contempt he turned on her . |
| 12 | Then his weight lifted and she opened her dazed eyes , confused , as he moved away to sit at the edge of the bed . |
| 13 | The Reverend Wesley Guard of Belfast , soon to preach at the opening of the Memorial Church , lectured in Thomas Street Schoolroom at 8.00 pm on Thursday 9 May 1889 on ‘ Henry VIII and his Times , or A Chapter in Providence ’ . |
| 14 | Trying so hard not to weep at the demise of the old Post Office now replaced by a kit construction for other uses , I walked robotically to the cathedral like all the other tourists . |
| 15 | She reached over to look at the bacon before saying , ‘ No ; thank you . |
| 16 | Instead , he turned away to stare at the picture of her mother which was on the chest of drawers . |
| 17 | Determined not to look at the brute of a man opposite , Fabia was in the act of deciding that she would ask him nothing in future — not even for a ride back to Mariánské Láznë , she 'd take a taxi sooner — when she was suddenly brought to an abrupt halt . |
| 18 | Emily asked the Princess not to look at the work in progress , ‘ and she was very good about it . |
| 19 | She tried not to look at the glass on the pink marble top of the wash-stand , empty , a sticky red stain at the bottom . |
| 20 | Convention establishes certain procedures so that when clear rules are adopted according to these procedures , people can rely on state intervention in their behalf ; they can also rely on the state not to intervene at the behest of other citizens except as these rules stipulate and can plan and coordinate their affairs accordingly . |
| 21 | The eerie lights would hang in the air for quite some time then the mortars came over to burst at the edge of the wood . |
| 22 | The position with regard to face-to-face transactions is considered first , before going on to look at the position in relation to impersonal stock market deals . |
| 23 | Part 4 goes on to look at the training of parents in skills necessary for successful completion of these steps . |
| 24 | AROUND 50 demonstrators gathered at Edinburgh 's City Chambers yesterday to protest at the presence of a Sinn Fein speaker at a meeting inside . |
| 25 | These issues were being raised in the deliberations of a SCOTVEC review group which included representatives of SED , SEB and SCCC and which had been set up to look at the acceptability of non-vocational modules in National Certificate . |
| 26 | NORTHERN Ireland will be represented on a committee set up to look at the handling of complaints from National Health Service patients and their families . |
| 27 | According the Wellcome the study was set up to look at the effect of acyclovir against cytomegalovirus , a type of herpes virus , and was stopped after no difference was found in frequency of CMV disease between patients taking acyclovir and those taking a placebo . |
| 28 | In January 1989 , the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities convened a meeting of a group set up to look at the effect of these centres on authority centres . |
| 29 | Will my right hon. and learned Friend confirm that he will ask the chairman of British Rail urgently to look at the position of the tunnels further along the line to ensure that precautions similar to those that are being instituted in the Severn tunnel will also be made in those tunnels if signalling changes have taken place recently associated with the general modernisation work ? |
| 30 | After a distinguished student career at Emmanuel College , Cambridge , he went on to study at the University of Paris under Suzanne Bastid . |